Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1724

CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN (1809-1882) On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or, The preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. J. Murray 1859 ix, 502 pp., fold. diagr. 19.7 cm.

What the dropping of the first atomic bomb was to the twentieth century, the publication of Darwin's On the origin of species was to the nineteenth century. Battle lines were drawn on both religious and scientific grounds and the world-wide criticism and controversy attendant upon its publication lasted well into the present century.

Cited references: Cushing D50; Garrison-Morton 220; Osler 1566; Waller 10786

Gift of John Martin, M.D.