The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms (Annotated)

Author: Charles Darwin
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781519173591
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158

Book Description
The share which worms have taken in the formation of the layer of vegetable mould, which covers the whole surface of the land in every moderately humid country, is the subject of the present volume. This mould is generally of a blackish colour and a few inches in thickness. In different districts it differs but little in appearance, although it may rest on various subsoils.

American Garden Literature in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection (1785-1900)

Author: Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN: 9780884022534
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
An annotated listing of titles held at the Garden Library at Dumbarton Oaks, with an introduction discussing the evolution of American garden culture and landscape architecture in the course of the 19th century. Includes a chronological list of titles as well as an index and a good selection of bandw illustrations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Darwin on Humus and the Earthworms

Author: Charles 1809-1882 Darwin
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 9781019349816
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This book explores the crucial role that earthworms play in the formation of soil, as well as their fascinating behavior and biology. Written by Charles Darwin, one of the most important and influential scientists in history, this book provides valuable insights into the workings of the natural world. With detailed observations and meticulous scientific analysis, Darwin's writing is both informative and engaging, making this book a must-read for anyone interested in biology, ecology, or natural history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

An Analysis of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species

Author: Kathleen Bryson
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 135135261X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 159

Book Description
Charles Darwin called on a broad and unusually powerful combination of critical thinking skills to create his wide-ranging explanation for biological change, On the Origin of Species. It’s one of those rare books that takes a huge problem – the enormous diversity of different species – and seeks to use a vast range of evidence to solve it. But it was perhaps Darwin’s towering creative prowess that made the most telling contribution to this masterpiece, for it was this that enabled him to make the necessary fresh connections between so much disparate evidence from such a diversity of fields. All of Darwin’s critical thinking skills were required, however, in the course of the decades of work that went into this volume. Taken as a whole, Darwin’s solution to the problem that he set himself is carefully researched, considers multiple explanations, and justifies its conclusions with well-organised reasoning. At the time of the publication, in 1859, there were various explanations for the changes that Darwin – and others – observed; what separated Darwin from so many of his contemporaries is that he deployed critical thinking to arrive at a significantly new way of fitting explanation to evidence; one that remains elegant, complete and predictive to this day.

Earthworm Ecology

Author: J. Satchell
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400959656
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 492

Book Description
'Darwin cleared: official' This 1982 Times (7 January) head line of a first leader, reporting the astonishing case brought in Arkansas against compulsory teaching of a biblical account of creation, hopefully set at rest doubts about Darwin in the minds of a public confused by media presentations of such unfamiliar concepts as punctuated equilibria, cladism and phenetics. Mud sticks, but Darwin's perturbed ghost may have found some consolation in the concurrent celebrations at Grange-over-Sands, a modest township in Cumbria, UK, of the centenary of the publication of his less controversial book The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms. In the form of a symposium on earthworm ecology, this attracted some 150 participants, predominantly adrenalin-charged research workers in the full heat of peer-group interaction. This book comprises a selection of the more ecologically oriented papers contributed to the symposium, brutally edited in the interests of brevity and thematic continuity. The book opens with an appraisal of Darwin's earthworm work in its historical and philosophical context and relates his views on 'vegetable mould' to current concepts of humus formation. Thereafter, quotations from Darwin made out of piety have been rigorously excluded. Subsequent sections each comprise a review chapter and two or three 'case studies' presenting new data on a related topic.

A Manual of Logic

Author: James Welton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Logic
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description

A Problem Analysis for Environmental Forestry Research

Author: William E. Sopper
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest influences
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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The Literature of Soil Science

Author: Peter McDonald
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801429217
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 476

Book Description
A collection of 14 discussions of the past and present literature about soil science. The topics include a historical survey, bibliometrics, introduction into developing countries, societies and their publishing influence, information systems, core monographs, primary journals, maps, and other aspec

The Darwin Reader

Author: Charles Darwin
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393969672
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 315

Book Description
Gathers selections from nine of Darwin's most important books, including writings about coral reefs, the Galapagos Islands, evolution, emotions, and flowers.

Mark Twain's Literary Resources

Author: Alan Gribben
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 1588385663
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1124

Book Description
Dr. Alan Gribben, a foremost Twain scholar, made waves in 1980 with the publication of Mark Twain's Library, a study that exposed for the first time the breadth of Twain's reading and influences. Prior to Gribben's work, much of Twain's reading history was assumed lost, but through dogged searching Gribben was able to source much of Twain's library. Mark Twain's Literary Resources is a much-expanded examination of Twain's library and readings. Volume I included Gribben's reflections on the work involved in cataloging Twain's reading and analysis of Twain's influences and opinions. This volume, long awaited, is an in-depth and comprehensive accounting of Twain's literary history. Each work read or owned by Twain is listed, along with information pertaining to editions, locations, and more. Gribben also includes scholarly annotations that explain the significance of many works, making this volume of Mark Twain's Literary Resources one of the most important additions to our understanding of America's greatest author.