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The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 27: 1879

Biography / Memoir
By: Charles Darwin(Author), Frederick Burkhardt(Editor), James A Secord(Editor), The Editors of the Darwin Correspondence Project(Editor)
852 pages, b/w illustrations
The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 27: 1879
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  • The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 27: 1879 ISBN: 9781108493758 Hardback Nov 2019 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 6 days
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About this book

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 27 includes letters from 1879, the year in which Darwin completed his manuscript on movement in plants. He also researched and published a biography of his grandfather Erasmus. The Darwins spent most of August on holiday in the Lake District. In October, Darwin's youngest son, Horace, became officially engaged to Ida Farrer, after some initial resistance from her father, who, although an admirer of Charles Darwin, thought Horace a poor prospect for his daughter.

Contents

List of illustrations
List of letters
Introduction
Acknowledgments
List of provenances
Note on editorial policy
Darwin/Wedgwood genealogy
Abbreviations and symbols

The Correspondence

Appendixes:
I. Translations
II. Chronology
III. Diplomas
IV. Presentation list for Erasmus Darwin
V. Reviews of Erasmus Darwin

Manuscript alterations and comments
Biographical register and index to correspondents
Bibliography
Notes on manuscript sources
Index

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Biography

Frederick Burkhardt (1912–2007), the founder of the Darwin Correspondence Project, was President of Bennington College, Vermont (1947–57), 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.

James A. Secord has served as Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project since 2006. He is also Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ's College. Besides his work for the Darwin Project, his research focuses on the history of science from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. His book, Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (2000) won the Pfizer Prize of the History of Science Society. He has recently written on scientific conversation, scrapbook-keeping and public scientific displays.

Biography / Memoir
By: Charles Darwin(Author), Frederick Burkhardt(Editor), James A Secord(Editor), The Editors of the Darwin Correspondence Project(Editor)
852 pages, b/w illustrations
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