For a positive assessment, see YoungR. M., “Malthus and the evolutionists: The common context of biological and social theory”, Past and present, 43 (1969), 109–45.
2.
For evaluations see VorzimmerP., “Darwin, Malthus and the theory of natural selection”, Journal of the history of ideas, xxx (1969), 527–42; HerbertS., “Darwin, Malthus and selection”, Journal of the history of biology, iv (1971), 209–17; BowlerP. J., “Malthus, Darwin and the concept of struggle”, Journal of the history of ideas, xxxvii (1976), 631–50.
3.
Well biographized recently by JamesP., Population Malthus: His life and times (London, 1979).
4.
McNeilMaureen, “The scientific muse: The poetry of Erasmus Darwin”, in JordanovaLudmilla (ed.), Languages of nature (London, 1986), 159–206, especially pp. 194–6.
