Edition of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin

查尔斯·达尔文书信邓肯·波特/美国学会理事会书信项目查尔斯·达尔文书信第一次提供了根据现代文本原则和实践编辑的完整、权威的文本，其中包括查尔斯·达尔文所写和收到的所有现存的已知书信。在全球范围内进行全面搜索后，已找到约14,500封信件。这个数字包括写给达尔文的信件。书信的两面都被出版，以提供尽可能多的信息。书信有广泛的受众，包括科学、哲学和社会学的历史学家、生物和地质科学家、19世纪的学者和普通读者，对他们来说，这些书信汇集了现在分散在广泛分布的储存库中的材料。读者除了对查尔斯·达尔文的生活和思想比以往任何时候都更加熟悉之外，还受到了英国乡村绅士的社交生活的指导和娱乐。美国国家科学基金会先前对达尔文通信项目的支持为两个版本的《查尔斯·达尔文通信日历，1821-1882年》(1985,1994)、12卷《查尔斯·达尔文通信》(1985,1986,1987,1988,1989,1990,1991,1993,1994,1997,1999,2001)和《查尔斯·达尔文书信：选集》的准备和出版做出了重大贡献。这封信是达尔文工作和职业生涯的一部分，在他的《物种起源》(1859)一书的出版中相对没有被探索过。然而，持续的植物学研究，为“驯化下的变异”(1868年)、“人类的起源”(1871年)和“情绪的表达”(1872年)收集信息，以及准备第五版“起源”(1869年)，对于理解达尔文生命中这一重要时期的进化思想是非常重要的。计划中的研究包括在赠款期间完成从1866年到1868年的第14卷至第17卷的《通信》。《1868年》因书信数量多，分成两卷。此外，应对1869年至1871年的第18卷至第20卷进行大量的研究和编辑。这些卷涵盖了达尔文对人类、动物和植物遗传最重要的研究，使人们了解达尔文是植物生理学、心理学和其他领域的实验者和创新者，并为研究19世纪生物科学的变革提供了广泛的材料。

PROJECT ABSTRACTSES 0135538Edition of the Correspondence of Charles DarwinDuncan Porter/American Council of Learned SocietiesThe Correspondence of Charles Darwin makes available, for the first time, full, authoritative texts, edited according to modern textual principles and practices, of all the extant, known letters written and received by Charles Darwin. Following a comprehensive worldwide search, about 14,500 letters have been located. This figure includes the letters written to Darwin. Both sides of the correspondence are being published in order to provide as much information as possible.The Correspondence has a wide audience, including historians of science, philosophy, and sociology, biological and geological scientists, scholars of the 19th century, and general readers, for whom are brought together materials now dispersed among widely scattered repositories. Readers are instructed by the expository letters and entertained by the social life of the English country gentry, besides becoming better acquainted than was ever before possible with the life and mind of Charles Darwin. Prior support of the Darwin Correspondence Project from NSF has contributed substantially to the preparation and publication of two editions of "A Calendar of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, 1821- 1882" (1985, 1994), twelve volumes of "The Correspondence of Charles Darwin" (1985, 1986, 1987, l988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2001), and "Charles Darwin's Letters: A Selection, 1825-1859" (1996).The letters written during the period covered by this grant proposal are a part of Darwin's work and career that has been comparatively unexplored and overshadowed by the publication of his "On the Origin of Species" (1859). However, the continuing botanical studies, the gathering of information for "Variation under Domestication" (1868), "The Descent of Man" (1871), and "The Expression of the Emotions" (1872), and the preparation of the fifth edition of the "Origin" (1869) are of great importance for the understanding of Darwin's evolutionary thinking during this important period of his life. The planned research involves completion of volumes 14 to 17, from 1866 to 1868, of the "Correspondence" during the grant period. The year 1868 fills two volumes because of its large number of letters. In addition, considerable research and editing should be accomplished on volumes 18 to 20, from 1869 to 1871. These volumes cover Darwin's most significant investigations of heredity in humans, animals, and plants, yield an understanding of Darwin as an experimenter and innovator in plant physiology, psychology, and other fields, and provide extensive materials for studying the transformation of biological science in the nineteenth century.