Naval Timber and Arboriculture

'Much less amenable to Darwin´s claim of priority over the theory of evolution was a Scottish gardener named Patrick Matthew who had, rather remarkably, also come up with the principles of natural selection more than twenty years earlier - in fact, in the very year that Darwin had set sail in the Beagle. Unfortunately, Matthew had published these views in the Appendix of a book called Naval Timber and Arboriculture, which had been missed not just by Darwin, but by the entire world'.

Bill Bryson
 
´"It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world" Charles Darwin in The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms (1881)