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    The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

    By Charles Darwin

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    First published in book form in 1877, this volume of Darwin’s pioneering research on the heterostylous reproductive systems in flowering plants remains the basis of much exciting original research in the field of botany today. Darwin himself revealed, “I do not think anything in my scientific life has given me so much satisfaction as making out the meaning of the structure of these plants.”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarnes & Noble
    Release dateFeb 22, 2011
    ISBN9781411439689
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    Charles Darwin

    Charles Darwin was born on 12th February 1809. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University for two years before going up to Christ's College Cambridge. Between 1831 and 1836 he sailed on the survey ship HMS Beagle, and the subsequent Journal of the Voyages of the Beagle brought him some fame and repute as a popular author. In 1859 Darwin published On The Origin of Species, which went through six editions, each noticeably revised. These were followed in 1871 by The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex in which he first fully applied his ideas of evolution to the human species. As well as the works directly related to the subject of evolution, Darwin published on subjects such as botany, ecology, the geology of South America, the expression of emotions in animals and man, and the comparative study of barnacles. Darwin had fathered ten children with his wife Emma, though three had died in infancy or childhood, and he himself died on 19th April 1882. He was buried, after some controversy, in Westminster Abbey.

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      The legendary biologist turns his attention to Botany, and this book is primarily of interest to botanists. For those who aren't botanists, it might be difficult to wade through all his talk about heterostyles and illegitimate pollination, but it's an interesting artifact for those of us who are so enamored of botany that we willingly made it our life's work. Most of the information is, of course, out of date, but it's always fun to see the history of the field, and to wonder if this work had anywhere near the wide distribution of his works on evolution and his travels. Not likely; this was a technical work designed to appeal to science geeks, and I suspect even in the Victorian era, when people were much more likely to wander through large works of technical density, this would have been a bit much. Overall, an interesting relic.