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John Murray

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Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was published on 22 November 1859. The publisher was John Murray, who specialised in non-fiction, particularly politics, travel and science, and had published…

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  • terms ( Letter 856 ). Instead he asked his friend Charles Lyell, whose  Principles of geology  …
  • open negotiations with his own publisher ( Letter 824 ). Lyells talk with Murray must have been
  • the business with me’ (27 August [1845] Letter 908 ). Thus began the business relationship
  • In order to ensure Darwins priority, his friends Charles Lyell and Joseph Hooker hastily arranged
  • by means of natural selection (Origin) . Again he asked Lyell to act as his intermediary with John
  • Murray made a successful business decision when he included Charles Darwin among his authors and
  • geology was his favourite hobby and he continued to publish Charles Lyells books he was not himself