The Doctrine of Evolution. Its Basis and Its Scope

1907 LECTURES AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BY HENRY CRAMPTON, COPY OF FELLOW EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGIST VERNON KELLOGG. 8 inches tall hardcover, original red cloth binding, gilt emblem of Columbia University Press to cover, gilt title to spine, inscribed and signed in pencil title page, VL Kellogg August 1911/ from [unreadable] Ed of Am. Naturalist, in custom archival mylar cover. Near fine. HENRY EDWARD CRAMPTON (1875 - 1956) was an American paleontologist and evolutionary biologist, who specialized in the study of land snails. Crampton made twelve separate expeditions over the course of his career to Moorea near Tahiti to study the land snail genus Partula, while years more were spent measuring and cataloguing his specimens. In all, he dedicated nearly 50 years to the study. Crampton served as professor of zoology at Columbia University and Barnard College from 1904 to 1943. He was the curator of invertebrate zoology at the American Museum of Natural History. Stephen Gould has cited Crampton as an inspiration, both for his evolutionary observations on Partula, and the enormous dedication and effort required to undertake them (Unenchanted Eveningin Eight Little Piggies, 2007). PROVENANCE: VERNON LYMAN KELLOGG (1867 - 1937) was a U.S. entomologist, evolutionary biologist, and science administrator. His academic career was interrupted by two years (1915 and 1916) spent in Brussels as director of Hoover's humanitarian American Commission for Relief in Belgium. Initially a pacifist, Kellogg dined with the officers of the German Supreme Command. He became shocked by the grotesque Social Darwinist motivation for the German war machine - the creed of survival of the fittest based on violent and fatal competitive struggle is the Gospel of the German intellectuals. Kellogg decided these ideas could only be beaten by force and, using his connections with America's political elite, began to campaign for American intervention in the war. He published an account of his conversations in the book Headquarters Nights. After the war, he served as the first permanent secretary of the National Research Council in Washington, D.C. He served on the board of trustees for Science Service, (now known as Society for Science & the Public), from 1921 to 1933.

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Publisher: The Collumbia University Press

Year: 1911

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Binding: Softcover

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