Charles Darwin and the Theory of Natural SelectionPoulton, Edward Bagnall, Sir
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Charles Darwin and the Theory of Natural Selection
Poulton, Edward Bagnall, Sir
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882; Natural selection
Murray, Dr. John, Controversy as to the Origin of Coral Reefs, 33
Naming of Species, Darwin on the, 39, 40
Natural Selection, Early Impressions on Darwin, 30, 45, 46;
Survival of the Fittest, 56;
Specific Centres, 57;
Darwin’s Paper on, 65;
Theory of, 68–70;
Wallace’s Discovery of, 88–91;
Lord Salisbury’s Attack on, 82, 138;
Canon Tristram, the First Publicly to Accept the Theory, 92–94;
Argument for, 100–103;
Huxley not convinced as to Sufficiency of the Evidence of, 121,
123, 124, 126;
as the Highest Attempt to Account for Evolution, 129;
Huxley’s Description of the Theory, 136, 137;
H. C. Watson on, 144;
Hostile Criticisms, 144, _et seq._;
Why the Term was Chosen, 147
“Naturalist’s Voyage, A,” Completion of, 30
Newton, Prof., Speech at the British Association, 153
_Nineteenth Century_, The Duke of Argyll’s Article in the, 144
Orchids, the Fertilisation of, 193
Origin of Species, Darwin’s Theory of the;
Early Reflections upon, 25–29;
Growth of the Theory, 42;
Separate Creation Theory Inadequate, 42;
Principles of Development, 45;
First Account of Darwin’s Theory, 46;
the Sketch Enlarged, 46;
Profs. Huxley and Newton’s Criticisms, 46, 47;
Divergence of Character, 47, 48;
Competition, 47, 56;
Darwin’s Arrangements for the Publication in case of his Death, 48;
Darwin and Wallace’s Joint Paper Presented to the Linnean Society,
46, 62;
his Confidence, 48;
Correspondence with Friends, 50;
Immutability of Species denied, 50;
Theory not understood by Naturalists, 55;
the Polyphyletic Theory, 57;
Specific Centres, 57;
Darwin and Wallace, 60;
their Papers before the Linnean Society, 62–77;
Struggle for Life, 65–77;
Principles of, 68–70;
Comparison of the Joint Memoir, 78, _et seq._;
Preparation of the Work on, 95, _et seq._;
Interest of Lyell and Hooker in its Publication, 95;
Letters to John Murray, the Publisher, 97;
full Title of the Volume, 98;
Outline of the Book and its Various Editions, 100–104;
its Reception by Lyell, 105;
by Hooker, 111;
by Asa Gray, 112;
and by Huxley, 119;
Huxley’s Article in the _Times_, 124;
and in the _Westminster Review_, 125;
Huxley’s high Tribute to Darwin’s Theory, 130;
Difficulty with which Understood, 144, _et seq._;
Regarded by Darwin as an Abstract of a Larger Work, 162
Osborn, Prof., 79, 80
Oxford, the Bishop of, and Huxley, 155
Pangenesis, Darwin’s Hypothesis of, 164, _et seq._;
his Confidence in the Theory, 180, _et seq._
Parallel Roads of Glen Roy, The, 31
Parthenogenesis, 164
Petrels at St. Kilda, West Indian nuts found in, 96
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