Abstracts of Papers Read at the First International Eugenics Congress: University of London, July, 1912International Eugenics Congress (1st : 1912 : London)
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Abstracts of Papers Read at the First International Eugenics Congress: University of London, July, 1912
International Eugenics Congress (1st : 1912 : London)
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Portrait of Charles Darwin, by W. W. Ouless, R A., painted in 1875.
[Sidenote: B 2]
Portrait of Erasmus Darwin (after Wright, of Derby), the common
grandfather of Charles Darwin and Francis Galton.
[Sidenote: B 3]
Photograph of Charles Darwin, by Maull & Polyblank, taken about the
year 1854.
[Sidenote: B 4]
Leopold Flameng's Engraving, after the portrait of Charles Darwin, by
the Hon. John Collier, painted in the year 1881--now in the National
Portrait Gallery.
[Sidenote: B 5]
Photograph of Charles Darwin on his horse Tommy.
[Sidenote: B 6]
Photograph of the small study at Down in which the "Origin of Species"
was written.
[Sidenote: B 7]
Etching by Axel Haig of the large study at Down, which Charles Darwin
occupied from about 1887 onwards.
[Sidenote: B 8]
Water-colour Drawing of Down House, by Albert Goodwin, painted in 1882.
[Sidenote: B 9]
Two letters of Charles Darwin, on "Worms and their Habits,"
[Sidenote: C.]
Exhibited by Professor von Gruber.
[Sidenote: C 1 & 2]
Experiments by P. Kammerer on +changes produced in the colours in
the skin of the Fire Salamander--Salamandra maculosa--by keeping them
on yellow or black earth respectively+.
According as to whether the animals are kept on yellow or black earth
the yellow or black colouring of the skin spreads, and this change
of colour appears in the same way in the offspring, though a direct
influence of the colour of the earth on the germ plasm is absolutely
unthinkable. The two pictures in the lower part of Figure C 1 show
the colouring of that generation to which the animal portrayed above
belongs, according as to whether they have been kept permanently on
yellow soil (right) or returned again to black soil (left). Here,
it is true, it is not a question of a new quality or tendency. The
capacity in the parents to deposit black pigment in their skin has
been increased or decreased according to their surroundings. But the
distinctive point remains, that their offspring is subsequently endowed
with the inherited tendency to produce proportionately more or less
pigment. This may, however, be a direct result of the abnormal life
conditions of the parents, in so far as the depositing of more or less
pigment in the skin of the parents is certainly not a purely local
process, but rather is bound up with other metabolic changes which may
extend to or influence the developing gametes.
[Sidenote: C 3 & 4]
Very remarkable are the +hereditary changes+ which Kammerer
established in +Alytes obstetricans+--the midwife toad.
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