Charles Darwin bibliography

Illustration by John Gould of Darwin's finches

This is a list of the writings of Charles Darwin.

Published Works during Lifetime

• 1829–1832. [Records of captured insects, in] Stephens, J. F., Illustrations of British entomology ^[1]
• 1835: Extracts from Letters to Henslow (Read at a meeting of the Cambridge Philosophical Society on 16 November 1835, with comments by John Stevens Henslow and Adam Sedgwick, and printed for private distribution dated 1 December 1835. ^[2] Selected remarks had been read by Sedgwick to the Geological Society of London on 18 November 1835, and these were summarised in Proceedings of the Geological Society published in 1836. ^[3] Further extracts were published in the Entomological Magazine and, with a review, in the Magazine of Natural History . ^[2] A reprint was issued in 1960, again for private distribution.)
• 1836: A LETTER, Containing Remarks on the Moral State of TAHITI, NEW ZEALAND, &c. – BY CAPT. R. FITZROY AND C. DARWIN, ESQ. OF H.M.S. 'Beagle.' ^[4]
• 1838–1843: Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle : published between 1839 and 1843 in five Parts (and nineteen numbers) by various authors, edited and superintended by Charles Darwin, who contributed sections to two of the Parts:
  • 1838: Part 1 No. 1 Fossil Mammalia, by Richard Owen (Preface and Geological introduction by Darwin)
  • 1838: Part 2 No. 1 Mammalia, by George R. Waterhouse (Geographical introduction and A notice of their habits and ranges by Darwin)
• 1839: Questions About the Breeding of Animals
• 1839: Journal and Remarks (The Voyage of the Beagle) (Second edition: 1845)
• 1841: The Gardeners' Chronicle (contributor)
• 1842: The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs (Second edition: 1874)
• 1844: Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle (Second edition: 1876)
• 1846: Geological Observations on South America
• 1849: Geology from A Manual of scientific enquiry; prepared for the use of Her Majesty's Navy: and adapted for travellers in general., John F.W. Herschel ed.
• 1851: A Monograph of the Sub-class Cirripedia, with Figures of all the Species. The Lepadidae; or, Pedunculated Cirripedes.
• 1851: A Monograph on the Fossil Lepadidae, or, Pedunculated Cirripedes of Great Britain
• 1854: A Monograph of the Sub-class Cirripedia, with Figures of all the Species. The Balanidae (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidae, etc.
• 1854: A Monograph on the Fossil Balanidæ and Verrucidæ of Great Britain
• 1858: On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection (Extract from an unpublished Work on Species)
• 1859: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (Second edition: 1860, Third edition: 1861, Fourth edition: 1866, Fifth edition: 1869, Sixth edition: 1872)
• 1862: On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects (Second edition: 1877)
• 1865: The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants (Linnean Society paper, published in book form in 1875) (Illustrated by George Darwin
• 1868: The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication (2 volumes) (Second edition: 1875, edited by Francis Darwin in 1905)
• 1871: The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (2 volumes) (Second edition: 1874, assisted by George Darwin and Thomas Henry Huxley, revised and augmented second edition: 1877)
• 1872: The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (revised by Francis Darwin in 1890, restored and revised edition edited by Paul Ekman in 1999)
• 1875: Insectivorous Plants (Second edition edited by Francis Darwin with footnotes and additions in 1888)
• 1876: The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom (Second edition: 1878)
• 1877: The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species (Second edition with a preface by Francis Darwin in 1884)
• 1879: "Preface and 'a preliminary notice'" in Ernst Krause's Erasmus Darwin
• 1880: The Power of Movement in Plants
• 1881: The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms (corrections by Francis Darwin in 1882)

Posthumous First Publications

• 1975: Natural Selection; being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858, edited by Robert C. Stauffer, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Corrections by John van Wyhe (2007)
• 2009 (collection): Charles Darwin's shorter publications 1829-1883, with a foreword by Janet Browne & Jim Secord (edited by John van Wyhe)

Autobiography

• 1887: Autobiography of Charles Darwin (edited by his son Francis Darwin)
• 1958: Autobiography of Charles Darwin (Nora Barlow, unexpurgated)

Correspondence

• 1887: Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (ed. Francis Darwin) (3 volumes)
• 1903: More Letters of Charles Darwin (2 volumes) (ed. Francis Darwin and A.C. Seward)
• 1974-December 2022: Correspondence of Charles Darwin (30 volumes)

References

1. Darwin Online: Darwin's insects in Stephens' Illustrations of British entomology (1829–32)
2. Extracts from letters addressed to Professor Henslow. Cambridge: [privately printed]
3. Proceedings of the Geological Society 2: 210–212
4. South African Christian Recorder 2 (4) (Sept. 1836): 221–238

External links

• The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online