Online Resources

The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online

Edited by Dr John van Wyhe (Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge), these online editions of Darwin's works include original illustrations as well as complete bibliographic details about the works. (Many online Darwin texts lack both of these features.) In addition to Darwin's many books, this site includes his shorter writings such as prefaces to books and his many letters and articles in the Gardener' Chronicle and other periodicals.

AboutDarwin.com

"A Website Dedicated to the Life and Times of Charles Darwin" This very extensive site was put together by an amateur historian of science who has travelled in England, photographing sites related to Darwin. The site includes maps of the Beagle voyage, a diagram of Darwin's ancestry, photographs of Down House, and a glossary of Victorian terms.

The C. Warren Irvin, Jr., Collection of Charles Darwin and Darwiniana

Online exhibition catalog to the Irwin collection at the Thomas Cooper Library of the University of South Carolina. Includes not only Darwiniana in the strict sense, but materials that influenced Darwin such as the works of Henslow, von Humboldt, and Lyell.

Charles Darwin from The Victorian Web

The Victorian Web is a product of Brown University, originally developed to provide contextual information for classes in Victorian literature. There is also an entry on Charles' grandfather, the philosopher-poet Erasmus Darwin.

The Darwin-Wallace 1858 Evolution Paper

This site from the University of Maryland offers the text of the 1858 paper in the Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Zoology in which Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace introduce the theory of natural selection. It also includes the text of an earlier paper by Wallace On the Law which has regulated the Introduction of New Species and a letter that Darwin wrote to American botanist Asa Gray in 1857.

Print Resources

The Works of Charles Darwin: An Annotated Bibliographical Handlist by R. B. Freeman. Second edition. Dawson: Archon Books, 1977. Hodges stacks Z8217 .F7 1977

A list of everything written by Charles Darwin, including details on editions, bindings, etc.

The Origin of Species, a Variorum Text edited by Morse Peckham. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1959. Hodges stacks QH365 .O2 1959

Darwin made considerable changes and alterations between the six editions of his most famous book. This volume contains the complete text of all editions with analysis of changes made.

Cambridge Companion to Darwin edited by Jonathan Hodge and Gregory Radick. Cambridge University Press, 2003. Hodges stacks QH31 .D2 C185 2003

Multi-authored work treating Darwin primarily from a philosophical, rather than natural history, viewpoint.

Correspondence of Charles Darwin edited by Frederick Burkhardt & Sydney Smith. Cambridge University Press, 2003. Hodges stacks QH31.D2 A33 1985

The Darwin Correspondence Project dates back to 1974. The project has identified and transcribed about 15,000 letters, publishing fourteen volumes to date. About thirty volumes are projected. A selection of letters from the first seven volumes was published in 1996 as Charles Darwin's letters: a selection, 1825-1859 Hodges stacks QH31.D2 A4 1996.

The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, including an Autobiographical Chapter edited by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray, 1888. Hodges stacks QH31.D2 .A2 1888

Letters and an autobiography edited by Darwin's son. Darwin's autobiography is not known for its accuracy. 3 vols.

Darwin and his Flowers: The Key to Natural Selection by Mea Allan. London: Faber and Faber, 1977. Hodges stacks QH31.D2 A78

While best known for his evolutionary theories, the majority of Darwin's books were devoted to plant studies. This study of Darwin emphasizes his botanical labors.

Darwiniana: Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism by Asa Gray. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1876. Hodges stacks QH367.G77

Collection of essays by Harvard botanist Asa Gray. Gray was a close friend of Darwin and was among the earliest supporters of his theories in the United States.

Selected Biographies:

Charles Darwin: A Biography by Janet Browne. New York: Knopf, 1995. Hodges stacks QH31.D2 B84 1995

Excellent two-volume biography of Darwin, with an emphasis on the Victorian cultural milieu in which he operated.

Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist by Adrian Desmond and James Moore. New York: Warner Books, 1992. Hodges stacks QH31.D2D47 1992

Another good recent Darwin biography, more psychological than Browne's.

Charles Darwin: a New Life by John Bowlby. New York: W. W. Norton, 1990. Hodges stacks QH31.D2 B742 1990

Especially interesting for the author's psychological theory on the source of Darwin's chronic, but poorly defined, health problems. The search for the cause of Darwin's invalidism has spawned a number of books, including To Be An Invalid: The Illness of Charles Darwin by Ralph Colp Hodges stacks QH31.D2 C6 and Darwin's Victorian Malady: Evidence for its Medically Induced Origin by John H. Winslow Hodges stacks Q11 .P612 v.88.

Charles Darwin: a Scientific Biography by Sir Gavin de Beer. Garden City, N.Y., Anchor, 1965. Hodges stacks QH31.D2D4 1965

Classic biography written by a noted British paleontologist.