Charles Darwin’s private papers online
p2pnet news | Cool Stuff:- “I think [sketch] Case must be that one generation then should be as many living as now. To do this and to have many species in same genus (as is) requires extinction.
“Thus between A & B immense gap of relation. C & B the finest gradation, B & D rather greater distinction. Thus genera would be formed. – bearing relation to ancient types. – with several extinct forms for if each species an ancient (1) is capable of making 13 recent forms, twelve of the contemporarys must have left no offspring at all, so as to keep number of species constant. -
“With respect to extinction we can easy see that variety of ostrich, Petise may not be well adapted, and thus perish out, or on other hand like Orpheus being favourable many might be produced. – This requires principle that the permanent varieties produced by inter confined breeding & changing circumstances are continued & produced according to the adaptation of such circumstances, & therefore that death of species is a consequence (contrary to what would appear from America) of non-adaptation of circumstances.”
The words are Charles Darwin’s, who write On the Origin of Species, and the first draft of his private papers on the theory of evolution, previously only available to scholars at Cambridge University’s library, are now online. And they including not only notes from the voyage of the Beagle, but also Darwin’s recipe book.
The Darwin family and Pilgrim Trust presented a collection of Darwin’s papers to Cambridge University Library in 1942, and, says the site, as the 1960 Handlist describes:
They were in parcels each containing small packets of manuscript wrapped in tissue paper on which the subjects had been noted in Darwin’s hand. They were presumably just as Darwin left them, and accordingly this arrangement was preserved when they were bound, the volumes now representing as closely as possible Charles Darwin’s papers in the order in which he left them. Beside the original papers there were copies of a large number of letters to Darwin, collections of press-cuttings, etc.
Click here to browse Darwin’s papers, here for an overview, and here for the main site.
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