The Correspondence of Charles Darwin
Volume 9. 1861
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Part of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin
- Real Author: Charles Darwin
- Editors:
- Frederick Burkhardt, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- Janet Browne, Cambridge University Library
- Duncan M. Porter, Cambridge University Library
- Marsha Richmond
- Date Published: November 1994
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521451567
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The correspondence in this volume continues to reveal the variety of responses to Darwin's species theory in the second year following the publication of The Origin of Species. Darwin also begins to turn to new "evolutionary" projects that illustrate how the theory could be applied to solving important problems in natural history. The letters also yield important new information about contemporary research.
Read more- Another volume in this critically acclaimed and award winning edition of the Darwin letters
- The letters continue to reveal the response to the publication of Darwin's theory of evolution
- The letters also begin to reveal information on new projects that Darwin took on after the publication of the Origin of Species
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"...a splendid addition to the growing number of volumes making Darwin's correspondence available to wide audiences. Readers who are not familiar with the preceding volumes of Darwin's edited correspondence may find this particular volume a good place to begin..." Vassiliki Betty, Plant Science Bulletin
See more reviews"An indispensable account for those persons who are interested in a knowledge of Darwin's life, work, and world after the important publication of Darwin's Origin of Species and The Descent of Man." Choice
"This correspondence continues to surprise with its remarkable detail and breadth of commentary. What elevates it to a world-class correspondence is the distinctive way in which the grand global nature of the subjects of distribution, adaptation, and geology set the context for numerous social and cultural considerations. Technical discussions of evolutionary issues spill over into considerations of the intellectual and cultural significance of biological thought, which has begun to exert a defining force on the human image itself. Many of these letters discuss the broader implications of human evolution in relation to evolution, religion, race, slavery, and the American civil war. In the Darwin correspondence, we find a way of thinking taking shape in which the natural world is inseparably and dynamically bound to the events of everyday human life." James Paradis, Quarterly Review of Biology
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- Date Published: November 1994
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521451567
- length: 645 pages
- dimensions: 240 x 163 x 41 mm
- weight: 1.199kg
- contains: 9 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
List of letters
Introduction
Acknowledgements
List of provenances
Note on editorial policy
Darwin/Wedgwood genealogy
Abbreviations and symbols
The Correspondence 1861
Appendices
Manuscript alterations and comments
Bibliography
Biographical register and index to correspondents
Index.
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