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INDEX
aboriginals, Australian, 44, 200, 207–8
Abutilon darwinii, 169
The Academy, obituary of CD in, 300
adaptation, 65, 66, 70, 124–25, 305; beneficial, 166; and domesticated species, 122; and good of another species, 123; and Lamarck, 90; machinery metaphor for, 125; and morphology, 56, 67, 108–9, 111, 142; neither beneficial nor injurious, 142; number and diversity of inheritable deviations of, 138–39; as produced for good of possessor, 128; usefulness of, 114, 119
Admiralty, British, 33
Africa, 26
Agassiz, Elizabeth Cary, 263
Agassiz, Louis, 113, 158–59, 234, 263
agnosticism, 223
Allen, Grant, 300
Allingham, William, 275
Andaman islanders, 174
Andes Mountains, 26–27
Anglican Church, 277
Angracum sesquipedale (Darwin’s orchid), 166–67
animals: affinities of, 54; checks on increase of, 57–58; classification of, 54; and death, 200; descent of, 144; domesticated, 53, 83, 122, 125, 138, 139, 140, 185, 186, 211 (see also mankind, power over selection); domesticated vs. wild, 40; extinct, 26; female, 185, 186–87; and human intellect, 193; humanity to, 247–48; and human moral sense, 190, 191; instincts of, 54; mankind’s descent from, 304; migration of, 130–31; one no higher than another, 54; progenitors of, 144; and races of men, 181; and self-consciousness, 200; stronger as extirpating weaker, 208; and struggle for existence, 58; suffering of, 219–20; warring among, 66. See also birds; population; species
ants, 128–29, 198–99
ape(s), 74; brain of, 174; and human intellect, 193; mankind as descended from, 157, 158, 161, 177, 299, 305; and mirrors, 74, 204–5. See also chimpanzees; mandrills; monkeys; orangutans
architect, 136–37
Argus pheasant, 187
aristocracy, 233
Aristotle, 238, 239
armadillos, 69
Ascension Island, 22
astronomy, 134–35, 136
asylums, 210
atheism, 133, 164, 223, 265
atolls, 29
Austen, Jane, 292
Australia, 44, 207, 208
Australian settlers, 174
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin (C. Darwin): barnacles in, 84, 89; Beagle voyage in, 13, 14–15, 22–23; botany in, 167, 169; children in, 79; design in, 133; divergence with modification in, 70; education in, 3–10; embryology in, 164; emotion in, 202, 203; friends and contemporaries in, 263–64, 265, 266, 268, 269–73, 274; geology in, 24, 28–29; health issues in, 226; human origins in, 173; marriage in, 63–64; personal life in, 253–58, 259; precursors in, 90, 91, 95–96; religious belief in, 217–20, 222–23, 225; science in, 234–35, 239; slavery in, 30–31; species in, 53, 57, 58, 69; Wallace in, 102, 116; writing habits in, 241–42
Aveling, E. B.: CD’s 13 October 1880 letter to, 223–24; The religious views of Charles Darwin, 224–25
Avestruz Petise, 33–34
Babbage, Charles, 264
baboons, 56, 258
Back to Methuselah (Shaw), 302
Baconian principles, 53
Bahia, Brazil, 30
Bajada [Baja de Entre Rios, River Parana, Argentina], 25
barnacles, 84–89, 152, 241
barn-owl, white, 65
Bartlett, Abraham D., CD’s 5 January [1870] letter to, 202–3
Bateman, James, 166
Bates, H. W., 156, 241
Batrachians, 34
Bay of San Blas [south of Bahia Blanca, Argentina], 35
Beagle. See HMS Beagle
Beagle Channel, South America, 39
Beagle Diary (C. Darwin), 39, 41–42
bears, black, 111
Beaufort, Francis, 33
beauty, 128, 181, 186, 187
bees, 110, 190–91, 199–200
beetles, 6–7, 21, 76–77, 108, 295, 301
Bell, Thomas, 103
Benchuca bug, 19
Bible, 217, 218, 224, 279–80, 283, 284, 299
birds, 109, 115, 140, 252; and courtship, 185–87, 188; and Galápagos Archipelago, 46, 48, 49, 65; and instincts, 200; species of, 53–54; tameness of, 46; taxidermy of, 5. See also animals
bivalves, 133
Blyth, Edward, 97
botany, 165–69
Brachinus crepitans, 76
Brachiopod shells, genera of, 120, 121
Bradlaugh, Charles, CD’s 6 June 1877 letter to, 192
Bradley, G. G., 298
brain, 55, 174, 182–83, 201
Brazil, 15, 32, 217–18
breeders. See animals, domesticated; mankind, power over selection; plants, domesticated
Bressa prize (Turin Society, Italy), 238
British Association for the Advancement of Science, 157, 161
British colonies, 208
British empire, xiii
Brodie, Sir Benjamin, 157
Brown, Robert, 57, 263
Bryan, William Jennings, 304–5
Büchner, Georg, 200
buds, 139, 141
Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de, 95
Butler, Samuel (author), 263–64, 275
Butler, Samuel (headmaster, Shrewsbury School), 3
butterflies, 35
Button, Jemmy (Orundellico), 41, 42
Byron, Lord, 257
California, gold rush in, 208–9
Callithrix sciureus, 202–3
Cambrian formation, 163
Cambridge University, 5–6, 7–10
Cameron, Julia Margaret, 216, 256
Candolle, Alphonse de, 66, 118; CD’s 6 July 1868 letter to, 174
Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de, 57
Cape of Good Hope, 207
Cape Verde islands, 24
Carlyle, Thomas, 264
Carus, J. V., letter to CD, 15 November 1866, 161
cats, 110, 134
celibacy, 192
cells, 139, 140
Chambers, Robert, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, 91, 93–94, 154
chance, 134, 139
Chapman, John, CD’s 16 May [1865] letter to, 230–31
character/personality, 186–87, 255, 258; of CD (see under Darwin, Charles Robert); of E. A. Darwin, 265
chastity, 191–92
Chemical Catechism (Henry and Parkes), 4
chemistry, CD’s love for, 3–4, 150, 265
Chile: barnacles from, 84; Benchuca of, 19; coral reefs in, 28–29; earthquake in, 18–19; volcanic eruption in, 27
chimpanzees, 204. See also apes
Chonos Archipelago, Chile, 35
Christianity, 43, 218–19, 224, 265, 276, 283
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sp; civilization, 42, 183, 195, 255; advance of, 209; and arts, 193–94, 211; and Australian aborigines, 44; and chastity, 192; inheritance of wealth and property in, 211; and New South Wales, Australia, 208; preservation of weak members of, 210–11; and progress, 213–14
Civil War, American, 232, 233
classics, 78–79
clergy, 280; and CD’s possible occupation, 12, 16, 21, 217
climatal change, 130
clovers, 110
Clytus mysticus, 76
co-adaptations, 108
Cobbe, Frances Power, 248; CD’s 23 March [1870] letter to, 190
cocoa-nut, 20
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 254, 257
collecting, 6, 11, 22, 33–38, 76–77, 80, 86, 88, 165, 301
Collier, John, CD’s 16 February 1882 letter to, 258
colonialism, 32, 207
comets, 136
commerce, xiii
Concepción, Chile, 18–19
Concholepas, 84
Coniston, Lake District, 293
consciousness, 137
contraception, 192
controversies, CD’s avoidance of, 256
Conway, Moncure Daniel, 276
Copernicus, Nicolai, 299, 304
Copley Medal of the Royal Society, 277
coral reefs, 28–29, 239
Covington, Syms: CD’s 23 November 1850 letter to, 88, 208–9; CD’s 30 March 1849 letter to, 86–87
creation, 113, 117; and Foote, 303; individual, 67; and Kingsley, 144; and Lyell, 285; and Powell, 94–95; special, 304; and Spencer, 94; as term, 145. See also God/Creator
Croll, James: CD’s 19 September 1868 letter to, 163; CD’s 31 January [1869] letter to, 163
Cuvier, Georges, 238–39
daisies vs. dandelions, 165
Dana, J. D.: CD’s 8 October 1849 letter to, 87; CD’s 29 September [1856] letter to, 80
Darrow, Clarence, 305
Darwin, Anne, 74–75
Darwin, Bernard Richard Meirion (grandson), 295
Darwin, Caroline Sarah (sister): CD’s 30 March–12 April 1833 letter to, 39–40; CD’s 13 November 1833 letter to, 18; CD’s 13 October 1834 letter to, 18; CD’s 10–13 March 1835 letter to, 18–19; CD’s 29 April 1836 letter to, 240
Darwin, Charles Robert: appearance of, 16, 275, 276, 278–79, 282, 283, 295; birth of, 303; burial of, xiv, 298; caricature of, from The Hornet, 172; character of, 3, 12, 258, 277, 278, 281–83, 294; children of, xiv, 73–79, 286–88; daguerreotype of, 52; death of, 68, 297; education of, 3–10; last will and testament of, 259; life and habits of, 280, 281, 286–97; photograph by Cameron, 216, 256; photograph by Elliott and Fry, 262; photograph by Maull and Fox, 106; tastes of, 3, 7–8, 79, 254–55, 257, 258; tributes to, 298–302; watercolor sketch by Richmond, 2