Thursday, August 6, 2009

Darwinian Anniversaries and Works

About this time, 150 years ago, Charles Darwin was busy preparing On the Origin of Species for publication. This year is also the bicentennial of Darwin’s birth.

Recently, new records were found related to Darwin’s time at Cambridge. These can be viewed through The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online.

(The Complete Works is not actually complete: Darwin’s unpublished correspondence is available through the Darwin Correspondence Project.)

But here is the work of 1859: