Publications and Manuscripts
Charles Darwin was undoubtedly the pivotal thinker in the history of evolutionary science. Not only did Darwin's publications have a world - wide influence - illuminating every branch of natural history - his manuscripts, the infrastructure of all that he published, offer unsurpassed documentation of an extraordinary scientist at work.This full, world-altering, corpus: Darwin's 16 books and 150 article - in their principal English and foreign language editions, together with the experimental records, close observations, voluminous reading notes, and layer upon layer of redrafted ideas - amounting to over 80,000 pages of notebooks and loose notes - will all, eventually, be accessible and indexed online.
Inaugural Installment
For the First Time Ever Online
The Making of the Origin of Species
Publications
On the Origin of Species.
On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray 1859.
Manuscripts
Charles Darwin's Notebooks, 1836-1844.
Geology, Transmutation of Species, Metaphysical Enquiries.
Paul H. Barrett, Peter J. Gautrey, Sandra Herbert, David Kohn, Sydney Smith. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press 1987.
Sketches of 1842 and 1844.
The foundations of The origin of species. Two essays written in 1842 and 1844. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1909.
Natural Selection Portfolios.
Portfolios of notes for Natural Selection and On the Origin of Species, first sorted September 1854. David Kohn editor. Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives DAR 205.1-11 and DAR 45-48. [Selection: Key Divergence Notes].
Natural Selection.
Charles Darwin's Natural Selection; being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. R. C. Stauffer editor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1975 [Freeman 1583].
