Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Figures VII
4. Preface IX
5. Introduction 1
6. PART ONE Nature's Diversity and the Research Site of the Pacific
7. 1 "This Coral Episode" Darwin, Dana, and the Coral Reefs of the Pacific 19
8. 2 Darwin's Biogeography and the Oceanic Islands of the Central Pacific, 1859-1909 49
9. 3 Evolution, Biogeography, and Maps: An Early History of Wallace's Line 70
10. 4 John T. Gulick and the Active Organism Adaptation, Isolation, and the Politics of Evolution 110
11. 5 Embryology and Empire The Balfour Students and the Quest for Intermediate Forms in the Laboratory of the Pacific 140
12. PART TWO Exchange Networks and the Organization of Research
13. 6 Darwin's Correspondents in the Pacific Through the Looking Glass to the Antipodes 167
14. 7 The Darwinian Legacy in the Pacific Northwest: Seattle's Young Naturalists' Society, P. Brooks Randolph, and Conchology 212
15. 8 "Science at the Periphery" Dr. Schomburgk's Garden 239
16. PART THREE Natives, Colonials, and Anthropologists
17. 9 Missionaries and the Human Mind Charles Darwin and Robert FitzRoy 261
18. 10 British Missionaries and Their Contribution to Science in the Pacific Islands 283
19. 11 The Melanesian Mission and Victorian Anthropology: A Study in Symbiosis 317
20. 12 The Color Blue: From Research in the Torres Strait to an Ecology of Human Behavior 339
21. PART FOUR Social Darwinisms
22. 13 Darwinism, Social Darwinism, and the Australian Aborigines: A Réévaluation 369
23. 14 The Darwinian Enlightenment and New Zealand Politics 395
24. 15 Environment and Race Geography's Search for a Darwinian Synthesis 426
25. 16 Varieties of Social Darwinism in Australia, Japan, and Hawaii, 1883-1921 474
26. Contributors 511
27. Index 515