Darwin resources

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Charles Darwin entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

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Websites

Darwin 200
The Natural History Museum's Darwin 200 site.

Charles Darwin online
The complete works of Charles Darwin Online.

Darwin correspondence
Letters of Charles Darwin.

Books

The following are all available from your local library. Links will take you to the library catalogue.

By Charles Darwin

Autobiographies (extracts from Darwin’s biographical recollections)

Charles Darwin's diary of the voyage of HMS Beagle

Insectivorous plants

Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage round the world of HMS Beagle under command of Captain FitzRoy, RN

On the various contrivances by which British and Foreign orchids are fertilised by insects and on the good effects of intercrossing

The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species

The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom

The origin of species

The voyage of the Beagle

About Darwin and the Beagle

Charles Darwin: A bite-size biography by Adrian Desmond

Charles Darwin: The scholar who changed history by Patrick Tort

Darwin and evolution for kids: His life and ideas by Kristan Lawson

Darwin and the Beagle by Alan Morrehead

Fossils, finches and fuegians: Charles Darwin's adventures and discoveries on the Beagle by Richard Keynes

HMS Beagle: The ship that changed the course of history: A biography of a ship, by Keith Thomson

Inside the Beagle with Charles Darwin: A children’s book with colour illustrations, by Fiona MacDonald and Mark Bergin

Introducing Darwin: The strange case of Charles Darwin and evolution: A graphic, comic-book style guide, by Jonathon Miller and Borin Van Loon

Voyage in the Beagle by John Goldsmith

What Darwin really said: An introduction to his life and theory of evolution by Benjamin Farrington

Who was Charles Darwin? An illustrated children’s book by Deborah Hopkinson and Nancy Harrison

Fiction etc

Darwin's children: An evolutionary thriller by Greg Bear

Darwin's radio: The missing-link thriller by Greg Bear

The Darwin awards 1: 180 bizarre true stories of how dumb humans have met their Maker by Wendy Northcutt

The science of Discworld III: Darwin’s Watch (the evolution of evolution as it has never been told before) by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen

The thing of darkness: A historical novel, the story of the deep friendship between Darwin and Fitzroy by Harry Thompson