著者

池田 哲郎

出版者

Historical Society of English Studies in Japan

雑誌

英学史研究 (ISSN:03869490)

巻号頁・発行日

no.15, pp.195-215, 1982

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Darwin's "Origin of Species" was introduced into Japan for the first time by Morse, Edward Sylvester, an American professor of biology in Tokyo University, Dept. of Scienece in 1879; twenty years after the publication of the original.<BR>Morse gave publicity to various fields of society like a university extension. His lectures in Tokyo University was published in Japanese after six years by his student Isikawa Tiyomatu.<BR>Since then in conseqence of the Darwin's views adopted by most Japanese scientist and which will ultimately, as in every other case, be followed by Japanese intelligentsia who are not scientific.<BR>I am going to write a brief history of Darwinism in Japan for last one hundred years, 1 st translation, books, essays, both natural and social sides.<BR>Bibliography of Darwinism in Japan is added as an appendix.