Chambers, Robert

Philip F Rehbock, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Published online: April 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002385

1802–1871 Scottish publisher, geologist, and author of the controversial evolutionary treatise, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation.

Keywords: evolution; Lamarck; Darwin; Wallace

Feeling overwhelmed?
Wasting time scanning endless search results for the right article? Refine your search, use eLS. Watch the Video

Learn more about eLS
Find out how eLS can help you select and research topics in the life sciences. Take the Tutorial

Join us on Twitter
Follow tweets on recent articles @eLifeSciences. Follow

Further Reading
	book Chambers R (1994) Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation and Other Evolutionary Writings, Secord JA (ed.). Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press.
	book Chambers R (1848) Ancient Sea-Margins, as Memorials of Changes in the Relative Level of Sea and Land. Edinburgh: W & R Chambers.
	book Dictionary of Scientific Biography (1970–1980) Gillispie CC (ed.). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
	Hodge MJS (1972) The universal gestation of nature: Chambers' ‘Vestiges’ and ‘Explanations’. Journal of the History of Biology 5: 127–151.
	book Layman CH (1990) Man of Letters: The Early Life and Love-Letters of Robert Chambers. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
	book Millhauser M (1959) Just Before Darwin: Robert Chambers and Vestiges. Middletown, Conn: Wesleyan University Press.
	Yeo R (1984) Science and intellectual authority in mid-nineteenth-century Britain: Robert Chambers and ‘Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation’. Victorian Studies 28: 5–31.