Contents

Also by Randall Fuller

Part I: Origins

1 The Book from Across the Atlantic

2 Gray’s Botany

3 Beetles, Birds, Theories

4 Word of Mouth

5 Making a Stir

6 A Night at the Lyceum

7 The Nick of Time

Part II: Struggles

8 Bones of Contention

10 The What-Is-It?

11 A Spirited Conflict

12 Into the Vortex

13 Tree of Life

14 A Jolt of Recognition

Part III: Adaptations

16 Discord in Concord

18 Meditations in a Garden

19 The Succession of Forest Trees

20 Races of the Old World

21 A Cold Shudder

Part IV: Transformations

22 At Down House

23 The Ghost of John Brown

24 In the Transcendental Graveyard

Acknowledgments

Selected Bibliography