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The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 10, 1862
Charles Darwin
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hardcover. This new volume reflects a very productive year in the life of Charles Darwin. Editor(s): Burkhardt, Frederick H.; Harvey, Joy (University of Cambridge Library); Porter, Duncan M.; Topham, Jonathan R. (University of Cambridge Library). Series: The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. Num Pages: 980 pages, 16 b/w illus. BIC Classification: PDX; PSAJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 54. Weight in Grams: 1660.
As the sheer volume of his correspondence indicates, 1862 was a very productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments he carried out. The promotion of his theory of natural selection also continued: Darwin's own work on it expanded, Thomas Henry Huxley gave lectures about it, and Henry Walter Bates invoked it to explain mimicry in butterflies. As well as monitoring the progress of his scientific work, the correspondence also ... Read more
As the sheer volume of his correspondence indicates, 1862 was a very productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments he carried out. The promotion of his theory of natural selection also continued: Darwin's own work on it expanded, Thomas Henry Huxley gave lectures about it, and Henry Walter Bates invoked it to explain mimicry in butterflies. As well as monitoring the progress of his scientific work, the correspondence also ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
980
Condition
New
Series
The Correspondence of Charles Darwin
Number of Pages
980
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521590327
SKU
V9780521590327
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Reviews for The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 10, 1862
'Latest volume in this authoritative work - a model of its kind - which covers a particularly busy and productive year in Darwin's life.' Naturalist ' … a fitting tribute to this remarkable man.' M. R. D. Seaward, The Naturalist 'With all of its detail, its ferreting out of the minutiae of biographical and institutional detail, its superb appendices and ... Read more