On the Organic Law of Change : : A Facsimile Edition and Annotated Transcription of Alfred Russel Wallace's Species Notebook of 1855-1859 / / Alfred Russel Wallace.
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-publis...
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Wallace, Alfred Russel, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut On the Organic Law of Change : A Facsimile Edition and Annotated Transcription of Alfred Russel Wallace's Species Notebook of 1855-1859 / Alfred Russel Wallace. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013] ©2013 1 online resource (587 p.) : 307 halftones, 1 line illustration, 1 map, 29 tables text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on the Text -- Introduction -- Species Notebook (Recto) -- [1]-[35] -- [36]-[85] -- [86]-[135] -- [136]-[181] -- Species Notebook (Verso) -- [1]-[58] -- [59]-[77] -- Appendix 1: Species Notebook Entries Bearing on Transmutation and Related Topics -- Appendix 2: On Wallace's Critique of Charles Lyell and Principles of Geology -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Evolution (Biology). Natural history Malay Archipelago. Natural selection. SCIENCE / History. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2013 9783110317350 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PACKAGE HISTORY, POLITICAL SCIENCE, SOCIOLOGY 2013 9783110317121 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PAKET GESCHICHTE, POLITIKWISS., SOZIOLOGIE 2013 9783110317114 ZDB-23-DPS Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) 9783110756067 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442205 print 9780674724884 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674726024 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674726024 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674726024.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on the Text -- Introduction -- Species Notebook (Recto) -- [1]-[35] -- [36]-[85] -- [86]-[135] -- [136]-[181] -- Species Notebook (Verso) -- [1]-[58] -- [59]-[77] -- Appendix 1: Species Notebook Entries Bearing on Transmutation and Related Topics -- Appendix 2: On Wallace's Critique of Charles Lyell and Principles of Geology -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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