The Correspondence of Charles Darwin
Volume 11. 1863
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Part of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin
- Real Author: Charles Darwin
- Editors:
- Frederick Burkhardt, American Council of Learned Societies
- Duncan Porter
- Sheila Ann Dean
- Jonathan R. Topham
- Sarah Wilmot
- Date Published: January 2000
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521590334
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This volume includes many letters previously unpublished, and chronicles a year that was enlivened by scientific controversy and filled with scientific queries and discussions relating to Darwin's transmutation theory. His love of botany and his expanding experimental program is well depicted by correspondence with professional botanists, horticulturalists, and hobbyists. Nine appendixes provide additional information from the Darwin Archive and from nineteenth-century publications. The letters also provide glimpses of life among the Victorian gentry and reveal the practical and emotional support Darwin received from his family.
Read more- Contains many letters which have never been published before
- Chronicles a year that was enlivened by scientific controversy relating to Darwin's transmutation theory
- Provides glimpses of life among the Victorian gentry, and reveals the practical and emotional support Darwin received from his family
Awards
- Awarded the Founder's Medal of the Society of the History of Natural History, and the Modern Language Association of America's first Morton N. Cohen Award for a distinguished edition of letters.
Reviews & endorsements
"A more serious picture of the scientist's thought is necessarily conveyed..." Kate Flint, Studies in English Literature
See more reviews"...chronicles a year of scientific controversy over Darwin's transmutation theory and illustrates Darwin's love of botany and his expanding experimental program." Documentary Editing
"This volume of the Darwin correspondence covers a vital point in the development of his theory when it was just beginning to gain wider acceptence...historians dealing with the impact of the theory of evolution can only be grateful that the careful editorial work of the Correspondence team is continuing with the same high quality as in the previous volumes." Annals of Science
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- Date Published: January 2000
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521590334
- length: 1086 pages
- dimensions: 242 x 164 x 59 mm
- weight: 1.64kg
- contains: 46 b/w illus.
- 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, 1863
Appendixes
Manuscript alterations and comments
Biographical register and index to correspondents
Bibliography
Notes on manuscript sources
Index.
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