by Janet Browne
Young, Robert M., Darwin’s Metaphor, Nature’s Place in Victorian
Culture, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1985
INDEX
Note: The abbreviation CD refers to
Charles Darwin.
adaptation:
and CD Ref1, Ref2
and environment Ref1
and Hyatt Ref1
and Lamarck Ref1
modern studies Ref1
and Paley Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6
Agassiz, Louis Ref1, Ref2
agnosticism:
of CD Ref1
of Huxley Ref1
Allingham, William Ref1
altruism, and competition Ref1
American Civil Liberties Union Ref1, Ref2
anatomy, comparative Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Anglican church see Church of England
animals:
and language Ref1, Ref2
and origin of human beings Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
and sexual selection Ref1
anthropology:
evolutionary Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
palaeo-anthropology Ref1, Ref2
anti-slavery movement Ref1, Ref2apes:
behaviour studies Ref1
and degeneration theories Ref1
and evolution of human beings Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6
and fossil finds Ref1
Appleton (NY publisher) Ref1
archaeology, pre-history Ref1
Ardrey, Robert Ref1
Arnold, Matthew Ref1, Ref2
atavism Ref1
atheism:
and CD Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
and impact of Origin of Species Ref1
Athenaeum Club, CD’s membership Ref1
Aveling, Edward Ref1
barnacles, CD’s study Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Bates, Henry Walter Ref1
Bateson, William Ref1, Ref2
behaviour:
animal Ref1
and genetics Ref1, Ref2
Behe, Michael J. Ref1
Bertillon, Alphonse Ref1
Bible:
and critical scholarship Ref1
and CD Ref1, Ref2
and evolutionary theory Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
and FitzRoy Ref1
and fundamentalism Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
and geology Ref1
biology:
and environment Ref1
evolutionary Ref1, Ref2
and geology Ref1
and gradualism Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
and inheritance Ref1
molecular Ref1
and politics Ref1
population Ref1, Ref2
and social science Ref1
and society Ref1
biometrics Ref1, Ref2
birds, Galápagos Islands Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Biston betularia Ref1
Boas, Franz Ref1
botany, and evolution Ref1
brain:
human and primate Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
male and female Ref1
Brazil, and slavery Ref1
British Association for the Advancement of Science Ref1
Brown, Robert Ref1
Browning, Robert Ref1
Bryan, William Jennings Ref1, Ref2
Buckle, Henry Ref1
Butler, Samuel Ref1
Erewhon Ref1
Cambridge University:
biologists Ref1, Ref2
CD’s studies Ref1, Ref2
and natural theology Ref1, Ref2capitalism:
and competition Ref1, Ref2, Ref3and industrialization Ref4, Ref5
Carnegie, Andrew Ref1
Carpenter, William Benjamin Ref1
Chambers, Robert, Vestiges of the
Natural History of Creation Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7
copies sold Ref1
Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Ref1
chance, and evolution Ref2, Ref3change:
biological Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
geological Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
social Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Chapman, John Ref1
characteristics, acquired Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4,
Ref1, Ref2
Chartism Ref1
Chetverikof, Sergei Ref1
Christianity, liberal Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Christ’s College, Cambridge Ref1
chromosomes Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Church of England:
authority Ref1, Ref2
and CD’s studies Ref1
and education Ref1
and reception of Origin of Species
Ref1, Ref2
role in national life Ref1
civilization:
and human mind 111
and progress Ref1, Ref2
and survival of the fittest Ref1, Ref2
and humankind Ref1
Combe, George, Constitution of Man,
copies sold Ref1
competition:
and altruism Ref1
and evolutionary theory Ref1, Ref2,
Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
in society Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, 120
Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur, The Lost
World Ref1
cooperation, and evolution Ref1
Cope, Edward Drinker Ref1
Correns, Carl Ref1
creation:
evolutionary Ref1
divine Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6,
Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
and Lyell Ref1, Ref2
creationism, modern Ref1, Ref2
creativity, and ill-health Ref1
creator, in Origin of Species Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
criminology Ref1, Ref2
cyberspace Ref1
Darrow, Clarence Ref1, Ref2
Dart, Raymond Ref1
Darwin, Anne (daughter of CD) Ref1
Darwin, Charles:
character Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6
ill-health Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
sea-sickness Ref1
water-cures Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4and writing Ref5, Ref6
private life:
family background Ref1
education Ref1
friendships Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4,
Ref1, Ref2; see also Gray,
Asa; Henslow, John
Stevens; Hooker,
Joseph; Huxley, Thomas
Henry; Lyell, Charles;
Sedgwick, Adam
religious beliefs Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
wife and family Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
deaths of children Ref1, Ref2
death and funeral Ref1, Ref2
professional life:
Beagle voyage Ref1, Ref2
celebrity status Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
correspondence Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
as devil’s chaplain Ref1, Ref2
legacy Ref1
writings:
Autobiography Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5,
Ref1, Ref2
barnacle monographs Ref1
The Descent of Man Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
essay of 1844 Ref1
The Expression of the Emotions
in Man and Animals Ref1, Ref2
health diary Ref1
Journal of Researches Ref1, Ref2,
Ref1, Ref2
On the Variation of Animals
and Plants Ref1
Transmutation Notebooks
Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
The Zoology of the Voyage of
H.M.S. Beagle Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
see also On the Origin of
Species
Darwin, Charles (son of CD) Ref1, Ref2
Darwin, Elizabeth (daughter of CD)
Ref1
Darwin, Emma (wife of CD) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
children Ref1
religious beliefs Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Darwin, Erasmus (brother of CD) Ref1
Darwin, Erasmus (grandfather of CD) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
an
d transformism Ref1, Ref2
Zoonomia Ref1
Darwin, Francis (son of CD) Ref1, Ref2
Darwin, George (son of CD) Ref1
Darwin, Henrietta (daughter of CD)
Ref1, Ref2
Darwin, Horace (son of CD) Ref1
Darwin, Leonard (son of CD) Ref1, Ref2
Darwin, Robert Waring (father of CD) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Darwin, Susannah (née Wedgwood;
mother of CD) Ref1
Darwin, William (son of CD) Ref1
Darwinian revolution Ref1, Ref2
Darwinism, modern synthesis Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Davenport, Charles Ref1
Dawkins, Richard, The Selfish Gene
147
Dawson, Charles 131
De Vries, Hugh Ref1
degeneration, hereditary Ref1
design, and existence of God Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
determinism, genetic Ref1
Disraeli, Benjamin Ref1, Ref2
distribution, and variation (graphical) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
divergence, principle Ref1, Ref2
diversification of species Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7
Dobzhansky, Theodore Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Down House, Kent (home of CD) Ref1,
Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Draper, John William Ref1
drift, genetic Ref1
Drosophila melanogaster Ref1, Ref2
Du Chaillu, Paul Ref1
Dubois, Eugene Ref1
earth, age Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
earthworms, CD’s studies Ref1
economics, and survival of the fittest
Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
economy, and botany Ref1
Edinburgh Review Ref1, Ref2
Edinburgh University Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Edmonston, John Ref1
education:
and the Church Ref1
and creationism Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Eimer, Theodore Ref1
Eliot, George Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Emancipation Act 1832 Ref1
embryology Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Engels, Friedrich Ref1
entomology Ref1
environment, and evolution Ref1, Ref2,
Ref1, Ref2
Essays and Reviews Ref1, Ref2
ethics see morality
ethology Ref1
eugenics Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
Eugenics Society Ref1
Evans, Mary Ann see Eliot, George Evans, Sir John Ref1evolution:
and age of the earth Ref1
alternative theories x, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6
and environment Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
genesis of CD’s theory Ref1
and geographical isolation Ref1
and gradual change Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7
and Lamarck Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7
and morality Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6
multiple line theories Ref1opposition to Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
and political radicalism Ref1
and politics and economics Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
and principle of divergence Ref1
and purpose Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
reactions to Darwin’s theory
Ref1
scientific objections Ref1
and Spencer Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
straight-line theories Ref1
by sudden variation Ref1
support for CD Ref1, Ref2
and Wallace Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6
and writing of Origin of Species
Ref1, Ref2
Fawcett, Henry Ref1
finches, Galápagos Islands Ref1, Ref2,
Ref1
Fisher, Ronald Aylmer Ref1
FitzRoy, Captain Robert Ref1, Ref2
and CD Ref1, Ref2
Flustra, studies on Ref1
Ford, Henry Ref1
Fossey, Dian Ref1
fossils Ref1
and Beagle voyage Ref1
and continuous variation Ref1, Ref2
and creationism Ref1
and intermediate forms Ref1,
Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Fox, William Darwin Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
fruit fly, and genetic studies Ref1, Ref2
fundamentalism, biblical Ref1, Ref2, Ref3,
Ref1
Galápagos Islands:
and Beagle voyage Ref1, Ref2
finches Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
tortoises 26,Ref1
Galdikas, Biruté Ref1
Galton, Francis Ref1, Ref2, Ref3,
Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Gärtner, Karl Friedrich Ref1
gemmules, and pangenesis Ref1
generation:
CD’s interest in Ref1, Ref2
spontaneous Ref1, Ref2
genes:
discovery Ref1
population frequency Ref1, Ref2selfish Ref3, Ref4
Genesis, and creation account Ref1
genetics:
and behaviour Ref1, Ref2
and evolutionary theory Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
genetic drift Ref1
and isolation of species Ref1
and modern Darwinism Ref1
population Ref1
in Soviet Union Ref1
Geological Society of London, CD’s
membership Ref1
geology:
and age of the earth Ref1, Ref2
and Beagle voyage Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
and biology Ref1
early studies Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
and Lyell Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
germ plasm Ref1
Germany:
and eugenics Ref1
and Nazism Ref1
God:
as creator Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9, Ref10
and design Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
and evolution as purposeful Ref1
Goddard, Henry H. Ref1
Goodall, Jane Ref1
gorillas:
behaviour studies Ref1
and human ancestry Ref1, Ref2
Gould, John Ref1
Gould, Steven Jay Ref1
gradualism:
biological Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
geological Ref4, Ref5
Grant, Peter and Rosemary Ref1
Grant, Robert Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Gray, Asa Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
Great Exhibition Ref1, Ref2
Gully, James Ref1
Haeckel, Ernst Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Haldane, J. B. S. Ref1, Ref2
Hardie, J. Keir Ref1
Hardy, Thomas Ref1
Henslow, John Stevens Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
and Beagle voyage Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
and Lyell Ref1
heredity:
and degeneration Ref1
and environment Ref1, Ref2
and evolution Ref1, Ref2
and mental illness Ref1, Ref2
see also inheritance
Herschel, John Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Preliminary Discourse Ref1
Hill, James J. Ref1
Hill, Rowland Ref1
HMS Beagle:
CD’s publications Ref1–9
CD’s voyage Ref1, Ref2
and Galápagos Islands Ref1, Ref2
geological studies Ref1
hydrographical survey Ref1
natural history studies Ref1
and FitzRoy Ref1, Ref2
and South America Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
homosexuality Ref1, Ref2
Hooker, Joseph Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
and botany Ref1
Hope, Thomas Ref1
human beings:
and aggression 145
and diversity Ref1
divine creation Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8
early Ref1, Ref2
and eugenics Ref1,
Ref2, Ref3
evolution Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7
and fossil finds Ref1
and great apes Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8
and hereditary degeneration
Ref1
heredity and environment Ref1, Ref2
and language Ref1, Ref2
and Lyell Ref1
and mind Ref1
population and food supply
Ref1, 64
unity Ref1
and Wallace Ref1
humanism Ref1
Humboldt, Alexander von Ref1, Ref2
Personal Narrative 16
Huxley, Julian Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Huxley, Thomas Henry Ref1, Ref2, Ref3,
Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
Evidence as to Man’s Place in
Nature Ref1
Hyatt, Alpheus Ref1
hydropathy Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
imperialism, and Darwinism Ref1, Ref2,
Ref1
industrialization:
and social change Ref1
and social Darwinism Ref1
inheritance:
of acquired characteristics Ref1, Ref2,
Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
blending Ref1
and environment Ref1, Ref2
and genetics Ref1, 137
and pangenesis Ref1
Institute for Creation Research, San
Diego 150
intelligence testing Ref1
Intelligent Design Ref1
invertebrates, early studies Ref1
isolation, and genetics Ref1
James, William Ref1
Jameson, Robert Ref1, Ref2
‘Java Man’ Ref1
Jenkin, Fleeming Ref1–2
Jenyns, Leonard Ref1, 19
Johannsen, Wilhelm 135
John Paul II, Pope Ref1
Keith, Sir Arthur Ref1
Kettlewell, Bernard 142
King, Philip Gidley Ref1
Kingsley, Charles Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
Kropotkin, Peter, Mutual Aid Ref1
Lack, David, Darwin’s Finches Ref1
Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6
System of Invertebrate Animals Ref1
language, origins Ref1, Ref2
law, natural Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
Le Conte, Joseph Ref1Leakey, Louis Ref2
Lewes, George Henry Ref1, Ref2
liberalism, Christian Ref1, Ref2, Ref3life, origins Ref4, Ref5, Ref6
Linnean Society of London Ref1, Ref2
Lombroso, Cesare Ref1
Lorenz, Konrad Ref1
Lubbock, John Ref1
Lyell, Charles Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
The Antiquity of Man Ref1
and early man Ref1
and gradualism Ref1, Ref2
and Origin of Species Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
The Principles of Geology Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6
and uniformitarianism Ref1, Ref2
and Wallace Ref1, Ref2
Lysenko, Trofim Ref1
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Ref1
The Coming Race Ref1
