The Correspondence of Charles Darwin

Volume 19, 1871
Herausgeber: Burkhardt, Frederick; The Editors of the Darwin Correspondence; Secord, James

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Produktbeschreibung

Get inside Charles Darwin's mind as he published Descent of Man, his first public statement on human evolution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 1116
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 64mm
• Gewicht: 1814g
• ISBN-13: 9781107016484
• ISBN-10: 1107016487
• Artikelnr.: 35117610

Autorenporträt

Frederick Burkhardt (1912-2007), the founder of the Darwin Correspondence Project, was president of Bennington College, Vermont, 1947-1957, and president of the American Council of Learned Societies, 1957-74. Before founding the Darwin Correspondence Project in 1974, he was already at work on an edition of the papers of the philosopher William James. He received the Modern Language Association of America's first Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters in 1991, the Founder's Medal of the Society for the History of Natural History in 1997, the Thomas Jefferson Gold Medal of the American Philosophical Society in 2003 and a special citation for outstanding service to the history of science from the History of Science Society in 2005.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
List of letters
Introduction
Acknowledgments
List of provenances
Note on editorial policy
Darwin/Wedgwood genealogy
Abbreviations and symbols
The correspondence
Appendixes: 1. Translations
2. Chronology
3. Diplomas presented to Charles Darwin
4. Presentation list for Descent
5. Reviews of Descent
6. Henrietta Emma Darwin's journal, 1871
7. Darwin's Queries about expression
Manuscript alterations and comments
Biographical register and index to correspondents
Bibliography
Notes on manuscript sources
Index.