Darwin Online: Reviews of Darwin's works

Reviews of Darwin's works

Darwin Online provides the largest collection of reviews of Darwin's works ever published. Yet it is currently only a beginning. Darwin Online aims to create a comprehensive collection of contemporary reviews of Darwin's works. It includes many first uncovered by the Darwin Online project .

See also hundreds of reviews in Darwin's private papers here and DAR226.

Anon. 1839. [Review of] Narrative... [and] Journal of researches... Quarterly Review 65, no. 129 (December): 194-234. Image A515

Anon. 1845. [Review of] Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the various countries visited by His Majety's ship Beagle. North American Review 61, Issue 128 (July): 181-199. Image A40

Anon. 1846. [Review of] Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the various countries visited by H.B.M.S Beagle round the world. United States Democratic Review 18, no.95 (May): 398. Image A41

Anon. 1859. Charles Darwin on the origin of species. Chambers's Journal 11: 388-391. Image A507

Anon. 1859. [Review of] On the origin of species. Saturday Review (London) (24 December): 775-776. Image [Including 15 October 1859 advertizement for Origin of species] A514

Anon. 1860. Natural selection. All the Year Round 3 no.63 (7 July): 293-299. Image A509

Anon. 1860. [Review of] On the Origin of Species, by Means of Natural Selection. Charles Darwin. Living Age 66, Issue 848 (1 September): 474-506. Image A58

Anon. 1868. [Review of] The Variation of animals and plants under domestication. American Naturalist 2 (4) (June) 208-209. Image A117

Anon. 1868. [Review of] Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication. North American Review 107 (Issue 220, July): 362-368. Image A67

Anon. 1868. [Review of] Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication. Atlantic Monthly 22 (Issue 129, July): 122-124. Image A65

Anon. 1868. [Review of] The Variation of animals and plants under domestication. American Naturalist 2 (10) (December) 547-553. Image A116

Anon. 1871. [Review of the Descent of Man]. Annual Register 368. Text A28

Anon. 1876. Darwin's Insectivorous Plants. North American Review 122 (Issue 251, April): 425-437. Image A71

Anon. 1881. [Review of] The Power of Movement in Plants. by Charles Darwin; Francis Darwin. Science 2 (No. 39, 26 March): 144. Image A72

Anon. 1884. [Review of] Mental evolution in animals. Mind 9 (34) (April): 291-295. Image A119

Anon. 1873. [Review of] The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 2: 444-446. Image A70

Adams, L. T. 1874. Mr. Darwin and the Theory of Natural Selection. New Englander (Issue 129, October) 33: 741-770. Image A59

Agassiz, J. L. R. 1860. [Review of] On the Origin of species. American Journal of Science and Arts (Ser. 2) 30 (July): 142-154. Image A45

[Bowen, F.] 1860. [Review of] On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. North American Review 90: 474-506. Text A15

Boyd, T. 1859. [Review of] On the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties. Zoologist 17: 6357-6359. Image A42

[Broderip, W. J.] 1839. [Review of] Narrative of the Voyages of H. M. S. Adventure and Beagle; .... London: 1839. Edinburgh Review or Critical Journal 69, no. 140 (July): 467-493. Image A225

Bronn, H. G. 1860. [Review of] Ch. Darwin: on the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life (502 pp. 8^o, London 1859). Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde 112-116. Text A16

Carpenter, W. B. 1860. The Theory of Development in Nature. British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review 25 (April): 367-404 Image A46

[Carpenter, W. B.] 1860. Darwin on the Origin of Species. National Review 10: 188-214. Text A17

C. E. B. 1881. [Review of] Darwin's The Power of Movement in Plants. American Naturalist 15(9) (September) 729. Image A112

[Church, W. R.] 1860. [Review of] On the origin of species. Guardian (London) (8 February): 134-135. Image A512

Daubeny, C. G. B. 1861. Remarks on the final causes of the sexuality of plants, with particular reference to Mr Darwin's work "On the origin of species by natural selection". Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 30th meeting (1861), Transactions of the sections: 109-110. Image A62

Dawson, J. W. 1860. [Review of] Darwin on the origin of species by means of natural selection. Canadian Naturalist and Geologist 5: 100-120. Image A47

[Duns, J.] 1860. [Review of] On the Origin of species. North British Review 32 (1860 May): 455-486. Image A48

D. T. A. 1860. Palaeontology. Dublin University Magazine 55 (June): 712-722. Image A510

Fawcett, H. 1860. A Popular Exposition of Mr Darwin on the Origin of Species. Macmillan's Magazine (3 December): 81-92. Text A23

Frost, S. T. 1867. Darwin and Domestication. Harper's new monthly magazine 36 (Issue 211): 58-63. Image A64

Galton, F. 1871. Pangenesis. Nature 4 (4 May): 5-6. Image A68

[Gray, A.] 1860. Review of Darwin's theory on the origin of species by means of natural selection. American Journal of Science and Arts (Ser. 2) 29 (March): 153-184. Image A50

[Gray, A.] 1860. [Review of] On the Origin of Species. Atlantic Monthly 6 (1860 July): 109-116, 229-239. Image A49

Gray, A. 1860. The origin of species. Athenaeum (4 August): 161. [Extract from Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 4 (1860): 411-15]. Text Image A213

[Gray, A.] 1860. Darwin and his reviewers. Atlantic Monthly 6 (1860 October): 406-425. Image A51

Hibberd, S. 1861. The genesis of organic forms. Recreative Science 2 (January): 266-267. Image A513

Higgins, H. H. 1860. On Darwin's theory of the "Origin of species". Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool 15: 42-49. Image A52

Hooker, J. D. 1859. [Review of] On the origin of species. Gardeners' Chronicle (31 December): 1052. part 1 Image A511

Hopkins, W. 1860. Physical Theories of the Phenomena of Life. Fraser's Magazine 61 (June): 739-752; 62 (July): 74-90. Image A53

Hussey, A. 1859. [Review of] On the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties. Zoologist 17: 6474-6475. Image A44

Hutton F. W. 1860. [Review of] On the origin of species. Geologist 3 (December): 464-472. Image A55

Hutton, F. W. 1861. Some remarks on Darwin's theory. Geologist 4: 132-136, 183-188. Image A54

Huxley, T. H. 1859. Time and life: Mr Darwin's "Origin of species." Macmillan's Magazine 1: 142-148. Image A43

[Huxley, T. H.] 1859. Darwin on the origin of species. The Times (26 December): 8-9. Text A166

Huxley, T. H. 1860. On species and races, and their origin. Medical Circular No. 401 (7 March): 149-150. Text Image A327

[Huxley, T. H.] 1860. [Review of] The origin of Species. Westminster Review 17 (n.s.): 541-70. Text Image A32

Huxley, T. H. 1860. On species, races and their origin. Journal Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain 3 (February): 195-200. Image A56

Jackson, 1842. [Review of] The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs.... Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London 12: 115-120. Text A13

[Jardine, W.] 1860. [Review of] On the origin of species. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal n.s. 11: 280-289. Image A57

J. D. 1868. Darwin's theory of pangenesis. Scientific Opinion (18 November): 49. Text A20

[Jenkin, F.] 1867. [Review of] The origin of species. North British Review 46 (June): 277-318. Text A24

[Leifchild, John R.] 1859. [Review of] On the origin of species. Athenaeum no. 1673 (19 November): 659-660. Image A506

Lewes, G. H. 1860. Studies in animal life. Cornhill Magazine 1: 438-447. (Reprinted from John Bull 24 December 1859) Image A508

[Lowell, J.A.] 1860. [Review of] Darwin's Origin of Species. Christian Examiner and Theological Review 6: 449-464. Text A22

Mivart, St. G. J. 1871. [Review of] The Descent of Man, and selection in relation to sex. Quarterly Review 131 (July): 47-90. Image A69

[Morris, J.] 1860. [Review of] On the origin of species. Dublin Review 48: 50-81. Text Image A253

Murray, A. 1860. On Mr Darwin's theory of the origin of species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 4: 274-291. Text A14

[Owen, R.] 1860. [Review of Origin & other works.] Edinburgh Review 111: 487-532. Text Image A30

Parsons, T. 1860. [Review of] On the Origin of species. American Journal of Science and Arts (Ser. 2) 30 (July): 1-13. Image A60

Pictet, F. J. 1860. Sur l'origine de l'espèce par Charles Darwin. Archives des Sciences, Bibliotheque Universelle (Ser. 2) 7 (March): 233-255. Image A61

S. 1873. Bain's review of "Darwin on expression". Nature (6 November): 2-3. Text Image A21

Tegetmeier, W. B. 1862. Darwin on orchids. Register (August): 38-9. Text Image A81

[Wallace, A. R.] 1867. [Review of Origin 4th edn] Mimicry, and other protective resemblances among animals. Westminster and foreign quarterly review Vol. 88, No. 173, n.s. 32 No.1 (1 July): 1-43. Text A272

Wallace, A. R. 1873. [Review of] The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S., &c. London: Murray. 1872. Quarterly Journal of Science 3, no. 37 (January): 113-118. Text A271

[Wilberforce, S.] 1860. [Review of] On the Origin of Species, by means of Natural Selection; or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. By Charles Darwin, M. A., F.R.S. London, 1860. Quarterly Review 108: 225-264. Text A19

[Wollaston, T. V.] 1860. [Review of] On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection; or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.—By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S., &c. London, 1859. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5: 132-143. Text Image A18

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