charles_darwin

Annotated Bibliography
———. A Monograph on the Fossil Lepadidae, or, Pedunculated Cirripedes of
Great Britain. London: The Palaeontographical Society, 1851. The first
of Darwin’s four books on barnacles. After their publication, Darwin
was acknowledged as a world authority on barnacles.
———. A Monograph on the Sub-Class Cirripedia, with Figures of All the Species:
The Lepadidae; or, Pedunculated Cirripedes. London: The Ray Society,
1851. The second of Darwin’s four books on barnacles.
———. A Monograph on the Sub-Class Cirripedia, with Figures of All the Species:
The Balanidae, (or Sessile Cirripedes); The Verrucidae, etc., etc., etc.
London: The Ray Society, 1854. The third of Darwin’s four books on
barnacles.
———. A Monograph on the Fossil Balanidae and Verrucidae of Great Britain.
London: The Palaeontographical Society, 1854. The last of Darwin’s
four books on barnacles.
———. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation
of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life. London: John Murray,
1859. The book that made Darwin the most prominent British scientist
of the nineteenth century.
———. On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are
Fertilised by Insects, and on the Good Effects of Intercrossing. London:
John Murray, 1862. Darwin describes the various ways orchids are fertilized
in order to provide more evidence to support two major assertions
he made in the Origin of Species: that organic beings must cross
occasionally with another individual; and that no hermaphrodite
organism fertilizes itself forever. Cross-fertilization produces progeny
better able to adapt to their environment, a key idea in evolutionary
theory.
———. On the Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants. London: Longman,
Green, Longman, Roberts and Green and Williams and Norgate, 1865.
The revision of a paper published in the Journal of the Linnean Society.
Darwin explained how plants climbed after examining more than one
hundred species. Darwin’s son George drew the illustrations.
———. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication. 2 vols.
London: John Murray, 1868. Darwin’s description of the major characteristics
of the domestic species he had observed. Darwin explains the
effect of domestication on the ability of a species to mutate. Darwin
includes additional evidence for his theory of evolution, which he
could not fit in The Origin of Species.
———. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. 2 vols. London:
John Murray, 1871. Deals directly with the question of human origins
(which Darwin did not address in The Origin of Species). Argues that
humans are descended from a less complex form of species. Compulsory
reading after The Origin of Species.
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