The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 8, 1860
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 3/26/1993
EAN 9780521442411, ISBN10: 0521442419
Hardcover, 824 pages, 24.1 x 16.3 x 4.8 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
The correspondence in this volume is dominated by the public and private response to the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species. Volume 8 opens with Darwin eagerly scrutinising each new review, as one by one all the major organs 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 the Victorians coped with a theory that many well recognised would revolutionise thinking about the organic world and human ancestry.
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.