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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 20 includes letters from 1872, the year in which The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals was published, making ground-breaking use of photography. Also in this year, the sixth and final edition of On the Origin of Species was published and Darwin resumed his work on carnivorous plants and plant movement, finding unexpected similarities between the plant and animal kingdoms.

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List of illustrations List of letters Introduction Acknowledgments List of provenances Note on editorial policy Darwin/Wedgwood genealogy Abbreviations and symbols The Correspondence Expression supplement Appendixes: I. Translations II. Chronology III. Diplomas presented to Charles Darwin IV. Presentation lists for Origin 6th ed. V. Presentation lists for Expression Manuscript alterations and comments Biographical register and index to correspondents Bibliography Notes on manuscript sources Index. EditorsFrederick Burkhardt, American Council of Learned Societies Frederick Burkhardt (1912–2007), the founder of the Darwin Correspondence Project, was president of Bennington College, Vermont, 1947–57 and president of the American Council of Learned Societies, 1957–74. Before founding the Darwin Correspondence Project in 1974, he was already at work on an edition of the papers of the philosopher William James. He received the Modern Language Association of America’s first Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters in 1991, the Founder’s Medal of the Society for the History of Natural History in 1997, the Thomas Jefferson Gold Medal of the American Philosophical Society in 2003 and a special citation for outstanding service to the history of science from the History of Science Society in 2005. James Secord, University of Cambridge James A. Secord has served as Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project since 2006. He is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Christ’s College. Besides his work for the Darwin Project, his research focuses on the history of science from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. His book, Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (2000), won the Pfizer Prize of the History of Science Society. The Editors of the Darwin Correspondence Project, University of Cambridge Related Books The Correspondence of Charles Darwin The Correspondence of Charles Darwin The Correspondence of Charles Darwin The Correspondence of Charles Darwin The Correspondence of Charles Darwin The Correspondence of Charles Darwin The Correspondence of Charles Darwin The Correspondence of Charles Darwin The Correspondence of Charles Darwin The Correspondence of Charles Darwin The Correspondence of Charles Darwin The Correspondence of Charles Darwin 12345678910 PreviousNext