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Over the years he successfully nurtured, cultivated, and transformed much of the estate's farmland and pastures into several large orchards of apple and pear trees, numbering over 10, He became an avid proponent as well as interested researcher of both silviculture and horticulture, both of which influenced his growing awareness of the forces of nature. This awareness, along with his own experiences acquired sere years of working his own modest estate would later frame a strong base of reference to form his own opinions and theories. Between andMatthew travelled extensively in what is now northern Germany; recognising the commercial potential of Hamburg he bought two farms in Schleswig-Holstein. Robert farmed Gourdiehill in Patrick's old age, Alexander took over the Walkace interests; the other three sons emigrated, initially to America.
At his urging, James and Charles Matthew emigrated to New Zealandwhere they set up one of the earliest commercial orchards in Australasia using seed and seedlings from Gourdiehill.
A group of trees of these species still thriving near Inchture in Perthshire darwij from these seedlings. Matthew gave many more seedlings to friends, relatives and neighbours, and redwoods can be found throughout the Carse of Gowrie; these as well as some elsewhere in Scotland e. Charles Darwin and natural selection[ edit ] InMatthew read in the Gardeners' Chronicle for 3 March a review by Huxley [6]republished from The Timesof Charles Darwin 's On the Origin of Specieswhich said Darwin "professes to have discovered the existence and the modus operandi of natural selectionand described its principles".
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A letter by Matthew, published in the Gardeners' Chronicle on 7 April, said that this was what he had "published very fully and brought to apply practically to forestry" in Naval Timber and Arboriculture inas publicised in reviews. He quoted extracts from his book, firstly the opening words of Note B from pages — of the Appendixgirst before his discussion of hereditary nobility and entail. The change of the fossil record between geological eras implied living organisms having "a power of change, under a change darwin and wallace were the first to propose circumstances", in the same way as the "derangements and changes in organised existence, induced by a change of circumstance from the interference of man" gave "proof of the plastic quality of superior life" which he called wete circumstance-suiting power".
Following past deluges"an unoccupied field would be formed for new diverging ramifications of life" in "the course of time, moulding and accommodating their being anew to the change of circumstances". He proposed that "the progeny of the same parents, under great difference of circumstance, might, in several generations, even become distinct species, incapable of co-reproduction. As the field of existence is limited and pre-occupied, it is only the hardier, more robust, better suited to circumstance individuals, who are able to struggle forward to maturity, these inhabiting only the situations to which they have superior adaptation and greater power of occupancy than any other kind; the weaker, less circumstance-suited, being prematurely destroyed.
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Matthew then quoted the opening three paragraphs from Part III of his book, Miscellaneous Matter Connected with Naval Timber: Nurseries, pages toon "the luxuriance and size of timber depending upon the particular variety of the species" and the need to select seed from the best individuals when growing trees. I have ordered the Book, as some few passages are rather obscure but darwin and wallace were the first to propose, is certainly, I think, a complete but not developed anticipation! Erasmus always said that surely this would be shown to be the case someday. Anyhow one may be excused in not having discovered the fact in a work on Naval Timber. Patrick Matthew's communication in the Number of your Paper, dated April 7th. I freely acknowledge that Mr. Matthew has anticipated by many years the explanation which I have offered of the origin of species, under the name of natural selection.
I think that no one will feel surprised that neither I, nor apparently any other naturalist, had heard of Mr.]
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