More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1: A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters
By Darwin, Charles
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DEDICATED WITH AFFECTION AND RESPECT, TO SIR JOSEPH HOOKER IN REMEMBRANCE OF HIS LIFELONG FRIENDSHIP WITH CHARLES DARWIN "You will never know how much I owe to you for your cons...
ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOLUME I. CHARLES AND CATHERINE DARWIN, 1816. From a coloured chalk drawing by Sharples, in possession of Miss Wedgwood, of Leith Hill Place. MRS. DARWIN, 1881. ...
Earth-movements, 1840-1881. 2.IX.II. Ice-action, 1841-1882. 2.IX.III. The Parallel Roads of Glen Roy, 1841-1880. 2.IX.IV. Coral Reefs, Fossil and Recent, 1841-1881. 2.IX.V. Cleavag...
2.XII.I. Vivisection, 1875-1882. 2.XII.II. Miscellaneous Subjects, 1867-1882. ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOLUME II. CHARLES DARWIN, 1881. From a photograph by Elliott & Fry. ALFRED RUSSEL...
OUTLINE OF CHARLES DARWIN'S LIFE. BASED ON HIS DIARY, DATED AUGUST 1838. References to the Journals in which Mr. Darwin's papers were published will be found in his "Life and Let...
1809-1842. (Chapter I./1. In the process of removing the remainder of Mr. Darwin's books and papers from Down, the following autobiographical notes, written in 1838, came to light...
islands were covered with fine trees; in the conglomerate, I found one 15 feet in circumference perfectly silicified to the very centre. The alternations of compact crystalline roc...
(Chapter II./1. Since the publication of the "Life and Letters," Mr. Huxley's obituary notice of Charles Darwin has appeared. (Chapter II./2. "Proc. R. Soc." volume 44, 1888, and "...
the second edition, though not quoted above.) As was his custom, Mr. Darwin pinned at the end of the first volume of the 1841-51 edition a piece of paper containing a list of the ...
the value of characters of degraded flowers in the Malpighiaceae, but I doubt whether this at all concerns you. Mirbel somewhere has discussed some such question. Plants lie under...
Zoological Arguments, etc." page 300; "On Natural History as Knowledge, Discipline, and Power," page 305, do not seem to us to contain anything likely to offend; but Falconer's att...
LETTER 71. TO A.R. WALLACE. Down, April 6th, 1859. I this morning received your pleasant and friendly note of November 30th. The first part of my MS. is in Murray's hands to see i...
Wallace: "Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species" (loc. cit., page 186).); and I have added that I know ...
of uniformity, and changes in the conditions of life, seem the only cause of the elimination of sterility (when crossed) under domestication. (92/3. The meaning which we attach to ...
Tuckwell's "Reminiscences of Oxford," London, 1900, page 50.) It is of enormous importance the showing the world that a few first-rate men are not afraid of expressing their opinio...
page 338. The article referred to in the present letter is that in the August number.) Down, September 10th [1860]. I send by this post a review by Asa Gray, so good that I shoul...
about L. trigynum: the functional difference in the two forms of Linum is really wonderful. I assure you I quite long to see you and a few others in London; it is not so much the e...
LETTER 173. TO A.R. WALLACE. Down, January 1st, 1864. I am still unable to write otherwise than by dictation. In a letter received two or three weeks ago from Asa Gray he writes: ...
P.S.--If you write again I should very much like to hear what your life in your new country is. What can be the meaning or use of the great diversity of the external generative or...
manner described by me. With respect to Wagner's curious discovery my opinion is worth nothing; no doubt it is a great anomaly, but it does not appear to me nearly so incredible as...
by Astronomical Causes."), as I am as ignorant as a pig on this head. I shall require some days to read what has been sent. I have just read...
of Organic Life at Successive Geological Periods."), and like it extremely; it all seems to me very clear, cautious, and sagacious. You do not allude to one very striking point eno...
add that if you have observed in your enormous experience any remarkable "bud-variations," and could spare time to inform me, and allow me to quote them on your authority, it would...
have not worked experimentally at cultivation and crossing, as you have done, can hardly see the importance of, or their bearing on the general question. If I am asked, I may perh...
LETTER 235. TO J. JENNER WEIR. Down, March 17th [1870]. It is my decided opinion that you ought to send an account to some scientific society, and I think to the Royal Society. (2...
supposed difficulty on the incipient development of useful structures. I have also given my reasons for quite disbelieving in great and sudden modifications. I am preparing an essa...
the passages where rudimentary organs are said to be more variable than others, because no longer under the restraining influence of Natural Selection. And still more distinctly is...
Argyll, in which he stated that the letter had been written to him by Mr. Darwin in reply to the question, "why it was that he did assume the unity of mankind as descended from a s...
out to the general reader the importance of your view, and stating that I have been puzzled for many years on this very point. If, as I am inclined to believe, your view can be wid...
LETTER 313. TO J.D. HOOKER. Down, Tuesday [December 12th, 1843]. I am very much obliged to you for your interesting letter. I have long been very anxious, even for as short a sket...
the equatorial regions. (Bates, loc. cit., pages 352, 353.)) You seem to me to have put the case with admirable clearness and with crushing force. I am quite staggered with the blo...