Darwin Resources
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Works in OSU Library|
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Works about Darwin|
About Darwin & The Origin of Species|
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Return to Year of Science 2009 IndexDarwin's Writing Online
The complete works of Darwin online
Darwin Online is the largest and most widely used Darwin resource ever created. More copies of
Darwin's works have been downloaded from Darwin Online than were published in Darwin's lifetime or in the whole of the 19th
century.
The site contains over 66,000 pages of searchable text and 164,000 electronic images. This site contains at least one exemplar of all known Darwin publications, reproduced to the highest scholarly standards, both as searchable text and electronic images of the originals. The majority of these have been edited and annotated here for the first time.
The site also provides the largest collection of Darwin's private papers ever published: c. 20,000 items in c. 100,000 images, thanks to the kind permission of Cambridge University Library.
The site contains over 66,000 pages of searchable text and 164,000 electronic images. This site contains at least one exemplar of all known Darwin publications, reproduced to the highest scholarly standards, both as searchable text and electronic images of the originals. The majority of these have been edited and annotated here for the first time.
The site also provides the largest collection of Darwin's private papers ever published: c. 20,000 items in c. 100,000 images, thanks to the kind permission of Cambridge University Library.
Darwin Correspondence Project
Darwin exchanged letters with nearly 2000 people during his lifetime. These range from well known
naturalists, thinkers, and public figures, to men and women who would be unknown today were it not for the letters they exchanged with
Darwin. Darwin's correspondence provides us with an invaluable source of information, not only about his own intellectual
development and social network, but about Victorian science and society in general.
The Darwin Digital Library of Evolution
The Darwin Digital Library of Evolution is based at the American Museum of Natural History Library.
The goal of this undertaking is to make the full literature of evolution available online within a historically and topically coherent
structure. The work of Charles Robert Darwin is the pivot, but the framework includes the 17th century to the present and encompasses
the history of evolution as a scientific theory with deep roots and broad cultural consequences.
Darwiniana and Evolution
This website was originally written and programmed by Bob Patterson. Effective April 15, 2006, management
of the site has been assumed by Richard White. This website is a project of the International Wildlife Museum, 4800 West Gates Pass Road,
Tucson, Arizona 85745 The Wildlife Museum.
Darwin's works in OSU Libraries
On the origin of the species by means of natural selection: or, The preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life / Charles Darwin
London: John Murray, 1859
The OSU Libraries copy of the 1st edition is on loan from Rare Books to the Columbus Museum of Art for
the show: Objects of Wonder from the Ohio State University. The show is open from September 26, 2008 through January 11, 2009.
There are other editions and reprints in the Library system.
Charles Darwin's Beagle diary / edited by Richard Darwin Keynes
Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988
The book of Darwin / edited with an introduction and commentary by George Gaylord Simpson
New York: Washington Square Press, 1983, c1982
Charles Darwin's natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858 / edited from manuscript by R. C. Stauffer
London; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1975
A Concordance to Charles Darwin's notebooks, 1836-1844 / edited by Donald J. Weinshank ... [et al.]
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1990
Darwin and Henslow: the growth of an idea; letters 1831-1860 Edited by Nora Barlow for the Bentham-Moxon Trust
Berkeley, University of California Press, 1967
On evolution: the development of theory of natural selection / Darwin; edited by Thomas F. Glick and David Kohn
Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Pub., c1996
To find original editions of works by Charles Darwin, search by Author and limit to those published before 1900.
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Darwin
Online
About Darwin
The goals of the website are to provide details of who Charles Darwin actually was, deep down on a
personal level; to provide as much detail of the life and times of Charles Darwin as possible; to provide unique resources to those
seeking information on Charles Darwin including illustrated maps of the Beagle Voyage; and to illustrate his life through photography.
Charles Darwin after the Origin
This site is the companion to Cornell University Libraries 2009 exhibition celebrating
"the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of the 'Origin of Species.'"
It focuses on "a significant period in Darwin's life that has thus far received little attention --
the twenty-two years following the publication of 'Origin.'"
Darwin Chronology
Darwin 200 Specials from Nature
This Nature news special will provide continuously updated news, research and analysis on Darwin's life,
his science and his legacy, as well as news from the Darwin200 consortium of organizations celebrating this landmark event.
Darwin's Life and Extended Family
This website is provided by the Darwin Day Celebration Organization.
Darwin - Big Idea Big Exhibition, Natural History Museum, London.
Some online views of the exhibit and other information about Darwin. Includes an online HMS Beagle
interactive voyage and a 7 minute video about Darwin's mockingbirds and how they started him thinking about evolution.
Biography Section
This website is part of the Darwin Online website and includes pictures, a timeline, a biographical
sketch and links to obituaries and other materials about Darwin.
Darwin Biographies in OSU Libraries
Autobiography. With original omissions restored; edited with appendix and notes by his grand-daughter, Nora Barlow
New York, Harcourt, Brace [1959, c1958]
Autobiographies / Charles Darwin; edited by Michael Neve and Sharon Messenger; with an introduction by Michael Neve
London: Penguin, 2002
Autobiography and selected letters, edited by Francis Darwin
New York, Dover Publications [1958]
Works about Charles Darwin
The ape & the whale: an interplay between Darwin & Melville in their own words / Barbara Novak
Moose, Wyo.: Homestead Pub., c1995
Darwin for today; the essence of his works Edited, and with an introd., by Stanley Edgar Hyman
New York, Viking Press [1963]
Philosophy of science: contemporary readings / edited by Yuri Balashov and Alex Rosenberg
London; New York: Routledge, 2002
Ward, Darrell E., 2008, All Life Great and Small: Frontiers Magazine, Spring 2008.
Darwin and cancer research today.
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Works about Darwin and On the Origin of Species
Almost like a whale. Darwin's ghost: The origin of species updated / Steve Jones
New York: Random House, c2000
A Book that shook the world; anniversary essays on Charles Darwin's Origin of species [by] Julian S. Huxley [and others]
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press [1958]
Charles Darwin: the years of controversy; The origin of species and its critics, 1859-1882, by Peter J. Vorzimmer
Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1970
Charles Darwin's the origin of species: new interdisciplinary essays David Amigoni, Jeff Wallace, editors
Manchester; New York: Manchester University Press; New York:
Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1995
Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1995
Darwin and his critics: the reception of Darwin's theory of evolution by the scientific community / David L. Hull
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983, c1973
Darwin and the general reader; the reception of Darwin's theory of evolution in the British periodical press, 1859-1872 Ellegård, Alvar
Göteborg [Distr.: Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm] 1958
Darwin in America: the intellectual response, 1865-1912 / Cynthia Eagle Russett
San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, c1976
The Darwinian revolution: science red in tooth and claw / Michael Ruse
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999
Darwin's plots: evolutionary narrative in Darwin, George Eliot, and nineteenth-century fiction /Gillian Beer
London; Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983
The foundations of The origin of species, a sketch written in 1842 Edited by Francis Darwin
Cambridge [Eng.] Printed at the University Press, 1909
The language of science: a study of the relationship between literature and science in the perspective of a hermeneutical ontology, with a case study of Darwin’s The origin of species / by Ilse N. Bulhof
Leiden; New York: E.J. Brill, 1992
Videos
Genius [videorecording]: the science of Einstein, Feynman, Newton, Darwin, and Galileo / WGBH Educational Foundation
[S. Burlington, Vt.]: WGBH Boston Video, c2006
Origin of species [videorecording]: by Charles Darwin / Discovery Communications, Inc
Bethesda, Md.: Discovery Communications: Distributed by Discovery Channel Video, c1996
Summary: An exploration of Darwin's The origin of the species. Follows Darwin's voyage on the HMS Beagle
and includes discussions with Darwinian scholars and modern creationists about how the theory of "natural selection" has been used to
advance science and challenge religion.
Compiled by Mary W. Scott, Geology Librarian, Orton Memorial Library of Geology.
Maintained by Patti Dittoe, Geology Library Webmaster.
Created September 18, 2008/Updated January 07, 2009.