 | Louis Compton Miall - 1883 - 72 pages
...'Malthus on Population,' the idea of natural selection flashed on me. . . . After five years' work, I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged, in 1844, into a sketch of the conclusions which then seemed to me probable; from... | |
 | Edward Woodall - Naturalists - 1884 - 100 pages
...reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes ; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions which then seemed to me probable ; from... | |
 | Joseph Young Bergen, Fanny Dickerson Bergen - Evolution - 1884 - 266 pages
...reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work, I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes : these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions which then seemed to me probable. From... | |
 | Religion - 1882 - 896 pages
...'of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it." " After five years' work," he continues, " I allowed myself " to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; " these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions " which then seemed to me probable ; from... | |
 | Grant Allen - Biography & Autobiography - 1885 - 226 pages
...reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work, I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes ; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions that then seemed to me probable ; from... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1887 - 586 pages
...contains an error of date. It agrees also with the following extract from his Diary. 1842. May 18th. Went to Maer. "June 15th to Shrewsbury, and on 18th...and A. Wallace on the ' Tendency of Species to form Varieties,' f the essay of 1844 (extracts from which form part of the paper) is said to have been "sketched... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 570 pages
...of date. It agrees also with the following extract from his Diary. 1842. May 18th. Went to Maer. u June 15th to Shrewsbury, and on 18th to Capel Curig....and A. Wallace on the ' Tendency of Species to form Varieties,' f the essay of 1844 (extracts from which form part of the paper) is said to have been "... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1887 - 588 pages
...It agrees also with the following extract from his Diary. 1842. May 18th. Went to Maer. "June 1sth to Shrewsbury, and on 18th to Capel Curig. During...and A. Wallace on the ' Tendency of Species to form Varieties,' f the essay of 1844 (extracts from which form part of the paper) is said to have been "sketched... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Autobiography - 1887 - 416 pages
...commencement) wrote pencil-sketch of species theory." Again in the introduction to the ' Origin,' p. I, he writes, "after an interval of five years' work,"...and A. Wallace on the ' Tendency of Species to form Varieties,' * the essay of 1844 (extracts from which form part of the paper) is said to have been "sketched... | |
 | David Starr Jordan - Natural history - 1887 - 296 pages
...and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes. These I enlarged, in 1844, into a sketch of the conclusions which then seemed to me probable. From... | |
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After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions which then seemed to me probable; from that period to the present day I have steadily pursued... 
