The Kentish Hog
Adrian Desmond, 15 October 1987
The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. Vol. II: 1837-1843
edited by Frederick Burkhardt and Sydney Smith.
Cambridge, 603 pp., £30, March 1987,0 521 25588 0 Show More
edited by Frederick Burkhardt and Sydney Smith.
Cambridge, 603 pp., £30, March 1987,
The Works of Charles Darwin
edited by Paul Barrett and R.B. Freeman.
Pickering & Chatto, 10 pp., £470, March 1987,1 85196 002 3 Show More
edited by Paul Barrett and R.B. Freeman.
Pickering & Chatto, 10 pp., £470, March 1987,
The Darwinian Heritage
edited by David Kohn.
Princeton, 1138 pp., £67.90, February 1986,0 691 08356 8 Show More
edited by David Kohn.
Princeton, 1138 pp., £67.90, February 1986,
Western Science in the Arab World: The Impact of Darwinism, 1860-1930
by Adel Ziadat.
Macmillan, 162 pp., £27.50, October 1986,0 333 41856 5 Show More
by Adel Ziadat.
Macmillan, 162 pp., £27.50, October 1986,
Theories of Human Evolution: A Century of Debate 1844-1944
by Peter Bowler.
Blackwell, 318 pp., £25, February 1987,0 631 15264 4 Show More
by Peter Bowler.
Blackwell, 318 pp., £25, February 1987,
Controversy in Victorian Geology: The Cambrian-Silurian Dispute
by James Secord.
Princeton, 363 pp., £33.10, October 1986,0 691 08417 3 Show More
by James Secord.
Princeton, 363 pp., £33.10, October 1986,
Darwin’s Metaphor: Nature’s Place in Victorian Culture
by Robert Young.
Cambridge, 341 pp., £30, October 1985,0 521 31742 8 Show More
by Robert Young.
Cambridge, 341 pp., £30, October 1985,
“... Peel, alongside British trade goods). Not for nothing did the Bishop of Oxford crown him the ‘King of Siluria’. But Murchison’s geological expansionism became more threatening. His Silurian began devouring Sedgwick’s Cambrian below, leading to a period of bitter recrimination. Sedgwick was constantly forced to fight a rearguard action, attempting to ... ”