Order of the proceedings at the Darwin celebration held at Cambridge, June 22-June 24, 1909 : with a sketch of Darwin's life.
- University of Cambridge
- Date:
- 1909
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Credit: Order of the proceedings at the Darwin celebration held at Cambridge, June 22-June 24, 1909 : with a sketch of Darwin's life. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![“The value of the Cirripede monograph lies not merely in the fact that it is a very admirable piece of work, and constituted a great addition to positive knowledge, but still more in the circumstance that it was a piece of critical self-discipline, the effect of which manifested itself in everything your father wrote afterwards.” T. H. Huxley to F. Darwin, 1887. “ One result was that he would never allow a depreciatory remark to pass unchallenged on the poorest class of scientific workers, provided that their work was honest, and good of its kind. I have always regarded it as one of the finest traits in his character,—this generous appreciation of the hod-men of science, and of their labours...and it was monographing the Barnacles that brought it about.” Sir J. D. Hooker to F. Darwin, 1887. 1856 “Early in 1856 Lyell advised me to write out my views pretty fully, and I began at once to do so on a scale three or four times as extensive as that which was afterwards followed in my Origin of Species!' 1858 Joint paper by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace “On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection,” communicated to the Linnean Society by Sir Charles Lyell and Sir Joseph Hooker. (Read July i.) “ I was at first very unwilling to consent [to the communication of his MS. to the Society] as I thought Mr Wallace might consider my doing so unjustifiable, for I did not then know how generous and noble was his disposition.” 1859 Nov. 24. Publication of The Origin of Species {12^0 copies). “ I never even built a castle in the air of such success as it has met with; I do not mean the sale, but the impression it has made on you (whom I have always looked at as chief judge) and Hooker and Huxley. The whole has infinitely exceeded my wildest hopes.” From a letter to Lyell, 1859. “ I have received your kind note and the copy; I am infinitely pleased and proud at the appearance of my child....You are really too generous to me about the, to me, scandalously heavy corrections. Are you not acting unfairly towards yourself?” From a letter to Mr John Murray, 1859. “ The most potent instrument for the extension of the realm of natural knowledge which has come into men’s hands, since the publication of Newton’s ‘ Principia,’ is Darwin’s ‘Origin of Species.’” Huxley, 1887. “The oldest of all philosophies, that of Evolution, was bound hand and foot and cast into utter darkness during the millennium of theological scholasticism. But Darwin poured new life-blood into the ancient frame; the bonds burst, and the revivified thought of ancient Greece has proved 3—2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2898383x_0043.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
