The Correspondence of Charles Darwin
Volume 5. 1851–1855
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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: April 1990
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521255912
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The correspondence in this volume reveals the two sides of Darwin's life in a new intensity. It opens with a family tragedy in the death of Darwin's oldest and best loved daughter, Anne, and goes on to show how Darwin sought relief from his loss through work, with a single-minded but increasingly weary commitment to the completion of his cirripede monographs. In September 1854, as soon as the final proofs of the last barnacle volume had been returned to the printer, Darwin threw himself into a resumption of his species work. He followed up old ideas by initiating new experiments and establishing a worldwide correspondence that encompassed geographical distribution, variation, and plant and animal breeding. The wealth of letters through 1855 makes evident the frenzy of intellectual activity that followed Darwin's terse announcement in his diary: 'Sept. 9th (1854) began sorting notes for Species Theory …'
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- Date Published: April 1990
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521255912
- length: 752 pages
- dimensions: 234 x 156 x 45 mm
- weight: 1.375kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
List of letters
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Note on editorial policy
List of provenances
Darwin/Wedgwood genealogy
Abbreviations and symbols
Part I. The Correspondence, 1851-55: Appendices
Manuscript alterations and comments
Bibliography
Biographical register and index to correspondents
Index.
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