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Darwin in the Archives: Papers on Charles Darwin from the Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History and Archives of Natural History

Edited by E. Charles Nelson and Duncan M. Porter

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December, 2009
Paper, 288 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-7486-3888-8
Edinburgh University Press
$35.00

To mark the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Darwin, and the sesquicentenary of On the Origin of the Species, the Society for the History of Natural History have issued a special publication, Darwin in the Archives.

This Archives of Natural History special publication will include facsimiles of papers on Darwin published before 2005 in the Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History and Archives of Natural History; a reprint of the Sherborn Fund Facsimile no 3 (1968) of Charles Darwin's Questions About the Breeding of Animals (1840); an introduction by Sir Gavin de Beer; and a specially commisioned essay about the Society's particular contribution to Darwin scholarship by guest associate editor, Duncan Porter.

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About the Author

E. Charles Nelson is editor of the journal Archives of Natural History. Duncan M. Porter is professor of biology at the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, Virginia Tech.

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