RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Schleiden, The plant and its life. CUL-DAR205.5.132. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2023. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR205.5 contains notes on the principle of divergence, transitional organs and instincts.
The brown crayon number '11' indicates that this document was filed by Darwin in his portfolio for the subject of Divergence.
The plant and its life (Die Pflanze und ihr Leben. Populäre Vorträge.) Popular lectures by M. J. Schleiden.
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Schleiden's Lectures on the Plant — Speaking of affinities &
"For to return to the principle above laid down, we are not to judge of organic beings by what they are, but it is the law of Becoming, which decides on like & unlike, similar & dissimilar; it is the idea of progressive development, which is the only fertile thought in the scientific study of organic Life." out of chapter Lecture (in Review) on Morphology (like Von Baer according to Huxley)
Refers to Beetle which aids by its rubbing the propagation of the Kamtschatkan Lily — Lilium Camschaticum)
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