List of illustrations; List of letters; Introduction; Acknowledgments; List of provenances; Note on editorial policy; Darwin/Wedgwood genealogy; Abbreviations and symbols; The correspondence; Appendix I. Translations; Appendix II. Chronology; Appendix III. Diplomas; Appendix IV. Presentation lists for Insectivorous plants and Climbing plants 2d ed.; Appendix V. Reviews of Insectivorous plants; Appendix VI. Darwin and vivisection; Manuscript alterations and comments; Biographical register and index to correspondents; Bibliography; Notes on manuscript sources; Index.
Letters from 1875, when Darwin published Insectivorous plants and began work on Cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom.
Frederick Burkhardt (1912–2007), the founder of the Darwin Correspondence Project, was President of Bennington College, Vermont (1947–57), and President of the American Council of Learned Societies (1957–74). Before founding the Darwin Correspondence Project in 1974, he was already at work on an edition of the papers of the philosopher William James. He received the Modern Language Association of America's first Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters in 1991, the Founder's Medal of the Society for the History of Natural History in 1997, the Thomas Jefferson Gold Medal of the American Philosophical Society in 2003 and a special citation for outstanding service to the history of science from the History of Science Society in 2005. James A. Secord has served as Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project since 2006. He is also Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ's College. Besides his work for the Darwin Project, his research focuses on the history of science from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. His book, Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (2000) won the Pfizer Prize of the History of Science Society. He has recently written on scientific conversation, scrapbook-keeping and public scientific displays.
Reviews of earlier volumes: 'Nothing in the recent history of
science quite tops the achievement of the volumes of Darwin
correspondence. It is our own Human Genome Project.' Annals of
Science
'… a superb series … beautifully produced, beautifully readable,
efficiently indexed, supportively but not gossipily annotated.' The
Times Literary Supplement
'Every now and then … publishing and academe work together to
produce books so splendid that it seems ungrateful not to acquire
them: this promises to be another such.' The Guardian
'… this authoritative work is a model of scholarship in both its
comprehensiveness and supporting documentation which provides a
rich source of background, biographical and bibliographical
detail.' The Naturalist
'These volumes are indeed treasures of high scholarship … every
real science library needs this series.' Trends in Ecology and
Evolution
'… slowly but surely we are getting an unbelievable source of
information on one of the greatest of scientists who ever lived and
thought and worked. Who knows what treasures future generations
will uncover? For now, as always, the edition is exemplary, with
huge amounts of pertinent information in the notes and with
amazingly accurate transcriptions of Darwin's appalling
handwriting. A true monument of scholarship. My fervent hope is
that I shall live to see the completion.' Michael Ruse, The
Quarterly Review of Biology
'… this latest volume of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin
shares the same high production values, attention to detail and
scholarly scrupulousness evident in all its predecessors. Amongst
the six appendices, for example, are a list of all the periodical
reviews of Insectivorous Plants and a hugely valuable account of
Darwin's dealings with the question of vivisection, including the
text of his testimony to the Royal Commission on the vexed issue.'
Gowan Dawson, British Journal for the History of Science
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