The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) Charles Darwin   Chapter XIX: Australia Sydney — Excursion to Bathurst — Aspect of the Woods — Party of Natives — Gradual Extinction of the Aborigines — Infection generated by associated Men in health — Blue Mountains — View of the grand gulf-like Valleys — Their origin and […]

  The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) Charles Darwin   Chapter XVIII: Tahiti and New Zealand Pass through the Low Archipelago — Tahiti — Aspect — Vegetation on the Mountains — View of Eimeo — Excursion into the Interior — Profound Ravines — Succession of Waterfalls — Number of wild useful Plants — Temperance of […]

  The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) Charles Darwin   Chapter XVII: Galapagos Archipelago The whole Group Volcanic — Numbers of Craters — Leafless Bushes Colony at Charles Island — James Island — Salt-lake in Crater — Natural History of the Group — Ornithology, curious Finches — Reptiles — Great Tortoises, habits of — Marine […]

  The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) Charles Darwin   Chapter XVI: Northern Chile and Peru Coast-road to Coquimbo — Great Loads carried by the Miners — Coquimbo — Earthquake — Step-formed Terrace — Absence of recent Deposits — Contemporaneousness of the Tertiary Formations — Excursion up the Valley — Road to Guasco — Deserts […]

  The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) Charles Darwin   Chapter XV: Passage of the Cordillera Valparaiso — Portillo Pass — Sagacity of Mules — Mountain- torrents — Mines, how discovered — Proofs of the gradual Elevation of the Cordillera — Effect of Snow on Rocks — Geological Structure of the two main Ranges, their […]

  The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) Charles Darwin   Chapter XIV: Chiloe and Concepcion: Great Earthquake San Carlos, Chiloe — Osorno in eruption, contemporaneously with Aconcagua and Coseguina — Ride to Cucao — Impenetrable Forests — Valdivia Indians — Earthquake — Concepcion — Great Earthquake — Rocks fissured — Appearance of the former Towns […]

  The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) Charles Darwin   Chapter XIII: Chiloe and Chonos Islands Chiloe — General Aspect — Boat Excursion — Native Indians — Castro — Tame Fox — Ascend San Pedro — Chonos Archipelago — Peninsula of Tres Montes — Granitic Range — Boat-wrecked Sailors — Low’s Harbour — Wild Potato […]

  The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) Charles Darwin   Chapter XII: Central Chile Valparaiso — Excursion to the Foot of the Andes — Structure of the Land — Ascend the Bell of Quillota — Shattered Masses of Greenstone — Immense Valleys — Mines — State of Miners — Santiago — Hot-baths of Cauquenes — […]

  The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) Charles Darwin   Chapter XI: Strait of Magellan. — Climate of the Southern Coasts Strait of Magellan — Port Famine — Ascent of Mount Tarn — Forests — Edible Fungus — Zoology — Great Sea-weed — Leave Tierra del Fuego — Climate — Fruit-trees and Productions of the […]

  The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) Charles Darwin   Chapter X: Tierra Del Fuego Tierra del Fuego, first arrival — Good Success Bay — An Account of the Fuegians on board — Interview With the Savages — Scenery of the Forests — Cape Horn — Wigwam Cove — Miserable Condition of the Savages — […]

  The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) Charles Darwin   Chapter I: St. Jago — Cape de Verd Islands Porto Praya — Ribeira Grande — Atmospheric Dust with Infusoria — Habits of a Sea-slug and Cuttle-fish — St. Paul’s Rocks, non-volcanic — Singular Incrustations — Insects the first Colonists of Islands — Fernando Noronha — […]

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The Origin Of Species (1872) Charles Darwin   Introduction WHEN on board H.M.S. Beagle as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts, as will be seen in […]

The Origin Of Species (1872)   Glossary Glossary of the Principal Scientific Terms Used In the Present Volume I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. W. S. Dallas for this Glossary, which has been given because several readers have complained to me that some of the terms used were unintelligible to them. Mr. Dallas […]

The Origin Of Species (1872) Charles Darwin     Chapter IX: Hybridism THE view commonly entertained by naturalists is that species, when intercrossed, have been specially endowed with sterility, in order to prevent their confusion. This view certainly seems at first highly probable, for species living together could hardly have been kept distinct had they […]

The Origin Of Species (1872) Charles Darwin   Chapter VIII: Instinct MANY instincts are so wonderful that their development will probably appear to the reader a difficulty sufficient to overthrow my whole theory. I may here premise that I have nothing to do with the origin of the mental powers, any more than I have […]

The Origin Of Species (1872) Charles Darwin   Chapter VII: Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection I WILL devote this chapter to the consideration of various miscellaneous objections which have been advanced against my views, as some of the previous discussions may thus be made clearer; but it would be useless to discuss […]

The Origin Of Species (1872) Charles Darwin   Chapter VI: Difficulties of the Theory LONG before the reader has arrived at this part of my work, a crowd of difficulties will have occurred to him. Some of them are so serious that to this day I can hardly reflect on them without being in some […]

The Origin Of Species (1872) Charles Darwin   Chapter V: Laws of Variation I HAVE hitherto sometimes spoken as if the variations- so common and multiform with organic beings under domestication, and in a lesser degree with those under nature- were due to chance. This, of course, is a wholly incorrect expression, but it serves […]

The Origin Of Species (1872) Charles Darwin   Chapter IV: Natural Selection; Or the Survival of the Fittest How will the struggle for existence, briefly discussed in the last chapter, act in regard to variation? Can the principle of selection, which we have seen is so potent in the hands of man, apply under nature? […]

The Origin Of Species (1872) Charles Darwin   Chapter III: Struggle For Existence BEFORE entering on the subject of this chapter, I must make a few preliminary remarks, to show how the struggle for existence bears on Natural Selection. It has been seen in the last chapter that amongst organic beings in a state of […]

The Origin Of Species (1872) Charles Darwin   Chapter II: Variation Under Nature BEFORE applying the principles arrived at in the last chapter to organic beings in a state of nature, we must briefly discuss whether these latter are subject to any variation. To treat this subject properly, a long catalogue of dry facts ought […]

The Origin Of Species (1872) Charles Darwin   Chapter XV: Recapitulation and Conclusion AS THIS whole volume is one long argument, it may be convenient to the reader to have the leading facts and inferences briefly recapitulated. That many and serious objections may be advanced against the theory of descent with modification through variation and […]

The Origin Of Species (1872) Charles Darwin   Chapter XIV: Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings: Morphology: Embryology: Rudimentary Organs Classification FROM the most remote period in the history of the world organic beings have been found to resemble each other in descending degrees, so that they can be classed in groups under groups. This classification […]

The Origin Of Species (1872) Charles Darwin   Chapter XIII: Geographical Distribution Continued Fresh-water Productions AS LAKES and river-systems are separated from each other by barriers of land, it might have been thought that fresh-water productions would not have ranged widely within the same country, and as the sea is apparently a still more formidable […]

The Origin Of Species (1872) Charles Darwin   Chapter XII: Geographical Distribution IN considering the distribution of organic beings over the face of the globe, the first great fact which strikes us is, that neither the similarity nor the dissimilarity of the inhabitants of various regions can be wholly accounted for by climatal and other […]

The Origin Of Species (1872) Charles Darwin   Chapter XI: On the Geological Succession of Organic Beings LET us now see whether the several facts and laws relating to the geological succession of organic beings accord best with the common view of the immutability of species, or with that of their slow and gradual modification, […]

The Origin Of Species (1872) Charles Darwin   Chapter X: On the Imperfection of the Geological Record IN THE sixth chapter I enumerated the chief objections which might be justly urged against the views maintained in this volume. Most of them have now been discussed. One, namely the distinctness of specific forms, and their not […]

The Origin Of Species (1872) Charles Darwin   Chapter I: Variation Under Domestication Causes of Variability WHEN we compare the individuals of the same variety or sub-variety of our older cultivated plants and animals, one of the first points which strikes us is, that they generally differ more from each other than do the individuals […]

The Origin Of Species Charles Darwin 1859 THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES by Charles Darwin 1859 INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION WHEN on board H.M.S. Beagle as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that […]