Format:
1 Online-Ressource (526 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9781139150743
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. Botany and Horticulture
Content:
Sir Charles James Fox Bunbury (1809–86), the distinguished botanist and geologist, corresponded regularly with Lyell, Horner, Darwin and Hooker among others, and helped them in identifying botanical fossils. He was active in the scientific societies of his time, becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1851. This nine-volume edition of his letters and diaries was published privately by his wife Frances Horner and her sister Katherine Lyell between 1890 and 1893. His copious journal and letters give an unparalleled view of the scientific and cultural society of Victorian England, and of the impact of Darwin's theories on his contemporaries. Volume 8 covers the years 1878–83. Family and social matters, and comments on the disturbed political state of Europe, and British military engagements in Africa and Afghanistan, predominate, although Bunbury also comments on plants he has seen and books he has read
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108041195
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781108041195
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781139150743
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139150743
