Wallace and natural selection / by H. Lewis McKinney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McKinney, H. Lewis (Henry Lewis), author.

Contributor:

Yale University Press, publisher.

Murray Printing Company, printer.

Mark B. Adams Emergence of Modern Science Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Yale studies in the history of science and medicine ; 8.

Yale studies in the history of science and medicine ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913.

Wallace, Alfred Russel.

Natural selection.

Biological Evolution.

Medical Subjects:

Biological Evolution.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B. (former owner) (autograph, December, 1973) (Adams copy)

Physical Description:

xix, 193 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Manufacture:

Forge Village, MA : Murray Printing Company.

Place of Publication:

New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 1972.

Contents:

1. Development of a naturalist

2. Animal and plant distribution in the amazon basin

3. On the organic law of change, 1854-February 1855

4. On the Law which has regulated the introduction of new species, February 1855

5. On the organic law of change, February 1855-February 1858

6. Mathus, On population

7. The influence of Wallace's pre-1858 work on Sir Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin

8. On the tendency of varieties to depart indefinitely from the original type, February 1858

9. Wallace's place in evolutionary biology, 1845-1858.

Notes:

"Copyright ©1972 by Yale University"--verso of title page.

"Set in Garamond type. Printed ... by The Murray Printing Company, Forge Village, Massachusetts"--verso of title page.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-189) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.

Kislak Center copy retains dust jacket.

ISBN:

0300015569

9780300015560

OCLC:

488387