The Correspondence of Charles Darwin
Volume 4. 1847–1850
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Part of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin
- Real Author: Charles Darwin
- Editors:
- Frederick Burkhardt, American Council of Learned Societies
- Sydney Smith, University of Cambridge
- Date Published: January 1989
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521255905
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This volume covers the first years of Darwin's study of the structure and systematics of barnacles: work that involved a worldwide search for specimens, detailed microscopic investigations, a consideration of the theoretical assumptions underlying classification schemes, and the solution of practical problems of zoological nomenclature. Darwin's convictions about the nature and origin of species influenced his observations and conclusions and provided insights that led to some remarkable discoveries. Throughout this period Darwin also maintained his involvement in major geological debates, as shown by important exchanges with Charles Lyell, Robert Chambers, James Dwight Dana, Bernhard Studer, and others. The letters to Darwin include Joseph Dalton Hooker's descriptions of his dramatic and frequently dangerous travels through previously closed regions of Sikkim and Tibet.
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- Date Published: January 1989
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521255905
- length: 752 pages
- dimensions: 242 x 152 x 45 mm
- weight: 1.29kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
List of letters
Introduction
Acknowledgments
List of provenances
Note on editorial policy
Darwin/Wedgwood genealogy
Abbreviations and symbols
The correspondence, 1847–1850
Appendixes
Manuscript alterations and comments
Bibliography
Biography
Biographical register and index to correspondents
Index.
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