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DARWIN'S CENTURY -- EVOLUTION AND THE MEN WHO DISCOVERED IT

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He who calls what has vanished back again into being, enjoys a bliss like that of creating.
 -- Barthold Niebuhr

NOTE

After their first listing, frequently mentioned sources are referred
to in the footnotes by the following code letters:

D Charles Darwin's Diary of the Voyage of H.M.S. "Beagle," edited by Nora Barlow, Cambridge Univ., Press, 1933.

FO Foundations of the Origin of Species, edited by Francis Darwin, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1909.

JR Journal of Researches (1839), facsimile reprint of the first edition, Hafner Publishing Co., New York, 1952.

LLD Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, 3 vols., edited by Francis Darwin, London: John Murray, 1888.

LLH Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley, 3 vols., edited by Leonard Huxley, Macmillan & Co., London, 1913.

LLL Life, Letters and Journals of Sir Charles Lyell, 2 vols., edited by Mrs. Katherine Lyell, London: John Murray, 1881.

MLD More Letters of Charles Darwin, 2 vols., edited by Francis Darwin and A. C. Seward, London: John Murray, 1903.

N Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the "Beagle; edited by Nora Barlow, Philosophical Library, New York, 1946 (this book contains the rough notebooks kept by Darwin during the voyage).

O The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, reprint of the first edition, Philosophical Library, New York, 1951. (Unless otherwise indicated O will stand for this edition.)

PG Principles of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell, 4 vols., third edition, London: John Murray, 1834. (Unless otherwise indicated all references are to this edition.)

VAP Variations of Animals and Plants under Domestication by Charles Darwin, 2 vols., Orange Judd & Co., New York, 1868.

A glossary of certain technical terms used in this book will be found on page 353.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The author wishes to express his grateful appreciation to the Administration of the University of Pennsylvania for providing the leave of absence during which much of the writing of this book was done, to the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research for financial encouragement, and to the American Philosophical Society for the opportunity to utilize its magnificent collection of Darwiniana, including the privilege of quoting from one unpublished letter.

For the Anchor edition I have made a few minor changes and drawn attention to my recent study of Edward Blyth. Otherwise the edition remains the same.

Loren Eiseley

The University of Pennsylvania
September 16, 1960

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