The Correspondence of Charles Darwin
Volume 13. 1865
Part of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin
- Real Author: Charles Darwin
- Editors:
- Frederick Burkhardt, American Council of Learned Societies
- Duncan M. Porter, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- Sheila Ann Dean, Cambridge University Library
- Samantha Evans, Cambridge University Library
- Shelley Innes, Cambridge University Library
- Alison M. Pearn, Cambridge University Library
- Date Published: December 2002
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521824132
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The Correspondence of Charles Darwin provides, for the first time, full, authoritative texts of all known and available letters to and from Charles Darwin. The letters are accompanied by detailed explanatory footnotes and supplementary materials, and offer unparalleled insight into Darwin's experiments, thoughts, friendships, and family life. Volume 13 of this continuing series contains letters for 1865, when Darwin published his long paper on climbing plants and continued working on his book, The Variation of Plants and Animals under Domestication. In this year, Robert FitzRoy, former captain of HMS Beagle, committed suicide; Darwin's great friend Joseph Dalton Hooker became director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; and Charles Lyell and John Lubbock quarrelled over an alleged incident of plagiarism. The volume also contains a supplement of over 100 letters discovered or redated since the series began publication, including a fascinating collection of letters written when Darwin was 12.
Read more- Offers unparalleled insight into Darwin's experiments, thoughts, friendships, and family life
- Covers the period when Darwin published his long paper on climbing plants and continued working on his book, The Variation of Plants and Animals under Domestication
- Contains a supplement of over 100 letters recently discovered or redated, including a fascinating collection of letters written when Darwin was 12
Reviews & endorsements
'Nothing in recent history of science quite tops the achievement of the volumes of Darwin correspondence. It is our own Human Genome Project.' Annals of Science
See more reviews'Previous volumes have already provided a goldmine of information not only for Darwin scholars but for any researcher interested in the Victorian period, particularly Victorian science.' Isis
'The letters … are written in elegant and extraordinarily polite terms. They are a delight on those grounds alone although they could daunt modern readers … the main effect of this book, though, is astonishment at the staggering effort the five editors put into it.' Roy Herbert, New Scientist
'… every real science library needs this series.' Trends in Ecology and Evolution
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- Date Published: December 2002
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521824132
- length: 752 pages
- dimensions: 242 x 164 x 45 mm
- weight: 1.16kg
- contains: 25 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, 1865
Supplement to the Correspondence, 1822–1864
Appendix I. Translations
Appendix II. Chronology
Appendix III. Diplomas
Appendix IV. Note on Darwin's health
Appendix V. The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
Manuscript alterations and comments
Biographical register and index to correspondents
Bibliography
Notes on manuscript sources
Index.
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