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Charles Darwin : the man and his warfare / by Henshaw Ward.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Ward, C. H. (Charles Henshaw), 1872-1935, author.
Contributor:
Bobbs-Merrill Company, publishers.
Braunworth & Co., printers.
Mark B. Adams Emergence of Modern Science Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Science.
Science--history.
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
Darwin, Charles.
Medical Subjects:
Science.
Science--history.
Genre:
Biographies.
Penn Provenance:
Adams, Mark B., (former owner) (Adams copy)
Rueger, Emma L., (autograph) (Adams copy)
Physical Description:
6 preliminary leaves, 472 pages, 27 unnumbered leaves of plates : frontispiece, plates, portraits, maps, facsimile ; 23 cm
Manufacture:
Brooklyn : Braunworth & Co.
Place of Publication:
Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1927.
Contents:
Why Dr. Grant liked young Darwin
Why young Darwin was astonished at Dr. Grant
Cambridge and the Beagle
A year with Fitz-Roy and Lyell: 1832
Lyell's "creation" at Cape Horn
The second year in South America
The third and fourth years in South America
Six years of Coral Islands and species
Four years of species at Downe
Eight years of barnacles: 1846-1854
Writing the Origin of Species: 1855-1859
The reception of the Origin: 1859-1870
The books after the Origin: 1860-1881
Darwin's life after 1850
Appendix: Buffon ; Erasmus Darwin ; Lamarck ; Lyell was not an evolutionist ; Witnesses for natural selection
Darwin did not become a Lamarckian.
Notes:
"Copyright, 1927 by The Bobbs-Merrill Company"--verso of title page.
"Printed and bound by Braunworth & Co., Inc. Brooklyn, New York"--verso of title page.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-456) and index.
Local Notes:
Penn Libraries Rare copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.
OCLC:
1156455

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