Collected Works of Charles Darwin in the original John Murray green cloth, 11 titles in 12 volumes.

by Charles Darwin

Pp. 4500+, numerous text-figures. Publisher's forest green cloth, gilt-lettered with decorations on the spine, charcoal or blue-patterned endpapers (as issued), 8vo. This set includes all Murray Darwin titles in print in 1890-1891. The only volume not included is 'The Power of Movement in Plants' which was never reprinted after 1882. This uniformly fine set A Naturalist's Voyage. Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the countries visited during the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle, 1890 (Freeman 58); On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 1890 (Freeman 436); On the Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects, 1890 (Freeman 810); The Movement and Habits of Climbing Plants, 1888 (Freeman 844); The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, 2 volumes, 1890 (Freeman 890); The Descent Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, 1889 (Freeman 968); The Expressions of Emotions in Man and Animals, 1890 (Freeman 1146); Insectivorus Plants, 1888 (Freeman 1225); The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom, 1891 (Freeman 1256); The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the same Species, 1888 (Freeman 1283); The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms, 1888 (Freeman 1373). One volume, 'The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom' has the bookplate of A. Wallis; there are other ownership marks in any of the other volumes. Digital photographs available upon request.

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1888

About the author

Charles Robert Darwin of Britain revolutionized the study of biology with his theory, based on natural selection; his most famous works include On the Origin of Species (1859) and The Descent of Man (1871).

Chiefly Asa Gray of America advocated his theories.

Works of Jacques Martin Barzun include Darwin, Marx, Wagner (1941).

Charles Robert Darwin, an eminent English collector and geologist, proposed and provided scientific evidence of common ancestors for all life over time through the process that he called. The scientific community and the public in his lifetime accepted the facts that occur and then in the 1930s widely came to see the primary explanation of the process that now forms modernity. In modified form, the foundational scientific discovery of Darwin provides a unifying logical explanation for the diversity of life.

Darwin developed his interest in history and medicine at Edinburgh University and then theology at Cambridge. His five-year voyage on the Beagle established him as a geologist, whose observations and supported uniformitarian ideas of Charles Lyell, and publication of his journal made him as a popular author. Darwin collected wildlife and fossils on the voyage, but their geographical distribution puzzled him, who investigated the transmutation and conceived idea in 1838. He discussed his ideas but needed time for extensive research despite priority of geology. He wrote in 1858, when Alfred Russel Wallace sent him an essay, which described the same idea, prompting immediate joint publication.

His book of 1859 commonly established the dominant scientific explanation of diversification in nature. He examined human sexuality in Selection in Relation to Sex , and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals followed. A series of books published his research on plants, and he finally examined effect of earthworms on soil.

A state funeral recognized Darwin in recognition of preeminence and only four other non-royal personages of the United Kingdom of the 19th century; people buried his body in Westminster abbey, close to those of John Herschel and Isaac Newton.

Her fathered Francis Darwin, astronomer George Darwin, and politician, economist and eugenicist Leonard Darwin.

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