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From Sven Nilsson to J. D. Hookerf1   25 October 1868Lund (Suède)25 Okt. 1868.Monsieur le Professeur! J’ai écrit à deux de mes amis qui ont des connaissances personnelles à la Lapponie, pour avoir les…

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  • f4 Nilsson refers to Carl von Linné’s physical description of the reindeer in Linneaus 178590, 4
  • f4 Nilsson refers to Carl von Linné’s physical description of the reindeer in Linneaus 178590, 4
  • Sven Place Lapland Scientific physicalexternalcharacters fauna

New material added to the American edition of Origin

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A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…

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  • … 1851), briefly gives his reasons for believing that specific characters ‘‘sont fixes, pour chaque …
  • … area must have a limit, depending so largely as it does on physical conditions: therefore where very …
  • … sentence thus: Man can act only on external and visible characters: nature (if I may be allowed for …

British Association meeting 1860

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Several letters refer to events at the British Association for the Advancement of Science held in Oxford, 26 June – 3 July 1860. Darwin had planned to attend the meeting but in the end was unable to. The most famous incident of the meeting was the verbal…

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  • … that the time for psychical change corresponds with that for physical, and that a nation cannot …
  • … for their characteristics, continuance, and life on the physical conditions under which they live; …
  • … the world of organization is the direct consequence of the physical equilibrium, but that if that …
  • … be drawn between the intellectual progress of man and the physical development of the lower animals. …
  • … understood his Lordship to affirm that these did not present characters that should lead careful and …
  • … in groups, of which the species were connected by varying characters common to all in that group, …
  • … be supposed to stand in the center of that web, its varying characters might be compared to the …

Darwin’s reading notebooks

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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…

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  • … perhaps worth reading on. Sept. 25 th . Prichard. Physical Researches [Prichard 1836–47]. …
  • … Impressions of England [H. Miller 1847]. Nov. 10 Prichard Physical Researches. Hist. of Mankind …
  • … .— Naudins Researches on Hybrids & specific characters of Gourds. Annal des Sc. Nat. 4 …
  • … Insecta Maderensia [Wollaston 1854] —— Johnston Physical Atlas [A. K. Johnston 1850]. …
  • … A. K. Johnston 1848. The revised edition of Johnston’s  Physical atlas  (1856) included ‘Map of …
  • … 119: 10a ——. 1850.  Lake Superior: its physical   character, vegetation, and animals, …
  • … with a view   to illustrate the natural history and physical geography of that   kingdom, in a …
  • … Curiosities of literature.   Consisting of anecdotes, characters, sketches, and   dissertations, …
  • … some   inquiries respecting their moral and literary characters . 2 vols. London.  *119: 23 …
  • … 8v.; 119: 20a ——. 1832.  On the influence of physical agents on life . Translated from …
  • … 173; 128: 12 Harlan, Richard. 1835.  Medical and physical researches;   or, original …
  • … over the surface of the globe in connexion with climate and physical agents. Appendix to vol. 2 of …
  • … ——. 1845–8.  Kosmos; a general survey of the physical   phenomena of the universe . Translated …
  • … 119: 16a ——. 1846–8.  Cosmos: sketch of a physical description   of   the universe . …
  • … remarks on the British shrews including the distinguishing characters of two species previously …
  • … *119: 13 Johnston, Alexander Keith. 1848.  The physical atlas, a   series of maps & …
  • … . Edinburgh.  *119: 22v. ——. 1856.  The physical atlas of natural phenomena . A new and …
  • … a general view of the progress of mathematical and physical science, since the revival of letters in …
  • … James Cowles. 1836–47.  Researches into the   physical history of mankind . 3d ed. 5 vols. …
  • … figures of British plants, with their essential   characters.  37 vols. (Vols. 1–3 by J. Sowerby; …
  • …  London.  119: 14a Somerville, Mary. 1848.  Physical geography . 2 vols. London. [Other …
  • … 119: 21b Strzelecki, Paul Edmund de. 1845.  Physical description of   New South Wales   …
  • … Emerson. 1859.  Ceylon; an account of the   island, physical, historical, and topographical, with …
  • … Whately, Thomas. 1785.  Remarks on some of the characters   of Shakespeare . London. [Other eds. …

Alfred Russel Wallace’s essay on varieties

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The original manuscript about varieties that Wallace composed on the island of Gilolo and sent to Darwin from the neighbouring island of Ternate (Brooks 1984) has not been found. It was sent to Darwin as an enclosure in a letter (itself missing), and was…

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  • … keep a numerical superiority. Now, let some alteration of physical conditions occur in the district …
  • … must ever remain preponderant in numbers, and under adverse physical conditions again alone survive …
  • … contended that this result would be invariable; a change of physical conditions in the district …
  • … full exercise and healthy condition of all their senses and physical powers, whereas, among the …
  • … a series of species differing considerably in more essential characters. It also furnishes us with a …

Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments

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1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…

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  • … performed I shall consider your views to have a complete physical basis' The issue arose …
  • … with sufficient force how ‘N.S. is as powerless as physical causes to make a variation’ and that …
  • … of variation, and on how it might be affected by crossing, physical conditions, and natural …
  • … paper included a section on the persistence of the specific characters of the mammoth over long …

Review: The Origin of Species

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- by Asa Gray THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION (American Journal of Science and Arts, March, 1860) This book is already exciting much attention. Two American editions are announced, through which it will become familiar to many…

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  • … as a legitimate attempt to extend the domain of natural or physical science. For, though it well may …
  • … that plants and animals are subject from their birth to physical influences, to which they have to …
  • … growth, . . .  the combination in many extinct types of characters which in later ages appear …
  • … the one really exclude the other? Does the investigation of physical causes stand opposed to the …
  • … the laws regulating the chemical combinations, the action of physical forces, etc., etc.’ Mr. …
  • … is just what Mr. Darwin is considering. He conceives of a physical connection between allied species …
  • … the actual direction of investigation and speculation in the physical and natural sciences, we dimly …
  • … carried out, would establish derivation as a true physical theory; the second, as a sufficient …
  • … change in species through the direct influence of physical agencies, and through the appetencies and …
  • … that such mere variations as may be directly referred to physical conditions (like the depauperation …
  • … of species were to be substantiated, either as a true physical theory, or as a sufficient hypothesis …
  • … such a theory chimes in with the established doctrines of physical science, and is not unlikely to …
  • … of the universe. That is true; but it is equally true of physical theories generally. Indeed, it is …
  • … the nebular hypothesis assume a  universal and ultimate  physical cause, from which the effects in …

Darwin in letters, 1861: Gaining allies

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The year 1861 marked an important change in the direction of Darwin’s work. He had weathered the storm that followed the publication of Origin, and felt cautiously optimistic about the ultimate acceptance of his ideas. The letters from this year provide an…

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  • … of the ‘correlation of growth’ of certain organs and characters. Whereas for Darwin such cases …
  • … however, when Herschel, in a newly published text,  Physical geography , partially endorsed his …

Essay: Evolutionary teleology

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—by Asa Gray EVOLUTIONARY TELEOLOGY When Cuvier spoke of the ‘combination of organs in such order that they may be in consistence with the part which the animal has to play in Nature,’ his opponent, Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, rejoined, ‘I know nothing of…

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  • … less satisfactory. If all Nature is of a piece–as modern physical philosophy insists– then it seems …
  • … proximate ends which he can understand. It is just as in physical science, where, as our knowledge …
  • … are evidently not from without but from within–not physical but physiological. We cannot here …
  • … arise, as we say, spontaneously, and either with decided characters from the first, or with obvious …
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