The development of Darwin's theory : natural history, natural theology, and natural selection, 1838-1859 / Dov Ospovat.

  • Ospovat, Dov.
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1995, ©1981
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    Notestopp, loy-iii 66 Ibid., p. 163. 67 MacLeay, Insects and Fungi, p. 63. 68 The quoted phrase is from C. F. Schonbein, as given in Charles C. Gillispie, Genesis and Geology, p. 200. 69 G. R. Waterhouse, Descriptions of Some New Species of Exotic Insects. 70 Richard Owen Collection, Notebooks 3 and 9, British Museum (Natural History); Owen MSS, 276.h^ 27 and Hunterian Lectures for 1837, Royal College of Surgeons. 71 J. E. Gray, Arrangement of Reptiles. 72 [Robert Chambers], Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, reprint of the ist ed., pp. 191, 232, 236 ff. 73 See Winsor, Starfish, pp. 87-97. 74 LLD, 1:252; В notebook, p. 179. On Darwin's oíHorae Entomolog- icae, see Sydney Smith, The Darwin Collection at Cambridge with One Example of Its Use, p. 100. 75 E.g., Gavin de Beer, Introduction to Darwin's Notebooks on Transmu¬ tation of Species, p. 29; Howard E. Gruber, Darwin on Man, p. 196. David Kohn has suggested a more positive role for MacLeay's ideas in Darwin's intellectual development (Theories to Work By; pp. 76, 157, n. 16). 76 E.g., В notebook, p. 28: ?How is it that there come aberrant species in each genus (with well characterized parts belonging to each) approaching another. 77 В notebook, p. 27: see also С notebook, pp. 139, 150. 78 Darwin to G. R. Waterhouse, [December 1843], British Museum (Natural History). 79 D notebook, pp. 58-9. 80 В notebook, p. 28; С notebook, pp. 201-2; DAR 205.5:59 (undated, approximately 1840); DAR 205.5:60, dated April 1843. 81 This is implied in early uses of the tree image (B notebook, pp. 19-28); it is stated explicitly in С notebook, p. 155. 82 DAR 185, Darwin to G. R. Waterhouse, postmarked July 27, 1843. 83 В notebook, pp. 23-4. Darwin's use of affinity here may be a slip of the pen for analogy, or it may indicate that he had not yet mastered the distinction or learned to use the terms consistently. 84 В notebook, pp. 45-6, 263. It is the suggestion that the lack of an atmospheric type would leave four groups that makes it clear that Darwin thought his law would normally produce groups of five (the parentheti¬ cal 7 refers to Edward Newman's substitution of seven circles for MacLeay's five: De Beer, Introduction to В notebook, p. 29). 85 С notebook, p. 73; В notebook, p. 57; D notebook, p. 62e. Darwin's initial efforts to account for the number five belie the suggestion that from the outset he saw his irregularly branching tree of life as incompatible with the regularity of MacLeay's groups (cf. Gruber, Darwin on Man, p. 196). 86 В notebook, p. 162 (Darwin attributed the remark to Waterhouse). See also В notebook, p. 129: The relation of analogy of MacLeay etc. appears to me the same as the irregularities in the degradation of structure of Lamarck, which he says depends on external influences. 254 Jd