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Author:

Armstrong, Patrick, 1941-

Title:

All things Darwin : an encyclopedia of Darwin's world / Patrick H. Armstrong.

Publisher:

Greenwood Press,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

2 v. (xxiv, 564 p.) : ill., maps ; 27 cm.

Subject:

Darwin, Charles,--1809-1882--Encyclopedias.
Naturalists--England--Encyclopedias.--Encyclopedias.
Natural history--Encyclopedias.
Evolution (Biology)--Encyclopedias.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The Darwin, Erasmus (senior) (1731-1801) -- List of entries -- Guide to related topics -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The encyclopedia -- Anemones, Sea -- Animal behavior -- Archaeopteryx -- Ascension Island -- Australia -- Autobiography -- Azores -- Barlow, Norah (1885-1989) -- Barnacles -- Bay of Islands, New Zealand -- Beagle, HMS -- Beagle diary -- Beech, Southern or Antarctic -- Beetles -- Botany -- Brazil -- British Association for the Advancement of Science -- Buckland, William (1784-1856) -- Button, Jemmy -- Cambrian Big Bang -- Cambridge University -- Cape of Good Hope -- Cape Verde Islands -- Catastrophism -- Chambers, Robert (1802-1871) -- Child development -- Chile and Peru -- Chiloé -- Climbing plants -- Cocos (Keeling) Islands -- Coevolution -- Corals and coral reefs -- Correspondence of Charles Darwin -- Covington, Syms (1816-1861) -- Crabs -- Creationism -- Cuvier, Georges (1769-1832) -- Dana, James Dwight (1813-1895) -- Darwin, Annie (Anne Elizabeth Darwin) (1841-1851) -- Darwin, Bernard (1876-1961) -- Darwin, Charles Galton (1887-1962) -- Darwin, Charles Robert (1809-1882) -- Darwin, City of -- Darwin, Emma (née Wedgwood) (1808-1896) -- Darwin, Erasmus (junior) (Erasmus Alvey Darwin) (1804-1881) -- Darwin, Erasmus (senior) (1731-1801) --
Gray, Asa (1810-1888) -- Darwin, George Howard (1845-1912) -- Darwin, Horace (1851-1928) -- Darwin, Robert Waring (1766-1848) -- Darwin College, Cambridge -- Darwinism and literature -- Darwinism and theology -- Darwin's death and Westminster Abbey funeral -- Darwin's fungus -- Dawkins, Richard (1941-) -- Descent of Man -- DNA -- Domestic animals -- Down House -- Earthworms -- Ecology -- Edinburgh -- Eight stones -- Essay of 1844 -- Evolution, Convergent -- Evolution, History of the concept -- Evolution, Saltatory -- Evolutionary ideas after On the Origin -- Evolution of the horse -- Evolution through natural selection -- Expression of Emotions -- Falkland Islands -- Fernando Noronha -- Fertilisation of Orchids -- Fieldwork and collecting methods of Charles Darwin -- Fishes -- FitzRoy, Robert (1805-1865) -- Forms of Flowers -- Fossils -- Fox, William Darwin (1805-1880) -- Frankland, George (1800-1838) -- Galapagos finches -- Galapagos Islands -- Geological Society of London -- Geological time scale -- Geology of the Voyage of the Beagle -- Glaciation -- Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898) -- Glen Roy -- Gould, John (1804-1881) -- Gould, Stephen Jay (1941-2002) -- Gradualism -- Gray, Asa (1810-1888) --
Notes and notebooks -- Henslow, John Stevens (1796-1861) -- Herschel, John F.W. (1792-1871) -- Hooker, Joseph Dalton (1817-1911) -- Human evolution -- Humboldt, Alexander von (1769-1859) -- Huxley, Thomas (1825-1895) -- Hydrography -- Igneous rocks -- Ill health and diseases of Charles Darwin -- Insectivorous Plants -- Instinct -- Intellectual aristocracy -- Islands -- v. 2. J-Z -- Jenyns, Leonard (later Blomefield) (1800-1893) -- Kelp and kelp beds -- King, Philip Gidley (junior) (1817-1904) -- King, Phillip Parker (1791-1856) -- Kingsley, Charles (1819-1875) -- Kirby, William (1759-1850) -- Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste (1744-1829) -- Linnaeus, Carolus (Carl von Linné) (1707-1778) -- Linnean Society of London -- Long-distance dispersal -- Lyell, Charles (1797-1875) -- Malthus, Thomas Robert (1766-1834) -- Mantell, Gideon Algernon (1790-1852) -- Maori -- Marsupials -- Marx, Karl Heinrich (1818-1883) -- Mauritius -- Megatherium -- Mendel, Gregor (1822-1884) -- Metamorphic rocks -- Morris, Francis Orpen (1810-1893) -- Mutations -- Native peoples -- New South Wales -- New Zealand -- North Wales -- Notes and notebooks --
Index. Origin of life -- Origin of the Beagle voyage -- Owen, Fanny Mostyn (later Biddulph) (1807-1886) -- Owen, Richard (1804-1892) -- Pacific Ocean -- Paley, William (1743-1805) -- Patagonia -- Peppered moth -- Planaria -- Punctuated equilibrium -- Raverat, Gwen (1885-1957) -- Ray, John (1627-1705) -- Recapitulation -- Reconciliation -- Red notebook -- Religion in the life of Charles Darwin -- Rheas -- River Plate -- Royal Navy in the nineteenth century -- Royal Society -- Sedgwick, Adam (1785-1873) -- Sedimentary rocks -- Shrewsbury -- Sketch of 1842 -- Smith, Adam (1723-1790) -- Spencer, Herbert (1820-1903) -- St. Helena and Ascension Island -- St. Paul's rocks -- Sulivan, Bartholomew James (1810-1890) -- Tahiti -- Tasmania -- Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre (1881-1955) -- Tenerife -- Tierra del Fuego -- Tiktaalik -- Toponyms -- Transitional forms -- Tristram, Henry Baker (1822-1906) -- Uniformitarianism -- Vestiges -- Victoria (1819-1901 ; sovereign (1837-1901) -- Voyage of the Beagle -- Wallace, Alfred Russel (1823-1913) -- Warrah -- Waterhouse, George Robert (1810-1888) -- Wedgwood, Josiah I (1730-1795) -- Wedgwood, Josiah II (1769-1841) -- Wilberforce, Samuel (1805-1873) -- Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle -- Appendix : Introduction to the extracts from Darwin's works -- General bibliography -- Index.

ISBN:

0313334943 (v.2 : alk. paper)
9780313334948 (v.2 : alk. paper)
0313334935 (v.1 : alk. paper)
9780313334931 (v.1 : alk. paper)
0313334927 (set : alk. paper)
9780313334924 (set : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)145943704

LCCN:

2007026482

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)