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The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 5, 1851-1855
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 762

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 5, 1851-1855

"For the first time full authoritative texts of Darwin's are made available, edited according to modern textual editorial principles and practice. Letter-writing was of crucial importance to Darwin's work, not only because his poor health isolated him from direct personal communication with his scientific colleagues but also because the nature of his investigations required communication with naturalists in many fields and in all quarters of the globe. Thus the letters are a mine of information about the work in progress of a creative genius who produced an intellectual revolution." --

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 2, 1837-1843
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 668

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 2, 1837-1843

This is the second volume of the 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 letters in this volume were written during the seven years following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage. It was a period of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional man with official responsibilities in several scientific organisations. During these years he published two books and fifteen papers and also organised and supe...

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 3, 1844-1846
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 582

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 3, 1844-1846

The third volume of the complete edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, covering the years 1844-6.

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 20, 1872
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1013

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 20, 1872

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 20 includes letters from 1872, the year in which The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals was published, making ground-breaking use of photography. Also in this year, the sixth and final edition of On the Origin of Species was published and Darwin resumed his work on carnivorous plants and plant movement, finding unexpected similarities between the plant and animal kingdoms.

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 7, 1858-1859
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 726

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 7, 1858-1859

The letters in this volume cover two of the most momentous years in Darwin's life. Begun in 1856 and the fruit of twenty years of study and reflection, Darwin's manuscript on the species question was a little more than half finished, and at least two years from publication, when in June 1858 Darwin unexpectedly received a letter and a manuscript from Alfred Russel Wallace indicating that he too had independently formulated a theory of natural selection. The letters detail the various stages in the preparation of what was to become one of the world's most famous works: Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, published by John Murray in November 1859. They reveal the first impressions of Darwin's book given by his most trusted confidants, and they relate Darwin's anxious response to the early reception of his theory by friends, family members, and prominent naturalists. This volume provides the capstone to Darwin's remarkable efforts for more than two decades to solve one of nature's greatest riddles - the origin of species.

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 15, 1867
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 757

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 15, 1867

During 1867 Darwin intensified lines of research on human expression and sexual selection.

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 18, 1870
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 659

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 18, 1870

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

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 24, 1876
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 913

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 24, 1876

Letters from 1876, when Darwin published Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom and began writing Forms of Flowers.