On the Organic Law of Change : A Facsimile Edition and Annotated Transcription of Alfred Russel Wallace's Species Notebook of 1855-1859 / Alfred Russel Wallace.
Wallace, Alfred Russel, author.
2013
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Title On the Organic Law of Change : A Facsimile Edition and Annotated Transcription of Alfred Russel Wallace's Species Notebook of 1855-1859 / Alfred Russel Wallace.
Author Wallace, Alfred Russel, author.
ISBN 9780674726024
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674726024
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (587 p.) : 307 halftones, 1 line illustration, 1 map, 29 tables
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674726024 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification 508.598
Summary Marking the centennial of Alfred Russel Wallace's death, James Costa presents an elegant edition of the "Species Notebook" of 1855-1859, which Wallace kept during his Malay Archipelago expedition. Presented in facsimile with text transcription and annotations, this never-before-published document provides a window into the travels, trials, and genius of the co-discoverer of natural selection. In one section, headed "Note for Organic Law of Change"--a critique of geologist Charles Lyell's anti-evolutionary arguments--Wallace sketches a book he would never write, owing to the unexpected events of 1858. In that year he sent a manuscript announcing his discovery of natural selection to Charles Darwin. Lyell and the botanist Joseph Hooker proposed a joint reading at the Linnean Society of his scientific paper with Darwin's earlier private writings on the subject. Darwin would go on to publish On the Origin of Species in 1859, to much acclaim; pre-empted, Wallace's first book on evolution waited two decades, but by then he had abandoned his original concept. On the Organic Law of Change realizes in spirit Wallace's unfinished project, and asserts his stature as not only a founder of biogeography and the preeminent tropical biologist of his day but as Darwin's equal.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Note on the Text
Introduction
Species Notebook (Recto)
[1]-[35]
[36]-[85]
[86]-[135]
[136]-[181]
Species Notebook (Verso)
[1]-[58]
[59]-[77]
Appendix 1: Species Notebook Entries Bearing on Transmutation and Related Topics
Appendix 2: On Wallace's Critique of Charles Lyell and Principles of Geology
References
Acknowledgments
Index

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