The Correspondence of Charles Darwin

Informationen zum Autor Charles Darwin was a naturalist earned fame for the 'Theory of Evolution'. He was born on 12 February 1809 in Shrewsbury England. His father Robert Waring Darwin was a medical doctor and mother Susannah Wedgwood belonged to a famous pottery family. In his childhood he went Shrewsbury School, academically he was not good. For advanced learning, his father send him to Edinburgh University in Scotland to become a doctor but he was not interested and he joined Christ's College Cambridge. His interests developed in botany thus, he studied John Stevens Henslow's course in botany, though he completed his graduation in 1831. As a naturalist Darwin got an opportunity to go to second sea voyage of H.M.S. Beagle to survey the coast of South America. On his voyage he studied plants and animals life. His interests in life science evolved and after working more than 20 years, in 1859 his world fame work 'On the Origin of Species' was published. He explained theory of evolution by natural selection. He said that life on earth evolved from a common ancestors. On earth there is struggle for survival between members who have favourable traits they survive and reproduce, it is known as survival of fittest. Well adapted species survived and less became extinct. Earlier Darwin faced criticism but later he earned honour for the theory. Darwin died on 19 April 1882. Klappentext The correspondence in this volume reveals the two sides of Darwin's life in a new intensity. It opens with a family tragedy in the death of Darwin's oldest and best loved daughter! Anne! and goes on to show how Darwin sought relief from his loss through work! with a single-minded but increasingly weary commitment to the completion of his cirripede monographs. In September 1854! as soon as the final proofs of the last barnacle volume had been returned to the printer! Darwin threw himself into a resumption of his species work. He followed up old ideas by initiating new experiments and establishing a worldwide correspondence that encompassed geographical distribution! variation! and plant and animal breeding. The wealth of letters through 1855 makes evident the frenzy of intellectual activity that followed Darwin's terse announcement in his diary: 'Sept. 9th (1854) began sorting notes for Species Theory ' Zusammenfassung The correspondence in this volume reveals the two sides of Darwin's life in a new intensity. It opens with a family tragedy in the death of Darwin's oldest and best loved daughter! Anne! and goes on to show how Darwin sought relief from his loss through work. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; List of letters; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Note on editorial policy; List of provenances; Darwin/Wedgwood genealogy; Abbreviations and symbols; Part I. The Correspondence, 1851-55: Appendices; Manuscript alterations and comments; Bibliography; Biographical register and index to correspondents; Index....

Klappentext
The correspondence in this volume reveals the two sides of Darwin's life in a new intensity. It opens with a family tragedy in the death of Darwin's oldest and best loved daughter, Anne, and goes on to show how Darwin sought relief from his loss through work, with a single-minded but increasingly weary commitment to the completion of his cirripede monographs. In September 1854, as soon as the final proofs of the last barnacle volume had been returned to the printer, Darwin threw himself into a resumption of his species work. He followed up old ideas by initiating new experiments and establishing a worldwide correspondence that encompassed geographical distribution, variation, and plant and animal breeding. The wealth of letters through 1855 makes evident the frenzy of intellectual activity that followed Darwin's terse announcement in his diary: 'Sept. 9th (1854) began sorting notes for Species Theory '

Inhalt
List of illustrations; List of letters; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Note on editorial policy; List of provenances; Darwin/Wedgwood genealogy; Abbreviations and symbols; Part I. The Correspondence, 1851-55: Appendices; Manuscript alterations and comments; Bibliography; Biographical register and index to correspondents; Index.

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