Darwin, Wallace, and the Theory of Natural Selection. To commemorate the centennial of the meeting of the Linnean Society, July1, 1838, and the Papers of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace which were read there; Dedicated to the Darwin Anniversary Committee, Inc., organized to commemorate the significance of Charles Darwin and the Theory of Evolution

New Haven: Gerald E. Cinamon, Department of Graphic Arts, Yale University, 1957. Copy 220 of a limited edition of 385 copies.

NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION, COMMEMORATIVE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF DARWIN, WALLACE, AND NATURAL SELECTION--COPY OF PROMINENT DARWIN SCHOLAR.

23 x 14 cm blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, inscribed top front paste-down, "Prof. John C. Greene, Dept of History, Iowa State College," 2 blanks, [8], 97 pp, illustrations in text, [1], light pencil marginal notes by JC Greene. Near fine in custom archival mylar cover.

BERT JAMES LOEWENBERG (1905-1974) earned his PhD from Harvard and was a member of the Sarah Lawrence College history faculty from 1942 to his retirement in 1971. He was Esther Raushenbush Professor of History and was a Fulbright professor at Cambridge. In addition to Darwin, Wallace, and the Theory of Natural Selection, he is author of Darwinism, Reform or Reaction, American History in American Thought, and American Democracy and World Perspective.

PROVENANCE: JOHN COLTON GREENE (1917-2008) was an American historian of science. He is known for his influential study of the history of evolutionary thought, The Death of Adam, for academic controversies with Neo-Darwinians, particularly Ernst Mayr, collected in Debating Darwin. In 1939 he graduated with an M.A. in American history from Harvard University and continued studying there for his Ph.D. until 1942, becoming one of the early Junior Fellows of the Harvard Society of Fellows in 1941,[3] when his academic career was interrupted by World War II. He earned his PhD in history from Harvard in 1952. He was professor at Iowa State University from 1956 to 1962. He was from 1975 to 1976 the president of the History of Science Society. In 1983 he was elected a fellow of the American Antiquarian Society. In 1989 a festschrift of essays was dedicated to him, History, Humanity, and Evolution edited by James Moore. In 2002 he received the George Sarton Medal.