The Correspondence of Charles Darwin
The Correspondence of Charles Darwin
Frederick Burkhardt, American Council of Learned Societies
Duncan Porter
Sheila Ann Dean
Jonathan R. Topham
Sarah Wilmot
$154.00
USDThis volume includes many letters not previously published, 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 programme is well depicted by correspondence with professional botanists, horticulturalists, and hobbyists. Nine appendixes complement the letters by providing 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.
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.
- 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
"...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
Product details
January 2000Hardback
9780521590334
1086 pages
242 × 164 × 59 mm
1.64kg
46 b/w illus.
Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
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.
