Joseph Dalton Hooker

Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker O.M., G.C.S.I.

Herausgeber: Huxley, Leonard

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The standard biography of the botanist, of which this first volume includes many letters written to Charles Darwin.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 574
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 800g
• ISBN-13: 9781108031004
• ISBN-10: 1108031005
• Artikelnr.: 33402553

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Early days
2. The Antarctic voyage: preliminaries
3. The southern journey and its scientific scope
4. The voyage of the Erebus and Terror: passing impressions
5. Tasmania and the Antarctic
6. South again: New Zealand and the Cape
7. The Antarctic voyage: personal
8. Return to England: and visit to Paris
9. Edinburgh
10. The Geological Survey
11. The voyage to India
12. Journey to the Kymore Hills
13. To Darjiling: the first Himalayan journey
14. The second Himalayan journey
15. Captivity and release
16. Last days in Sikkim
17. To the Khasia Mountains
18. The return from India
19. Botany: its position and prospects in the fifties
20. Science teaching: examinations
21. Science organisation: societies, journals, and rewards
22. Miscellaneous, 1850-60
23. Letters to Darwin, 1843-59
24. On species
25. The making of the 'Origin': science and friendship
26. Publication of the 'Origin' and the 'Introduction to the Tasmanian Flora'
27. The journey to Palestine and the work of 1860.