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
Plants and Animals, Variation of, under Domestication, 161;
Production of Abnormal Parts, 172;
Separate forms on same Individual, 175;
Different forms of Flowers on the same Species, 194;
Climbing, 196;
Power of Movements in, 197;
Insectivorous, 198
Pollen, Fertilisation of Ovule, 166
“Power of Movements in Plants, The,” 197
Protective Mimicry, 203
Reproduction of an Amputated Limb or part, 170
Reproduction, Sexual and Asexual, 164, _et seq._
Reversion, 167, 175
Rolleston, Prof., 155, 156
Romanes, Prof. G. J., 185
Salisbury, Lord, Speech at the British Association Meeting at Oxford,
82, 83, 138
Scientific Discoverer, The Qualifications of a, 12
Seeds, Experiments on the Vitality of, in Salt-Water, 51, 52
Sedgwick, Prof., Darwin’s Friendship with, 18;
his Excursions with, 20
Sexual and Asexual Reproduction, 164, _et seq._;
Advantages of, 165;
Cross-Fertilisation in Plants, 166;
Characters, 174–177;
Selection Theory, 67, 188, _et seq._;
rejected by Wallace, 188;
Darwin’s Letter to Meldola, 201
Shrewsbury, Darwin’s Birthplace, 9;
and School-life at, 16;
Re-visited, 25
“South America,” 190
South America, Some Observations on the Geology of, 26
Species, New, The Origin of, 56, _et seq._;
“Species not Transmutable,” Dr. Bree’s Book, 149
Species-mongers, Darwin’s Dislike of, 39, 40
Speculation and Hypothesis, 14, 15
Spencer, Herbert, Term of Survival of the Fittest, 148
Spontaneous Generation, 108, 159
Sterility of Hybrids, 171
Struggle for Existence, The, 65–67, 71–77
Survival of the Fittest, The, 148
Teleology, 113, 114
Ternate, Wallace’s house at, 63
_Times_, Huxley’s Article on the Origin of Species in, 124
Transmutation of Species, 26, 149
Tristram, Canon, 92–94;
Paper on Ornithology of Northern Africa, 92
Tuckwell, Rev. W., 155
Turkeys, Experimenting upon with Distasteful Caterpillars, 216
Tyndall, Prof., 157
Use and Disuse, The Inherited Effects of, 167, 179
Variability, 167, 173
Variation, of Organic Being, Darwin’s Papers upon, 65;
Wallace’s Paper on, 71, _et seq._;
and Selection Relative Importance of, 96;
Under Domestication, 115, 161
Varieties, Departure from the Original Type, 71–77
“Volcanic Islands,” 190
Wallace, Alfred Russel, and Darwin’s Joint Paper Presented to Linnean
Society, 46, 62;
and Darwin, 53, 60–64, 81–86, 134;
Paper Published on the Law Regulating new Species, 60;
Essays on Variations from Original Type, 61, 71–77;
house at Ternate, 63;
Comparison of the Joint Memoir, 78–86;
his Discovery of Natural Selection, 87–91;
Darwin’s Letter on Bastian’s Theory of Archebiosis, 160;
Darwin’s Letter to, on Pangenesis, 182
Watson, H. C., 144
Wedgwood, Josiah, 18
Weismann, Prof., on Germ-Plasm, 179;
“Studies in the Theory of Descent,” Meldola’s Translation, 205–210
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