charles_darwin

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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Darwin’s Major Works
Books (in chronological order)
Darwin, Charles. Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History
of the Various Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle, under the Command of
Captain Fitzroy, R.N. from 1832 to 1836. London: Henry Colburn,
1839. Darwin’s diary written during the Beagle voyage. The detailed
entries reveal Darwin’s acute powers of observation, a skill he had
developed by the age of twenty-three. An excellent book to read to
understand the way Darwin’s mind worked (and would continue to
work). In 1845, the publisher reversed ‘‘Geology’’ and ‘‘Natural History’’
in the title. In some editions published after 1860, the title is
Naturalist’s Voyage Round the World.
———, ed. The Zoology of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle, Under the Command
of Captain Fitzroy, R.N., During the Years 1832 to 1836. Part II:
Mammalia. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1839. The first of five companion
volumes to ‘‘The Geology of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle.’’
After 1843, the volumes were combined into one book, The Zoology of
the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle. Each volume has descriptions and
analysis of the zoological specimens Darwin collected during the Beagle
voyage. Darwin did not classify the specimens: each volume was
published whenever Darwin and the expert doing the classification
had finished. (The parts were not published in order.) George R.
Waterhouse, curator of the Zoological Society of London, did the classification
for this volume.
———. The Zoology of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle, Under the Command
of Captain Fitzroy, R.N., During the Years 1832 to 1836. Part I: Fossil
Mammalia. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1840. The second volume
published in the series. Richard Owen, professor of anatomy and