With Critical Notes on Authors who have Recently Treated the Subject of Planting Matthew, Patrick 1790-1874 creator text utu 2016 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "On Naval Timber and Arboriculture" by Patrick Matthew is a book published in 1831. Ostensibly a treatise on growing trees for shipbuilding, this work contains a remarkable surprise: buried in its appendices is an early articulation of natural selection, appearing twenty-eight years before Darwin's "Origin of Species." The book's unconventional structure—a jumble of topics spanning forestry, politics, human races, and evolutionary theory—reflects its chaotic assembly, with Matthew adding sections even as it went to press. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Naval_Timber_and_Arboriculture Release date is 2016-12-06 Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net, including RichardW (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Original publication data not identified Forests and forestry -- Great Britain SD Original publication data not identified 12019285 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53678 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53678 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134234.0 53678