Edition of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin

项目摘要ses 0135538版查尔斯·达尔文通信邓肯·波特/美国学术学会理事会查尔斯·达尔文通信首次提供完整的权威文本，根据现代文本原则和实践编辑，所有现存的，已知的查尔斯·达尔文所写和收到的信件。经过全面的全球搜索，大约有14500封信被找到。这个数字包括了写给达尔文的信件。为了提供尽可能多的信息，正在公布双方的通信。《通信》拥有广泛的读者，包括科学、哲学和社会学历史学家、生物和地质科学家、19世纪的学者，以及普通读者，为他们汇集了现在分散在广泛分散的资料库中的材料。读者可以从说明性的信件中得到指导，从英国乡村绅士的社会生活中得到娱乐，此外还可以比以往任何时候都更了解查尔斯·达尔文的生活和思想。美国国家科学基金会对达尔文通信项目的前期支持，为两版《1821- 1882年查尔斯·达尔文通信日历》（1985年、1994年）、12卷《查尔斯·达尔文通信》（1985年、1986年、1987年、1988年、1989年、1990年、1991年、1993年、1994年、1997年、1999年、2001年）和《查尔斯·达尔文信件：1825-1859年选集》（1996年）的编写和出版做出了重大贡献。在此期间所写的信件是达尔文的工作和职业生涯的一部分，相对而言，他的“物种起源”（1859）的出版尚未被探索和遮蔽。然而，继续进行的植物学研究，为《驯化下的变异》（1868）、《人类的起源》（1871）、《情感的表达》（1872）收集资料，以及《起源》（1869）第五版的准备工作，对于理解达尔文生命中这一重要时期的进化思想具有重要意义。计划中的研究包括在资助期间完成《通信》第14卷至第17卷，从1866年到1868年。1868年有两卷，因为信件很多。此外，从1869年到1871年，应该对第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、动物和植物遗传的最重要的调查，产生了对达尔文作为植物生理学、心理学和其他领域的实验者和创新者的理解，并为研究19世纪生物科学的转变提供了广泛的材料。

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.