Darwin, Dr. Erasmus: Charles Darwin's grandfather. -Charles Darwin's preliminary notice to Krause's memoir of. -Charles Darwin and evolutionary views of.
Darwin, Francis: Charles Darwin's son. -on bloom and stomata. -on Dipsacus. -on Huxley's speech at Cambridge. -on the Knight-Darwin law. -on lobing of leaves. -experiments on nutrition. -experiments on plant-movements. -lecture at Glasgow (British Association, 1901) on perceptions of plants. -suggestion for Romanes' experiments on intelligence. -on vivisection. -on Vochting's work. -on Wiesner's work.
Darwin, George: Charles Darwin's son. -success at Cambridge. -criticism of Wallace. -elected Plumian Professor at Cambridge. -suggested experiments with magnetic needles and insects. -on Galton's work on heredity. -article in "Contemporary Review" on origin of language.
Darwin, Henrietta (Mrs. Litchfield): Charles Darwin's daughter. -criticism of Huxley.
Darwin, Horace: Charles Darwin's son. -remark as a boy on Natural Selection. -mentioned.
Darwin, Leonard: Charles Darwin's son.
Darwin, Robert W.: Charles Darwin's father. -letter to.
Darwin, Susan: Charles Darwin's sister. -alluded to in early recollections of Charles Darwin. -illness. -sends Wedgwood ware to Hooker.
Darwin, William Erasmus: Charles Darwin's eldest son. -on fertilisation of Epipactis palustris. -letter to.
"Darwin and after Darwin," Romanes'.
"Darwiniana," Asa Gray's. -extract from Huxley's.
"Darwinsche Theorie," Wagner's book.
"Darwinism," Wallace's.
Darwinismus, at the British Association meeting at Norwich (1868).
Daubeny, Prof. Charles Giles Bridle, F.R.S. (1795-1867): Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; elected Professor of Chemistry in the University 1822; in 1834 he became Professor of Botany, and in 1840 Professor of Rural Economy. -invites Darwin to attend British Association at Oxford. -mentioned.
David, Prof. Edgeworth, and the Funafuti boring.
Dawn of life, oldest fossils do not mark the.
Dawson, Sir J. William, C.M.G., F.R.S. (1820-99), was born at Pictou, Nova Scotia, and studied at Edinburgh University in 1841-42. He was appointed Principal of the McGill University, Montreal, in 1855,--a post which he held thirty-eight years. See "Fifty Years of Work in Canada, Scientific and Educational," by Sir William Dawson, 1901. -antagonism to Darwinism. -criticism of "Origin" by. -criticism of Hooker's arctic paper. -Hooker on.
Dayman, Captain, on soundings.
De la Beche, Sir Henry Thomas (1796-1855): was appointed Director of the Ordnance Geological Survey in 1832; his private undertaking to make a geological survey of the mining districts of Devon and Cornwall led the Government to found the National Survey. He was also instrumental in forming the Museum of Practical Geology in Jermyn Street.
Death, Darwin on immortality and.
Decaisne.
Decapods, Zoea stage of.
Dedication of Hackel's "Generelle Morphologie" to Darwin.
Dedoublement, theory of.
Deep-sea soundings, Huxley's work on.
Degeneration, in ammonites. -of culinary plants. -and parasitism.
Degradation.
Deification of Natural Selection.
Deinosaurus, and free-will.
Delboeuf's "La Psychologie," etc.
Delpino, F., on Asclepiadeae and Apocyneae. -on crossing. -on dichogamy. -on fertilisation mechanism. -letter to. -praises Axell's book. -mentioned.
Demosthenes, quoted by Darwin.
Denudation, Dana on. -Darwin on marine. -comparison of subaerial and marine. -Ramsay and Jukes overestimate subaerial.
Deodar, Hooker on the.
Deposition and denudation as measure of time.
Derby, Lady, letter to.
Descent, Falconer on intermediate forms. -from single pair. -Owen's belief in doctrine of. -resemblance due to.
Descent of Man.
"Descent of Man," reference in, to effect of climate on species. -reviewed by John Morley. -transmission of characters dealt with in. -Darwin's work on. -Sir W. Turner supplies facts for. -Wallace on.
Descent with modification, Wallace on.
Desert animals, and protective colouring.