>X-Accept-Language: en >Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 08:51:18 +0100 >Reply-To: "van Wyhe, John" <[log in to unmask]> >Sender: Promoting discussion in the science studies community ><[log in to unmask]> >From: "van Wyhe, John" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: New website: Writings of Charles Darwin on the web >To: [log in to unmask] > >A new website has been launched which provides most of the writings of >Charles Darwin in citable form. Most are also fully illustrated with >hundreds of images never before offered on the internet. >Despite an impressive proliferation of Darwin texts on the internet- >almost all exclude essential bibliographical information such as >edition, publisher, place of publication, etc. Page numbers are nowhere >to be seen. These factors vastly reduce the usefulness of these texts as >they cannot be easily cited. It is impossible to know if one is reading >a first or sixth edition. An example >are the many online 'first editions' of Darwin's Origin of Species. >Often >these cannot be correct as the text of the book contains the phrase >'survival of the fittest'- famously coined by Herbert Spencer and first >included in the 5th edition of 1869. Many other online copies of the >Origin purport to be the first edition yet contain the Historical >Sketch, > first found in English in the 3rd edition of 1861. Other historical > texts on the internet contain many silent >additions or omissions- footnotes are changed to endnotes or formatting >altered without informing readers where this has been done. If scholars >are to find digital texts more useful, it must be perfectly clear which >historical text is represented and they must be citable in conventional >ways. The texts provided at this site are an attempt to do so for the >writings of Darwin. The site also contains several texts digitized for >the first time. >This site will be a treasure to Darwin scholars, scientists, and >historians around the world. Here most of Darwin's vastly influential >writings can be searched conveniently together, or by individual work, >24 hours a day 7 days a week. >http://pages.britishlibrary.net/charles.darwin/ > >The texts provided on the site presently include: >-'Observations on the Parallel Roads of Glen Roy, and of other parts of >Lochaber in Scotland, with an attempt to prove that they are of marine >origin', Philosophical Transactions, 1839, pp. 39-81. > >-The foundations of the Origin of Species: Two essays written in 1842 >and 1844 by Charles Darwin. Francis Darwin ed., Cambridge, 1909. > >-Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the >countries visited during the voyage round the world of H.M.S. Beagle, >London, 11th edn 1913. > >-Geological observations on Coral Reefs, Volcanic Islands, and on South >America: being the Geology of the Voyage of the Beagle, under the >Command of Capt. FitzRoy, during the Years 1832-36. London, Melbourne & >Toronto, Ward Lock & Co., 1910. > >-'On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation >of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection', Journal of the >Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Zoology, 20 Aug. 1858, 3, pp. 45-62. > >-On the origin of species by means of natural selection. London, 1859. >[1st edn]. > >-On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are >fertilised. London, John Murray, 1862. > >-The variation of animals and plants under domestication. 2 vols. 2nd >edn. New York, D. Appleton & Co. 1883. > >-The descent of man and selection in relation to sex. 2nd edn. revised >and augmented, London, John Murray, 1882. > >-The origin of species by means of natural selection. London, 6th edn. >1872. > >-The movements and habits of climbing plants. 2nd edn London, John >Murray, 1875. > >-The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom. >New York, D. Appleton & Co., 1892. > >-'A biographical sketch of an infant', Mind, July 1877, pp. 285-294. > >-The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species. New York, >D. Appleton & Co., 1896. > >-The formation of vegetable mould, through the action of worms. Eigth >thousand (corrected) London, John Murray, 1883. > >Correspondence: > >-The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin. 2 vols. Francis Darwin ed. New >York, D. Appleton & Co., 1905. > >-More letters of Charles Darwin. 2 vols., Francis Darwin & A.C. Seward, >eds., London, John Murray, 1903. > > >-- >Dr John van Wyhe > >Affiliate Research Scholar >Dept. of History & Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University >Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RH, UK