Word: darwin
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...prescribed studies. Since the revolution, however, few of the students has accepted the Buddhist doctrines, and most of them attend the lectures and recitations solely because they are compelled to. Nine-tenths of the students are radical freethinkers, and nearly one-tenth Christians. The works of Mill, Darwin, Buckle, Lecky, Huxley and Herbert Spencer are far better known than the Bible or the Buddhist works. [Cornell...
...posthumus essay by Darwin on the "Evolution of Instinct" has been found among his papers. It is a splendid example of exhaustive induction, and will be read at a meeting of the Linnxan Society...
...place in the library in 1881. If any one has any doubt as to Cromwell's unsympathetic treatment of Charles I., one look at this cold, pale face will decide him. A more cheerful ornament lately added is a finely executed pen and ink sketch of the study of Darwin...
...George Darwin, son of the late Charles Darwin, has been elected professor of astronomy and experimental philosophy in Cambridge University...
...eulogistic biographical notice of Darwin, from the pen of Professor Asa Gray, appears in the last issue of the "Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...