INSECTIVOROUS PLANTS - Charles Darwin, 1908 EVOLUTION BOTANY CARNIVOROUS PLANTS ELVES & GNOMES controversial third edition

controversial third edition

published to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the death of Paracelsus

There is a special emphasis on the saints of the British Isles

From the beginning of his naval career he had been encouraged by his father to keep a journal

Davenport Museum stamp on inside board

INSECTIVOROUS PLANTS - Charles Darwin, 1908 EVOLUTION BOTANY CARNIVOROUS PLANTS ELVES & GNOMES controversial third editionINSECTIVOROUS PLANTS Book Details + Condition: John Murray (London). Cheap Edition to the Second Edition, 1908. Hardcover, three quarters leather binding. 367 pages with Index at rear. Gilt lettered on spine. Part of a series of works by Darwin related to his theory of natural selection, the book is a study of carnivorous plants with specific attention paid to the adaptations that allow them to live in difficult conditions. It includes illustrations