The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 23, 1875

Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt, James A. Secord, The Editors of the Darwin Correspondence Project

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781107134362
• eBook ISBN: 9781316474501
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Evolution
• Index: Biological Sciences

This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating and wide-ranging letters in context, making the letters accessible to both scholars and general readers. Darwin depended on correspondence to collect data from all over the world, and to discuss his emerging ideas with scientific colleagues, many of whom he never met in person. The letters are published chronologically: Volume 23 includes letters from 1875, the year in which Darwin wrote and published Insectivorous plants, a botanical work that was a great success with the reading public, and started writing Cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom. The volume contains an appendix on the 1875 anti-vivisection debates, with which Darwin was closely involved, giving evidence before a Royal Commission on the subject.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Series information
• Frontispiece
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Table of contents
• List of illustrations
• List of letters
• Introduction
• Acknowledgments
• List of provenances
• Note on editorial policy
• Darwin/Wedgwood genealogy
• Abbreviations and symbols
• THE CORRESPONDENCE
• Appendixes
• Manuscript alterations and comments
• Biographical register and index to correspondents
• Bibliography
• Notes on manuscript sources
• Index