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Annex 3: Darwin’s Books and Papers

Books

  • The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs Amazon UK Kindle (free) or Paperback
    The first part of the geology of the voyage of the Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N. during the years 1832 to 1836, 1842
  • On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 1859 Amazon UK Kindle (free) or Paperback
  • The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, 1871 Amazon UK Kindle Vol. 1 (free)
  • The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, 1872
  • The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits, 1881
  • The Power of Movement in Plants, 1880
  • The Voyage of the Beagle, 1839
  • 1838-43: Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle: published between 1839 and 1843 in five Parts (and nineteen numbers) by various authors, edited and superintended by Charles Darwin, who contributed sections to two of the Parts:
  • 1838: Part 1 No. 1 Fossil Mammalia, by Richard Owen (Preface and Geological introduction by Darwin)
  • 1838: Part 2 No. 1 Mammalia, by George R. Waterhouse (Geographical introduction and A notice of their habits and ranges by Darwin)
  • Variation of Plants and Animals Under Domestication, 1868 Amazon UK Kindle Vol. 1 (free)

Papers

  • 1835: Extracts from Letters to Professor Henslow (privately printed)
  • 1836: A LETTER, Containing Remarks on the Moral State of TAHITI, NEW ZEALAND, andc. – BY CAPT. R. FITZROY AND C. DARWIN, ESQ. OF H.M.S. ‘Beagle.’
  • 1842: The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs
  • 1844: Geological Observations of Volcanic Islands
  • 1846: Geological Observations on South America
  • 1849: Geology from A Manual of scientific enquiry; prepared for the use of Her Majesty’s Navy: and adapted for travellers in general, John F.W. Herschel ed.
  • 1851: A Monograph of the Sub-class Cirripedia, with Figures of all the Species. The Lepadidae; or, Pedunculated Cirripedes
  • 1851: A Monograph on the Fossil Lepadidae, or, Pedunculated Cirripedes of Great Britain
  • 1854: A Monograph of the Sub-class Cirripedia, with Figures of all the Species. The Balanidae (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidae, etc.
  • 1854: A Monograph on the Fossil Balanidæ and Verrucidæ of Great Britain
  • 1858: On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection (Extract from an unpublished Work on Species)
  • 1862: On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects
  • 1868: Variation of Plants and Animals Under Domestication
  • 1875: Movement and Habits of Climbing Plants
  • 1875: Insectivorous Plants
  • 1876: The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom
  • 1877: The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species
  • 1879: “Preface and ‘a preliminary notice'” in Ernst Krause’s Erasmus Darwin

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