THE CORRESPONDENCE OF CHARLES DARWIN - VOLUME 4: 1847-1850.

DARWIN, Charles, Frederick Burkhardt, Sydney Smith (Eds.).

ISBN 10: 0521255902 / ISBN 13: 9780521255905

Edité par Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988

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8vo. pp xxxiii, 711. Original publisher's black cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and a racing green title panel at spine. Green dust jacket with black and white lettering. Illustrated in black and white throughout. ISBN: 0521255902 May show some slight shelfwear but content clean and unread. Very good indeed in very good indeed dust jacket.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: THE CORRESPONDENCE OF CHARLES DARWIN - VOLUME 4: 1847-1850.
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Date de parution: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0521255902
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780521255905
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette

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Synopsis

This is the fourth volume of the complete edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. For the first time full authoritative texts of Darwin's letters are available, edited according to modern textual editorial principles and practice. This volume covers the first years of Darwin's study of the structure and systematics of barnacles: work that involved a worldwide search for specimens, detailed microscopic investigations, a consideration of the theoretical assumptions underlying classification schemes, and the solution of practical problems of zoological nomenclature. Darwin's convictions about the nature and origin of species influenced his observations and conclusions and provided insights that led to some remarkable discoveries. Throughout this period Darwin also maintained his involvement in major geological debates, as shown by important exchanges with Charles Lyell, Robert Chambers, James Dwight Dana, Bernhard Studer, and others. The letters to Darwin include Joseph Dalton Hooker's descriptions of his dramatic and frequently dangerous travels through previously closed regions of Sikkim and Tibet.