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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    Notes to pp. 213-ig man, man might be produced again from monkeys, but this was not his usual conclusion. 13 See E notebook, pp. 68-9. The inevitability of something like man seems also to be suggested in Charles Darwin, Autobiography, p. 92. 14 D notebook, pp. 49, 58; E notebook, pp. 70, 95-7; DAR 47:64-5; Essay of 1844, p. 227. 15 See William Buckland, Geology and Mineralogy considered with reference to Natural Theology, i:io7-8n. 16 See Chapter 5, p. 120. 17 Richard Owen, Lectures on the Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Invertebrate Animals, p. 365. 18 Henri Milne Edwards, Introduction à la Zoologie Générale, pp. 35-57- 19 Charles Lyell, Anniversary Address of the President; [Richard Owen], Lyell - on Life and its Successive Development. 20 See Chapter 5, n. 52. Again, many of these developmental interpretations of organic succession made no attempt to provide a causal theory of succession. 21 Owen Collection, Correspondence, vol. 22, p. 268 (letter, Sedgwick to Owen, i860), British Museum (Natural History); Roderick L Murchison, Siluria, pp. 466-7. 22 [Robert Chambers], Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, 10th ed., p. 156. 23 On Spencer see Chapter 5, n. 4; see also Herbert Spencer, An Autobiogra¬ phy, 1:445; Stephen J. Gould, Ontogeny and Phylogeny, pp. 112-14. 24 DAR 205.9:200, dated March 1845. 25 When Milne Edwards proposed comparing the degree of development of a single animal at different ages and of one species with neighboring species, Darwin commented, Best way of putting superiority - though each perfectly (?) (can young be said to be perfectly ?) adapted to conditions (Darwin's Library, Milne Edwards, Introduction à la Zoologie Générale, p. 21). 26 MLD, 1:413-16. 27 Why few legs sh* serve function better than many I do not see - Probably the complication of one or a few pairs, by compensation, causes very few to be perfected or created. Hence fewness is a consequence of perfection (DAR 72:129V). Observations sur la Circulation appeared in Annales des Science Naturelles, 3rd ser., 3 (1845): 257-88. 28 DAR 72:118-19. 29 MLD, 1:76-77. On Darwin's reading of von Baer, see Charles Darwin, Monograph on the Sub-Class Cirripedia, 2:19-20, where definitions of high and low are discussed. Darwin and Hooker also discussed this topic in 1852 (DAR 205.9:246). 30 One such speculation is quoted in Chapter 7, n. 49. On Darwin's reservations, see Darwin, Cirripedia, 2:19-20. 31 LLD, 1:498 (letter to Hooker, December 1858). 32 MLD, 1:114 (letter to Hooker, December 1858). When Lyell, committed to the traditional conception of adaptation, objected, Darwin replied: I 274