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Matthew, Patrick ("Discoverer of the principle of natural selection")
Emigration Fields. North America, the Cape, Australia, and New Zealand. Describing these countries and giving a comparative view of the advantages they present to British settlers.
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Edinburgh; London, Adam and Charles Black; Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1839, Cloth
First edition. Small 8vo. Original cloth. Good copy. Folding frontispiece map of North America (one fold repaired with acid-free mending tape) and second map of Australia, New Zealand and environs present and in good condition. Book leaning, spine worn. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown, former owner's inscription on front free endpaper obliterated. When Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859) first appeared, previous expressions of his central idea were pointed out to him. Of these, Darwin acknowledged Matthew as having anticipated his theory fully in a work on naval timber. (1831). Matthew was, like Darwin, influenced by Malthus, and in this later volume proposed that the effects of Malthus' iron law could be mitigated by exporting population to regions hospitable to European colonization. After Darwin acknowledged that Matthew had essentially expressed the idea of natural selection, albeit in a much less data-driven way than Darwin, Matthew had calling cards printed with the legend "Discoverer of the principle of natural selection."
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