The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 23, 1875 (2015)

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 23, 1875Author(s): Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt, James A. Secord, The Editors of the Darwin Correspondence Project\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781107134362, 978-1107134362\nSynopsis\nThis volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating and wide-ranging letters in context, making the letters accessible to both scholars and general readers. Darwin depended on correspondence to collect data from all over the world, and to discuss his emerging ideas with scientific colleagues, many of whom he never met in person. The letters are published chronologically: Volume 23 includes letters from 1875, the year in which Darwin wrote and published Insectivorous plants, a botanical work that was a great success with the.