Darwin and modern science
Subtitle: essays in commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of the Origin of species
By: edited, for the Cambridge Philosophical Society and the Syndics of the University Press, by A.C. Seward
Edition: 2nd printing.
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I
Publisher: University Press
Published: 1910
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 595
Subjects: Science; History; Evolution (Biology); Botanists; Biography; Naturalists; English essays
Notes: "First edition 1909. Reprinted 1910"--T.p. verso.

With half title; publisher information and device on its verso.

Includes editor's preface to the first edition.

"Dates of the publication of Charles Darwin's books and of the principal events in his life": p. [xiii]-xvii.

Frontispiece portrait of Darwin has facsimile of his signature; most plates have guard sheets.

Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introductory letter to the editor from Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker; title: Darwin's predecessors / by J. Arthur Thomson; title: The selection theory / by A. Weismann; title: Variation / by Hugo de Vries; title: Heredity and variation in modern lights / by W. Bateson; title: The minute structure of cells in relation to heredity / by E. Strasburger; title: "The descent of man" / by G. Schwalbe; title: Charles Darwin as an anthropologist / by E. Haeckel; title: Some primitive theories of the origin of man / by J.G. Frazer; title: The influence of Darwin on the study of animal embryology / by A. Sedgwick; title: The palaeontological record. I. Animals / by W.B. Scott; title: The palaeontological record. II. Plants / by D.H. Scott; title: The influence of environment on the forms of plants / by G. Klebs; title: Experimental study of the influence of environment on animals / by J. Loeb; title: The value of colour in the struggle for life / by E.B. Poulton; title: Geographical distribution of plants / by Sir W. Thiselton-Dyer; title: Geographical distribution of animals / by H. Gadow; title: Darwin and geology / by J.W. Judd; title: Darwin's work on the movements of plants / by F. Darwin; title: The biology of flowers / by K. Goebel; title: Mental factors in evolution / by C.L. Morgan; title: The influence of the conception of evolution on modern philosophy / by H. Höffding; title: Darwinism and sociology / by C. Bouglé; title: The influence of Darwin upon religious thought / by P.N. Waggett; title: The influence of Darwinism on the study of religions / by J.E. Harrison; title: Evolution and the science of language / by P. Giles; title: Darwinism and history / by J.B. Bury; title: The genesis of double stars / by G. Darwin; title: The evolution of matter / by W.C.D. Whetham.