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HIS database is the most comprehensive bibliography of the writings of Charles Darwin ever published. At its core is a revision of R. B. Freeman's pioneering work, The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist (2nd edn 1977). Freeman's book is the acknowledged authority for all bibliographic citations of Darwin's publications. It records detailed information for every known Darwin publication, in every language, up to 1977.1 Permission to reproduce this, together with unpublished additions and corrections by Freeman, was kindly facilitated by The Charles Darwin Trust. The text was OCRed, corrected and transferred to a database. Freeman's entries were individually standardized, and known errors and omissions corrected. A set of concise references for all entries was created. The new catalogue retains all of Freeman's original numbers for Darwin publications (e.g. 'F123'). New entries are assigned numbers consecutively from F1806. Additional or supplementary texts included on the site, such as reviews of Darwin's books, are also recorded in the database and are given an 'A' number. To see a list of all additional items click here.
For a bibliography including works read and cited by Darwin, see the Correspondence of Charles Darwin extended bibliography. See also the Bibliography of works cited [in Darwin Online], i.e. in the editorial notes, which constitutes the first complete bibliography of works cited in Darwin's shorter publications.
The database is searchable under the following fields:
All Fields: searches all the textual (i.e. non tick box) fields in the database.
Identifier: (e.g. Freeman's 'F' number or 'A' number)
Name(s): author, editor, translator or other contributor(s).
After date: entering a date here restricts the set of returned results to those which are dated after the supplied date. The supplied date may be incomplete, in that it consists only of a year, or a year with month only, or a precise date in the form YYYY-MM-DD
Before date:
Title: the "assigned title", where the assigned title is derived by searching database fields in order of priority. Where the entry has an "exact title", this value is chosen in preference, otherwise it will be taken from the attributed title, description, or finally the "name" field if no other choice is available.
Place: place of publication e.g. London.
Publisher: (e.g. John Murray).
Periodical: (e.g. Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette).
Language(s): (e.g. German)
Document type: (book, pamphlet, book contribution, periodical contribution, offprint)
Storage types:
Available full text
Available digital images
Ticking one or both of these will limit a search to only those items whose text, image or both are on Darwin Online.
After selecting browse or conducting a search of the database individual records can be viewed. An example is below. (Click the record below to bring up the actual database web page record.)
The concise reference
These listings are based on the style of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin.
Books:
Author. Date. Title. [language if not English] [Translator] Number of volumes. Edition. Issue. Place: Publisher.Articles and contributions to books:
Author. Date. Title. [Editor or author of main work] Periodical or book title. Number. Volume. (Date): Pages.
The concise reference is used as the record on text documents and search results pages. To avoid clutter these are often shortened on the tables of contents pages.
Detailed reference
This is usually the verbatim text from Freeman (unless updated or corrected) which normally includes binding, variants, page numbers and paper size information etc. Freeman's privately printed additions from 1986 have been added under his original entry. (For archival purposes the full original text of Freeman's 2nd edition is provided in both text and facsimile image forms.)
Despite is comprehensiveness and importance, Freeman's work was not straightforward to transfer to a database. He usually gave the title only for the first edition of a work and, to save space, omitted it from all subsequent entries and translations. Some of these titles varied from the original. Rather than leaving the title field blank or inserting that of the first edition, Freeman's heading title has been copied into an 'Attributed title' field in all entries for a particular work. The 'Title' field contains the exact title of a work only if it has been seen or was provided by Freeman.
Freeman did not give a number to every physical volume but sometimes to a series comprising multiple books. As each independent item on Darwin Online requires a unique identifier, in these cases Freeman's numbers have been subdivided with decimals as F123.1, F123.2. We are unable to add all editions of Darwin that have appeared since 1977. However we will include selected important publications and recent discoveries such as corrected issue or printing information. To submit a suggestion for inclusion in the bibliography please download and fill in this database form and send to John van Wyhe.
Freeman's abbreviations
BS: British Library, Lending Division, Boston Spa, Yorkshire.
C: University Library, Cambridge.
CD: Darwin Collection, University Library, Cambridge.
CLSU: University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
CtY: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
D: Down House, Downe, Kent.
DLC: Library of Congress, Washington, District of Columbia.
ENL National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh.
ICF: Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois.
L: British Library, Reference Division, London.
LB: Royal National Institute for the Blind, London.
LIC Imperial College Library of Science and Technology.
LLS: Linnean Society of London.
LNH: British Museum (Natural History), London.
LU: Senate House, University of London.
LUC: University College London.
LUI: Imperial College of Science and Technology, London.
LZ: Zoological Society of London.
PBN: Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
PPAmP: American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia.
T: University of Toronto, Ontario.
ViU: University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
BSC: Items recorded from booksellers' catalogues, but not seen.
Darwin Online abbreviations
nd No date.
Anon. Anonymous.
John van Wyhe
January 2006
1 The database has been supplemented by the entries from unpublished corrections by Freeman; Freeman. 1986. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. Additions and Corrections to Second Edition of 1977 to 1 January, 1986. University College London: for the author; Freeman. 1986. Darwin in Chinese. Archives of Natural History 13 (1): 19-24 and P. J. P. Whitehead. 1988. Darwin in Chinese: some additions. Archives of Natural History 15 (1): 61-62; the bibliography of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin and subsequent research by John van Wyhe and other contributors. Freeman's F1711, F1650 and F1743a have been deleted as errors.
NOTE: The Freeman text within the Detailed reference field is reproduced with thanks to The Charles Darwin Trust and Dr Mary Whitear for use of the Bibliographical Handlist. Copyright. All rights reserved. For private academic use only. Not for republication or reproduction in whole or in part without the prior written consent of The Charles Darwin Trust, 14 Canonbury Park South London N1 2JJ.
Corrections and additions copyright The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online - University of Cambridge.
Terms of Use. These materials may be freely used for non-commercial purposes and distribution to students; republication in any form requires written permission. Contact: Dr John van Wyhe.
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