1st Edition

The Works of Charles Darwin: Vol 19: The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication (, 1875, Vol I)

By Paul H Barrett Copyright 1992

    The nineteenth volume in a 29-volume set which contain all Charles Darwin's published works. Darwin was one of the most influential figures of the 19th century. His work remains a central subject of study in the history of ideas, the history of science, zoology, botany, geology and evolution.

    Introduction; I: Domestic Dogs and Cats; II: Horses and Asses; III: Pigs – Cattle – Sheep – Goats; IV: Domestic Rabbits; V: Domestic Pigeons; VI: Pigeons; VII: Fowls; VIII: Duck – Goose – Peacock – Guinea Fowl – Canary Bird – Goldfish – Hive-Bees – Silk-Moths; IX: Cultivated Plants: Cereal and Culinary Plants; X: Plants – Fruits – Ornamental Trees – Flowers; XI: On Bud-Variation, and on Certain Anomalous Modes of Reproduction and Variation; XII: Inheritance

    Biography

    Paul H Barrett