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

Suggested Reading

An exhaustive list of the sources consulted in preparation for the writing of this book would occupy too much space to be presented here. The reader is referred to the individual footnotes extended throughout the book. What follows consists primarily of a list of what might be called "basic" material bearing upon the major progress of evolutionary thought. As can be gathered from the text it does not include the variety of papers, published and unpublished, which the author has consulted in the composition of this volume.

Agassiz, Elizabeth Cary
(1886) Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence, 2 vols., Houghton Mifflin, Boston.

Agassiz, Louis
(1894, 1896) Geological Sketches, 2 vols., Houghton Mifflin, Boston.

Barlow, Nora
(1935) "Charles Darwin and the Galapagos Islands," Nature, Vol. 136, p. 391.

Barlow, Nora (editor)
(1933) Charles Darwin's Diary of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle: Cambridge University Press.
(1946) Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the "Beagle," Philosophical Library, New York.

Bateson, William
(1913) Mendel's Principles of Heredity, Cambridge University Press.

Blyth, Edward
(1835) "An Attempt to Classify the Variations of Animals, etc.," Magazine of Natural History, Vol. 8, pp. 40-53.
(1837) "On the Psychological Distinctions Between Man and All Other Animals," Magazine of Natural History, Vol. 1, n.s., Parts I, II, III.

Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de
(1797-1807) Buffon's Natural History (Barr's translation), London.
(1812) Natural History, General and Particular, 20 vols., translated by William Smellie.

Cannon, H. Graham
(1955-56) "What Lamarck Really Said," Proceedings of the Linnaean Society of London, 168th Session, Parts I, II.

Chambers, Robert
(1844) Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, London.
(1846) Explanations: A Sequel to the Vestiges, London. Clark, John Willis and Hughes, Thomas M.
(1890) Life and Letters of the Reverend Adam Sedgwick, 2 vols., Cambridge University Press.

Cole, F. J.
(1930) Early Theories of Sexual Generation, Oxford University Press.

Condorcet, Antoine-Nicolas de
(1955) Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind (1795), Noonday Press, New York.

Cuvier, Georges, Baron
(1802) Lessons in Comparative Anatomy, 2 vols., London.
(1815) Essay on the Theory of the Earth, second ed., Edinburgh.

Darlington, C. D.
(1959) Darwin's Place in History, Blackwell's, Oxford.

Darwin, Charles
(1952) Journal of Researches, facsimile reprint of first edition
(1839), Hafner Publishing Co., New York.
(1951) Origin of Species, reprint of first edition (1859), Philosophical Library, New York.
(1868) Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, 2 vols., London and New York.
(1874) The Descent of Man, second edition, New York.
(1881) "Inheritance," Nature, Vol. 24, p. 257. The Origin of Species (sixth edition 1872) and the Descent of Man, Modern Library, New York, n.d.

Darwin, Erasmus
(1791) The Botanic Garden, London.
(1794-96) Zoonomia, 2 vols., London.
(1803) The Temple of Nature, London.

Darwin, Francis
(1888) Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, 3 vols., John Murray, London.

Darwin, Francis and Seward, A. C. (editors)
(1903) More Letters of Charles Darwin, John Murray, London.

Darwin, Francis (editor)
(1909) The Foundations of the Origin of Species, Cambridge University Press.

De Beer, Sir Gavin (editor)
(1960) Darwin's Notebooks on Transmutation of Species, Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History, Historical Series, Part I, Vol. 2, No. 2; Part II, Vol. 2, No. 3; Part III, Vol. 2, No. 4. London.

Derham, W. (editor)
(1718) Philosophical Letters Between the Late Mr. Ray and ... His Correspondents, London.

Dupree, A. Hunter
(1959) Asa Gray 1810-1888, Harvard University Press.

Ellegard, Alvar
(1958) Darwin and the General Reader, Goteborg, Sweden.

Falconer, Hugh
(1856) "On Professor Huxley's Attempted Refutation of Cuvier's Laws of Correlation in the Reconstruction of Extinct Vertebrate Forms," Annals and Magazine of Natural History, second series, Vol. 17, pp. 476-93.
(1868) Paleontological Memoirs, 2 vols., London.

Geikie, Archibald
(1901) The Founders of Geology, Baltimore.

Gillispie, Charles C.
(1951) Genesis and Geology, Harvard University Press.

Glass, Bentley, O. Temkin, and W. L. Straus, Jr.
(1959) Forerunners of Darwin 1745-1859, Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore.

Gray, Asa
(1876) Darwiniana: Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism, Appleton, New York.

Gray, Jane Loring
(1894) Letters of Asa Gray, 2 vols., Houghton Mifflin, Boston.

Grimes, J. Stanley
(1851) Phreno-Geology, Boston.

Gruber, Jacob
(1960) A Conscience in Conflict: The Life of St. George Jackson Mivart, Columbia University Press, New York.

Gunther, Robert W. T. (editor)
(1928) Further Correspondence of John Ray, The Ray Society, London.

Hagberg, Knut
(1952) Carl Linnaeus, Jonathan Cape, London.

Hunter, John
(1861) Essays and Observations on Natural History, 2 vols., London.

Hutton, James
(1788) "Theory of the Earth; or An Investigation of the Laws Observable in the Composition, Dissolution, and Restoration of Land Upon the Globe," Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol. 1, pp. 209-304.
(1795) Theory of the Earth with Proofs and Illustrations, 2 vols., Edinburgh.

Huxley, Leonard
(1913) Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley, 3 vols., London.
(1918) Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, 2 vols., Murray, London.

Huxley, T. H.
(1898) The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley, 4 vols., edited by Michael Foster and E. Ray Lankester, and a supplement, Macmillan, London.

Iltis, Hugo
(1932) Life of Mendel, W. W. Norton, New York.

Jenkin, Fleeming
(1887) Papers, Literary, Scientific, Etc., 2 vols., edited by Sidney Colvin and J. A. Ewing, London.

Jenyns, Leonard
(1862) Memoir of the Reverend John Stevens Henslow, John van Voorst, London.

Joly, John
(1925) The Surface History of the Earth, Oxford University Press.

Lord Kelvin (William Thomson)
(1894) Popular Lectures and Addresses, 3 vols., London.

Kramer, Herbert H.
(1948) The Intellectual Background and Immediate Reception of Darwin's Origin of Species, Doctoral Dissertation (unpublished), Harvard University.

Lack, David
(1957) Evolutionary Theory and Christian Belief, Methuen, London.

Lamarck, J. B.
(1914) Zoological Philosophy (1809), Macmillan, London.

Litchfield, Henrietta
(1904) A Century of Family Letters, 2 vols., Cambridge University Press.

Lovejoy, A. O.
(1942) The Great Chain of Being, Harvard University Press.

Lyell, Sir Charles
(1834) Principles of Geology, 4 vols., third edition, London.
(1842) Lectures on Geology Delivered at the Broadway Tabernacle in the City of New York, New York.
(1850) Anniversary Address of the President, Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Vol. 6, pp. xxvIi-lxvI.
(1851) "The Theory of the Successive Geological Development of Plants, from the Earliest Periods to Our Own Time, as Deduced from Geological Evidence; Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Vol. 51, pp. 213-26.
(1851) "On Fossil Rain-marks of the Recent Triassic and Carboniferous Periods," Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Vol. 7, pp. 238-47.
(1851) "The Theory of Successive Development in the Scale of Being both Animal and Vegetable, from the earliest Periods to Our Own Time, as Deducted from .Paleontological Evidence," Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Vol. 51, pp. 1-31.
(1851) Anniversary Address of the President, Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Vol. 7, pp. xxxii-lxxi.
(1863) The Antiquity of Man, John Murray, London.

Lyell, Katherine M.
(1881) Life, Letters .and Journals of Sir Charles Lyell, 2 vols., London.
(1890) Memoir of Leonard Horner, 2 vols., London.

Malthus, Thomas Robert
(1798) An Essay on the Principles of Population as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society with Remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Godwin, M. Condorcet and Other Writers, London, facsimile of the first edition, Macmillan, 1926.

Marchant, James
(1916) Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Harper, New York.

Matthew, Patrick
(1831) On Naval Timber and Arboriculture, Edinburgh.

Millhauser, Milton
(1959) Just Before Darwin: Robert Chambers and the Vestiges, Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Conn.

Montagu, M. F. Ashley
(1943) "Edward Tyson, M.D., F.R.S., 1650-1780, and the Rise of Human and Comparative Anatomy in England; Memoirs American Philosophical Society, Vol. 20.

Nicholson, H. Alleyne
(1886) Natural History, its Rise and Progress in Britain as Developed in the Life and Labours of Leading Naturalists, London.

Owen, Rev. Richard
(1894) The Life of Richard Owen, 2 vols., New York.

Packard, A. S.
(1901) Lamarck: The Founder of Evolution, Longmans, Green & Co., London and New York.

Paley, William
(1822) Natural Theology, London.

Panlin, C. F. A.
(1950-51) "Darwin's Theory and the Causes of its Acceptance," School Science Review, 3-part paper, October,
1950, March and June, 1951.

Playfair, John
(1802) Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth, Edinburgh.

Potter, George Reuben
(1922 ) The Idea of Evolution In the English Poets from 1744 to 1832, Doctoral Dissertation (unpublished), Harvard University.

Pulteny, Richard
(1805) A General View of the Writings of Linnaeus. London.

Raven, Charles E.
(1942 ) John Ray, Naturalist: His Life and Works, Cambridge University Press.
(1953) Organic Design: A Study of Scientific Thought from Ray to Paley, Oxford University Press.

Roppen, George
(1956) Evolution and Poetic Belief, Oslo.

Russell, E. S.
(1916) Form and Function: A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology, John Murray, London.

Sears, Paul B.
(1950) Charles Darwin: The Naturalist As a Cultural Force, Scribner's, New York.

Sedgwick, Adam
(1850) Discourse on the Studies of the University of Cambridge, fifth edition, London.

Smith, Sir James Edward
(1821) A Selection of the Correspondence of Linnaeus and Other Naturalists, London.

Smith, William
(1817) Stratigraphical System of Organized Fossils, etc., London.

Trow-Smith, Robert
(1959) A History of British Livestock Husbandry 1700-
1900, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London.

Wallace, Alfred Russel
(1905) My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 2 vols., New York.

Weismann, August
(1892 ) Essays upon Heredity, 2 vols., Oxford.

Wells, William Charles
(1818) Two Essays: One upon Single Vision with Two Eyes; The Other on Dew, etc., London.

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