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- Description
- 1 online resource ([3], xvii, [1], 595 p., [4] leaves of plates (1 col.)) : ill., ports.
- Series Statement
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925
- Uniform Title
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925.
- Subject
- Note
- "First edition 1909. Reprinted 1910"--T.p. verso.
- With half title; publisher information and device on its verso.
- Includes editor's preface to the first edition.
- "Dates of the publication of Charles Darwin's books and of the principal events in his life": p. [xiii]-xvii.
- Frontispiece portrait of Darwin has facsimile of his signature; most plates have guard sheets.
- Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introductory letter to the editor from Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker -- Darwin's predecessors / by J. Arthur Thomson -- The selection theory / by A. Weismann -- Variation / by Hugo de Vries -- Heredity and variation in modern lights / by W. Bateson -- The minute structure of cells in relation to heredity / by E. Strasburger -- "The descent of man" / by G. Schwalbe -- Charles Darwin as an anthropologist / by E. Haeckel -- Some primitive theories of the origin of man / by J.G. Frazer -- The influence of Darwin on the study of animal embryology / by A. Sedgwick -- The palaeontological record. I. Animals / by W.B. Scott -- The palaeontological record. II. Plants / by D.H. Scott -- The influence of environment on the forms of plants / by G. Klebs -- Experimental study of the influence of environment on animals / by J. Loeb -- The value of colour in the struggle for life / by E.B. Poulton -- Geographical distribution of plants / by Sir W. Thiselton-Dyer -- Geographical distribution of animals / by H. Gadow -- Darwin and geology / by J.W. Judd -- Darwin's work on the movements of plants / by F. Darwin -- The biology of flowers / by K. Goebel -- Mental factors in evolution / by C.L. Morgan -- The influence of the conception of evolution on modern philosophy / by H. Höffding -- Darwinism and sociology / by C. Bouglé -- The influence of Darwin upon religious thought / by P.N. Waggett -- The influence of Darwinism on the study of religions / by J.E. Harrison -- Evolution and the science of language / by P. Giles -- Darwinism and history / by J.B. Bury -- The genesis of double stars / by G. Darwin -- The evolution of matter / by W.C.D. Whetham.
- OCLC
- Title
Darwin and modern science [electronic resource] : essays in commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of the Origin of species / edited, for the Cambridge Philosophical Society and the Syndics of the University Press, by A.C. Seward.
- Imprint
Cambridge : University Press, 1910 (J. Clay)
- Edition
2nd printing.
- Series
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Note
BHQVSE549408881: invoice inserted after p. [2], 1st count.
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- Added Author
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles), 1863-1941.