CHARLES DARWIN & THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES:1909 CELEBRATION/DARWINISM/SPEECHES1st

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CHARLES DARWIN AND THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY EDWARD BAGNALL POULTON Hon. LL.D. Princeton, F.R.S., V-P.L.S., F.Z.S., F.G.S., F.E.S. HOPE PROFESSOR OF ZOOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD FELLOW OF JESUS COLLEGE, OXFORD MEMB. HON. SOC. ENT. BELG. ; SOC. HON. REAL SOC. ESPAN. HIST. NAT. CORRESP. MEMB. ACAD. SCI., NEW YORK, AND SOC. NAT. HIST. BOSTON AUTHOR OF 'ESSAYS ON EVOLUTION ', ETC. PUBLISHED NOV. 24th 1909, BEING THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PUBLICATION OF 'THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES' LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON NEW YORK, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA 1909 ***** BOOK DESCRIPTION : Large 8vo rebound in blue cloth, xvi, deditcation page to Alfred Russel Wallace (see photo). 302pp. Freeman: A331 CONDITION : VERY GOOD+ . One minor mark to front cover of the cloth. Binding sound. No previous names/inks. Text pages clean and bright. Nice quality heavy paper, with front edge untrimmed. There is a library stamp to the gilt on the top edge which, I think, says University --- Buckingham (very faint) but there are no other library indicators to be seen. A good copy of a fairly scarce work - no other copies available at present that I can see. ********************* Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton , FRS (1856 – 1943) was a British evolutionary biologist who was a lifelong advocate of natural selection. He became Hope Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford in 1893. In the work on offer, Poulton describes the Origin of Species as "incomparably the greatest work" the biological sciences had seen. Critics of natural selection, Poulton contends, have not taken the time to understand it. FROM THE PREFACE: During the fourteen months preceding the date on which this volume is issued I have devoted all available time to work connected with the three inspiring anniversaries of July 1, 1908, Feb. 12, 1909 and .Nov. 24, 1909. With all diffidence I have chosen the date which closes this period of work, as the day of publication. It may help in some small degree to keep in remembrance the birthday of a mighty epoch in the history of thought... ..... Edward B. Poulton. Oxford, Nov. 24, 1909. The Celebration of Darwin's Life and Work in 1909 was a monumental afair, one of the most magnificent events of its kind and one that is hard to imagine being repeated in the modern day. Delegates came from 167 different countries not only to celebrate and honour Darwin, but to reassess Darwinian theory in light of new findings. In a paper on the subject Marsha L. Richmond expressed its importance thus: " The 1909 Darwin celebration...represents a significant watershed in the history of modern biology that allows historians to assess the status of evolution prior to the advent of the chromosome theory of genetics." The reasons for such a grand celebration, marked by such pomp and ceremony, was particularly well expressed by an anonymous author contributing to the discussion at the time: “ That explanation is to be found, not alone in Darwin’s personality and achievements, not alone in his positive contributions to scientific thought and knowledge, but in the vast and almost immeasurable influence of the ideas associated with his name on the mental outlook—the Weltanschauung , as the Germans call it—of mankind. There is no man living and thinking to-day who does not regard the universe, its structure, and its history from a standpoint altogether different from that from which the vast majority of mankind regarded it in the days that preceded the appearance of ‘ The Origin of Species .’” This collection by Poulton includes the Speeches delivered at the Darwin banquet held in Cambridge on June 23rd. FULL CONTENTS LIST AFTER THE PHOTOS: Be sure to add me to your favorites list ! Check out my other items !Sign up for PayPal ; the fast, easy, and secure way to pay online. ... read more

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