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      • Volume 27: 1879
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      November 2019
      November 2019
      ISBN:
      9781108662895
      9781108493758
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108662895
      Dimensions:
      (234 x 156 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.49kg, 298 Pages
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      Life Sciences, History, History of Science: General Interest, Darwin
      Series:
      The Correspondence of Charles Darwin
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    This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating and wide-ranging letters in context, making the letters accessible to both scholars and general readers. Darwin depended on correspondence to collect data from all over the world, and to discuss his emerging ideas with scientific colleagues, many of whom he never met in person. The letters are published chronologically: volume 27 includes letters from 1879, the year in which Darwin completed his manuscript on movement in plants. He also researched and published a biography of his grandfather Erasmus. The Darwins spent most of August on holiday in the Lake District. In October, Darwin's youngest son, Horace, became officially engaged to Ida Farrer, after some initial resistance from her father, who, although an admirer of Charles Darwin, thought Horace a poor prospect for his daughter.

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    ‘What makes the volumes such fun is how one learns more and more of the everyday life of being a scientist, and this brings me back to the politicking with which I opened this review … I love the Darwin Correspondence. I learn important things about Darwin’s religious beliefs. I learn gossipy things about the sociology of science …’

    Michael Ruse Source: The Quarterly Review of Biology

    ‘… [a] magnificent scholarly achievement…’

    Peter J. Bowler Source: The British Journal for the History of Science

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