7.0086 Rs: Darwin (3/75)
Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Fri, 9 Jul 1993 12:56:47 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 7, No. 0086. Friday, 9 Jul 1993.
(1) Date: Wed, 7 Jul 93 08:45:26 CST (12 lines)
From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Darwin quote
(2) Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1993 11:25:50 -0800 (48 lines)
From: <goodrich@leland.stanford.edu> (Tom Goodrich)
Subject: Re: 7.0083 Text Qs: Darwin
(3) Date: 8 Jul 93 23:36:02 GMT (15 lines)
From: johnstonj@attmail.com (James Johnston )
Subject: Re: 7.0083 Text Qs: Darwin
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Date: Wed, 7 Jul 93 08:45:26 CST
From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Darwin quote
The quote Mike is seeking is in Origin of the Species, Chapter I, part 1,
"Effects of Habit and of the Use or Disuse of Parts; Correlated Variation;
Inheritance." There are several CD-ROMs which have the Origin of the
Species on them, e.g. Desktop Library (Walnut Creek); Great Literature
(Bureau Development); Desktop BookShop (Unica; The CD-ROM Source); Library
of the Future (World Library) and others. I have an idea it may be
available by ftp (from Online Book Initiative ?).
Jim Marchand.
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Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1993 11:25:50 -0800
From: <goodrich@leland.stanford.edu> (Tom Goodrich)
Subject: Re: 7.0083 Text Qs: Darwin
Mike Neuman (neuman@guvax.georgetown.edu) writes:
>A colleague would like to find the source and the exact phrasing of
>the following quotation from the works of Darwin. She believes the
>quotation appears in one of the works from 1872 -- either The
>Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals or On the Origin of the
>Species (6th ed.) -- but she has not been able locate it through
>browsing.
>
> The laws governing inheritance are for the most part unknown. No
> one can say why the same peculiarity in different individuals of
> the same species, or in different species, is sometimes inherited
> and sometimes not so, why the child often reverts in certain
> characteristics to the grandfather or grandmother or more remote
> ancestor.
>
>A search of electronic text would help. Can anyone provide the name
>and address of the editor of the Papers of Charles Darwin? I
>understand the Papers are being prepared in both print and electronic
>media. Thank you.
>
The following comes from p. 76 of The Origin of Species, NY: Avenal Books, 1979.
The laws governing inheritance are quite unknown; no one
can say why the same peculiarity in different individuals of the
same species, and in individuals of different species, is sometimes
inherited and sometimes not so; why the child often reverts in
certain characters to its grandfather or grandmother or other
much more remote ancestor; why a peculiarity is often transmitted
from one sex to both sexes or to one sex alone, more
commonly but not exclusively to the like sex.
Hope this helps. I don't have the name of the editor of the Papers at hand.
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Date: 8 Jul 93 23:36:02 GMT
From: johnstonj@attmail.com (James Johnston )
Subject: Re: 7.0083 Text Qs: Darwin; Spanish; K Philips; Usk; OTA (6/97)
The Darwin Papers Project is being conducted at Cambridge University L
Library. I suggest you contact Ms. Sarah Benton at +44 223.333008 or
Fax +44.223.333160. In the United States, Dr. C.A. Tripp has a rather
extensive private electronic library of Darwin's works. Dr. Tripp can
be reached at 914-358-0033.
Both of these collections are in WordCruncher format, so it should be
rather easy to find the exact quote if the particular letters are in
electronic form.
JW