The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 8, 1860

by Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt, Janet Browne, Duncan M. Porter, Marsha Richmond

Overview

Volume 8 opens with Darwin eagerly scrutinizing each new review, as one by one all the major media of the day carried notices of the book. To those who express their views privately in letters, Darwin responds patiently and thoughtfully, answering their objections and attempting to guide their fuller understanding of the operation of natural selection. His more personal thoughts emerge in letters to his friends Joseph Dalton Hooker, Charles Lyell, and Thomas Henry Huxley. This volume presents a wealth of detailed information, giving the full range of response to the Origin and revealing how Victorians coped with a theory that many recognized would revolutionize thinking about the organic world and human ancestry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521442411
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	03/26/1993
Series:	The Correspondence of Charles Darwin , #8
Pages:	824
Product dimensions:	6.38(w) x 9.45(h) x 1.89(d)

About the Author

Date of Birth:

February 12, 1809

Date of Death:

April 19, 1882

Place of Birth:

Shrewsbury, England

Place of Death:

London, England

Education:

B.A. in Theology, Christ¿s College, Cambridge University, 1831

Table of Contents

List of illustrations; List of letters; Introduction; Acknowledgements; List of provenances; Note on editorial policy; Darwin/Wedgwood genealogy; Abbreviations and symbols; The Correspondence, 1860; Appendixes; Manuscript alterations and comments; Bibliography; Bibliographical register and index to correspondents; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"...presents a wealth of detailed information, giving the full range of response to the Origin and revealing how Victorians coped with a theory that many recognized would revolutionize thinking about the organic world and human ancestry." The Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society

"...Marked by the same thorough and painstaking scholarship as earlier volumes, the eighth volume of the Darwin correspondence provides a splendid documentary record of the life of Darwin and his circle through a most eventful year." Leonard G. Wilson, Bulletin of the History of Medicine

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