TY  - BOOK
AU  - James,Matthew J.
TI  - Collecting Evolution: The Galapagos Expedition That Vindicated Darwin
SN  - 9780199354610
AV  - QH11.J364 2017 
U1  - 508.8665 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press, Incorporated
KW  - Scientific expeditions--Galapagos Islands--History--20th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Collecting Evolution -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note to the Reader -- Prologue -- 1. Halfway to the Stars -- 2. Walking in Darwin's Footsteps -- 3. Setting Sail from San Francisco -- 4. Before It Is Too Late -- 5. Collecting Evolution -- 6. Galápagos at Last -- 7. Confluence: Where Geography and Ideas Meet -- 8. On Death, and Life, in Galápagos -- 9. Down to the Sea in Ships: Ship's Log, 1905 -- 10. Rising from the Ashes -- 11. Ship's Log, 1906 -- 12. That Sinking Feeling -- 13. Darwin's Islands Meet the Plant Wizard of Santa Rosa -- 14. The Voyage Home: Ship's Log -- 15. Vindicating Darwin -- Epilogue-​Legacy: Recent Use of California Academy of Sciences Specimens -- Chronology of the 1905-​1906 Galápagos Expedition -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - The story of the 1905-1906 voyage by the California Academy of Sciences to the Galapagos Islands, during which over 78,000 species were collected
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4838055
ER  -