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Acknowledgments

This book would not be possible without the help and generosity of many people and organizations, a few of whom I would like to briefly thank. Travel to the archives at the University College London and the John Innes Horticultural Institute was made possible through the generosity of Carnegie Mellon’s Falk Grant and Berkman Faculty Development Fund. I would also like to thank the University College London and John Innes Horticultural Institute, along with the Hunt Botanical Library for opening up their collections for my research. Additionally, the University of Adelaide, The Royal Society of Edinburgh, Cambridge University Press, and The Royal Society of London deserve recognition and thanks for the use of the figures and tables in this text.

In addition to material resources, this book has benefitted from the intellectual generosity of a number of scholars who have shared their time and expertise with me. I am particularly indebted to Jeanne Fahnestock, who has read and critiqued this book in many of its different stages. I am also grateful to Alan Gross for his incisive editing of the text. In addition, I would like to thank Lorain Daston for taking time to read and provide feedback on the historical framing discussed in the second chapter of the book. Colleagues who have read and offered advice on various parts of this text also deserve recognition, including: Leah Ceccarelli, Andreea Ritivoi, Kristina Straub, Lynda Walsh, and Michael Witmore.

Finally, the emotional support of my wife Gina has been crucial to the completion of this project. I would like to express my gratitude to her for all her patience and personal sacrifice.

Some of the material in this book draws on material in journal articles previously published by the author. The material from these articles has been modified and revised. Chapter 3 was developed from two papers. The first, “Arithmetic of the Species: Darwin and the Role of Mathematics in His Argumentation,” appeared in Rhetorica 27.1 (2009): 76–100. The material in this paper has been considerably revised, and much new material has been added. The second, “A New Species of Argument: Darwin and the Role of Mathematics in His Argumentation,” appeared in 19th Century Prose 38.1 (2011). The material in this paper has been revised, and new material has been added. Chapter 4 is based in part on “Alone in the Garden: How Gregor Mendel’s Inattention to Audience May Have Affected the Reception of his Theory of Inheritance in ‘Experiments in Plant Hybridization,’” which appeared in Written Communication 24.1 (2007): 3–27. The material in this paper has been considerably revised, and much new material has been added.