Word: darwin
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS OF DAILY CRIMSON: There appeared in your columns yesterday an article, entitled "Some Interesting Facts about Darwin and the Origin of Species." The "facts" are interesting. The writer says: "When Darwin was beginning to develop his theory, he received a letter from Wallace, who was then in the Greek Archipelago." Now, Wallace was in the Malay Archipelago, and, as I shall show, Darwin was not beginning to develop his theory, but had matured it already some years back. In 1837, Darwin sketched out a MS., which he copied in 1844, when the copy was read by Dr. Hooker...
...Wallace sent his essay to Darwin, asking him, if he saw fit, to forward it to Sir Charles Lyell for publication. Lyell and Hooker agreed to publish it only on condition that he (Darwin) would at the same time give to the public the memoirs that they had for so many years endeavored to persuade him to publish, and which they had perused as far back as 1844. The result was, that the essays of Darwin and Wallace were presented, under one title, before the Linnean Society on June...
From the above it will be seen that Darwin had put his views upon paper 19 years before he received the essay of his friend Wallace and before the letter to Dr. Gray...
Some interesting facts about Darwin were told yesterday in one of the Philosophy courses, as showing how an observance of economic laws often lead to the discovery of natural laws as well as vice versa. When Darwin was just beginning to develop his theory of species he received a letter from Wallace, who was then in the Greek Archipelago. Wallace told him (accompanying this letter was an essay, which Wallace told him contained a new theory on which he [Wallace] wrote) that as the essay was one which contained a new theory on which his thoughts had of late been...
...Darwin Erastus Ware, '52. 1. "I think attendance at morning prayers should be made voluntary. 2. I think it should be possible to enter college without the knowledge of Greek...