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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Charles Darwin
    sub title: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters
  title info:
    title: PsycBOOKs
  title info:
    title: PsycBooks (EBSCO Host)
  name:
    name part: Darwin, Charles
    name part: 1809-1882
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Darwin, Francis
    name part: Sir
    name part: 1848-1925
  type of resource: text
  genre: biography
  genre: Biography.
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Records and correspondence.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 1908
    edition: [2nd ed.].
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (vi, [ii], 348 pages) : portrait.
  abstract: "In preparing this volume, which is practically an abbreviation of the Life and Letters (1887), my aim has been to retain as far as possible the personal parts of those volumes. To render this feasible, large numbers of the more purely scientific letters are omitted, or represented by the citation of a few sentences. In certain periods of my father's life the scientific and the personal elements run a parallel course, rising and falling together in their degree of interest. Thus the writing of the Origin of Species, and its publication, appeal equally to the reader who follows my father's career from interest in the man, and to the naturalist who desires to know something of this turning point in the history of Biology. This part of the story has therefore been told with nearly the full amount of available detail. In arranging my material I have followed a roughly chronological sequence, but the character and variety of my father's researches make a strictly chronological order an impossibility. It was his habit to work more or less simultaneously at several subjects. Experimental work was often carried on as a refreshment or variety, while books entailing reasoning and the marshalling of large bodies of facts were being written. Moreover many of his researches were dropped only to be resumed after years had elapsed. Thus a chronological record of his work would be a patchwork, from which it would be difficult to disentangle the history of any given subject. The Table of Contents will show how I have tried to avoid this result. It will be seen, for instance, that after Chapter VIII. a break occurs; the story turns back from 1854 to 1831 in order that the Evolutionary chapters which follow may tell a continuous story. In the same way the Botanical Work which occupied so much of my father's time during the latter part of his life is treated separately in Chapters XVI. and XVII"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).
  note: edited by his son, Francis Darwin.
  note: Includes index.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Darwin, Charles
      name part: 1809-1882
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Darwin, Charles
      name part: 1809-1882
  subject:
    topic: Naturalists
    geographic: Great Britain
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Naturalists
    geographic: Great Britain
    genre: Correspondence
  subject:
    topic: Biological Evolution
  subject:
    topic: Naturalists
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
  classification: QH31.D2 D37 1908
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    identifier: (LSS)lss00728019.
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: SFB
    record creation date: 120210
    record change date: 20260612153146.4
    record identifier: in00003520218