Author: George Johnston (M.D., of Berwick.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The Botany of the Eastern Borders, with the Popular Names and Uses of the Plants, and of the Customs and Beliefs, which Have Been Associated with Them
Author: George Johnston (M.D., of Berwick.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Notes and Queries
Author: Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc
Author: Notes and Queries, Number 203, September 17, 1853
Author: VariousPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041786364
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The annals and magazine of natural history, zoology, botany and geology
Author: The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Including Zoology, Botany, and Geology
Author: Index of Generic Names of Fossil Plants, 1820-1965
Author: Henry Nathaniel AndrewsPublisher:
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Category : Paleobotany
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
On the Organic Law of Change
Author: Alfred Russel WallacePublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674726022
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Marking the centennial of Alfred Russel Wallace's death, James Costa presents an elegant edition of the "Species Notebook" of 1855-1859, which Wallace kept during his Malay Archipelago expedition. Presented in facsimile with text transcription and annotations, this never-before-published document provides a window into the travels, trials, and genius of the co-discoverer of natural selection. In one section, headed "Note for Organic Law of Change"--a critique of geologist Charles Lyell's anti-evolutionary arguments--Wallace sketches a book he would never write, owing to the unexpected events of 1858. In that year he sent a manuscript announcing his discovery of natural selection to Charles Darwin. Lyell and the botanist Joseph Hooker proposed a joint reading at the Linnean Society of his scientific paper with Darwin's earlier private writings on the subject. Darwin would go on to publish On the Origin of Species in 1859, to much acclaim; pre-empted, Wallace's first book on evolution waited two decades, but by then he had abandoned his original concept. On the Organic Law of Change realizes in spirit Wallace's unfinished project, and asserts his stature as not only a founder of biogeography and the preeminent tropical biologist of his day but as Darwin's equal.
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