It’s been almost a year since I last shared what has been added to The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. Well, a lot has been added in the last year. Enjoy:
2011, 09.02
Darwin’s referee reports reproduced by the kind permission of the Geological Society of London:
Darwin, C. R. Referee report on Williams, On the raised beaches in Barnstaple. (3.1837) Text & imageGeolSoc-COM-P4.2.216
Darwin, C. R. Referee report on Forchhammer, Changes of level in Denmark. (10.1837) Text & imageGeolSoc-COM-P4.2.65
Darwin, C. R. Referee report on Austen, Limestones of Devonshire. (9.1838) Text & image GeolSoc-COM-P4.2.8
Darwin, C. R. Referee report on Clarke, Shower of ashes. (1.1840) Text & image GeolSoc-COM-P4.2.38
Darwin, C. R. Referee report on Chatfield, earthquake at San Salvador. (11.1840) Text & image GeolSoc-COM-P4.2.35
Darwin, C. R. Referee reports on Newbold, Rock basins; Phillips on caves, elephant bones and pumice; and Hunt on an earthquake. (10.1842). Text & image GeolSoc-COM-P4.2.130
The geological diary continues in Chili:
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Chili. (2-6.1835) Text & image CUL-DAR36.447-451
2011, 08.22
Courtesy the Huntington Library, San Marino, California:
Syme, Patrick. 1821. Werner’s nomenclature of colours with additions, arranged so as to render it highly useful to the arts and sciences… 2d ed. Edinburgh: William Blackwood. Text Image PDF A704
2011, 08.16
Darwin, C. R. [list of specimens collected, numbered 1801-1830] / Passage of Animals & upheaval. Text & image CUL-DAR34.129-130
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: [Valdivia] New form[ation] Sandstones (like 2576 rather harder) ferruginous acicular. [2.1835] Text & image CUL-DAR35.351-353
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: [Concepcion March 1835] Fort Galvez. [3.1835] Text & image CUL-DAR35.354-356
2011, 08.11
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Chili. Text & image CUL-DAR36.438-444
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Douglass states that the Cordilleras about the Estero de Reloncavi. [nd] Text & image CUL-DAR36.445-446
Two more items on Darwin from Cuba courtesy of Luis Ernesto Martínez González:
Torre y Huerta, Carlos de la. 1880. Breve exposicion del Darwinismo. El Club de Matanzas No. 12 (16 May): 90-91. TextA712
Anon. 1882. Carlos Darwin. El Club de Matanzas No. 11 (16 June): 88. Text A713
2011, 08.10
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Chili. (2-6.1835) Text & image CUL-DAR36.429-435
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Chili (appendix). (2-6.1835) Text & image CUL-DAR36.436-437
Darwin, C. R. [Notes on children]. Text CUL-DAR210.11.38
2011, 08.09
A newly discovered Darwin publication/letter!
Darwin, C. R. 1874. [Letter of thanks to the Entomological Society of France]. Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France (Ser. 5) 4: xlvi. Text Image PDF F2127
Anon. 1847. [Review of] Geological observations made during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. British Quarterly Review 5: 358-387. TextA680
2011, 06.24
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Valparaiso. (1834-1835) Text & image CUL-DAR35.371-376
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Chili. [1834-1836] Text & image CUL-DAR35.377-418
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Chili. [3 1834] Text & image CUL-DAR36.419
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Valparaiso (appendix to p. 47). (2.1835) Text & image CUL-DAR36.420-422
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Examined with Mr Alison shells on Hills [Valparaiso]. [2.1835] Text & image CUL-DAR36.424
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Valparaiso. Elevation land. (3.1835) Text & image CUL-DAR36.428
2011, 06.21
Wyhe, John van. 2007. A Darwin manuscript at Christ’s College. Christ’s College Magazine no. 232, pp. 66-8. Text A577
2011, 06.15
Anon. Tomando tierra en el fondo de la Bahía de San José. (nd) Text & image CUL-DAR34.10-11 Transcribed and translated by Austin Whittall and Sergio Zagier.
2011, 06.09
Anon. 1839. [Birth of William Erasmus Darwin]. The Times (30 December): 8. Text A677
Anon. 1842. Deaths. [Mary Eleanor Darwin]. The Times (19 October): 7. Text A678
[Darwin, C. R.] 1851. Died [Anne Elizabeth Darwin]. The Times (28 April): 9. Text F1999
Anon. 1858. Deaths. [Charles Waring Darwin]. The Times (28 June): 1. Text A679
2011, 06.01
A newly discovered Darwin publication/letter!
Darwin, C. R. 1875. [Letter on animal tails.] in R. L. Tait, The uses of tails in animals. Hardwicke’s Science Gossip 11, no. 126 (1 June): 126-127, p. 127. Text Image F2126
Lawson Tait
2011, 05.27
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Concepcion. (3.1835) Text & image CUL-DAR35.357-370
2011, 05. 24
Richter, Hanns. 1882. Hanns Richter bei Darwin. Signale für die musikalische Welt [Leipzig] 4, No., 32 (May): 497-499. Text A520
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Valdivia. (2.1835) Text & image CUL-DAR35.343-346
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Baldivia. (2.1835) Text & image CUL-DAR35.347
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Niebla Fort. [2.1835] Text & image CUL-DAR35.348-349
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: The Cliffs are continued up to the Altos of old Tucapel. [2.1835] Text & image CUL-DAR35.350
2011, 05.19
Darwin, C. R. [Notes on the geology and corals of Keeling Islands]. [4.1836] Text & image CUL-DAR41.40-57
Transcribed and edited by Alistair Sponsel.
2011, 05.18
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Lowes Harbor. (1.1835) Text & image CUL-DAR35.319-327
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Lacuy Peninsula. (1.1835) Text & image CUL-DAR35.331-340
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Chiloé. (1-2.1835) Text & image CUL-DAR35.341-342
Richter, Hans. 1882. [English translation of recollection of Darwin in 1881]. In Otto Zacharias, 1882. Charles R. Darwin und die culturhistorische Bedeutung seiner Theorie vom Ursprung der Arten, pp. 5-6. Translated for Darwin Online by Anders Hansson. TextA673
Hooker, W. J. 1837-1922. Icones plantarum or figures, with brief descriptive characters and remarks, of new or rare plants, selected from the author’s herbarium. London. Text A672
2011, 05.13
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Archipel: of Chiloe. (11.1834-2.1835) Text & image CUL-DAR35.288-303
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Peninsula of Lacuy. (1.1835) Text & image CUL-DAR35.304
Darwin, C. R. [geological diagrams, watercoloured, Chiloe]. Text & image CUL-DAR35.307-309
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Lacuy. (1.1835) Text & image CUL-DAR35.310-318
2011, 05.05-12
Colour scans of a newly discovered Darwin publication courtesy of J. David Archibald:
Darwin, C. R. 1841. On the distribution of the erratic boulders and on the contemporaneous unstratified deposits of South America. The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, Ser. 3, 19: 536-541. (Reprint of F1657) Image F1657a
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: [Valparaiso] Rock about the town generally gneiss. (7.1834) Text & image CUL-DAR35.218-226
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: [list of geological specimens collected numbered 230-295] Text & image CUL-DAR35.227-229
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Valparaiso / Hills behind Town
(calculations of heights). (7.1834) Text & image CUL-DAR35.230
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Elevation of the plain of the Plazilla (calculations). Text & image CUL-DAR35.231
Eck, F. W, Height of various places in Chili ascertained by Barometrical admeasurement. [9.1834] Text & image CUL-DAR35.232
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Chonos and Tres Montes. [12.1834-1.1835] Text & imageCUL-DAR35.233-258
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Port St Andrew – Cape Harbor. (12.1834) Text & image CUL-DAR35.259-266
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Huafo. (1.1835) Text & image CUL-DAR35.267
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: “Former Lemoos.” — Jan. 6th [1835]. — Lat 44°: 30′. Text & image CUL-DAR35.268-269
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: East end of other Island. (12.1834) Text & image CUL-DAR35.270-271
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: First of Chonos Islands (Midship Bay). Text & image CUL-DAR35.272-273
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: A[nna] Pink Harbor. (1.1835) Text & image CUL-DAR35.274-276
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Anna Pink Harbor / Patch Cove. (12.1834-1.1835) Text & image CUL-DAR35.277-285
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Dark Harbor. (12.1835) Text & image CUL-DAR35.286-287
Darwin, C. R. A river is a string of water – some parts thick & moving slow – others. (12.1838) Text & image CUL-DAR40.54
Darwin, C. R. It may be suspected from correlation in range of cleavage with lines of disturbance. (11.1843) Text & image CUL-DAR42.55
Darwin, C. R. Cross cleavage & conversion of clayslate in gneiss show that original cleavage planes determine mineralogical planes.Text & image CUL-DAR42.61
Darwin, C. R. I may also remark that generally where the cleavage of the Mica Slates is not well developed. Text & image CUL-DAR42.77
Darwin, C. R. When writing on Cleavage refer to p. 37 of Hopkins abstract memoir. Text & image CUL-DAR42.79
Darwin, C. R. Before writing cleavage remarks read over whole Chapter & Sedgwicks Paper. Text & image CUL-DAR42.80
Darwin, C. R. The line of the outer Coast runs about W 40° N – parallel to cleavage. Text & image CUL-DAR42.194
Darwin, C. R. St Helena model. (9.1838) Text & image CUL-DAR44.30[.1]
2011, 04.18
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: At C. Espirito Santo, high cliffs commence. Text & image CUL-DAR34.194-195
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: From S of St Sebastian to St Pauls head. Text & image CUL-DAR34.196
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: very strongly: this elevation probably choked up C. Negro Isthmus. [1834] Text & image CUL-DAR34.197-198
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: The Andes created all S. America. [Chiloe] (6.1834) Text & image CUL-DAR34.199-200
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Chiloe. June-July. 1834. Text & image CUL-DAR34.201-205
2011, 04.15
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: C. Virgins. (1.1834) Text & image CUL-DAR34.186-187
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Magdalen Island & Cape Negro. (1-2.1834) Text & image CUL-DAR34.188-189
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: East coast of T. del Fuego & Sts of Magellan. Text & image CUL-DAR34.190-191
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Cape Virgins. (5.1834) Text & image CUL-DAR34.192
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: most curiously convoluted & mingled with the surrounding substance (5.1834) Text & image CUL-DAR34.193
2011, 04.12-14
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Chiloé. (7.1834) Text & image CUL-DAR35.206-217 Transcribed by Clare Ring and Kees Rookmaaker
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: T: del Fuego (appendix). (11.1835) Text & image CUL-DAR34.177-178
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: The more I reflect on Stratification & Cleavage the more difficulties I find. Text & image CUL-DAR34.179-180
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Bay. N. of Orange bay. Text & image CUL-DAR34.181-182
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Gregory Bay. (5.1834) Text & image CUL-DAR34.183
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: North of Wollaston Island. (1-2.1833) Text & image CUL-DAR34.184-185a
New colour images, courtesy of J. David Archibald, of the following:
Darwin, C. R. 1871. A new view of Darwinism. Nature 4 (6 July): 180-181. Text Image PDF F1754
Darwin, C. R. 1871. Pangenesis. Nature 3 (27 April): 502-503. Text Image PDF F1751
Darwin, C. R. 1872. [Memorial to Gladstone] Mr. Ayrton and Dr. Hooker. Nature 6 (11 July): 211-216. Text Image PDF F1937
Darwin, C. R. 1872. Bree on Darwinism. Nature 6 (8 Aug.): 279. Text Image PDF F1756
Darwin, C. R. 1873. Inherited instinct. Nature 7 (13 Feb.): 281. Text Image PDF F1757
Darwin, C. R. 1873. Perception in the lower animals. Nature 7 (13 March): 360. Text Image PDF F1759
Darwin, C. R. Origin of certain instincts. Nature 7 (3 April): 417-418. Text Image PDF F1760
Darwin, C. R. 1876. Cherry blossoms. Nature 14 (11 May): 28. Text Image PDF F1772
Darwin, C. R. 1876. Sexual selection in relation to monkeys. Nature 15 (2 Nov.): 18-19. Text Image PDF F1773
Darwin, C. R. 1877. [Memorial] Zoology of the ‘Challenger’ Expedition. Nature 16 (14 June): 118. Text Image PDFF2003
Darwin, C. R. 1877. The contractile filaments of the teasel. Nature 16 (23 Aug.): 339. Text Image PDF F1778
Darwin, C. R. 1877. [Letter of thanks.] In Harting, P., Testimonial to Mr. Darwin—Evolution in the Netherlands.Nature 15 (8 March): 410-412. Text Image PDF F1776
Darwin, C. R. 1879. [Extract from a letter to Grant Allen]. In Allen, G., Colour in nature. Nature 19 (24 April): 581. Text Image PDF F2004
Darwin, C. R. 1879. Fritz Müller on a frog having eggs on its back – on the abortion of the hairs on the legs of certain caddis-flies, &c. Nature 19 (20 March): 462-463. Text Image PDF F1784
Darwin, C. R. 1879. Rats and water-casks. Nature 19 (27 March): 481. Text Image PDF F1785
Darwin, C. R. 1880. Black sheep. Nature 23 (30 Dec.): 193. Text Image PDF F1790
Darwin, C. R. 1880. The sexual colours of certain butterflies. Nature 21 (8 Jan.): 237. Text Image PDF F1787
Darwin, C. R. 1881. [Letter to Mrs. Emily Talbot on the mental and bodily development of infants]. Nature 24 (13 October): 565. Text Image PDFF1797
Darwin, C. R. 1880. Fertility of hybrids from the common and Chinese goose. Nature 21 (1 Jan.): 207. Text Image PDF F1786
Darwin, C. R. 1880. The Omori shell mounds. Nature 21 (15 April): 561. Text Image PDF F1788
Darwin, C. R. 1880. Sir Wyville Thomson and natural selection. Nature 23 (11 Nov.): 32. Text Image PDF F1789
Darwin, C. R. The movements of leaves. Nature 23 (28 April): 603-604. Text Image PDF F1794
Darwin, C. R. 1881. Inheritance. Nature 24 (21 July): 257. Text Image PDF F1795
Darwin, C. R. 1881. The parasitic habits of Molothrus. Nature 25 (17 Nov.): 51-52. Text Image PDF F1798
Darwin, C. R. 1881. Movements of plants. Nature 23 (3 March): 409. Text Image PDF F1791
Darwin, C. R. 1881. Leaves injured at night by free radiation. Nature 24 (15 Sept.): 459. Text Image PDF F1796
Darwin, C. R. 1882. On the dispersal of freshwater bivalves. Nature 25 (6 April): 529-530. Text Image PDF F1802
Darwin, C. R. 1882. The action of carbonate of ammonia on chlorophyll-bodies. [Read 6 March] Journal of the Linnean Society of London (Botany)19: 262-284. Text Image PDF F1801
2011, 04.01
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: S. Cruz. (4-5.1834) Text & image CUL-DAR34.131-150
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: S. Cruz / Transportal of Gravel. Text & image CUL-DAR34.151-152
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Port Famine. (6.1834) Text & image CUL-DAR34.153-156
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: E. Coast of T. del Fuego. (5.1834) Text & image CUL-DAR34.157-176
Darwin, C. R. Sulivans outside deep soundings. Text & image CUL-DAR41.53-56
Darwin, C. R. [Hobart Town field notes]. (2.1836) Text & image CUL-DAR40.97-99
Darwin, C. R. [Hobart Town field notes]. (2.1836) Text & image CUL-DAR40.100-101
2011, 03.25
The complete text of one of the most influential books Darwin ever read, Humboldt’s Personal narrative, with a new Introduction by Gordon Chancellor:
Humboldt, A. von. 1819-1829. Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of the New Continent, during the years 1799-1804. By Alexander de Humboldt, and Aimé Bonpland; with maps, plans, &c. written in French by Alexander de Humboldt, and trans. into English by Helen Maria Williams. 7 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown.
Vols. 1&2 Text Vol. 3 Text Vol. 4 Text Vol. 5 I Text, Vol. 5 II Text, Vol. 6 I Text, Vol. 6 II Text Vol. 7 TextIntroduction by Gordon Chancellor
Also some of Darwin’s reading notes on Humboldt published for the first time:
Darwin, C. R. [Humboldt] Personal narrative vol 6. Text & image CUL-DAR40.84
Darwin, C. R. [Humboldt] `Superposition’. Text & image CUL-DAR41.73
Darwin, C. R. Humboldt Personal narrative VII: 52. Text & image CUL-DAR42.100
Darwin, C. R. Humboldt Personal narrative VI: 586, 25; Notebook RN pp 84, 105, 124. Text & image CUL-DAR42.117v
Darwin, C. R. Humboldt Personal narrative IV: 384. Text & image CUL-DAR42.162
Darwin, C. R. and Emma Darwin. Humboldt Personal narrative IV: 515-522, 416. Text & image CUL-DAR85.A72
Darwin, C. R. Humboldt Personal narrative vol. 4: 527. Text & image CUL-DAR189.130
2011, 03.24
Darwin, C. R. [Coquimbo notes]. (5.1835) Text & image CUL-DAR39.152
Darwin, C. R. In every case first inclination (blue water) to about 20-30 fathoms. Text & image CUL-DAR41.51
Darwin, C. R. Mr Sulivan. than in some the narrow channels between the smaller islands. Text & image CUL-DAR41.52
Atkins, Hedley. 1976. Down: the home of the Darwins; the story of a house and the people who lived there. London: Royal College of Surgeons [Phillimore]. Text A668
Wyhe, John van. 2009. Darwin vs God. BBC History Magazine 10, No. 1 (January): 26-31. Text PDF A669
2011, 03.14-16
Porter, Duncan M. 1999. Charles Darwin’s Chilean plant collections. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 72: 181-200. Text F2214Courtesy of the Sociedad de Biología de Chile.
Darwin, C. R. On the Banda Oriental side near to the dos Hermanas. (nd) Text & image CUL-DAR42.140
Darwin, C. R. Limestone with lead ore: Maldonado. (nd) Text & image CUL-DAR42.141
2011, 03.11
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Santa Cruz. (4.1834) Text & image CUL-DAR34.122-124
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Port Famine. (2.1834) Text & image CUL-DAR34.125-128
Darwin, C. R. (details of soundings taken). (5.1834) Text & image CUL-DAR34.118-119
Darwin, C. R. [Santa Cruz calculations]. [4-5.1834] Text & image CUL-DAR34.120-121
2011, 03.10
Darwin, C. R. 1873. Mr. Darwin on primroses, cowslips, and oxlips. Garden, an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches 3 (31 May): 416-417. [Extracts from F1744] Image A660
[Robinson, W.] 1874. Darwinism again. Garden, an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches 6 (15 August): 163. ImageA661
Anon. 1875. [Notice of publication of Insectivorous plants and Climbing Plants.] Garden, an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches 7 (23 January): 62. Text Image A663
A. M. 1875. [Review of] Insectivorous plants. Garden, an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches 8 (24 July): 63-65.Image A664
Darwin, C. R. 1875. Movements of climbing plants. Garden, an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches 8 (18 December): 532-533. [Extracts from F836]. Image A665
[Robinson, W.] 1876. Charles Darwin. Garden, an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches 8 (Supplement, 1 January): xi-xii, plate [frontispiece portrait]. Text Image A662
Darwin, C. R. 1876. Mr. Darwin on the strawberry [extracts from Variation]. Garden, an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches 10 (29 July): 115-116. Image A666
Fish, D. T. 1882. [Obituary] Charles Darwin. Garden, an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches 21 (29 April): 302.Text Image A667
2011, 03.09
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Valley of S Cruz. (4.1834) Text & image CUL-DAR34.104-111
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Attempt to find general inclination of the bottom of the sea off the coast of Patagonia. Text & imageCUL-DAR34.112
Darwin, C. R. [list of specimens collected, numbered 1948-1997]. [4-5.1834] Text & image CUL-DAR34.113-114
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Hypothesis / S Cruz. [4-5.1834] Text & image CUL-DAR34.115-117
2011, 03.08
Carlyle, Thomas. 1853. [Recollection of Darwin] Letter to John A. Carlyle, 10 March 1853. In Carlyle, A. ed. 1904. New letters of Thomas Carlyle. 2 vols. London: John Lane, vol. 2: 145-46. Text A651
Green, John Richard. 1860. [Recollection of Darwin] Letter to W. Boyd Dawkins, 3 July 1860. In Stephen, L. ed. 1901. Letters of John Richard Green. London: Macmillan, pp. 43-45. Text A653
Macauley, Thomas Babington. 1856. [Recollection of Darwin]. In Trevelyan, G. O. ed. 1876. The life and letters of Lord Macaulay, 2 vols. London: Longmans, Green, vol. 2, pp. 403-4. Text A652
Galton, Francis. [1859-1882]. [Recollection of Darwin]. In Galton, F. 1909. Memories of my life. New York: Dutton, pp. 287-88, 169. TextA656
Tegetmeier, William Bernhard. [1855]. [Recollections of Darwin]. In Richardson, E. W. 1916. A veteran naturalist, being the life and work of W.B. Tegetmeier. London: Witherby, pp. 101-2, 111-12. Text A658
James, Henry. [1869]. [Recollection of Darwin]. In Dupee, F. W. ed. 1956. Autobiography: A small boy and others, notes of a son and brother, the middle years. New York: Criterion Books, p. 515. Text A659
2011, 03.07
Darwin, C. R. 1882. The various contrivances by which orchids are fertilised by insects. 2d ed., revised. 3d thousand. London: John Murray. Text F803
2011, 03.04
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Falkland Islands. [3.1833] Text & image CUL-DAR34.65-73
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Re-examination of the transition fully confirms very thing I then said. Text & image CUL-DAR34.74-75
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Observations on the bottom of the sea between the Falkland Islands & St. Cruz. (4.1834-1.1835) Text & image CUL-DAR34.87-92
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Barometrical Obser: for measurement of Valley of St. Cruz. (4-5.1834) Text & image CUL-DAR34.93-98
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Valley of S Cruz. (4.1834) Text & image CUL-DAR34.99
Owen, Richard. 1849. On parthenogenesis, or the successive production of procreating individuals from a single ovum. London: John Van Voorst. Text A649
2011, 03.01-03
Darwin, C. R. ‘Osborn `Quedah’ p. 199′ [8.1859] Text & image CUL-DAR195.1.38
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Elevations of Patagonia. (5.1834) Text & image CUL-DAR34.40-60
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Elevations on coast of Patagonia. Text & image CUL-DAR34.61-64
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Recalculation of Port Desire plains. [1.1834] Text & image CUL-DAR34.35-35a
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: [geological specimens 1625-1692, descriptions]. [nd] Text & image CUL-DAR34.36-39
2011, 02.07-22
Wyhe, John van. 2010. ‘Almighty God! what a wonderful discovery!’: Did Charles Darwin really believe life came from space?Endeavour 34, no. 3, (September): 95-103. Text A690
[Titheridge, Philip]. 1981. The Charles Darwin memorial at Down House, Downe, Kent. Text A691
Darwin, C. R. [Notes on Wallace’s Island life]. [11.1880] Text & image NHM-WP6.4.1 Courtesy of the Natural History Museum (London).
Introduction by John van Wyhe
This document contains a previously unpublished remark on Darwin’s feelings about the Galapagos Islands near the end of his life.Darwin, C. R. 1839. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle. London: Henry Colburn. Image PDF F11
Courtesy of The National Library of Norway.Darwin, C. R. 1884. The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species. 3d thousand. Preface by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. Text F1281
Four publications in Spanish by Cuban writer and politician José Martí (1853-1895) edited by Luis Ernesto Martínez González:
Marti, José. 1881. [Report of Darwin on ants]. La Opinión Nacional Caracas (21 December): 1. Text A648
Marti, José. 1882. [English newspapers on Darwin’s Earthworms]. La Opinión Nacional Caracas (2 January): 1. Text A647
Marti, José. 1882. [Obituary of Darwin] Darwin ha muerto. La Opinión Nacional Caracas (17 May): 1. Text Image A645
Marti, José. 1882. [The Saturday Review on Darwin’s life]. La Opinión Nacional Caracas (2 June): 3. Text A646
2011, 01.06-26
Darwin, C. R. Down House notebook 1.1. Text EH1.1 [English Heritage 88202321]
Rookmaaker, Kees. 2009. Chronological register. In G. Chancellor and J. van Wyhe eds. with K. Rookmaaker. Charles Darwin’s notebooks from the voyage of the Beagle. Cambridge: University Press, pp. 570-582. Text
Anon. 1836-7. [Reports of Darwin’s communications read to the Cambridge Philosophical Society 1835-7]. The London and Edinburgh philosophical magazine and journal of science 8, no. 43 (January 1836): 79, 80; 10, no. 61 (April 1837): 316. Text A644
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Rio Negro. (1833) Text & image CUL-DAR34.17-24
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Salinas. (1833) Text & image CUL-DAR34.25-26
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Salitrales (1833) Text & image CUL-DAR34.27-28
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Port Desire. Text & image CUL-DAR34.29-34
Hughes, C. L. ‘Memoranda for Mr C. Darwin’. (11.1832) Text & image CUL-DAR34.14-15
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Good Success Bay. (12.1832) Text & image CUL-DAR34.16
Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: ‘Scattered facts communicated to me by different people’. (11.1832) Text & image CUL-DAR34.12-13
Darwin, C. R. 1970. [Recollection of and letters to de Vries]. In Peter W. van der Pas. The correspondence of Hugo de Vries and Charles Darwin. Janus 57: 173-213. Text F2106
Darwin, C. R. [Correspondence with Romanes, 1875-1881]. In Romanes ed., 1908. The life and letters of George John Romanes. 6th impression. London: Longmans. Text F2111
Barlow, Nora. 1935. Charles Darwin and the Galapagos Islands. Nature 136 (7 September): 391. Text F2112
Lankester, E. R. 1896. [Recollections of Darwin]. In ‘Charles Robert Darwin’. In C. D. Warner ed. Library of the world’s best literature ancient and modern. New York: R. S. Peale & J. A. Hill, vol. 2, pp. 4835-4393. Text F2113
Krause, Ernst. 1881. Unconscious Memory—Mr. Samuel Butler. Nature 23 (27 January): 288. Text A629
Anon. 1868. A new work by Mr. Darwin [Descent of man]. The Academy 1 (9 October): 15-16. Text A633
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A previously unpublished manuscript log of HMS Beagle courtesty of the Museo Naval de la Nación, Argentina and Henry von Wartenberg:
Forsyth, Charles. 1833-6. ‘A log of the Proceedings of H. M. Surveying Sloop Beagle.’ Image PDF Tigre
Introduction by Simon Keynes
Two scholarly articles reproduced with the permission of the California Academy of Sciences:
Ghiselin, Michael T. 2009. Darwin: A reader’s guide. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences (155 [12 February]), 185 pp, 3 figs. Text PDF A622
Hodge, Jonathan. 2009. Darwin, the Galapagos and his changing thoughts about species origins: 1835-1837. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences Ser. 4, vol. 61, Supplement II, No. 7, pp. 89-106. Text PDF A623
Darwin manuscripts transcribed and published here for the first time:
Darwin, C. R. ‘Vol I p. 291 Again Mr Jenner Weir informs me that a peacock at Blackheath’. [1868]. Text & image CUL-DAR195.1.20
Darwin, C. R. ‘Mr Cuming thinks that a species variable in one place’ (1845). Text & image CUL-DAR205.10.63
Darwin, C. R. ‘I have been watching black Aphis on Dock tended by reddish Myrmica’ (6.1858) Text & image CUL-DAR205.11.89
Darwin, C. R. ‘I believe in single creations because (1) as a general rule species have’ (11.1855) Text & image CUL-DAR205.3.174
Darwin, C. R. ‘There is such disputes about affinity…definition of species’ (2.1841) Text & image CUL-DAR205.5.40
Fox, William Darwin. ‘3 crows to a nest’ (5.1868) Text & image CUL-DAR84.1.119
Darwin, C. R. ‘Forbes has thought about variability, being effect of conditions’ (12.1844) Text & image CUL-DAR45.58
Darwin, C. R. ‘Prof. Forbes says he thinks that all Gasteropods pass through state of almost of Ascidian molluscans’ (3.1844) Text & image CUL-DAR205.9.185-187
Darwin, C. R. ‘The Geranium phaeum’ (6.1842) Text & image CUL-DAR205.5.53-54
Darwin, C. R. ‘Falconer speaks of some fossil quite intermediate between Mastodon & Elephant’ (6.1844) Text & image CUL-DAR205.9.188
Darwin, C. R. ‘Talking with Bunbury & Lonsdale’ (2.1842) Text & image CUL-DAR205.9.146
Darwin, C. R. ‘Aberrant groups’ (4.1843) Text & image CUL-DAR205.5.60
Darwin, C. R. ‘Considering the endless generations of organisms during almost infinite ages’ (6.1840) Text & image CUL-DAR205.5.30
Darwin, C. R. ‘Falconer showed me beautiful series of elephant & Mastodon’ (6.1845) Text & image CUL-DAR205.5.114
Darwin, C. R. ‘Forbes thinks law, that where genus arises, there it will die’ (nd) Text & image CUL-DAR205.5.103
Darwin, C. R. ‘Scale for Bees’ cells’ (nd) Text & image CUL-DAR48.B10
Darwin, C. R. ‘Depth of rhomb 18/200 = 9/100’ (nd) Text & image CUL-DAR48.B11
Darwin, C. R. ‘Cell from opposite angle to angle’ (nd) Text & image CUL-DAR48.B15-B17
Newly recorded recollections and words of Darwin in print:
Darwin, C. R. 1889. [Extracts from notes on variation under nature]. In A. R. Wallace. 1889. Darwinism: an exposition of the theory of natural selection with some of its applications. London: Macmillan, pp. 46, 69, 79-89. Text F2105
Timiriazev, Kliment. [1877]. A visit to Darwin at Down. From: Historical note K. A. Timiriazev: A visit to Darwin, with notes by Leon Bell. Archipelago 9 (2006): 47-58. Text F2093
Macdonell, Anne. [1833]. [Recollection of Darwin in Buenos Ayres]. In Macdonell. 1913. Reminiscences of diplomatic life. London: Adam & Charles Black, pp. 27-29. Text F2097
Clemens, Samuel. [Mark Twain]. [1876]. [Recollection of Darwin]. In Books, authors and hats. Address at the Pilgrims’ Club Luncheon, Savoy Hotel, London, June 25, 1907. In Howell ed. 1907. Mark Twain speeches. New York and London: Harper Brothers, pp. 33-35. Text F2102
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. [1868]. [Recollection of Darwin]. Agassiz, Elizabeth Cary ed. 1885. Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co, vol. 2: 666. Text F2088
Butler, Samuel. [1872-1882]. [Recollections of Darwin]. In Breuer, Hans-Peter ed. 1984. The note-books of Samuel Butler. Volume 1 (1874-1883). Boston: University Press of America, pp. 122-3, 129-31, 168, 204, 237. Text F2103
More, Alexander Goodman. [1860]. [Letters from Darwin]. In Moffat, C. B. ed. 1898. Life and letters of Alexander Goodman More with selections from his zoological and botanical writings. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, pp. 153-54. Text F2089
Dohrn, Anton. [1870]. [Recollection of a visit to Darwin] “Memories,” autobiographical notes, 1895-1909. In Gröben, C. ed. 1982.Charles Darwin and Anton Dohrn, Correspondence. Naples: Macchiaroli, pp. 93-94. Text F2090
Youmans, Edward Livingston. [1871]. [Recollection of Darwin]. In: Fiske, J. 1894. Edward Livingston Youmans: interpreter of science for the people. New York: Appleton, p. 276. Text F2091
Morely, John. [1877]. [Recollection of Darwin on Gladstone]. In Morely. 1911. The life of William Ewart Gladstone, new ed., 2 vols. New York: Macmillan, vol. 2, p. 562. Text F2092
Richter, Hans. [1881]. [Recollection of Darwin]. In Fifield, C. 1993. True artist and true friend: a biography of Hans Richter. Oxford: Clarendon, p. 158. Text F2094
Candolle, Alphonse de. [1882]. [Recollection of Darwin]. In Bettany, G. T. 1887. Life of Charles Darwin. London: Walter Scott, pp. 148-150. Text F2095
Fiske, John. [1871-1880]. [Recollections of Darwin]. In Spencer Clark, John ed. 1917. The life and letters of John Fiske, 2 vols. New York: Houghton Mifflin, vol. 1, pp. 481-82, 477, vol. 2, pp. 133-34. Text F2108
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. [1872-8]. [Recollection of Darwin]. In Higginson. 1900. Cheerful yesterdays. Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press, pp. 283-86. Text F2096
Conway, Moncure Daniel. [1867]. [Recollection of Darwin]. In Conway. 1905. Autobiography: memories and experiences. 2 vols. London: Cassell and Co, vol. 2, pp. 324-7. Text F2098
Cobbe, Frances Power. 1894. [Recollection and letters of Darwin]. In Cobbe. 1894. Life of Frances Power Cobbe. By herself. London: Richard Bentley & Son, vol. 2, pp. 123-129. Text F2099
Geddes, Patrick. [1877-1878]. [Recollection of Darwin]. In Thompson, A. J. and Geddes, P. 1931. Life: Outlines of general biology. 2 vols. New York: Harper & Brothers, vol. 2, pp. 1454-55. Text F2100
Farrar, Frederic William. [1871]. [Recollection of Darwin]. In Farrar, R. 1904. The life of Frederic William Farrar. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, pp. 108-9,109-10. Text F2101
Riley, Charles Valentine. 1882. [Recollection and letters of Darwin]. In Riley. 1882. Darwin’s Work in Entomology. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington DC 1: 77-80. Text F2104
Neville, Dorothy. [1875-1881]. [Recollection and letter of Darwin]. In Neville, Ralph ed. 1919. The life and letters of Lady Dorothy Nevill. London: Methuen, pp. 56-58. Text F2109
Gray, Asa. [1839, 1867-8]. [Letter and recollections of Darwin]. In Gray, Jane Loring ed. 1894. Letters of Asa Gray. 2 vols. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, vol. 1: 117; vol. 2: 557, 565. Text F2110
Ramsay, Andrew Crombie. [1848]. [Recollections of Darwin]. In: Geikie, Archibald. 1895. Memoir of Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay. London: Macmillan, pp. 123, 130, 276-77. Text A624
Haeckel, Ernst. [1866]. [Recollection of Darwin]. In Bölsche, W. 1909. Ernst Haeckel: ein Lebensbild. Berlin: Georg Bondi, p. 179. TextA625
Ruskin, John. [1837]. [Recollection of Darwin]. In: Collingwood, W. G. 1902. The life of John Ruskin. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, p. 61.Text A626
Norton, Charles Eliot. [1868]. [Recollection of Ruskin and Darwin]. In: Norton. 1905. Letters of John Ruskin to Charles Eliot Norton, 2 vols. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, vol. 1, pp. 194-95. Text A627
Norton, Charles Eliot. [1873]. [Recollection of Darwin]. In Norton. 1913. Letters of Charles Eliot Norton, 2 vols. Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin, vol. 2: 476-77. Text A630
Russell, Arthur. [1869]. [Recollection of Darwin in a letter to Kate Russell, 9 September 1869]. In Russell, B. and Russell, P. 1937. The Amberly papers, 2 vols. New York: Norton, vol. 2, p. 450. Text A628
Tyndall, John. [1875]. [Recollection of meeting between Carlyle and Darwin]. In Tyndall. 1898. New fragments. New York: Appleton, p. 388. Text A631
Price, John. [1824]. [Recollection of Darwin]. In: Price. 1875. Llandudno and how to enjoy It. Llandudno, Wales: Simpkin, Marshall.Text A634
Wright, Chauncey. [1872]. [Recollection of Darwin]. In Thayer, James Bradley. 1878. Letters of Chauncey Wright, with some account of his life. Cambridge [Mass.]: John Wilson & Son, pp. 246-9. Text A635
Romanes, George John. [1881]. [Recollection of Darwin]. In: Romanes, Ethel Duncan ed. 1896. The Life and Letters of George John Romanes. New York: Longmans, Green, p. 129. Text A636
Claus, Carl. [1871]. [Recollection of Darwin]. In Claus. 1899. Autobiographie. Marburg: Elwert, p. 17. Text A637
Smalley, George Washburn. 1891. [Recollection of Darwin’s funeral]. In Smalley. London letters and some others. 2 vols. New York: Harper & Brothers, vol. 1, pp. 70-71. Text A632
Gulick, John T. [1872]. [Recollection of Darwin] In Gulick. 1908. Isolation and selection in the evolution of species. The need of clear definitions. The American Naturalist vol. 42, no. 493 (January): 48-57. Text A643
Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. (newly transcribed)
Vol. 1 Text A237.1
Vol. 2 Text A237.2
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Darwin, C. R. 1895. [Letter to Josef Wolf and recollections of Darwin] In A. H. Palmer, The Life of Joseph Wolf: Animal Painter.London: Longmans, pp. 192-8. Text F2087
Darwin, C. R. ‘There is such disputes about…definition of species’ (2.1841) Text & image CUL-DAR205.5.40
Darwin, C. R. ‘Talking with Mr. Strickland = I confess that my theory must necessarily be given up’ (4.1842) Text & image CUL-DAR205.9.149
Darwin, C. R. ‘a sketch of the principal events in my life’. (1866-1875). Text & image; Text & image; Text & image; Text & imageDAR91.102-113
Darwin, C. R. ‘We do not blush when we give an abject beggar’ (1.1839) Text & image CUL-DAR195.1.1
Darwin, C. R. ‘Paget says he has been observing Blushing’ (3.1868) Text & image CUL-DAR195.1.2
Darwin, C. R. ‘bull-dogs’ (1.1871) Text & image CUL-DAR195.1.3
Darwin, C. R. ‘Huxley thinks attention to sensation due to sensorium’ (12.1871) Text & image CUL-DAR195.1.4
Darwin, C. R. [blushing in Shakespeare] (nd) Text & image CUL-DAR195.1.15
Darwin, C. R. ‘Young children do not blush’ (nd) Text & image CUL-DAR195.1.17
Darwin, C. R. [Brown-Séquard on the transmitted effect of an operation] (nd) Text & image CUL-DAR195.1.19
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Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Pampas. (1833) Text & image CUL-DAR33.249-278
Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed.
Volume 1 Text F1552.1
Volume 2 Text F1552.2Brace, Charles Loring. 1872. [Recollections and letter of Darwin]. In Brace, Emma ed. 1894. The Life of Charles Loring Brace. New York: Scribner’s, pp. 319-22; 376-7. Text F2086
Allingham, William. [recollection of Darwin] In H. Allingham and D. Radford eds. 1907. William Allingham A Diary. London: Macmillan, pp. 184-85. Text A618
Balfour, Arthur James. [c. 1870]. [Recollection of Darwin]. In Balfour. 1930. Chapters of Autobiography. London: Cassell, pp. 37-38.Text A619
Butler, Thomas. [recollections of Darwin]. In Silver, Arnold ed. 1962. The Family Letters of Samuel Butler, 1841-1886. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, p. 209. Text A620
Butler, Samuel. 1917. [recollection of Darwin]. In Jones, Henry Festing ed. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler. New York: Dutton, p. 161. Text A621
The Dispersal of Darwin 