Author: Charles Darwin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521451567
Category : Naturalists
Languages : en
Pages : 664

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Author: Charles Darwin
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ISBN: 9780521451567
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 609

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The letters in Volume 9 provide another indispensable collection for those interested in Darwin's life, work, and world.

Author: Charles Darwin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521255875
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 752

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This volume inaugurates a complete edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. For the first time full authoritative texts of Darwin's letters are available, edited according to modern textual editorial principles and practice. The first volume of the edition contains the letters of the years 1821-1836. They begin with one written to Darwin at the age of twelve and continue through his school days at Shrewsbury, his two years as a medical student at Edinburgh, the undergraduate years at Cambridge, and his five years of exploration and learning during the voyage of the Beagle. These were Darwin's years of initiation and preparation for a life of science. In the earliest letters Darwin appears already keenly interested in natural history and an avid collector of minerals, plants, marine invertebrates, and insects - especially beetles. The letters of the succeeding years tell the story of the young Darwin's development up to his return to England when, at the age of twenty-seven, he was received as a colleague by Charles Lyell, Adam Sedgwick, and other leading scientists, who had already heard of his discoveries and observations during the Beagle voyage.

Author: Charles Darwin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521824132
Category : Evolution (Biology)
Languages : en
Pages : 758

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Author: Charles Darwin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521255875
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 758

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The letters in Volume 9 provide another indispensable collection for those interested in Darwin's life, work, and world. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author: Charles Darwin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009233572
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 883

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This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating and wide-ranging letters in context, making the letters accessible to both scholars and general readers. Darwin depended on correspondence to collect data from all over the world, and to discuss his emerging ideas with scientific colleagues, many of whom he never met in person. The letters are published chronologically. Darwin died in April 1882, but was active in science almost up until the end, raising new research questions and responding to letters about his last book, on earthworms. The volume also contains a supplement of nearly 400 letters written between 1831 and 1880, many of which have never been published before.

Author: Duncan M. Porter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521590341
Category : Evolution (Biology)
Languages : en
Pages : 762

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Author: Charles Darwin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521768896
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 659

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The year leading up to the publication of Descent of Man, Darwin's first treatment of human evolution.

Author: Charles Darwin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316851737
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages :

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This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating and wide-ranging letters in context, making the letters accessible to both scholars and general readers. Darwin depended on correspondence to collect data from all over the world, and to discuss his emerging ideas with scientific colleagues, many of whom he never met in person. The letters are published chronologically: volume 24 includes letters from 1876, the year in which Darwin published Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom, and started writing Forms of Flowers. In 1876, Darwin's daughter-in-law, Amy, died shortly after giving birth to a son, Bernard Darwin, an event that devastated the family. The volume includes a supplement of 182 letters from earlier years, including a newly discovered collection of letters from William Darwin, Darwin's eldest son.

Author: Frederick Burkhardt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521434232
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 762

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This Calendar is a catalogue of the letters the editors of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin have found to date. Information on the source and location of each letter is given, together with a brief summary of the content. First published in 1985, the Calendar has been amended to take account of recently-discovered material and re-interpretations or re-dating of known letters. A new supplement lists over 1000 amendments to the main body of the text, together with over 500 addenda relating to newly- discovered material.