J g darwin john darwin (5 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 800 pages. 8.75x6.25x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Vii, 195 Pp. Green Cloth Stamped In Silver. First American Printing, "First Published 1955" On Copyright Page. Near Fine, Slight Foxing On Edges Of Endpapers.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Vii, 195 Pp. Green Cloth Stamped In Silver. First Printing, 1955, Stated On Copyright Page; "Published In Great Britain"; Publisher's Label Showing New York/London/ Paris On Title Page. . Very Slight Usage, Lettering Brilliant. In The Gray Card Dust Jacket With Author, Short Title, And Publisher's Information Printed On Spine Panel, Slight Wear But Lettering Weak.…

2pp., 12mo. On bifolium with mourning border. In fair condition, aged and worn, with the second leaf laid down on part of a leaf cut from an autograph album. He is enclosing 'a Lecture Syllabus from Mr. Nicol, whom you may perhaps remember having seen meet me in the committee room on the day of my lecture'. Nicols wants Romanes to recommend him as a lecturer, but he only knows him 'from his book "Zoological Notes" which I reviewed in Nature. It was a good book & an entertaining one, but I know nothing of his capabilities as a lecturer.' 'Zoological Notes' by Arthur Nicols was published in London in 1883.…

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The present item is clearly part of a draft of an intended biographical entry, penned by Romanes himself in his close and distinctive hand. On one side of a cm piece of laid paper with the reverse blank. Reads: 'His extensive treatise entitled "Darwin and after Darwin," which is now being published in successive volumes, is an outgrowth of the lectures delivered in both capacities. In 1890 he left London for [the following deleted: 'the purpose of carrying on his important research in Oxford, with which the university of which he incorporated'] Oxford, incorporated with that university, and became a member of Christ Church. In the following year he founded the university lectureship there which [deleted: 'bore'] bears his name. [deleted: 'Last year'] In 1892 he was elected an honorary Fellow of this College in Cambridge and in 1893 published a somewhat elaborate "Examination of [deleted: 'Weisman'] Weismanism." See Image.…