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On the Various Contrivances by Which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects - And on the Good Effect of Intercrossing by Charles Darwin
Category: Gardening | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Darwin, Evolution and Genetics Ser.
In this investigation of orchids, first published in 1862, Darwin expands on a point made in On the Origin of Species that he felt required further explanation, namely that he believes it to be 'a universal law of nature that organic beings require an occasional cross with another individual'. Darwin ex ...Show more
PROGRESS & POVERTY by GEORGE HENRY
Category: Business | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century Ser.
In Progress and Poverty, economist Henry George scrutinizes the connection between population growth and distribution of wealth in the economy of the late nineteenth century.The initial portions of the book are occupied with refuting the demographic theories of Thomas Malthus, who asserted that the vast ...Show more
Plants of New South Wales - According to the Census of Baron F. Von Mueller ... with an Introductory Essay and Occasional Notes by Ferdinand von Müller; William Woolls (Editor)
Category: Gardening | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture Ser.
Sir Ferdinand von M ller (1825-1896) was a botanist renowned for his research on the native plants of Australia. After emigrating from Germany in 1847, he was appointed Government Botanist of Victoria in 1853 and subsequently Director of the Royal Botanic Garden, Melbourne, which post he held until 1873 ...Show more
Rabi'a the Mystic and Her Fellow-saints in Islam by Margaret Smith
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Religion Ser.
Rabi'a, a female Sufi saint, was born in 717 CE and released from slavery to lead a life in pursuit of purity and perfect union with God. Her teachings and the numerous miracles attributed to her have made her an influential and revered figure in Sufi theology. This authoritative 1928 biography of the s ...Show more
Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal - Or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51 by Sherard Osborn
Category: History | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration Ser.
By the middle of the nineteenth century, the goal of the North-West Passage had claimed the lives of many explorers, yet the disappearance of the expedition led by Sir John Franklin occasioned the greatest response. Naval officer Sherard Osborn (1822-75) took part in the search mission of 1850-1 under H ...Show more
The Discovery of the North-West Passage by HMS Investigator, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853 1854 - From the Logs and Journals of Capt. Robert le M. M'Clure, Illustrated by S. Gurney Cresswell by Robert John Le Mesurier McClure; Sherard Osborn (Editor)
Category: HISTORY | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration Ser.
By the middle of the nineteenth century, the North-West Passage, a trade route from the Atlantic to the Pacific, had been sought for centuries without success. The Franklin expedition of 1845 became the latest victim, and Irish naval officer Sir Robert John Le Mesurier McClure (1807-73) took part in the ...Show more
The Golden Bough by James George Frazer
Category: History | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Classics Ser.
This work by Sir James Frazer (1854-1941) is widely considered to be one of the most important early texts in the fields of psychology and anthropology. At the same time, by applying modern methods of comparative ethnography to the classical world, and revealing the superstition and irrationality beneat ...Show more
The Golden Bough by James George Frazer
Category: Classics | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Classics Ser.
The Golden Bough By James George Frazer THE PRIMARY aim of this book is to explain the remarkable rule which regulated the succession to the priesthood of Diana at Aricia. When I first set myself to solve the problem more than thirty years ago, I thought that the solution could be propounded very briefl ...Show more
The Golden Bough by James George Frazer
Category: Classics | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Classics Ser.
The Golden Bough By James George Frazer THE PRIMARY aim of this book is to explain the remarkable rule which regulated the succession to the priesthood of Diana at Aricia. When I first set myself to solve the problem more than thirty years ago, I thought that the solution could be propounded very briefl ...Show more
The Golden Bough by James George Frazer
Category: History | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Classics Ser.
The Golden Bough By James George Frazer THE PRIMARY aim of this book is to explain the remarkable rule which regulated the succession to the priesthood of Diana at Aricia. When I first set myself to solve the problem more than thirty years ago, I thought that the solution could be propounded very briefl ...Show more
The Golden Bough by James George Frazer
Category: Classics | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Classics Ser.
The Golden Bough By James George Frazer THE PRIMARY aim of this book is to explain the remarkable rule which regulated the succession to the priesthood of Diana at Aricia. When I first set myself to solve the problem more than thirty years ago, I thought that the solution could be propounded very briefl ...Show more
The Golden Bough by James George Frazer
Category: Classics | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Classics Ser.
The Golden Bough By James George Frazer THE PRIMARY aim of this book is to explain the remarkable rule which regulated the succession to the priesthood of Diana at Aricia. When I first set myself to solve the problem more than thirty years ago, I thought that the solution could be propounded very briefl ...Show more