Species not Transmutable nor the Result of Secondary Causes

Charles Robert Bree

Verlag: Groombridge and Sons, London, 1860

Beschreibung

Being a critical examination of Mr Darwin's work entitled "Origin and Variation of the Species" Those who question the extent of the scientific rebuttal of Darwin's Origin of the Species when his book was first published should read the work of British zoologist and physician Charles Robert Bree (1811-1886) While numerous scientists at that time have been acknowledged for opposing Darwin, Bree's name is rarely if ever mentioned. That's despite the fact that in 1860 within months of the publication of On the Origin of the Species, Bree produced a critical analysis of it in the form of a book titled Species not Transmutable. x, 256pp clean throughout. Inscribed to the title page 'J Murray Esq from the Author' Was he having a pop at John Murray for being Darwin's publisher? This volume id ex Colchester Library with a label to each pastedown but no stamos. Bree was active in the area being a physician to the Essex and Colchester Hospital, Joint editor with the Rev. F.O.Morris of the Naturalist and a Fellow of the Linnaen and Zoological Societies.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Species not Transmutable nor the Result of Secondary Causes
• Verlag: Groombridge and Sons, London
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1860
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Druck: 1st Printing
• Zustand: Very Good
• Signiert: Inscribed By Author.