Darwin and Modern Science. A. C. Seward

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       A. C. Seward

      Darwin and Modern Science

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664628060

Table of Contents

       PREFACE

       DATES OF THE PUBLICATION Of CHARLES DARWIN'S BOOKS AND OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS IN HIS LIFE

       1809

       I. INTRODUCTORY LETTER From Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, O.M., G.C.S.I., C.B., M.D., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., ETC.

       II. DARWIN'S PREDECESSORS. By J. Arthur Thomson.

       Professor of Natural History in the University of Aberdeen.

       III. THE SELECTION THEORY, By August Weismann.

       Professor of Zoology in the University of Freiburg (Baden) .

       IV. VARIATION. By HUGO DE VRIES.

       Professor of Botany in the University of Amsterdam.

       V. HEREDITY AND VARIATION IN MODERN LIGHTS. By W. Bateson, M.A., F.R.S.

       Professor of Biology in the University of Cambridge.

       VI. THE MINUTE STRUCTURE OF CELLS IN RELATION TO HEREDITY. By Eduard Strasburger.

       Professor of Botany in the University of Bonn.

       VII. "THE DESCENT OF MAN". By G. Schwalbe.

       Professor of Anatomy in the University of Strassburg.

       VIII. CHARLES DARWIN AS AN ANTHROPOLOGIST. By Ernst Haeckel.

       Professor of Zoology in the University of Jena.

       X. THE INFLUENCE OF DARWIN ON THE STUDY OF ANIMAL EMBRYOLOGY. By A. Sedgwick, M.A., F.R.S.

       Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy in the University of Cambridge.

       XI. THE PALAEONTOLOGICAL RECORD. By W.B. Scott.

       Professor of Geology in the University of Princeton, U.S.A.

       XII. THE PALAEONTOLOGICAL RECORD. By D.H. Scott, F.R.S.

       President of the Linnean Society.

       XIII. THE INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENT ON THE FORMS OF PLANTS. By Georg Klebs, PH.D.

       Professor of Botany in the University of Heidelberg.

       XIV. EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF THE INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENT ON ANIMALS. By Jacques Loeb, M.D. Professor of Physiology in the University of California.

       XV. THE VALUE OF COLOUR IN THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE. By E.B. Poulton.

       Hope Professor of Zoology in the University of Oxford.

       XVI. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. By Sir William Thiselton-Dyer, K.C.M.G., C.I.E. Sc.D., F.R.S.

       XVII. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS. By Hans Gadow, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S.

       Strickland Curator and Lecturer on Zoology in the University of Cambridge.

       XVIII. DARWIN AND GEOLOGY. By J.W. Judd, C.B., LL.D., F.R.S.

       XIX. DARWIN'S WORK ON THE MOVEMENTS OF PLANTS. By Francis Darwin,

       Honorary Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge.

       XX. THE BIOLOGY OF FLOWERS. By K. Goebel, Ph.D.

       Professor of Botany in the University of Munich.

       XXI. MENTAL FACTORS IN EVOLUTION. By C. Lloyd Morgan, LL.D., F.R.S.

       XXII. THE INFLUENCE OF THE CONCEPTION OF EVOLUTION ON MODERN PHILOSOPHY. By H. Hoffding.

       Professor of Philosophy in the University of Copenhagen.

       XXIII. DARWINISM AND SOCIOLOGY. By C. Bougle.

       Professor of Social Philosophy in the University of Toulouse and Deputy-Professor at the Sorbonne, Paris.

       XXIV. THE INFLUENCE OF DARWIN UPON RELIGIOUS THOUGHT. By P.N. Waggett, M.A., S.S.J.E.