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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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- … Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. …
- … carried out during his student days in Edinburgh and later on board the Beagle , the monograph on …
- … considerable interest to mid-nineteenth century naturalists and approaching their classification …
- … that has remained a standard work in cirripede morphology and systematics. For Darwin personally, …
- … nomenclature, comprising both theoretical principles and technical facility with the methods of …
- … zoology stemmed from his years as a student in Edinburgh and, in particular, his contact with Robert …
- … (pp. 49–50), Darwin recalled: ‘Drs. Grant and Coldstream attended much to marine zoology, and I …
- … are numerous references to the ova of various invertebrates, and Darwin’s first scientific paper, …
- … examined some, almost disagreeably new; for I can find no analogy between them & any described …
- … minute Crustaceæ. Given this background and, in particular, his earlier researches in …
- … (DAR 31.2: 305). He gave a detailed description and tentatively identified this burrowing barnacle …
- … found attached to rocks. Yet from the absence of a shell and its unusual parasitic nature, Darwin …
- … stages in the larval development of this ‘Balanus’ and remarked on the resemblance of one stage to …
- … those of Crustacea, most naturalists had followed Linnaeus and Cuvier in classifying the cirripedes …
- … that a revaluation of the group, based on a systematic and anatomical comparison intra se and …
- … in the quinarian system of Macleay, with its emphasis upon analogy and affinity in arranging groups …
- … term that he introduced to replace the vaguer notion of ‘affinity’), a particular application of the …
- … descent from common stocks— In this view all relations of analogy &c &c &, consist of …
- … philosophical anatomy, Darwin incorporated the concepts of analogy and homology within his theory of …
- … not hermaphrodite but possessed separate sexes. Given the affinity between the males of Alcippe …
- … decision: Proteolepas has no particular affinity to any other cirripede; it resembles, …
- … and Scalpellum enabled Darwin to be sure of the true affinity of these most unusual forms. The …
- … the point by reference to the cirripedes: ‘The affinity of the common rock-barnacle with the …
- … but whilst young, locomotive, and furnished with eyes, its affinity cannot be mistaken.’ ( …
- … been recognised by botanists; CD, in fact, referred to the analogy with plants in Living …
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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- … OF NATURAL SELECTION (American Journal of Science and Arts, March, 1860) This book is …
- … as the author states—is unnecessary in such a case; and it would be difficult to give by detached …
- … upon which the author has been laboring for twenty years, and which ‘will take two or three more …
- … enough for its purpose. It will be far more widely read, and perhaps will make deeper impression, …
- … of the life of a most able naturalist have been devoted? And who among those naturalists who hold a …
- … to divest himself for the nonce of the influence of received and favorite systems? In fact, the …
- … which the views most favored by facts will be developed and tested by ‘Natural Selection,’ the …
- … devolve upon the principal editor,’ whose wide observation and profound knowledge of various …
- … for the task. But he has been obliged to lay aside his pen, and to seek in distant lands the entire …
- … of his health—a consummation devoutly to be wished, and confidently to be expected. Interested as Mr …
- … who regards the kinds of elementary matter, such as oxygen and hydrogen, and the definite compounds …
- … the former case. Between the doctrines of this volume and those of the other great naturalist …
- … divergence appears. It is interesting to contrast the two, and, indeed, is necessary to our purpose; …
- … is by no means absolute; all species vary more or less, and some vary remarkably—partly from the …
- … of a common parent, but of all the related species also. Affinity, relationship, all the terms which …
- … facts is only intellectual ’—an opinion which the analogy of the inorganic world, just referred …
- … in alternate and very dissimilar generations. So that mere analogy might rather suggest a natural …
- … all the members of the same class,’ and he concedes that analogy would press the conclusion still …
- … theology, he has not informed us. Paley in his celebrated analogy with the watch, insists that if …
- … of the highest human intellects,’ we could carry out the analogy, and draw satisfactory …
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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- … Atlantic Monthly for July , August , and October , 1860, reprinted in 1861. I …
- … it oppresses with a sense of general discomfort. New notions and new styles worry us, till we get …
- … although, when we had fairly recovered our composure, and had leisurely excogitated the matter, we …
- … left an uncomfortable impression, in spite of its plausible and winning ways. We were not wholly …
- … Investigations about the succession of species in time, and their actual geographical distribution …
- … dim as our conception must needs be as to what such oracular and grandiloquent phrases might really …
- … time of trouble, we still hoped that, with some repairs and makeshifts, the old views might last out …
- … theory is promulgated. We took it up, like our neighbors, and, as was natural, in a somewhat …
- … chapter. Here the author takes us directly to the barn-yard and the kitchen-garden. Like an …
- … proper ground that he had been ‘brought up among the pigs, and knew all about them’—so we were …
- … principle which we experimentally know to be true and cogent—bringing the comfortable assurance, …
- … since all Nature is at war, one species with another, and the nearer kindred the more internecine …
- … of the individuals whose existence is so wonderfully and so sedulously provided for ever comes to …
- … come to regard light, heat, electricity, magnetism, chemical affinity, and mechanical power as …
- … from an equal or lesser number.’ Seeing that analogy as strongly suggests a further step …
- … are constantly speaking of ‘related species,’ of the ‘affinity’ of a genus or other group, and of …
- … equal or lesser number, or, perhaps, if constrained to it by analogy, ‘from some one primordial form …
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