Charles Darwin : a portrait in letters and print / catalogue by Anthony Payne ; introduction by Janet Brown.
Pubblicazione:
London : B. Quaritch, 2003.
Descrizione fisica:
64 p. : ill., ritr. ; 25 cm
Note:
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Contiene:
Indice: Introduction / by Janet Browne.1. On the Origin of species by means of natural selection (1859): presentation copy 2. Narrative of the Surveying voyages of his majesty's ships adventure and Beagle (1839) 3. Narrative... (1839): presentation copy 4. Geological observations on the volcanic islands (1844) 5. Geological observations on South America (1846): presentation copy 6. On the tendency of species to form varieties (1858) 7. Autograph letter to his bookseller (1860) 8. Autograph letter to David Forbes (1860) 9. On the various contrivances by which ...orchids are fertilised by insects (1862): presentation copy 10. Autograph letter to William Henry Flower (1863) 11. On the sexual relations of the three forms of lythrum salicaria (1864) 12. Letter to Charles Kingsley (1867) 13. The variation of animals and plants under domestication (1868): presentation copy 14. Das Variiren der Thiere und Pflanzen (1868): presentation copy 15. On the specific difference between primula veris, p. vulgaris and p. eliator (1868/9): presentation copy 16. The descent of man (1871): presentation copy 17. Autograph letter to John Jenner Weir (1873) 18. Letter in the hand of his son, George (1874) 19. Autograph letter by George Darwin to dr. Rayner (1874). Appendix: W.B. Carpenter and the Origin of species. References cited
