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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.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (587 p.) : 307 halftones, 1 line illustration, 1 map, 29 tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674724884
  • 9780674726024
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 508.598
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.

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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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.

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