BIOL 415/515: Websites

A digital edition and virtual reconstruction of the surviving books owned by Charles Darwin

Darwin Online is the largest and most widely consulted edition of the writings of Darwin ever published. It is probably the most extensive scholarly website devoted to any historical figure. This website contains over 219,804 pages of searchable text and 219,900 electronic images, 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 with more than 4,900 original editorial notes

Read and search the full texts of more than 7,000 of Charles Darwin’s letters, and find information on 8,000 more. Available here are complete transcripts of all known letters Darwin wrote and received up to the year 1868.

"To commemorate in 2009 the bicentenary of Charles Darwin's birth and 150 years since publication of On the Origin of Species, the 2008 Special Issue of The Lancet is dedicated to Darwin's life and work and the enduring legacy of his theory of evolution."