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Through a wide range of documents from over a dozen authors, get a fascinating glimpse into the crucial era of scientific thought from the late eighteenth century onward. Charles Darwin and the Question of Evolution closely examines this time period, which led thinkers like Darwin to the conclusion that life has evolved.

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Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
List of Maps and Illustrations
 
PART ONE. Introduction:  Development of the Theory of Evolution
     Late Eighteenth-Century Sources of Evolutionary Ideas
     Evolutionary and Anti-Evolutionary Currents in Early Nineteenth Century Thought
     Charles Darwin and the Evolution Debate
     The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, 1831-1836
     Darwin's Development of a Theory
     The Birth of On the Origin of Species
     Response to Darwin's On the Origin of Species

PART TWO. The Documents
1. The Question of Evolution Arises
     1.  Carl Linnaeus, Genera Plantarum:  The Families of Plants, 1787
     2.  Alexander von Humboldt, Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent during the Years 1799-1804
     3.  Erasmus Darwin, The Temple of Nature; or the Origin of Society, 1803
     4.  Josiah Wedgwood, “Am I Not a Man and a Brother?” 1787
          An American Version, 1837
     5.  Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1787
     6.  Georges Cuvier, Essay on the Theory of the Earth, with Mineralogical Illustrations by Professor Jameson, 1822
     7.  Thomas Robert Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population, 1798
     8.  William Paley, Natural Theology, 1802
     9.  Jean Baptiste de Lamarck, Zoological Philosophy, 1809
     10.  Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology, 1832
     11.  John Herschel, Letter to Charles Lyell, 1836
2.   Charles Darwin Addresses the Question of Evolution
     12.  Charles Darwin, Journal of Researches, 1839
     13.  Richard Owen, Glyptodon clavipes, (Gigantic Extinct Armadillo), 1845
     14.  Charles Darwin, Ornithological Notes, 1836
     15.  Charles Darwin, Notebook B, 1837
     16.  Emma Darwin, Letter to Charles Darwin, c. February 1839
     17.  Roderick Murchison, Presidential Address to the Geological Society of London, 1843
     18.  [Robert Chambers,] Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, 1844
     19.  Alfred Russel Wallace, On the Law Which Has Regulated the Introduction of New Species, 1855
     20.  Charles Darwin, Letter to Asa Gray, 1857
     21.  Alfred Russel Wallace, Recollections,    1858
     22.  Charles Darwin, Recollections, 1831-1858
     23.  Whitwell Elwin, Letter to John Murray, 1859
     24.  Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 1859
     25.  Athenaeum Report on the 1860 Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 
     26.  Asa Gray, Review of the Origin, 1860
     27.   Louis Agassiz, Review of the Origin, 1860
     28.  Grave Sites of Asa Gray and Louis Agassiz, Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
     29.  Charles Darwin and Asa Gray, Letters, 1861-1866
 
Appendixes
     A Chronology of the History of Evolutionary Ideas (1739-1882)
     Questions for Consideration
     Selected Bibliography
Index

Authors

Sandra Herbert

Sandra Herbert (PhD, Brandeis University) an historian of science, is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a fellow of the Geological Society of America, and a Research Associate at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History. A scholar of Charles Darwin, Herbert edited The Red Notebook of Charles Darwin (1980) and coedited Charles Darwin’s Notebooks, 1836-1844 (1987). Her book Charles Darwin: Geologist (2005), won the Geology Society of America’s Mary C. Rabbitt Award, the History of Science Society’s Suzanne J. Levinson Book Award, the American Historical Association’s George L. Mosse Prize, and the North American Conference on British Studies’ Albion Book Prize.


Through a wide range of documents from over a dozen authors, get a fascinating glimpse into the crucial era of scientific thought from the late eighteenth century onward. Charles Darwin and the Question of Evolution closely examines this time period, which led thinkers like Darwin to the conclusion that life has evolved.

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Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
List of Maps and Illustrations
 
PART ONE. Introduction:  Development of the Theory of Evolution
     Late Eighteenth-Century Sources of Evolutionary Ideas
     Evolutionary and Anti-Evolutionary Currents in Early Nineteenth Century Thought
     Charles Darwin and the Evolution Debate
     The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, 1831-1836
     Darwin's Development of a Theory
     The Birth of On the Origin of Species
     Response to Darwin's On the Origin of Species

PART TWO. The Documents
1. The Question of Evolution Arises
     1.  Carl Linnaeus, Genera Plantarum:  The Families of Plants, 1787
     2.  Alexander von Humboldt, Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent during the Years 1799-1804
     3.  Erasmus Darwin, The Temple of Nature; or the Origin of Society, 1803
     4.  Josiah Wedgwood, “Am I Not a Man and a Brother?” 1787
          An American Version, 1837
     5.  Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1787
     6.  Georges Cuvier, Essay on the Theory of the Earth, with Mineralogical Illustrations by Professor Jameson, 1822
     7.  Thomas Robert Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population, 1798
     8.  William Paley, Natural Theology, 1802
     9.  Jean Baptiste de Lamarck, Zoological Philosophy, 1809
     10.  Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology, 1832
     11.  John Herschel, Letter to Charles Lyell, 1836
2.   Charles Darwin Addresses the Question of Evolution
     12.  Charles Darwin, Journal of Researches, 1839
     13.  Richard Owen, Glyptodon clavipes, (Gigantic Extinct Armadillo), 1845
     14.  Charles Darwin, Ornithological Notes, 1836
     15.  Charles Darwin, Notebook B, 1837
     16.  Emma Darwin, Letter to Charles Darwin, c. February 1839
     17.  Roderick Murchison, Presidential Address to the Geological Society of London, 1843
     18.  [Robert Chambers,] Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, 1844
     19.  Alfred Russel Wallace, On the Law Which Has Regulated the Introduction of New Species, 1855
     20.  Charles Darwin, Letter to Asa Gray, 1857
     21.  Alfred Russel Wallace, Recollections,    1858
     22.  Charles Darwin, Recollections, 1831-1858
     23.  Whitwell Elwin, Letter to John Murray, 1859
     24.  Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 1859
     25.  Athenaeum Report on the 1860 Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 
     26.  Asa Gray, Review of the Origin, 1860
     27.   Louis Agassiz, Review of the Origin, 1860
     28.  Grave Sites of Asa Gray and Louis Agassiz, Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
     29.  Charles Darwin and Asa Gray, Letters, 1861-1866
 
Appendixes
     A Chronology of the History of Evolutionary Ideas (1739-1882)
     Questions for Consideration
     Selected Bibliography
Index

Sandra Herbert

Sandra Herbert (PhD, Brandeis University) an historian of science, is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a fellow of the Geological Society of America, and a Research Associate at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History. A scholar of Charles Darwin, Herbert edited The Red Notebook of Charles Darwin (1980) and coedited Charles Darwin’s Notebooks, 1836-1844 (1987). Her book Charles Darwin: Geologist (2005), won the Geology Society of America’s Mary C. Rabbitt Award, the History of Science Society’s Suzanne J. Levinson Book Award, the American Historical Association’s George L. Mosse Prize, and the North American Conference on British Studies’ Albion Book Prize.


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