Charles Darwin's zoology notes & specimen lists from H.M.S Beagle / edited by Richard Keynes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.

Contributor:

Keynes, R. D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882--Travel.

Darwin, Charles.

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.

Travel.

Natural history.

Zoology.

Beagle Expedition (1831-1836).

Beagle Expedition.

Physical Description:

xxxiv, 430 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Summary:

This transcription of notes made by Charles Darwin during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle records his observations of animals and plants, and provides valuable insights into the intellectual development of one of the most influential scientists of all time. Darwin drew on many of these notes for his well-known Journal of Researches (1839), but the majority of them have remained unpublished. This volume, which includes copies of his sketches and illustrations, provides numerous examples of his impeccable accuracy in describing the wide range of animals seen in the course of his travels, and of his analytical approach toward every one of his observations. Here are to be found the initial seeds of his theory of evolution, and of the fields of behavioral and ecological study of which he was one of the founding fathers.

Contents:

Zoology Notes 1

Specimens in Spirits of Wine 321

Specimens not in Spirits 370.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [xxxii]-xxxiv) and indexes.

ISBN:

0521465699

OCLC:

43971203