To Charles Lyell [3 March 1866]
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Has returned memorial to Chancellor of Exchequer; thanks CL for his note.
Lengthy remarks on cool period. Did not know of CL’s interest. New facts in new German and English [4th] editions of Origin will be too late for CL’s use. CD’s ten-year-old MS on cool period is available.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [3 Mar 1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.315) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5025 |
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- … turning up in support of same view: but the other day I read a paper on the representative …
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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- … the text of each written upside down with respect to the other. The editors of the Correspondence …
- … and contains only a small number of the books listed in the other two notebooks. Sometimes Darwin …
- … of the first edition and indicated in the bibliography that other editions were available to Darwin. …
- … read. The Darwin archive includes numerous references to other works he consulted which were not …
- … never read. Many a book was at once transferred to the other heap, either marked with a cypher at …
- … [DAR *119: 6v.] Read M r Bennetts & other Edit. by Hon. & Rev. W. Herbert.— …
- … edited some Agricult. Journ [ Annals of Agriculture, and other useful arts ] Highland …
- … Big-buttocked calves. Read He has written Rural Economy of other counties ?+?.worth reading? …
- … to October 1838— not much: scarcely worth looking at other numbers 25. Owen & Botelers …
- … and West Indies . Translated from the Spanish. London. [Other eds.] *128: 159 Adams, …
- … vegetation, and animals, compared with those of other and similar regions . Boston. [Darwin …
- … Ulisse. 1599–1603. Ornithologiae . 3 vols. Bologna. [Other eds.] 128: 16 Alison, …
- … of John Duke of Marlborough . Edinburgh and London. [Other eds.] *119: 15 Alison, …
- … Arabian night’s entertainments . 4 vols. London. [Other eds.] 119: 9b Anon. 1808. Some …
- … and an appendix, by James Patrick Muirhead . London. [Other eds.] *128: 176; 128: 17 …
- … 1811. Sense and sensibility: a novel . 3 vols. London. [Other eds.] 119: 9b ——. 1814. …
- … principle of all evidence and expectation . London. [Other eds.] 119: 6a Bain, …
- … 1841. Passages in the life of a radical . Manchester. [Other eds.] *119: 21; 119: 13b, 22b …
- … to natural history, husbandry, and physick . London. [Other eds.] 119: 11a Barrande, …
- … from the German by William Johnston. 4 vols. London. [Other eds.] *119: 15; 119: 22b …
- … Italian [i.e., Giovanni Ruffini] . Edinburgh and London. [Other eds.] 128: 9 Bentham, …
- … several of his letters . 2 vols. London and Dublin. [Other eds.] *119: 15 Bernard, …
- … 1656–1668 . Translated by Irving Brock. 2 vols. London. [Other eds.] *119: 13, 22; 119: 22b …
- … life by his brother (Alexander Bethune) . Edinburgh. [Other eds.] 119: 21b Bevan, Edward …
- … in France and Italy . Translated from the French. London. [Other eds.] 119: 4a Biberg, …
- … to natural history, husbandry, and physick . London. [Other eds.] 119: 11a Blacklock …
- … descriptive, of hunting, shooting, fishing, racing, and other field sports and athletic …
- … . Translated from the German by William Lawrence. London. [Other eds.] *119: 20v. …
Journal of researches
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Within two months of the Beagle’s arrival back in England in October 1836, Darwin, although busy with distributing his specimens among specialists for description, and more interested in working on his geological research, turned his mind to the task of…
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- … the voyage, by ‘ studying the geographical range and other such subjects of the different branches …
- … Back in England, however, they had begun to rub each other up the wrong way. Not only was Darwin …
- … of the Narrative, he was increasingly dismayed by the other two volumes. The first, based on …
- … adding that Charles Lyell ‘ says it beats all the other nonsense he has ever read on the subject ’ …
- … that Darwin’s Journal was to be fettered by the other volumes, for although he should equally …
- … that Darwin’s Journal would be more popular than the other two volumes, so, as early as …
- … reprinted and has been translated into many languages. Other than the Origin of species , the …
Essay: Design versus necessity
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—by Asa Gray DESIGN VERSUS NECESSITY.—DISCUSSION BETWEEN TWO READERS OF DARWIN’S TREATISE ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES, UPON ITS NATURAL THEOLOGY. (American Journal of Science and Arts, September, 1860) D.T.—Is Darwin’s theory atheistic or pantheistic…
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- … from which events may originate, each independent of the other; and we shall, perhaps, best attain a …
- … ball to the west, but they must both meet and strike each other in the centre of the table, and, …
- … that the players acted wholly without concert with each other, indeed, they may be ignorant of each …
- … But, at the instant of the collision of the balls upon each other, direction from design ceases, and …
- … in which the eye is not developed. They may have all the other senses, with the organs of nutrition, …
- … life from the one, and the collision of the balls from the other—and neither of these was designed …
- … One, indeed, who believes, from revelation or any other cause, in the existence of such a Creator, …
- … eye, for example, only to design, or chance. There was no other alternative. He rejected chance, as …
- … the two players in the supposed case were ignorant of each other’s presence, the designs of both …
- … third alternative. But, if the players knew of each other’s presence, we could not infer from …
- … frustrated. One of them may have intended to frustrate the other’s design, and to effect his own. Or …
- … doing the same thing over and over? and if they varied it by other arrangements of the balls or of …
- … occasions, I had before wounded persons by the same, or other indirect and apparently aimless …
- … or a design of one of them to frustrate the design of the other? If you grant a designing actor, the …
- … out,” and a few of them pre served as breeders of still other variations, by natural selection? …
- … cause of the changes, which so far explains them; the other an unresolved or unexplained phenomenon, …
- … He sees, first, that the eye is transparent when every other part of the body is opaque. Was this …
- … light, for each degree of its refraction, much more than other kinds, and that on the discovery of …
- … crown and one of flint glass, so ground and adapted to each other that the greater dispersion …
- … with its muscles, its lids, its tear-ducts, and all its other elaborate and curious appendages, and, …
- … iris, the sclerotica, the aqueous humors, or any and all the other parts. Suppose, then, that we …
- … and that the skeptical juryman, who was about to join the other eleven in a unanimous verdict in …
Essay: Natural selection & natural theology
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—by Asa Gray NATURAL SELECTION NOT INCONSISTENT WITH NATURAL THEOLOGY. Atlantic Monthly for July, August, and October, 1860, reprinted in 1861. I Novelties are enticing to most people; to us they are simply annoying. We cling to a long-accepted…
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- … in the succession of species which differ from each other only in some details. To compare small …
- … boat be developed into the scow, the skiff, the sloop, and other species of water-craft—the very …
- … Creation . Anyhow, the one does not necessarily exclude the other. Variation and natural selection …
- … species to a common ultimate origin—thus, and in various other ways, largely and legitimately …
- … which now flourish are lineal (or unlineal) descendants of other and earlier sorts—it now concerns …
- … which suggest hypotheses of derivation in some shape or other? Reasons there must be, and plausible …
- … from seed. Many such races, it is allowed, differ from each other in structure and appearance as …
- … 2. Species of the same genus are not distinguished from each other by equal amounts of difference. …
- … thing, all or most of the species of a peculiar genus or other type are grouped in the same country, …
- … familiar domesticated varieties of grain, of fowls, and of other animals, were pictured and …
- … skill, are found in beds of the drift at Amiens (also in other places, both in France and England), …
- … and supernaturally created within the period which other species have survived. Some may even …
- … be inevitable, perhaps from our inability to conceive of any other line of secondary causes in this …
- … are called the same genera are lineal descendants of some other and generally extinct species, in …
- … many things which are thus far utterly inexplicable upon any other scientific assumption. We …
- … need not surprise us. The two views are made for each other, and, like the two counterpart pictures …
- … same thing as to conclude the one to be the ancestor of the other. No doubt there are differences …
- … By the one these are deemed quite compatible, by the other incompatible, with community of origin. …
- … can’t agree which) through natural variation, or other secondary cause, and some by original …
- … and that contemporaneous species, similarly resembling each other, were not all created so, but have …
- … now Europe, Asia America and Australia, differed from each other much as they now differ: in fact …
- … may well account for their continuance; while, on the other hand, the more intense, however gradual, …
- … birds, and the Ichthyosauri, which preceded the Cetacea, are other examples of such prophetic types. …
- … which Darwin so aptly portrays. And so, perhaps, of the other prophetic types. Here type and …
- … conditions for wild horses and cattle than the pampas and other plains of South America, is shown by …
- … and direct created adaptation of species to climate and other conditions, why were they not …
- … abortive organs and of morphological conformity, of which no other theory has ever offered a …
- … community of descent; and it has not been explained in any other way. Naturalists are …
- … say that the difficulty with the naturalist is all the other way—that all these broad differences …
- … vegetable and animal, or may be first the one and then the other. If some organisms may be said to …
Insectivorous plants
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Darwin’s work on insectivorous plants began by accident. While on holiday in the summer of 1860, staying with his wife’s relatives in Hartfield, Sussex, he went for long walks on the heathland and became curious about the large number of insects caught by…
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- … to me, as I must give up Drosera, crossing Primulas & many other experiments for this summer. ’ …
- … check subsequent & immediate action of meat.— Opium on the other hand, does not cause movement … …
- … Asa Gray reminded Darwin ‘ pray don’t run off on some other track till you have worked out and …
- … oils and opium , salts of ammonia , chloroform and other chemicals for further tests from …
- … I can paralyse 1/2 the leaf, so that a stimulus to the other half causes no movement. It is just …
- … of his resulting book. After Dionaea , of all the other insectivorous plants he worked on, Darwin …
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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- … Between the doctrines of this volume and those of the other great naturalist whose name adorns the …
- … numbered at any subsequent period. Mr. Darwin, on the other hand, holds the orthodox view of …
- … created, as such, but have descended, like varieties, from other species. Varieties, on this view, …
- … descent: all the descendants of a common parent, and no other, constitute a species; they have a …
- … on the one hand, and from genera, tribes, etc., on the other, only in degree; and no obvious natural …
- … of the naturalist’s mind. Darwin’s theory brings us the other way to the same result. In his view, …
- … throughout all time and space should be related to each other in group subordinate to group, in the …
- … seem rather to be clustered round points, and these round other points, and so on in almost endless …
- … as species and groups of species have tried to overmaster other species in the great battle for life …
- … now grown into great branches, yet survive and bear all the other branches; so with the species …
- … every capital fact in the one view is a capital fact in the other. The difference is in the …
- … of animals, etc., to surrounding Nature and to each other, are regarded under the one view as …
- … only in their supposed relation to the divine mind. The other, naturally expecting many of these …
- … natural causes. But does the one really exclude the other? Does the investigation of physical …
- … better, between those distinct animals which succeed each other in alternate and very dissimilar …
- … of animals and plants, or many of them, may be derived from other and earlier kinds, in the lapse of …
- … vary in succeeding generations, and whether it would endure other climates? Has the little …
- … camel, prevented their domestication? I cannot doubt that if other animals and plants, equal in …
- … similar conclusion in regard to many species of finches, or other large groups of birds, in Nature. …
- … have proceeded from the seeds of the same tree. Innumerable other examples could be given. The …
- … of species in a state of nature being lineal descendants of other species? ’ …
- … its functions, he concludes to be more susceptible than any other to the action of changed …
- … in organic things (inheritance) to operate uncontrolled by other and obviously incidental tendencies …
- … and recognized species. ‘These differences blend into each other in an insensible series, and the …
- … one hand, and what are called closely-related species on the other, do not differ except in degree. …
- … of origin, and explained through natural selection or in any other way, we are ready to adopt the …
- … square leagues of surface almost to the exclusion of all other plants, have been introduced from …
- … it is not the obtaining of food, but the serving as prey to other animals, which determines the …
- … and, as each area is already stocked with inhabitants, the other species will decrease. When we …
- … we may feel sure that the cause lies quite as much in other species being favored as in this one …
The evolution of honeycomb
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Honeycombs are natural engineering marvels, using the least possible amount of wax to provide the greatest amount of storage space, with the greatest possible structural stability. Darwin recognised that explaining the evolution of the honey-bee’s comb…
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- … cells, thus giving strength to the structure, that in no other place, could have been given to it’ …
- … eye for instance, if my theory explains one it may explain other.’ Darwin, and others working on …
- … one causing them to deposit and excavate the wax, the other limiting the degree of excavation. In …
- … of the two antagonistic principles and the proximity of other cells. Darwin’s letter has not been …
- … where the cells were not subject to the space constraints of other cells. (Letter from G. R. …
- … (who had helped Darwin with his work on pigeons) and other members of the Entomological Society of …
- … that where the sides of wasp cells that were not bounded by other cells were straight, this was …
- … cell. The diameters of the cells would intersect each other; but if partitions be left between them, …
- … it comes in contact with an adjoining cell. Contact with other cells was the essential condition …
- … had two straight sides where it came in contact with two other cells, and was rounded elsewhere. Mr. …
- … ‘If the sides of separate cell one are angular before other cells formed fatal to my theory.’ He …
- … the arched bases of the cells are made angular, the bases of other adjoining cells have just been …
- … that fits neatly against the bottoms of three cells on the other side of the wall. Darwin thought …
- … they had begun their work at such a distance from each other, that by the time the basins had …
- … part, the rims of the basins intersected or broke into each other. As soon as this occurred, the …
- … a hexagonal shape when their bases intersected with those of other cells; but the pyramidal bases …
- … began on both sides to excavate little basins near to each other . . . ; but the ridge of wax was so …
- … as in the former experiments, would have broken into each other from the opposite sides. The bees, …
- … sides of the ridge of wax. In parts, only little bits, in other parts, large portions of a rhombic …
- … performed. ( Origin , pp. 229–30.) In other words, by starting their excavations …
- … from simpler forms (the less organised, round cells of other insects), and explained their method of …
- … of the honey-bee over the more haphazard structures of other bees in times of scarcity; and that the …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
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[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
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- … prose and poetry – down to the Chilian newspapers of the other day – narratives of exploitations – …
- … – if not quite – equal to [ f.148v p.4 ] each other in that respect. End of the Preface …
- … ships I know – (among others the one on whose conduct in other important respects I enlarged in …
- … at twelve hours – or 180˚ of Longitude apart from each other is corroborated by the fact there seen …
- … I only refer to it here – because some insolent fellow or other – probably a Master of a Merchant …
- … in Juries of the Serfs of the trial of skulkers and all other criminals no cognizable by the laws of …
- … now agree with Jonathan Wild, Monsieur Talleyrand, and other great men that – mischief-making is too …
- … fate befalleth them – as the one dieth – so dieth the other – yea they have all one spirit. So that …
- … seems to me (especially when looked at in connexion with the other proposal that I have made – of …
- … of witches and wizards – is as clearly – as any other that can be mentioned – a doctrine or …
- … occupied with that (formerly withheld) information – among other particulars – I shall shew how it …
- … my remarks on the place – and the Settlers &c but, besides other withheld particulars that I …
- … lying (as it does) considerably to the Northward of the other Isles of the Cocos – Vessels …
- … She was (by Mr Ross’ assistance) got off (without any other important damage than the loss of her …
- … whole of the bearings and distances, of the one, from the other – may be at once easily seen and …
- … of the S.E. r n Isle which is about fifty and in a few other spots there are elevations of …
- … to be involved in and so mistaken for clouds. Of the other of those “two distinct groups …
- … to act upon those instructions – there remained no other Islands of that class in any route …
- … Isles is about two thirds of its height higher than the other. When on the Equator – the two tides …
- … any such debt – Mr Ross deemed it to be of no other value than that of being likely, by its gross …
- … – altho’ of course my mind was too much occupied with other matters, to allow of my committing to …
- … it's principles – in fact with – in most instances, no other alteration than that, of changing …
- … some for myself – which would be found insuperable by any other person. I prudently however – …
- … I was not thinking at all of you, and your humbug of some other person’s work upon the tides – when …
- … Southern groups as one Island) lie North and South of each other fifteen miles aparts and as …
- … that the sea is not so deep between the two as it is in other directions, only a mile from the …
- … its superfices - the remainder being covered with trees of other species of the class – peculiarly …
- … and the foot of the beach – there were beautiful green and other colored fishes and the forms and …
- … and wary.] There are also besides these – birds of several other species tho’ less numerous – little …
- … doubt nearly correct – altho’ the observations of some other persons, place it several miles more …
- … with the name of “Keeling” attached to them – or any other – than that of “The Cocos”? (or " …
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…
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- … a systematic and anatomical comparison intra se and with other Crustacea, was needed. …
- … to the museum’s specimens, and advised him on procuring other collections. At the time Darwin …
- … the taxonomic systems of these naturalists to reveal, among other things, how an individual’s …
- … order within this sub-class of Crustacea. Owen, on the other hand, recognised the Crustacea-like …
- … by what he discovered. The female differed from all other cirripedes (and, indeed, from all …
- … partially assumed characters confined to the males of the other genera’, Darwin finally decided that …
- … Proteolepas has no particular affinity to any other cirripede; it resembles, indeed, …
- … archetype cirripede, as deduced from the metamorphoses of other cirripedes, are plainly illustrated …
- … first inclined to rank Proteolepas in one division, and all other cirripedes in another division of …
- … if at all in any important character, from the pupæ of other cirripedes, I have thought the three …
- … in the Abdominalia (legs on abdomen), with all other cirripedes making up the Thoracica (legs on …
- … body in order to fasten it to a foreign support. But on no other view can the structure, clearly …
- … were once separated by scarcely sensible intervals from some other, now unknown, Crustaceans. Should …
- … characters distinguishing the majority of the group from other crustaceans. Soon after commencing …
- … how gradually nature changes from one condition to the other,—in this case from bisexuality to …
- … not think much; I have felt some difficulties more; on the other hand I have been struck (& …
- … of species has made much difference one way or the other; in some few cases (if publishing avowedly …
- … to me on any scheme of work.— It was, in other words, Darwin’s views on the …
- … Fossil Cirripedia (1851), to a detailed description, among other things, of the various features …
- … a plastic material for attaching the peduncle and for other special purposes in particular instances …
- … the male being parasitic on the female: and in certain other species you have discovered a condition …
- … 1844 essay ( Foundations , p. 229). ^2^ CD and other contemporary naturalists frequently …
- … sometimes as a synonym for ‘hermaphrodite’ and at other times to denote the separation of sexes. …
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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- … the second English edition, yet it incorporated many of the other changes Darwin made to the second …
- … not particularly studied natural history, believe, on the other hand, that species undergo …
- … he upholds the doctrine that species are descended from each other. He seems to have been chiefly …
- … it is opposed to the general analogy of nature. If, on the other hand, we view ‘Persistent Types’ in …
- … thousands on thousands of species; and individuals of other species would take their places. …
- … some species are closely adapted to prey on some one other being; but if this other being had been …
- … intricate subject, for naturalists have not defined to each other’s satisfaction what is meant by an …
- … which, like the sharks, approach nearest to reptiles; whilst other naturalists rank the common bony …
- … they are most strictly fish-like, and differ most from the other vertebrate orders. Still more …
- … stamens and pistils, fully developed in each flower; whereas other botanists, probably with more …
- … is within the scope of natural selection. On the other hand, we can see, bearing in mind that all …
- … But mammals and fish hardly come into competition with each other; the advancement of certain …
- … forms a sort of pupil, but is destitute of a lens or any other optical mechanism. From this …
- … flowers; one having the normal structure of the order, the other kind being degraded, though …
- … by having had some advantage in the struggle for life over other and preceding forms. If, under a …
- … with the existing inhabitants of the same or some other quarter, the eocene fauna or flora would …
- … time, both these orders have been greatly reduced, whereas other orders, intermediate in grade of …
- … than at present; but a stronger case can be made out on the other side by considering the vast …
Forms of flowers
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Darwin’s book The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, published in 1877, investigated the structural differences in the sexual organs of flowers of the same species. It drew on and expanded five articles Darwin had published on the…
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- … again in December 1860, as he reported to Hooker, ‘ the other day at last I had time to weigh the …
- … absolutely sterile with pollen from the same form, while the other was fertile with its own pollen. …
- … is penetrated by the tubes of the one & not by those of the other; nor are the tubes exserted. …
- … his own experiments, Darwin received information on other species of Linum from trusted …
- … copies w d . be sold, unless indeed those who possess my other books wish to complete the series …
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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- … up as the orthodox doctrine, but which to St. Augustine and other learned Christian fathers would …
- … means are adapted, both in these two cases and in any other that may hereafter become known, …
- … his own design as well as that of his master; and so of other actions and constructions of brute …
- … law of parsimony, claim to be thus interpreted, unless some other hypothesis will better account for …
- … seemingly must needs form, cannot be rivaled except by some other equally adequate for explanation, …
- … and to offer in explanation of such beneficent provision no other word but Chance , seems as …
- … in a whole time-keeper . . . Two cog-wheels, grasping each other, will be thought conclusive …
- … one case is radically different from that performed in the other; there is no parallel, and Paley’s …
- … Nor is man’s recognition of human workmanship, or of any other, dependent upon his comprehending how …
- … or materially ‘ different from that performed in the other ’ as this writer would have us suppose. …
- … is too wide for a sure inference from the one to the other. But the present question involves …
- … the useful function in question could be established by no other instrument but one, is simply to …
- … to one designing mind that they are the product of some other. If so, no amount of ignorance, or …
- … processes, such as human digestion, being replaced by other and simpler ones in lower animals, or …
- … preponderate, or the wavering balance may incline the other way. There are two lines of argument: …
- … of their head, one eye being placed a little higher than the other. This arrangement has its utility …
- … the anomaly is manifested, one of the eyes passing to the other side of the head. It is almost …
- … far beyond the common apprehension. Seeds, eggs, and other germs, are designed to be plants and …
- … only a minute portion is intercepted by the earth or other planets where some of it may be utilized …
- … object of having seeds at all. So the same plant produces other flowers also, provided with a large …
- … Similar considerations may apply to the mould-fungi and other very low organisms, with spores …
- … how it is held. Darwinian evolution (whatever may be said of other kinds) is neither theistical nor …
- … existed for this or that direct and special end, and for no other, can hardly be pressed to the …
- … stock; and the competition of these species among each other for the ground they occupy, or the food …
- … in the division of labor instituted by each colony; or, in other words, in the localization of the …
- … it would be nearly useless to that in which it may help the other, bears all the marks of purpose, …
- … which was thought to question the principle of design. The other is a wrong idea of the nature and …
- … a response to, the action of the environment. Variations, in other words, the differences between …
Plant or animal? (Or: Don’t try this at home!)
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Darwin is famous for showing that humans are just another animal, but, in his later years in particular, his real passion was something even more ambitious: to show that there are no hard-and-fast boundaries between animals and plants. In 1875 Darwin…
The Voyage of the Beagle
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It was a letter from his friend and former teacher, John Stevens Henslow, that brought the 22-year-old Charles Darwin news of the offer of a place on board the Admiralty surveying vessel HMS Beagle on a voyage to chart the coast of South America. During…
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- … out about more of the Beagle's passengers and crew, and other principal characters …
Descent
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There are more than five hundred letters associated with the research and writing of Darwin’s book, Descent of man and selection in relation to sex (Descent). They trace not only the tortuous route to eventual publication, but the development of Darwin’s…
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Henrietta Darwin's diary
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Darwin's daughter Henrietta kept a diary for a few momentous weeks in 1871. This was the year in which Descent of Man, the most controversial of her father's books after Origin itself, appeared, a book which she had helped him write. The small…
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- … her heart she w d allow he had none. Mr. Maclagan on the other hand seems to have done a great …
- … tht this really has any effect on their lives! & on the other hand if it hasn’t mustn’t it come …
- … I cannot tell. How little one knows of the working of other minds. It is the gt. lesson one learns— …
- … shades of meaning. I mean them to represent one & quite other is what they represent to another …
- … Now she can trace him in the character of others—but other than in herself she sh d be hopeless …
- … ones it will be said—but eno’ to prevent despair— one other conviction I have forgotten the worship …
- … to take hold upon, for in some cases to turn your mind upon other subjects is simply impossible. How …
- … I am quite sure to begin with that it is not because of other people. If no human being was ever to …
- … outward & visible sign of the inward & spiritual grace. What other is possible but the …
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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- … but which differ so slightly (although constantly) from some other race, that the one is considered …
- … to produce an offspring unlike itself and resembling the other. This, however, would seem quite …
- … of prey and of man are here sufficient to check it. In no other birds are these peculiar …
- … being kept down by a periodical deficiency of food, and other checks ; and, 2nd, that the …
- … of the population of the modified species. If, on the other hand, any species should produce a …
- … by continual exercise. The domestic animal, on the other hand, has food provided for it, is …
- … Half of its senses and faculties are quite useless; and the other half are but occasionally called …
- … the various powers and faculties are so proportioned to each other as to be best adapted to procure …
- … among domestic animals. The two are so much opposed to each other in every circumstance of their …
Darwin & coral reefs
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The central idea of Darwin's theory of coral reef formation, as it was later formulated, was that the islands were formed by the upward growth of coral as the Pacific Ocean floor gradually subsided. It overturned previous ideas and would in itself…
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- … No other work of mine was begun in so deductive a spirit as this; for the whole …
- … suppose the land sinking: I believe much conglomerate on the other hand is an index of bottom [ …
- … of necessity be compensated by an equal subsidence in some other part of the world.– Does not the …
- … reading and correspondence with observers of coral reefs in other parts of the world. Though adopted …
- … reefs: Armstrong, Patrick. 2004. Darwin’s other islands . London and New York: Continuum …
Gaston de Saporta
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The human-like qualities of great apes have always been a source of scientific and popular fascination, and no less in the Victorian period than in any other. Darwin himself, of course, marshalled similarities in physiology, behaviour and emotional…
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- … fascination, and no less in the Victorian period than in any other. Darwin himself, of course, …
- … and emotional expression between Homo sapiens and other simians over the course of his long …
- … . But were some parallels between human beings and other great apes too disquieting to use as …
- … or its corollary—the attractiveness of human women to other apes. Darwin’s difficulty negotiating …
- … was willing to accept a common ancestry for human beings and other apes, in some cases only as long …
- … Harriet Ritvo, The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age. …
From morphology to movement: observation and experiment
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Darwin was a thoughtful observer of the natural world from an early age. Whether on a grand scale, as exemplified by his observations on geology, or a microscopic one, as shown by his early work on the eggs and larvae of tiny bryozoans, Darwin was…
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- … most likely more familiar with morphology as a science from other sources, notably the works of …
- … Chronicle in June 1860 , he asked readers living in other parts of the country to communicate …
- … experimental work and received additional information from other researchers. Among other things, he …
- … He could also keep his father apprised of the work of other researchers in the laboratory and …
- … view, although he would rather convert Sachs ‘ than any other half-dozen-Botanists put together ’. …
- … accept many of Sachs’s criticisms, he nevertheless tried other experimental protocols to reinforce …