Barclay, V. — Darwin is not for Children
Herbert Jenkins London 256, . . HB. 8vo, orig. red cloth, lightly rubbed, top edge painted, previous owner's name to endpaper. Vg.. First edition. Vera Charlesworth Barclay (1893-1989) was an early pioneer of the scouting movement, co-founding the cub scouts in 1916, and advocate for female leadership in global scouting. She authored many books for children, both fiction and on scouting topics. She was also a dedicated creationist catholic, and an outspoken critic of Darwinian theory, and theistic evolutionary ideas. She wrote several books on the topic with <i>Darwin is not for Children</i> being an argument against both the theory of evolution and its teaching in schools..