Friday, October 20, 2006

Digitally Definitive Mr. Darwin

The www is just chock-full of Darwin sites/indormation - I've probably collected one to two hundred myself, but when I need some definitive Mr. Darwin info - these are my first three stops:

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin currently contains more than 50,000 searchable text pages and 40,000 images of both publications and handwritten manuscripts. There is also the most comprehensive Darwin bibliography ever published and the largest manuscript catalogue ever assembled. More than 150 ancillary texts are also included, ranging from secondary reference works to contemporary reviews, obituaries, published descriptions of Darwin's Beagle specimens and important related works for understanding Darwin's context.


All About Darwin was created by David Leff, an amateur scholar of the History of Science, with a focus on scientific developments during the Victorian era (around 1835 to 1900).


The Darwin Correspondence Project exists to publish the definitive edition of letters to and from Charles Darwin, the most influential naturalist of the 19th century: when complete the series will comprise approximately 30 volumes, and is intended for both scholars and general readers. There is also one volume of Selected letters with two more planned.

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