Charles Darwin: 278 books

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The object of this work is not to describe all the many races of animals which have been domesticated by man, and of the plants which have been cultivated by him; even if I possessed the requisite knowledge, so gigantic an undertaking would be here superfluous. It is my intention to give under the...

The Introductory Remarks begin: "There is weighty and abundant evidence that the flowers of most kinds of plants are constructed so as to be occasionally or habituallycross-fertilised by pollen from another flower, produced either by the same plant, or generally, as we shall hereafter see reason to believe,...

This Essay first appeared in the ninth volume of the 'Journal of the Linnean Society,' published in 1865.

The object of this work is not to describe all the many races of animals which have been domesticated by man, and of the plants which have been cultivated by him; even if I possessed the requisite knowledge, so gigantic an undertaking would be here superfluous. It is my intention to give under the...

This Essay first appeared in the ninth volume of the 'Journal of the Linnean Society,' published in 1865.

During the seven years which have elapsed since the publication in 1868 of the first edition of this Work, I have continued to attend to the same subjects, as far as lay in my power; and I have thus accumulated a large body of additional facts, chiefly through the kindness of many correspondents.

Extrait: J’ai dit dans la préface de la première édition de cet ouvrage, et dans la partie zoologique du Voyage du Beagle, à la suite de quelles circonstances je fus amené à me joindre à cette expédition autour du monde. Le capitaine Fitz-Roy, commandant de l’expédition, désirait avoir...

Auszug aus Darwins Reisebericht: Ich habe die Reise mit zu tief empfundenem Entzücken gemacht, als dass ich nicht jedem Naturforscher empfehlen könnte unter allen Umständen die Gelegenheit zu ergreifen und aufzubrechen ... Unter den äußerst merkwürdigen Schauspielen, welche ich gesehen habe,...