Historic Book Collection
Darwinism and Natural Selection
In the 1960s Dr Louis Carlyle Lyon (1899-1970), a College
member who was known for his incomparable collection of "Osleria"
(now owned by the Osler Club), gave the College a number of works
by and about Darwin which he had acquired from the
collection of another bibliophile and author of a book about Osler,
Walter Reginald Bett (b.1903).
The formation of vegetable mould,
through the action of worms, with observation of their habits. By
Charles Darwin ... With illustrations.1882
The life and letters of Charles Darwin. Including an
autobiographical chapter. edited by his son Francis
Darwin. In two volumes 1889
The variation of animals and plants under domestication.
By Charles Darwin ... 1892
The power of movement in plants. By Charles Darwin ...
Assisted by Francis Darwin. With illustrations.1892
The Movement and Habits of Climbing Plants By Charles
Darwin 1893
Darwinism: an exposition of the
theory of natural selection with some of its applications. By
Alfred Russell Wallace ... With map and illustration
1899
The origin of species by means of
natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the
struggle for life. By Charles Darwin ... (Fifty-sixth thousand)
1899
The foundations of the origin of
species. two essays written in 1842 and 1844. By Charles Darwin.
Edited by his son Francis Darwin.1909