Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Edinburgh's university and medical schools in the early nineteenth century
The legacy of the Scottish Enlightenment
The University of Edinburgh at the beginning of the nineteenth century
The University of Edinburgh's medical school
Edinburgh's extra-mural anatomy schools
Chapter 3: Natural History in Edinburgh, 1779-1832
Natural history in Edinburgh in the late eighteenth century
Robert Jameson and the chair of natural history
Comparative anatomy at the extra-mural medical schools
Natural history, scientific and medical societies
Natural history and science journals
Chapter 4: Geology and evolution
The Wernerian model of earth history
Wernerians and Huttonians in Edinburgh
The story of life as a tale of progressive development
Wernerian geology and transformism
Werner, Lamarck and Geoffroy in Edinburgh
Chapter 5: Edinburgh and Paris
Contemporary transformism in France: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
Lamarck in Scotland
The impact of Geoffroy's theories in Edinburgh
Chapter 6: The legacy of the 'Edinburgh Lamarckians'
The eclipse of transformism in Edinburgh
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
Transmutation without progress: Robert Knox and Hewett Cottrell Watson
The legacy of Darwin's Edinburgh years
Chapter 7: Conclusion
Bibliography; Unpublished primary sources; Published primary sources; Secondary sources

About the Author

Dr Bill Jenkins is a Cultural Engagement Fellow for Science, Technology and Innovation Studies at the University of Edinburgh and a freelance writer and copy-editor for the education sector. Jenkins received his PhD at the University of Edinburgh and published several papers in key journals, including the Journal of the History of Biology, Journal of Scottish Historical Studies and British Journal for the History of Science.

Reviews

[...] a well-written and very interesting read and an important contribution to the historiography of (British) evolutionism.--Koen B. Tanghe, University of Gent "Journal of the History of Biology"

A well-written and very interesting read and an important contribution to the historiography of (British) evolutionism.--Koen B. Tanghe, University of Gent "Journal of the History of Biology"

Bill Jenkins masterfully explores a brilliant era for science in Scotland [...] Jenkins's excellent book significantly helps us to better understand Darwin, while still being a tribute to the brilliant Scottish civic and scientific culture of the early 19th century, to the characters who forged it, and to the open-minded institutions that made it possible.--José Carlos Sánchez-González, University of Oviedo "Centaurus"

Jenkins has introjected new life and meaning into the existing body of scholarship and greatly enriched our understanding of this critical place and period in the history of evolution theory.--Evelleen Richards "Isis"