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Darwin, Charles; Frances Darwin (revised by)Biblio.com

Insectivorous Plants

1908ref. 26059London: John Murray. Good with no dust jacket. 1908. Hardcover. Ex-library with white-out over oval rubber stamp on title page "B11" in ink on title page. "DARWIN" in white lettering at tail of spine. Abrasion to front free endpaper. No other library markings. Horizontal 25mm tear to cloth along top edge of spine. Fading to cloth. Scattered foxing to spine cloth. Split to gutter at rear hinge with spine mull visible. Some foxing. Some adhesive tape stains and abrasions to blank outer margins of pages 8 and 9. ; "Cheap Edition" July 1908. xiv 377 1 4 advertisements pages. Illustrated with 30 in-text figures. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine dark green lettering and decoration to front board dark green double border to rear board. Page dimensions: 196 x 127mm. The "Preface to the Second Edition" by Francis Darwin is dated July 1888. Pages xiii-xiv are a "List of the Chief Additions to the Second Edition". Contents: Drosera rotundifolia or the Common Sun-Dew; The Movements of the Tentacles from the Contact of Solid Bodies; Aggregation of the Protoplasm within the Cells of the Tentacles; The Effects of Heat on the Leaves; The Effects of Non-Nitrogenous and Nitrogenous Organic Fluids on the Leaves; The Digestive Power of the Secretion of Drosera; The Effects of Salts of Ammonia; The Effects of Various Other Salts and Acids on the Leaves; The Effects of Certain Alkaloid Poisons Other Substances and Vapours; On the Sensitiveness of the Leaves and on the Lines of Transmission of the Motor Impulse; Recapitulation of the Chief Observations on Drosera rotundifolia; On the Structure and Movements of Some Other Species of Drosera; Dionaea muscipula; Aldrcanda vesiculosa; Drosophyllum - Rorodula - Byblis - Glandular Hairs of Other Plants - Concluding Remarks on the Droseraceae; Pinguicula; Utricularia; Uricularia continued. Reference: Freeman 1233 - "leaf green cloth". ; 8vo . John Murray hardcover

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On the Origin of Species by means of natural selection or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.

1861ref. 42820878THIRD EDITION published on April 1861. Two thousand copies were printed. This edition "was extensively altered and is of interest for the addition of a table of differences between it and the second edition a table which occurs in each subsequent edition and also for the addition of the historical sketch. The sketch which was written to satisfy complaints that Darwin had not sufficiently considered his predecessors in the general theory of evolution had already appeared in a shorter form in the German edition as well as in the fourth American printing where it is called a preface" Freeman. On the Origin of Species is "certainly the greatest biological book ever written" Freeman and "the most important single work in science" Dibner. Darwin's theory of the origin of species by means of natural selection arose out of his studies in the 1830s during and after the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. From 1831 to 1836 Darwin sailed around the world on the Beagle. During this five-year voyage Darwin and the Beagle visited the Galapagos Islands Brazil Argentina Tierra del Fuego Chile Peru Tahiti Australia New Zealand and other islands and countries finally returning to England by sailing around the Cape of Good Hope. Darwin observed "It appears to me that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist than a journey in distant countries." The voyage of the Beagle was "the most important event in Darwin's intellectual life and in the history of biological science. Darwin sailed with no formal scientific training. He returned a hard-headed man of science knowing the importance of evidence almost convinced that species had not always been as they were since creation but had undergone change. … The experiences of his five years … and what they led to built up into a process of epoch-making importance in the history of thought" DSB. Over the coming thirty years Darwin refined the ideas that had germinated aboard the Beagle and finally published them in On the Origin of Species. Darwin concluded his book "There is grandeur in this view of life with its several powers having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that whilst this plan has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved." Darwin's ideas about evolution and natural selection are the underpinnings of modern biological science. Moreover they have given us a new way of viewing and talking about the world. "Darwin not only not only drew an entirely new picture of the workings of organic nature; he revolutionized our methods of thinking and our outlook on the order of natural things. The recognition that constant change is the order of the universe had finally been established" Printing and the Mind of Man 344b. Freeman 381. Original green cloth. Foot of spine and lower front joint neatly restored. A very good copy. John Murray hardcover

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