[NatureNS] Darwin's - Origin of Species

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Brian,

About Voyage of the Beagle I agree. When I read it I was trying to
understand his thought process, which I could not from the book..

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Gerald

On 9/3/14 11:57, Brian Bartlett wrote:
> The Voyage of the Beagle is one of my favourite 19th-century books by
> naturalists. Chock-full of precisely rendered observations, intense
> descriptions, a wealth of exploratory curiosity, fresh reflections,
> fascinating narratives, colourful scenes, cultural commentary,
> provocative questions, philosophical asides.... (But not satisfying if
> you're only looking for a book of hard science.)
> 
> Brian
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Gerald
> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2014 11:18 AM
> To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
> Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Darwin's - Origin of Species
> 
> Hi,
> 
> It has been many years since I read it. My opinion was similar. I also
> read Voyage of the Beagle. This disappointed me since he left out too
> much of his analysis of his observations.
> 
> -- 
> Gerald
> 
> On 9/2/14 20:35, James Hirtle wrote:
>> Hi all:
>>
>> I just finished reading Charles Darwin's - The Origin of Species.  For
>> the sake of argument has anyone else read this and what was your opinion
>> of it?  I found it rather drab and a hard read.  There were really only
>> two things of real interest to me, which was the lifespan of an elephant
>> and the time it takes a female to produce it's first young.  Also,
>> that ants will tickle the bottom of an aphid to make it excrete and then
>> eat this as food.
>>
>> It was my impression after reading the book that a lot of Darwin's
>> thoughts and discoveries were not his own, but based on the research of
>> others and possibly taken as his own.  In comparison to other writings
>> by him and of others about his research, which by the way I really
>> enjoyed at the time.  I was really disheartened after reading the actual
>> Origin of Species also written by him.  I'll look forward to others
>> thoughts on this book.
>>
>> James R. Hirtle
>> Bridgewater 
> 
> 

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