6Lyell to Gideon Mantell, 24 Sep 1848, in Lyell (ed.), Life, Letters and Journals, Vol. 2, p. 148.
7Desmond and Moore, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, p. 394.
8Source unknown.
9Lyell, Travels, Vol. 1, p. 141.
10Charles Lyell, A Manual of Elementary Geology, 4th edn, London: John Murray, 1852, p. xxii.
11Lyell/Secord, Principles, p. 438.
12Ibid.
13Ibid., p. 233.
CHAPTER 16 ORIGIN OF ORIGIN
1Cited in Winchester, Map That Changed the World, p. 113.
2Cited in Cadbury, Dinosaur Hunters, p. 256.
3Robert Chambers, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, London: J. Churchill, 1844, edited with an introduction by J. A. Secord, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994, p. 277.
4Sedgwick to M. Napier, 4 May 1845, quoted in Secord, Victorian Sensation, p. 240.
5Proceedings of the Geological Society, Vol. 1, i., 1834, pp. 307–08; also Rupke, Great Chain of History, p. 178.
6Cited in Secord, Victorian Sensation, p. 330.
7Science, 26 Nov 2010, quoted in The Times, 26 Nov 2010, p. 35.
8Cited in Lyell/Secord, Principles, introduction by Secord, pp. xxxviii-i1.
9Clark and Hughes (eds), Life and Letters of the Reverend Adam Sedgwick, Vol. 2, p. 391.
10Frank H. T. Rhodes, ‘Darwin’s search for a theory of the earth’, British Journal of the History of Science: Darwin and Geology, Jun 1991, pp. 225ff.
11Bowlby, Darwin, p. 307.
12Ibid., p. 256.
13Philip Henry Gosse, Omphalos: An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot, London: John Van Voorst, 1857, p. 27.
14Letter to Lyell, 3 May 1856, in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: 1856–1857, Vol. 6, p. 100.
15Browne, Darwin, Vol. 2, p. 17.
16Ibid., p. 54.
17Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, London, John Murray, 1859, chapter 6, p. 228, 1900 edition. In chapter 3, p. 77, he credits Spencer for the expression ‘survival of the fittest’.
18Cited in Browne, Darwin, Vol. 2, p. 80.
19Ibid., p. 100.
20Ibid.
21Ibid., p. 669.
22Ibid., pp. 669–70.
23Ibid., p. 94.
24Ibid.
25Ibid.
26Clark and Hughes (eds), Life and Letters of the Reverend Adam Sedgwick, Vol. 2, p. 360.
27Quoted in Bowlby, Darwin, p. 367.
28Darwin to Hooker, 12 September 1847, The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: 1847–1850, Vol. 4, p. 74.
29Tyndall, Fragments of Science, Vol. 1, London 1879, p. 207.
30Ibid., p. 211.
31Ibid.
32Darwin to Thomas Jamieson, 6 September 1861, The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: 1861, Vol. 9, p. 255.
CHAPTER 17 THE WHOLE ORANG
1Lyell to Darwin, 4 November 1864, Lyell (ed.), Life, Letters and Journals, Vol. 2, p. 384.
2Lyell to Darwin, 16 Jan 1865, Lyell (ed.), Life, Letters and Journals, Vol. 2, p. 384.
3Ibid., p. 330.
4Lyell to George Ticknor, 9 Jan 1860, in ibid., p. 328–9.
5Ibid.
6Lyell to Horner, 26 Dec 1861, in ibid., p. 353.
7Browne, Darwin, Vol. 2, p. 218.
8Lyell (ed.), Life, Letters and Journals, Vol. 2, p. 363.
9Ibid., p. 219, in Browne, Darwin, Vol. 2
10Ibid.
11Lyell to Darwin, 5 May 1869, in Lyell (ed.), Life, Letters and Journals, Vol. 2, p. 442.
12Charles Lyell, Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man, London: John Murray, 1863, p. 506.
13Darwin to Hooker, 25 Feb 1863, The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: 1863, Vol. 11, pp. 173–4.
14Lyell to Hooker, 9 Mar 1863, in Lyell (ed.), Life, Letters and Journals, Vol. 2, p. 316.
15Desmond and Moore, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, p. 495.
16Ibid., p. 496.
17Frank James, ‘Science and Religion’, London Library Magazine, summer 2011, p. 16.
18Desmond and Moore, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, p. 495.
19Browne, Darwin, Vol. 2, p. 115.
20Ibid., Vol. 1, p. 387.
21Lyell (ed.), Life, Letters and Journals, Vol. 2, p. 406 and Appendix C, p. 471.
22Hooker’s eloquent words appeared in the Manchester Guardian on 3 March 1875.
23Browne, Darwin, Vol. 2, p. 248.
24Ibid.
25Ibid., p. 417.
26Desmond and Moore, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, p. 614; Browne, Darwin, Vol. 2, p. 481.
27Nature, 4 Mar 1875; Lyell (ed.), Life, Letters and Journals, Vol. 2, p. 475.
28Lyell to Spedding, 19 May 1863, Lyell (ed.), Life, Letters and Journals, Vol. 2, p. 374.
CHAPTER 18 MUSEUM PIECES
1Cited in Browne, Darwin, Vol. 2, p. 418.
2The Times, 18 Apr 1881.
3Emling, Fossil Hunter, p. 208.
4Clark and Hughes (eds), Life and Letters of the Reverend Adam Sedgwick, Vol. 2, p. 475.
5Ibid., p. 177.
6Preface by the Reverend Adam Sedgwick, to J. W. Salter, Adam Sedgwick, John Morris, A Catalogue of the Collection of Cambrian and Silurian Fossils, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1873, p. xxxi.
7Winchester, Map That Changed the World, p. 218.
CHAPTER 19 THEN AND NOW
1Richard Fortey, Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution, London: Random House, 2001, p. 117.
2‘Misadventures in the Burgess Shale’, Desmond Collins, Nature, Vol. 460, 20 Aug 2009, pp. 952–3. (http://www.nature.com/ nature/journal/v460/n7258/full/460952a.html?message=remove & FORM=ZZNR4).
3Nature, 1 Jul 2010, pp. 41–2.
4Ibid., 17 Feb 1870.
5See https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Geoscientist/Archive/June-2011/ Holmess-first-date.
6Nature, 28 Apr 2005, Vol. 434, p. 1053.
7See Norman Cohn, Noah’s Flood: The Genesis Story in Western Thought, New Haven: Yale, 1996, p. 128.
8Nature, vol. 467, 9 September 2010, p. 150 (http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100908/full/467150a.html?s=news_rss)
9Stephen Hawking, The Times, ‘Eureka’, 3 Sep 2010, p. 3.
10Arthur Holmes, Principles of Physical Geology, New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1945, p. 496.
11Ibid.
12David Oldroyd, ‘Held in Place by Practice’, Science, Vol. 284, 16 Apr 1999, p. 440.
13Ted Nield, Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009, p. 15.
14National Geographic, 4 Mar 2010.
15Review of Nield’s Supercontinent, Guardian, 6 Oct 2007.
16Fortey, p. 34.
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