Kensington and N. P: Argyll Lodge and Balmoral (stationery), n.d. and 28 September 1855. Preserved Leaves of Mull. The first stating that he will send specimens of the ores and the [?] Leaves of Mull to Glasgow for the Museum, the leaves only being “furnished on loan as the specimens..... Read More about Two autograph letters signed “Argyll”
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Cambridge: at the University Press, 1913. Third Impression, with additions. Read More about Mendel's Principles of Heredity
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London: Henry Colburn, 1839. First edition. Darwin’s First Book. The account of the Beagle's two voyages, edited by Robert Fitzroy, who served as commander of both voyages. Volume three of this work represents the first edition of Darwin's account of the voyage which provided the basis for his work on..... Read More about Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years...
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Down, Beckenham, Kent: November 26, [1869]. Regarding a new American edition of Origin. Unpublished. Charles Darwin (1809-1882) writes to Charles Layton, London agent for Appleton, about bringing out a revised and expanded second American edition of On the Origin of Species. The letter is a reply to Layton's of the day..... Read More about Autograph letter signed ("Ch. Darwin"), to Charles Layton, Appleton's London agent,...
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New York: HaFiner Press, 1952. Number 55 of 250 copies of a facsimile reprint of the First edition done for the Book Collectors Society. Read More about Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various countries visited by...
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Boston: Beacon Press, [1963]. First edition. Davenport's First Book. Read More about The Intelligence of Louis Agassiz. A Specimen Book of Scientific Writings. Selected, with an...
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1925. A PIRATE SETS SAIL ON WILLIAM BEEBE'S EXPEDITION. Under the auspices of the New York Zoological Society, the Arcturus departed New York and sailed via the Sargasso Sea, the Cocos Islands and finally to the Galapagos. Dickerman's official capacity was as assistant artist to the expedition, a role which..... Read More about Album documenting the Arcturus Expedition, 1925
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Hawarden Castle, Chester: July 11, 1881. An answer to an attack on him by Thomas Huxley. Gladstone was Prime Minister four different times. WITH: Signature of Palmerton laid in. Read More about Autograph Letter Signed, in the Third person. To the Editor of the Nineteenth Century and quoting...
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New York: Norton, [1983]. First edition. With reviews annotrated by Ashley Montagu laid in. Read More about Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes
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New York: Norton, [1980]. First edition, erratum laid in. Ashley Montagu's copy, with his tearsheet of his review in Nature (4 December 1980) loosely inserted, with other clippings of reviews. Read More about The Panda's Thumb
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Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1934. First edition, with errata slip. Read More about Man's Place Among the Antropoids Three Lectures on the Evolution of Man From the Lower Vertebrates
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Jany 18, 1875. Huxley and Fayrer met in 1844 at the University of London. "Fayrer became a firm friend. The two often worked through the night..." (Desmond). Indeed, it was Fayrer, who suggested Huxley take to the sea and thus he joined the Rattlesnake under the command of Owen Stanley..... Read More about ALS. To Joseph Fayrer (1824-1907), refusing to sponsor his paper for Royal Society as Dr. (T.L.)...
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New York: Appleton, 1872. Read More about More Criticism on Darwin and Administrative Nihilism
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London and New York: Macmillan and Co, 1893. First edition. Read More about The Romane Lecture, 1893, Evolution and Ethics
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New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1871. First American Edition. Mivart, an American, was pro-Darwin, converted to Catholicism and became anti-Darwin. Read More about On the Genesis of Species
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Second edition, revised. Read More about From the Greeks to Darwin
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New Brunswick: Published by J. Simpson and Co. and William and Whiting, New York, Printed by L. Deare, 1810. “Second Edition...Enlarged and Improved”. The most important Pre-Darwinian American essay for the genetic unity of mankind, rejecting the theory of separate creation of the different races. Smith’s Essay was first published..... Read More about An Essay on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human Species. To which are...
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New York: Appleton and Company, 1864. First American edition. Henry Cabot Lodge's Copy. Read More about Illustrations of Universal Progress; A Series of Discussions...with a Notice of Spencer's...
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Leipzig: Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, 1862. First edition. WELCKER (1822-1897) was the first determine the total blood volume and the volume of the normal red blood cells. Read More about Untersuchungen über Wachsthum und Bau des menschlichen Schädels. Erster Theil, Allgemeine...
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Guelph, Ontario: J.W. Lyon, 1877. First Canadian edition, from American sheets. Presentation Copy. The ornamental leaf is headed “Presented To”, and bears an inscription: Rev. Elliott Graselt, M.A., by J.G. Wood. Handsomely illustrated volume, with a notably brief chapter on apes, and elsewhere identifying the hippopotamus as the Behemoth, and the..... Read More about Wood's Bible Animals. A Description of the Habits, Structure and Uses of Every Living Creature...
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