MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
1799-1882
Abstract:
One of the most important natural historians in nineteenth century Britain, Charles Darwin provided the first compelling mechanism to account for organismal evolutionary change. Although lacking a coherent model of heredity, Darwin's natural selection has exerted an enormous influence over the biological sciences and since the introduction of Mendelian genetics, had remained the key unifying principle in the discipline.
The APS Darwin Papers are a large a valuable assemblage of Darwin's correspondence with scientific colleagues, including Charles Lyell and George J. Romanes. They are included in the print version of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge Univ. Press).
Call #:
Mss.B.D25
Extent:
2.5 Linear feet
Subjects:
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Adaptation (Biology) | Beyond Early America | Biology, genetics, eugenics | Bowerbank, J. S. (James Scott), 1797-1877 | Buckland, William, 1784-1856 | Coral reefs and islands | Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 | Evolution (Biology) | Evolution -- Religious aspects | Eyton, Thomas Campbell, 1809-1880 | Flower , William Henry, 1831-1899 | Forbes, David, 1828-1876 | Foster, M., Sir (Michael), 1836-1907 | Genetics | Geology -- Great Britain -- 19th century | Golden, Sybil Rebecca | Gray, John Edward, 1800-1875 | Gulick, John Thomas, 1832-1923 | Günther, Albert C. L. G. (Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf), 1830-1914 | Hancock, Albany, 1806-1873 | Herbert, John Maurice, 1808-1882 | Heredity | Horner, Leonard, 1785-1864 | Human evolution | Lankester, E. Ray, Sir (Edwin Ray), 1847-1929 | Leidy, Joseph, 1823-1891 | Lubbock, J. W. (John William), 1803-1865 | Natural history -- Great Britain -- 19th century | Natural selection | Naturalists -- England | Ogle, William, 1827-1912 | Phillips, John, 1800-1874 | Quatrefages, A. de (Armand de), 1810-1892 | Race, race relations, racism | Ramsay, A. C. (Andrew Crombie), 1814-1891 | Religion and science -- 1860-1899 | Romanes, George John, 1848-1894 | Thwaites, George Henry Kendrick, 1811-1882 | Transmutation of animals | Variation (Biology) | Walsh, B. D. (Benjamin Dann), 1808-1869 | Wyman, Jeffries, 1864-