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Number	Link	Thumbnail	Description (Note on descriptions)
DAR1	Browse		'Northern Chile' [last ch. of South America (1846)]. 148 images
DAR2	Browse		Draft of chs. 1-10 of Cross and self fertilisation. 311 images
DAR3	Browse		Cross and self fertilisation continued, 339 images
DAR4	Browse		Cross and self fertilisation continued, 325 images
DAR5	Browse Itemized		Lecture notes on medicine etc. Edinburgh [1825-7]; zoological walk to Portobello [c. 1826]; early geological notes, near Shrewsbury; geological notes made with Sedgwick; notes on alluvium, 1837 (& 1846); geological notes on Salisbury Craigs, 1838; notes for glacier papers, 1839-42. 283 images
Christ's College, Cambridge
CC-T.1.2	Text Image		'Admissions to Christ College' (1827). Christ's College, Cambridge. Introduction
CC-T.1.4	Text Image Browse (whole volume)		'Admissions 1818-1828'. Christ's College, Cambridge.
CC-T.3.1	Text Image		'Admissions 1815-1852'. Christ's College, Cambridge.
CC-OldLibrary184a	Image		Photograph of Charles Darwin by Maull and Polyblank for the Literary and Scientific Portrait Club (1855). Introduction
CC-OldLibrary184b	Text Image		[Cheque by Charles Darwin 'to self' (Union Bank of London)] 1872.03.21. Introduction
CC-OldLibraryGG.1.25	Image		Utricularia [draft of `Insectivorous plants' p. 427]

NationalArchivesCensus	Text Image		Census Returns of England and Wales. Entries relating to the Darwin family for 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881 and 1891.
DAR6	Browse Itemized		First 'pencil' sketch of species theory, 1842; [see fair copy DAR217.1]; sketch of species theory sent to Asa Gray, 1857. Transcribed in F1556 & F350. 87 images
DAR7	Browse		Sketch of species theory, 1844, original MS. [see fair copy DAR113]. Transcribed in F1556. 311 images
DAR8	Browse Itemized		Natural selection, ch. 3: 'On the Possibility of all Organic Beings Occasionally Crossing and on the Remarkable Susceptibility of the Reproductive System to External Agencies', 1856. Preceded by summary of Natural selection, in blue cover. Transcribed in F1583. 164 images
DAR9	Browse Itemized		Natural selection, ch. 4 [i.e. ch. 2 in Origin 1859: 'Variations under Nature']. 1857. [Pp. 1-87; 91 folios, etc.] Transcribed in F1583. 120 images
DAR10.1	Browse Itemized		Natural selection, ch. 5 [i.e. ch. 3 in Origin 1859: 'The Struggle for Existence as Bearing on Natural Selection']. 1857. Transcribed in F1583. 128 images
DAR10.2	Browse		Natural selection, ch. 6 (i.e. ch. 4 in Origin 1859: 'On Natural Selection']. 1857. Transcribed in F1583. 167 images
DAR11.1	Browse Itemized		Natural selection, ch. 7 [i.e. ch. 5 in Origin 1859: 'Laws of Variation. Varieties and Species Compared']. 1857. Transcribed in F1583. 223 images
DAR12	Browse		Natural selection, ch. 8 [i.e. ch. 6 in Origin 1859: 'Difficulties in the Theory of Natural Selection in Relation to Passages from Form to Form']. 1857. Transcribed in F1583. 244 images
DAR13	Browse		Natural selection, ch. 10 [i.e. ch. 7 in Origin 1859: 'Mental Powers and Instincts in Animals']. 1858. Transcribed in F1583. 187 images
DAR14	Browse		Natural selection, original & copy of chapter on 'Geographical Distribution' [i.e. chs. 11 & 12 in Origin 1859]. Transcribed in F1583. 230 images
DAR15.1	Browse Itemized		Natural selection, ch. 4 'Common and Large Genera Presenting Most Varieties'. Fair copy of DAR9.(1-87), sent to Hooker on 6 May 1858 & bears his notes. Transcribed in F1583. 141 images
DAR15.2	Browse Itemized		Misc. tables of species, etc. First part. Items numbered 1-105. 162 images
DAR16.1	Browse Itemized		Misc. tables of species, etc. 175 images
DAR16.2	Browse Itemized		Misc. tables of species, etc. Second part. Items numbered 106-203; 204-308. 196 images
DAR17.1A	Browse		Draft of part of Expression of the emotions (1872), written on the backs of MS. folios of Descent of man (1871). 38 images
DAR17.1.B	Browse		Draft of Climbing plants, Part I, pp. 1-62. 106 images
DAR17.2.B	Browse		Draft of Cross and self fertilisation, chs. 8 & 9. 49 images
DAR18	Browse		Draft of Climbing plants. Part II, pp. 94-160, 160a-235. 263 images
DAR19 - 23	Itemized		Draft of Power of movement in plants (1880).
DAR24 - 25	Itemized		Draft of Formation of vegetable mould (1881).
DAR26	Browse		Draft of Recollections of the Development of My Mind and Character. [Autobiography] Transcribed in F1497. 205 images
DAR27.1	Browse Itemized		Notes and drafts for some of Darwin's papers: 'Bees Boring Holes in Flowers', 16 Aug. 1841. F1658 'Notes on the effects produced by the ancient glaciers of Caernarvonshire'; includes small table of heights. F1660 One folio of MS. of 'Observations on the structure and propagation of the Genus Sagitta'. F1664 'On the action of sea-water on the germination of seeds'. F1694 Notes for above paper. Also cuttings on the subject from Gardeners' Chron. of 26 May 1855. 'On the Agency of Bees in the Fertilisation of Papilionaceous Flowers, and on the Crossing of Kidney Beans'. Two sheets of galley proof; & specimens of kidney beans. F1701 137 images
DAR27.2	Browse		Draft of and notes for 'On the Sexual Relations of the Three Forms of Lythrum salicaria'. F1731 151 images
DAR28.1.A	Browse		Copy of 'The Action of Carbonate of Ammonia on the Roots of Certain Plants', in Francis Darwin's hand, corrected by Darwin. F1801 64 images
DAR28.1.B	Browse		Fair Copy of the above. 57 images
DAR28.2	Browse Itemized		Copy in Francis Darwin's hand (corrected by Darwin) of 'The Action of Carbonate of Ammonia on Chlorophyll Bodies'. Fair copy of the above, with corrections by Darwin Draft of Preliminary notice. In Van Dyck,. On the modification of a race of Syrian street-dogs by means of sexual selection. F1803 110 images
DAR29.1	Browse Itemized		Notes made on board the Beagle, 1832-1836: (i) Animals, pp. 1-50. Fish in spirits of wine: 20 pp. Insects: 2 pages, & letter: C. C. Babington, 1 July 1837. Shells in spirits of wine [8 pp.] 143 images
DAR29.1.A1-A49	Text Image		[Darwin's Beagle animal notes (1832-33)]. Introduction
DAR29.1.B1b-B20	Text Image		'Fish in Spirits of Wine' [Beagle animal notes] (1832-1836).
DAR29.2	Browse		[Beagle 1832-6] Ornithological notes, transcribed in F1577. 123 images
DAR29.3	Browse Itemized		Notes made on Beagle, 1832-6, on Shells. Lists of Beagle specimens. Catalogue of boxes of corallines [10 small pieces of paper]. Insects in spirits of wine [one sheet]. Zoological plates & references. 'Table for Lind's wind gage for Captain Fitzroy of H.M.S. Beagle'. Mammalia in spirits of wine. Birds, etc. in spirits of wine. Notes on the preservation of specimens. 157 images
DAR30-31	Browse Itemized		'Diary of observations on zoology of the places visited during the voyage [of the Beagle]' (Zoological diary) (1832-1836) (Transcribed in F1840). 632 images
DAR32-33	Browse Itemized		'a diary of observations on the geology of the places visited during the voyage (1832-1834) [Geological diary]. 485 images
DAR34	Browse Itemized		Notes on the geology of the places visited during the voyage: maps, etc. Part I. [Geological diary]. 367 images
DAR35	Browse Itemized		Notes on the geology of the places visited. . . . Part II. [Geological diary]. 371 images
DAR35.328,328a-328j	Text Image		'Chiloe Jan^r. 1835' [Beagle notes]. Introduction
DAR36	Browse Itemized		Notes on the geology of the places visited. . . . Part III. [Geological diary]. 310 images
DAR37	Browse Itemized		Notes on the geology of the places visited. . . . Part IV. [Geological diary]. 315 images
DAR38	Browse Itemized		Notes on the geology of the places visited. . . . Part V. [Geological diary]. 224 images
HarkerCatalogue	Image		[Harker, A. c. 1907.] Sedgwick Museum. Catalogue of the "Beagle" Collection of Rocks, made by Charles Darwin during the voyage of H.M.S. "Beagle", 1832-6. Introduction
DAR39	Browse Itemized		MS. on the Geology of the Falkland Islands, by B. J. Sulivan. Lists of geological specimens. Maps & diagrams: special notes on cleavage, fossils, shells, etc. 398 images
DAR40	Browse Itemized		Misc. notes (mainly geological) during and arising from the Beagle voyage. Includes field notes from Hobart, Ascension etc. 157 images
DAR41	Browse Itemized		Paper headed 'Coral Islands'; fair copy of the foregoing; 'Recapitulations and Concluding Remarks' [on geology of South America]. 176 images
*The Beagle* field Notebooks (English Heritage Darwin Collection at Down House) General introduction to the Beagle notebooks**
EH1.4 [English Heritage 88202324]	Text	.	'Cape de Verds Fernando Noronha Bahia, Abrolhos Rio de Janeiro City' (1-6.1832). Introduction
EH1.10 [English Heritage 88202330]	Text	.	'Rio de Janeiro excursion city. M. Video Bahia Blanca' (4.1832, 6.1832-10.1832). Introduction
EH1.12 [English Heritage 88202332]	Text	.	'Buenos Ayres (city) Beagle Channel Ascent of P. Desire Creek.' (11-12.1832-2.1833; 12.1833). Introduction
EH1.14 [English Heritage 88202334]	Text	.	'Falkland Maldonado (excursion) Rio Negro to Bahia Blanca' (2-5.1833; 8.1833). Introduction
EH1.11 [English Heritage 88202331]	Text	.	'B. Blanca to Buenos Ayres' (9-10.1833). Introduction
EH1.13 [English Heritage 88202333]	Text	.	'Buenos Ayres. St. Fe and Parana. — Cordillera of Chile' (9-11.1833; 3-4.1835). Introduction
EH1.9 [English Heritage 88202329]	Text	.	'Banda Oriental S. Cruz.' (11.1833, 4-5.1834). Introduction
EH1.8 [English Heritage 88202328]	Text	.	'Port Desire — Famine Wollaston Isl^d Navarin Is^d. E. Falkland Isl^d Measurements of curved hills East coast of Chiloe Boat excursion Chonos S. Carlos'. (1-4.1834, 11-12.1834). Introduction
EH1.15 [English Heritage 88202335]	Text	.	'Valparaiso up Aconcagua to St Jago' (8.1834). Introduction
EH1.18 [English Heritage 88202338]	Text	.	'Santiago Book.' (9.1834; 2.1835-9.1838?). Introduction
EH1.16 [English Heritage 88202336]	Text	.	'Valparaiso to Coquimbo. Coquimbo valley' (4-5.1835). Introduction
EH1.7 [English Heritage 88202327]	Text	.	'Coquimbo to Copiapò' (6.1835). Introduction
EH1.6 [English Heritage 88202326]	Text	.	'Copiapò - Despoblado Isle of France Cape of Good Hope excursion St Helena.' (6-9.1835; 5-9.1836). Introduction
EH1.17 [English Heritage 88202337]	Text Image		'Galapagos. Otaheite Lima' (1835). Introduction
EH1.3 [English Heritage 88202323]	Text	.	'Sydney Mauritius' (1-4.1836). Introduction
EHBeagleDiary	Text	.	[Darwin's Beagle diary (1831-1836)] transcribed by Rookmaaker. Also transcribed in F1925.

DAR42	Browse Itemized		Notes for South America (1846). 366 images
DAR42.97-99	Text Image		'The position of the bones of Mastodon (?) at Port St Julian is of interest'.
DAR43.1	Browse		Notes by Orbigny, Sowerby & Forbes on shells collected by Darwin. [See Appendix in F273] 105 images
DAR43.2.A	Browse		'Buenos Ayres The fossil shells': 1-46. 46 images
DAR43.2.B	Browse		'Descriptions of Tertiary fossil shells from South America' by G. B Sowerby [See Appendix in F273]. 43 images
DAR44	Browse Itemized		Printed maps of South America, & plans & diagrams (geological sections, etc.) made by Darwin. 52 images
DAR45	Browse Itemized		Notes for chapter on 'Variation under Nature' [ch. 4 of Natural selection; ch. 2 of Origin 1859]. Contains Darwin's & others' MS. notes, printed extracts from periodicals, newspaper-cuttings, etc. See F1583. 284 images
DAR46.1	Browse Itemized		Notes for chapter on 'Struggle for Existence' [ch. 5 of Natural selection ; ch. 3 of Origin 1859]. Newspaper-cuttings, etc. See F1583. 105 images
DAR46.2	Browse Itemized		Notes on seeds of flowers (including hollyhock & stock) & vegetables, 'Comparison of seeds, flowers, legumes, etc. to see effect of selection and of non-correlation'. Notes on origin of cultivated plants, abstracts & a list of alpine plants not found in arctic Europe. Notes for 2nd edn of Journal of researches which 'may be useful in species theory'. Notes on habits of bees. 287 images
DAR47	Browse Itemized		Notes for 'Laws of Variation' [ch. 7 of Natural selection; ch. 5 of Origin 1859], includes notes by G. R. Waterhouse, H. C. Watson & G. J. Romanes. See F1583. 361 images
DAR48	Browse Itemized		Scraps & notes for 'Transitions of Organs', i.e. ch. 8 Natural selection [ch. 6 in Origin 1859]. See F1583. Notes on bees' cells for origin of species theory. 234 images
DAR49	Browse Itemized		Notes on dichogamy in plants, 1841. Also other notes an plants, dated 1841-72. ('Scraps about plants, all fully used.') 195 images
DAR50	Browse Itemized		Rough draft made for W. Kemp 'An account of some seeds buried at a great depth. . .which germinated.' F1918 with correspondence on the subject. Glen Roy notes & scraps. A few notes, etc. See F1909 'Abstract of Views on Glacial Periods', by J. Croll. Notes & other material on alpine, polar & glacial distribution. 235 images
DAR51	Browse Itemized		Notes & diagrams on phyllotaxy [1863]. Notes on peloria & on fertility of Antirrhinum, 1862-5. Material for pangenesis theory [1868]. notes, etc., Darwin on Ranyard on Pangenesis [1871], original draft of chapter ultimately altered & published in Variation [vol. II, ch. 27]. 177 images
DAR51.C36-C74	Text Image		Hypothesis of Pangenesis. [5.1865.] Also transcribed in F1578.
DAR52	Browse Itemized		Draft of a discussion on organs not being formed by direct action of medium in distinct organisms. Sent to G. H. Lewes, 1868. Ideas for experimenting some Galtonian measurements, 1873. Rough notes on Southampton gravel, 1874. See F1351 Romanes's paper on abortion, with draft of Darwin's reply, & letters printed in Nature on the subject, etc., 1874. Notes & letters concerning Torbitt's experiments on potato disease, 1876-. Perfected notes & other material on Aggregation of chlorophyll in plants [1880-1]. 213 images
DAR53	Browse Itemized		Additional photographs for Expression of the emotions, drawings, notes & references of chs. 2, 3, 6, 7, introduction, memoranda; cuttings from Nature & other publications. Notes for Cross and self fertilisation (1876). 202 & 138 images
DAR54	Browse Itemized		Material for Insectivorous plants (1875). Daily observations, notes, undated scraps for 1860-1862, 1871-1872. 260 images
DAR55	Browse Itemized		Material for Insectivorous plants (1875). Daily observations, notes, undated scraps, etc. for the later months of 1872 & June & July of 1873. 225 images
DAR56	Browse Itemized		Material for Insectivorous plants (1875). Daily observations, notes, etc., for the remaining months of 1873. 227 images
DAR57	Browse Itemized		Material for Insectivorous plants (1875). Daily observations, notes, etc., for the first part of 1874. 220 images
DAR58.2	Browse Itemized		Material for Insectivorous plants (1875). Press-cuttings, articles from scientific journals. 219 images
DAR59.1	Browse Itemized		Material for Insectivorous plants (1875). Daily observations, notes, etc., for the second part of 1874, & for 1875. 244 images
CC-OldLibraryGG.1.25	Image		Utricularia [draft of `Insectivorous plants' p. 427]
SA-Haandskrift394A[.1]	Text Image		The immersion of leaves in a solution of sugar [draft of `Insectivorous plants' pp. 293-4] (1874-1875).
DAR59.2	Browse Itemized		Material for Expression of the emotions. 127 images
DAR60	Browse Itemized		Material for Insectivorous plants (1875). Records of experiments with vapours, acids & salts, collections of related notes, references to work of other authors, etc. 255 & 134 images
DAR61	Browse Itemized		Material for Insectivorous plants (1875). Rough draft of the book, incomplete. 129 images
DAR62	Browse Itemized		Notes for 'On the Action of Carbonate of Ammonia on the Roots of Certain Plants'. F1801 132 images
DAR63	Browse Itemized		Material on earthworms for Formation of vegetable mould (1881). Notes on (1) castings; (2) furrows & ploughed land; (3) experiments done at St Catherine's Hill, Teg Down, & Stonehenge. Cuttings from scientific journals. 176 images
DAR64.1	Browse Itemized		Material on earthworms for Formation of vegetable mould (1881). Notes of experiments on habits of worms, many in the hand of Francis Darwin; notes on experiments carried out at Silchester, Chedworth, Abinger, Leith Hill & Stonehenge, with diagrams, plans, calculations, & photographs. Cuttings from various journals. Notes on the Roman Villa at Chedworth by Buckman & R. W. Hall, 2nd ed. (1873). Memorandum on Chedworth (15 Nov. 1877). Articles on worms by E. R. Lankester & E:-L. Trouessart. 126 & 205 images
DAR64.2	Browse Itemized
DAR65	Browse Itemized		Material on earthworms for Formation of vegetable mould (1881). Notes & observations made June 1880 - Mar. 1881; drawings, proofs, calculations, & undated scraps. 171 images
DAR66	Browse Itemized		Notes on bloom on leaves & fruit, which remained unfinished at Darwin's death. Notes for the years 1863, 1873-5 & Jan. - Aug. 1877. 232 images
DAR67	Browse Itemized		Notes on researches into bloom on leaves & fruit. Notes for Sept. 1877 to Jan. 1882. 141 images
DAR68	Browse Itemized		Notes on researches into bloom on leaves & fruit. Scraps on bloom. Late notes on leaf secretion & ants. Notes on: sleep in plants; salt water; effects of shaking stems of plants. Notes, with no year, from 11 June to 21 Nov., & 1 Aug. to 25 Sept. 182 images
DAR69	Browse Itemized		Material for new edns or corrections of works: Notes, etc., & proofs for supplemental note for Descent of man (1877). Letter: 'An Irishman', 13 June 1877. Translation of 5th edn of Origin of species into French, including notes which are possibly by Asa Gray. Notes for correcting 6th edn of Origin of species (1872). 2nd edn of Coral Reefs (1874), 3 maps, Commander W. J. S. Wharton's note on Rodriguez & Zanzibar, Charles Smith's notes on S.W. Pacific, proofs of plates, & cuttings from journals, etc. Notes by Darwin & others for 3rd edn of Coral reefs (1889), with a map of Great Barrier Reef, an extract from Blackwood's letter to Beaufort (20 Apr. 1843), cuttings, etc. 2nd edn of Climbing plants (1875), including cuttings, proofs of plates, & notes by G. H. Darwin on Climbing plants. 2nd edn of Cross and self fertilisation (1878), 'Ueber Honigthau' by H. Hoffmann, a review of book by Asa Gray, & cuttings from journals. 335 images
DAR70	Browse Itemized		Material for 2nd edn of Orchids (1877). Paintings for plates I-IV. 264 images
DAR71	Browse Itemized		Darwin's abstracts of scientific books. Includes 'Catalogue of books'. 290 images
DAR72	Browse Itemized		Darwin's abstracts of scientific books pp. 1-82, not recorded in the 'catalogue' of DAR 71; pp. 83-169: Misc. abstracts of scientific journals, chiefly on botany (Annales des Sciences, series II, vol. I-). 213 images
DAR73	Browse Itemized		Darwin's abstracts of scientific journals. Includes: Mém. Soc. Phy. Sci. de Genève; Mém. des Muséums, vols. III, X; Mém. du Mus. d'histoire Nat. vol. X, 1823; London J. Botany; Phytologist, vol. II, 1845-7; Botanical Gazette; Zoologists, vols. I & II, 1843-56; J. Indian Archipelago. 216 images
DAR74	Browse Itemized		Darwin's abstracts of scientific journals, etc. Includes: Westminster Rev.; Annales des Scient. Nat. 1st series; Horticulture Trans. vols. I-VII; Silliman's American J. Science; Horticultural J. vol. I; J. Agricultural Soc. of England, vol. I; Boston J. Natural History, vol. I; Linnaean Soc. Trans. vol. XVI; J. Asiatic Soc. Bengal; Madras J. Literature and Science; British Association: 1840. 271 images
DAR75	Browse Itemized		Darwin's abstracts of scientific pamphlets & journals. Includes an index of abstracts of '4° and 8° pamphlets': Gardeners' Chron.; Bull. Geological Soc.; Geological J.; Annals of the Soc. of Natural History; Trans. New Zealand Institute; Kosmos; Proc. & Trans. Zoological Soc.; Linnean J.; Trans. Linnean Soc.; American Naturalist; Philosophical Trans; J. Anatomy & Physiology; Proc. American Philosophical Soc; Annales, Soc. Entomolog. de France; Mind; J. Anthropological Institute; Proc. or Mem. of Boston Soc. of Nat. Hist. (sic); Proc. American Academy of Sciences; Proc. Royal Soc. for Advancement of Science. Lists of articles & pamphlets on: intercrossing & sterility; dichogamy in plants & animals; variations under Nature & laws of variation. 179 images
DAR76	Browse Itemized		Old observations on Diptera. Notes, scraps & calculations used in Cross and self fertilisation. 318 images
DAR77	Browse Itemized		Material used in Cross and self fertilisation (1876) includes scraps, memoranda, notes of observations, tables of calculations, references to articles in journals. Account of 25 years of observations of sweet peas, signed by W. Masters. 265 images
DAR78	Browse Itemized		Notes for Cross and self fertilisation (1876). 276 images
DAR79	Browse Itemized		Notes for Cross and self fertilisation (1876), continued. 239 images
DAR80	Browse Itemized		Material for 1st edn of Descent of man (1871). References to books & articles by other writers. Index to a work by C. L. Brehm. Index of books used. Cuttings from scientific journals, etc. 282 images
DAR81	Browse Itemized		Material for 1st edn of Descent of man (1871). 237 images
DAR82	Browse Itemized		Material for 1st edn of Descent of man (1871). Queries & observations of A. Günther; scraps; press-cuttings; illustrations. 319 images
DAR83	Browse Itemized		Material for 1st edn of Descent of man (1871). Notes & observations, made at Zoological Gardens & elsewhere; cuttings from scientific journals; illustrations; observations by other people. 233 images
DAR84.1	Browse Itemized		Material for 1st edn of Descent of man (1871). Notes, calculations, references to books & articles by other writers, mainly on sexual selection in birds, misc. memoranda, cuttings from journals, drawings, & proofs of illustrations. 309 & 251 images
DAR84.2	Browse Itemized
DAR85	Browse Itemized		Material for 1st edn of Descent of man (1871). Includes notes & relevant letters on specific subjects (e.g. music, hair colour in man, etc.); scraps & memoranda; cuttings from journals. 335 images
DAR86	Browse Itemized		MS relating to 1st edn of Descent of man (1871), & of errata for Insectivorous plants (1875). 289 images
DAR87	Browse Itemized		Material for 2nd edn of Descent of man (1874) chs. 1-6, & cuttings from journals, memoranda & photographs. 229 images
DAR88	Browse Itemized		Material for 2nd edn of Descent of man (1874). Notes & memoranda on moral sense, mammals & birds. 274 images
DAR89	Browse Itemized		Material for 2nd edn of Descent of man (1874). Notes on fish, insects, sexual selection, man—voice, music. 284 images
DAR90	Browse Itemized		Material for 2nd edn of Descent of man (1874), including races, sexual selection, general principles, notes & proofs for errata, etc. 211 images
DAR91	Browse Itemized		Early notes on guns & shooting. 'Old and useless notes about the moral sense and some metaphysical points written about 1837 and earlier' (1838, 1839 & 1840). Autobiographical fragment, 'written August 1838'. Misc. material originally found with notebook for 'Books to be read'. 1838, DAR119. One loose sheet originally with 'Catalogue of the Scientific books read by Darwin in 1846'. Draft of a sketch of A. R. Wallace's career, 1881. Fair copy of autobiography, & list of Darwin's works. Notes on reading Sumner's Evidence of Christianity. Copy of C. Darwin's account of J. S. Henslow contributed to L. Jenyns's Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow. (1862). F830 172 images
DAR91.1	Text		Shot [Notes on shooting].
DAR91.2	Text		the proper proportion of shot [Notes on shooting].
DAR91.3	Text		Instructions for Young Sportsmen [Notes on shooting].
DAR91.114-118	Text Image		[Notes on reading Sumner's Evidence of Christianity]. [c. 1827.]
DAR91.56-63	Text Image		[An autobiographical fragment] (8.1838).
DAR92	Browse Itemized		Papers dealing with Samuel Butler's attack on Darwin. Including fair copies of Darwin's first & second draft letters to Athenaeum, cuttings, reviews of Butler's Evolution old and new, & Butler's letter to Athenaeum. 300 images
DAR107			forthcoming
DAR108	Browse Itemized		Material on illegitimate progeny of dimorphic & trimorphic plants, including notes, tables, memoranda & press-cuttings, mainly on Primulae. 292 images
DAR109	Browse Itemized		Material on illegitimate progeny of dimorphic & trimorphic plants: notes, memoranda & extracts from journals. Mainly on Oxalis, Thyme & Marjoram. 357 images
DAR110	Browse Itemized		Material on illegitimate progeny of dimorphic & trimorphic plants; notes, memoranda, cuttings, etc., mainly on Rubiaceae & Primulaceae; Pulmonaria & Mitchella, etc. 347 images
DAR111	Browse Itemized		Material on illegitimate progeny of dimorphic & trimorphic plants; notes, observations, memoranda, reprinted articles by Darwin, general conclusions & remarks & groups of notes on Primulae. 263 images
DAR112	Browse Itemized		Letters to Francis Darwin about Darwin, collected for Life and Letters (1887). Also various recollections of Darwin. 351 images (Over 50 of these are transcribed.)
DAR113	Browse		Sketch of species theory, 1844, Fair copy of DAR7, annotated by Darwin. 263 images
DAR116	Browse Itemized		Notebook containing abstracts of, & notes on, botanical books & papers. 186 images
DAR117	Browse		W. E. Darwin's botanical notebook, containing notes & diagrams of flowers (1862-1870). 58 images
DAR118	Text Image		[Edinburgh notebook]. (1827; 1828-1829; 1837-1839). Contains Edinburgh notes on marine marine life, entries on beetles collected while Darwin was a student at Cambridge, and post Beagle voyage notes. 49 images
DAR119	Browse		Notebook of 'Books to be read', 1838. [The misc. material which was originally loose between its pages is now in DAR91.] 87 images
DAR120	Browse		Catalogue of the scientific books read by Darwin in 1846. [The loose sheet discovered between its pages is now in DAR91.] 49 images
Darwin's notebooks on geology, transmutation of species, metaphysical enquiries
DAR121	Browse Text		Notebook B: [Transmutation of species (1837-1838)]. 'commenced. . . July 1837'. [Transcribed in F1817] 284 images
DAR122	Browse Text		Notebook C: [Transmutation of species (1838.02-1838.07)]. [Transcribed in F1574b, superceded by F1817]. 239 images
DAR123	Browse Text		Notebook D: [Transmutation of species (1838.07.15-1838.10.02)]. [Transcribed in F1574c, superceded by F1817]. 176 images
DAR124	Browse Text		Notebook E: [Transmutation of species (1838-1839)]. [Transcribed in F1574d, superceded by F1817]. 114 images
DAR125	Browse		Notebook M: [Metaphysics on morals and speculations on expression (1838)]. [Transcribed in F1582, superceded by F1817]. 151 images
DAR126	Browse		Notebook N: [Metaphysics and expression (1838-1839)]. [Transcribed in F1582, superceded by F1817]. 126 images
DAR127	Browse		Notebook A: Geology (1837-1839). 'As far as p. 33 distributed to several subjects. As far as p. 140 abstracted as far as concerns Geolog. observations on Volcanic Islands and Coral Formation. 24 February 1839.' [Transcribed in F1817]. 160 images
			* See clearer images of the excised pages from the above notebooks in DAR208.
	Browse		Torn Apart Notebook (1839-1841) [An aggregate of MS pages]. [Transcribed in F1817]. 86 images
DAR128	Browse		Notebook 'Books read and to be read', 1852-1860. 57 images
DAR129	Browse		Diary for 1826, with entries about birds, beasts and flowers seen on walks. 149 images
DAR130	Browse		Glen Roy notebook, 1838. [Transcribed in F1817]. 119 images
DAR131	Browse		Featherstonhaugh, Report of a Geological Reconnoissance. . . (Washington, 1836). 174 images
DAR132	Itemized		Down House pamphlet (c. 1946?). 36 images; Burgerstein, Charles Robert Darwin (Vienna, 1889.). 1 image; Carlyle's supposed attack on Darwin, & refutation. Two newspaper cuttings, from The Times (? Jan. 1877) & Record (14 Feb. 1877). 1 image; O'Shaughnessy: Darwin Confounded (Cork, 1876). 25 images; F. Delpino: Rivista Botanica (Milan, 1876). 140 images; letter on holly berries. Gardeners' Chron. (6 Jan. 1877). 1 image; Darwin, Geology [from Manual of scientific enquiry, 3d edn, 1859]. 34 images
DAR133	Browse Itemized		[Printed acknowledgment of correspondence]. nd. T. H. Huxley: Obituary notice of Darwin. Offprints by Wright, Gray & Wallace. Cuttings, etc. on heterostyled plants, polygamous plants & cleistogamic flowers. Various dates to 1881. 902 images
DAR134	Itemized		Reviews of Life and Letters, articles, and addresses on Darwin's life and work (1887-1892). 878 images
DAR135	Itemized		Pamphlets, offprints of Darwin's articles and articles by other authors (1835-1882).
DAR136	Itemized		A collection of 16 botanical and geological pamphlets (1838-1879).
DAR137	Itemized		State of New York. Senate, no. 64 (2 Mar. 1840); Assembly, communications from the Governor concerning the Geological Survey of the State. 4 numbers, dated: no. 150 (17 Feb. 1841), no. 161 (11 Feb. 1873), no. 200 (20 Feb. 1838), no. 275 (27 Feb. 1839).
DAR138.1	Browse Itemized		Press-cuttings on Darwin's death & funeral. Mostly from French newspapers. 236 images
DAR138.2	Browse Itemized		Various cuttings, notes, reviews & offprints. 173 images
DAR138.3	Browse Itemized		The Field. 6 numbers, dated: 19 Nov. 1864, 3 Dec. 1864, 31 Dec. 1864, 18 Feb. 1865, 4 Mar. 1865, 1 Apr. 1865. 144 images
DAR138.4.1	Browse		Künckel, Les Lépidoptères à trompe perforante `Académie des Sciences (Comptes Rendus)' 81: 397-400. 3 images
DAR138.5.1	Browse		To members of the Down Friendly Club. [N.p.: n.p.] 1 image
DAR139.1.1	Browse		Darwin's accounts with John Murray for 1881, recording sales of books. 11 images
DAR139.2.1	Browse		Speech made by the Public Orator on Darwin's honorary degree at Cambridge (17 Nov. 1877). 1 image
DAR139.3.1	Browse		The Athenaeum. Index for 1847. 7 images
DAR139.4.1	Browse		Isaac Hays: 'Descriptions of the Inferior Maxillary Bones of Mastodons in the Cabinet of the American Philosophical Society…' (from Trans. American Phil. Soc. vol. IV, N.S.(1833)). 45 images
DAR139.5.1	Browse		David Milne: On the Parallel Roads of Lochaber… (Edinburgh, 1847). 56 images
DAR139.6.1	Browse		[A Greek translation of Darwin's 'Biographical Sketch of an Infant'.] (1877). F1779 17 images
DAR139.7.1	Browse		'On the Formation of Mould' (Geological Soc. Trans. vol. V (1840), pp. 505-10), with annotations by Darwin. F1655 6 images
DAR139.8.1	Browse		'On the Connexion of Certain Volcanic Phenomena in South America; & on the Formation of Mountain Chains & Volcanos as the Effect of the Same Power by Which Continents are Elevated' (Geological Soc. Trans. vol. V (1840)). F1649 35 images
DAR139.9.1	Browse		'Observations on the Parallel Roads of Glen Roy…' (Philosophical Trans. (1839)), with annotations by Darwin. F1653 48 images
DAR139.10.1	Browse		'On the Distribution of the Erratic Boulders and on the Contemporaneous Unstratified Deposits of South America' (Geological Soc. Trans. vol. VI (1842)), with annotations by Darwin. F1661 19 images
DAR139.11.1	Browse		Material concerning H. Festing Jones's Charles Darwin and Samuel Butler: A Step Towards Reconciliation. Reviews, 1910-11, & correspondence, including: H. Festing Jones to F. Darwin; H. E. Lichfield to F. Darwin; W. E. Darwin to F. Darwin; L. Darwin to F. Darwin. Rough draft of a letter to H. Festing Jones from F. Darwin. Typescript of pamphlet by H. Festing Jones. Press-cuttings. 60 images
DAR139.12.1	Browse Itemized		Material concerning Darwin's religion: F. O. Morris: All the Articles of the Darwin Faith). E. B. Aveling: The Religious Views of Charles Darwin. The Index for 23 Dec. 1871 & 12 Mar. 1874. Archbishop of Canterbury, a speech at meeting of the South American Missionary Soc., 21 Apr. 1885. Letters: Darwin to J. D. Hooker (copy); J. F. Heyes to F. Darwin; Edw. Cantuar to J. F. Heyes, (copy); F. J. Wedgwood to F. Darwin. Various other copies of letters, by Darwin & others, relating to the same subject. 178 images
DAR139.13	Browse Itemized		Nature: collection of articles on cross-fertilization, 1869-76. Other misc. articles, collected between 1873-77, with notes in Darwin's hand. 80 images
DAR139.14.1	Browse		Revue Scientifique for 27 Sept. 1873. 20 images
DAR139.14.2	Browse		Revue Scientifique for 18 Aug. 1877. 26 images
DAR139.15.1	Browse		Kerner: Die Schutzmittel der Blüthen gegen unberufene Gäste (Vienna, 1876). 82 images
DAR139.16.1[.1]	Browse		Spectator: Cuttings on natural & supernatural selection, 3 October 1868 & 17 October 1868. 8 images
DAR139.16.2	Browse		The Darwinian Jeremiad `Spectator': 1215-16. 2 images
DAR139.16.3	Browse		Natural versus supernatural selection `Spectator': 1220-21. 3 images
DAR139.17	Browse Itemized		Material on vivisection 1875-1881. 128 images
DAR139.18	Browse Itemized		Reviews, press-cuttings, etc., on Insectivorous plants (1875). Abstract of Francis Darwin's paper on Drosera, read Linnaean Society, 17 Jan. 1878. 87 images
DAR139.19.1	Browse		Nature: cutting (7 Sept. 1876). British Association, Section D, Biology. Opening address by the President, A. R. Wallace. 10 images
DAR139.20.1	Browse		Gardeners' Chronicle (29 Dec. 1877), cutting on 'Growth Under Difficulties'. 4 images
DAR140.1	Browse Itemized		Misc. material on Darwin, including: Photographs, engravings & written sketches. Congratulatory verses by C. Hoare. Address by the Public Orator of Cambridge University for Darwin's honorary degree, 17 Nov. 1877, & a translation of it. Newspaper cuttings on above, etc. Cuttings on Darwin & religion, etc. from The Index & many other journals. 81 images
DAR140.2	Browse		Darwin's personal journal (1809-81). [Fair copy of DAR158]. 26 images
DAR140.3.1-159	Browse		Recollections of Darwin by Francis Darwin. Introduction 167 images
DAR140.3.160-207	Browse Text	.	Recollections of Darwin by Francis Darwin (Partial fair copy of the above). 52 images
DAR140.4	Browse Itemized		Caricatures, cartoons & sketches of Darwin; many cuttings from journals. Two cuttings on Darwin & Carlyle. 57 images
DAR140.5	Browse Itemized		Material concerning Darwin's death & funeral, including: M. J. Savage: Darwin (Boston, 1882.); report of committee of Darwin Memorial Fund (1888); the anthem, mourners, family procession, tickets, etc. Also large collection of cuttings from journals—leading articles, reports of funeral, obituaries, & reviews of Life and Letters (1887). 157 images
DAR140.6	Browse		Proof sheets of Orchids (2nd edn, 1877). [Corrected by Darwin]. 152 images
DAR141	Browse Itemized		Caricatures of and posthumous articles on Darwin & Cambridge University, Chancellor Masters and Scholars (Invitation to join in the commemoration of Charles Darwin) June 1909.
DAR142	Browse Itemized		Sample seed packets and misc. notes and photographs. 228 images
DAR149.9	Browse Itemized		Drafts of More Letters of Charles Darwin (1903). 409 images
DAR154	Browse Itemized		Family letters and Darwin's notes on Zoonomia, by Erasmus Darwin (1837-8). 325 images
DAR155	Browse		Reviews of More Letters of Charles Darwin (1903). 183 images
DAR156	Browse		Correspondence between members of the Darwin family, British Association, etc., & University Library, Cambridge, on the gift of the Darwin MSS. (1942-49). 88 images
DAR157	Browse Itemized		Notes for Climbing plants, drafts of Descent of man, abstracts, Experiment Book (1855-1867). 376 images
DAR158	Text Image		[Darwin's personal 'Journal' (1809-1881)]. 119 images Introduction
DAR186	Browse Itemized		Expression queries (answers summarised by subject). 248 images
DAR187	Browse Itemized		[Climbing plants]. 10 images
DAR188	Browse Itemized		Notes relating to Dust `Geological Society Journal' 2 (1846): 26-30. 41 images
DAR189	Browse Itemized		Loose Notes: Expression. 34 images
DAR190	Browse Itemized		Figures & plates for Insectivorous plants. 51 images
DAR191	Browse		Loose Notes: Man. 7 images
DAR192	Browse		Loose Notes: Phyllotaxy. 21 images
DAR193	Browse Itemized		Loose Notes & clippings: Variation under domestication [loose notes with one original Charles Darwin packet] 142 images
DAR194	Browse Itemized		Loose Notes: Misc. loose items [includes Humble Bees]. 98 images
DAR195	Browse Itemized		Notes on expression. 551 images
DAR196.1-5,7-8	Browse Itemized		Misc. notes & clippings, Petition regarding pension for Wallace, barometers, drafts of Expression and Orchids. 121 images
DAR196.6.1	Browse		Drafts of Life and letters vol. 2 (1887). 245 images
DAR197	Browse Itemized		Entomological Abstracts. 75 images
DAR198	Browse Itemized		Newspaper cuttings & correspondence for Life and letters. 621 images
DAR200	Browse Itemized		Notes on insectivorous plants, 'Notes on the Darwin family' & reading notes. 472 images.
DAR202	Itemized		Charles Darwin: drafts (1876-1882). 288 images
DAR205.1	Browse Itemized		Collection of notes on Rudimentary Organs. 102 images
DAR205.2	Browse Itemized		Collection of notes on Means of Distribution. 295 images
DAR205.3	Browse Itemized		Collection of notes on Distribution of animals. 355 images
DAR205.4	Browse Itemized		Collection of notes on Geographical distribution and species. 161 images
DAR205.5	Browse Itemized		Collection of notes on Principle of divergence, transitional organs/instincts. 289 images
DAR205.6	Browse Itemized		Collection of notes on Embryology [pigeons]. 113 images
DAR205.7	Browse Itemized		Collection of notes on Hybridism, sterility [and pigeons]. 208 images
DAR205.8	Browse Itemized		Collection of notes on Monschaetum - notes on plants. 118 images
DAR205.9	Browse Itemized		Collection of notes on Palaeontology, geology. 636 images
DAR205.10	Browse Itemized	.	Collection of notes on Variation, varieties. 137 images
DAR205.11	Browse Itemized	.	Collection of notes on Instinct, change in habit. 214 images
DAR206	Browse Itemized		'Questions and experiments' notebook & loose notes (1839-1844). 111 images
DAR207	Browse Itemized		Misc. scientific notes [Gorringes C.41b & C.41d-g]. 42 images
DAR208	Browse Itemized		Excised leaves from transmutation and other notebooks. [See DAR121-127 above]. 275 images
DAR209.1	Browse Itemized		Notes on Trifolium, Lupinus, Erythrina, Cassia. 233 images
DAR209.2	Browse Itemized		Notes on Mimosa, Desmodium. 245 images
DAR209.3	Browse Itemized		Notes on circumnutation of leaves. 493 images
DAR209.4	Browse Itemized		Notes on movements of cotyledon. 572 images
DAR209.5	Browse Itemized		Notes on movements of radicals. 332 images
DAR209.6	Browse Itemized		Misc. references. 312 images
DAR209.7	Browse Itemized	.	Notes on heliotropism. 219 images
DAR209.8	Browse Itemized		Notes on heliotropism. 234 images
DAR209.9	Browse Itemized		Notes on sleep. 151 images
DAR209.10	Browse Itemized		Notes on sleep (Leguminosae). 99 images
DAR209.11	Browse Itemized		Notes on power of movement in plants. 372 images
DAR209.12	Browse Itemized		Sleep (notes, 1877). 280 images
DAR209.13	Browse Itemized		Notes on fertilisation (Thalia). 47 images
DAR209.14	Browse Itemized		Notes on sleep of leaves. 27 images
DAR209.15	Browse Itemized		Notes on power of movement in plants. 111 images
DAR210.7	Browse		Misc. Darwin fragments later used as rough paper by the family [two on cirripedes and Charles Darwin Things for a Week] (DAR210 has been re-catalogued since microfilming.) 46 images [New scans from a clearer microfilm reel of DAR210 are forthcoming.]
UMZC-Histories3.454	Image		[Darwin's Catalogue of the appendages and other parts of Cirripedes, mounted as microscopical slides. (1854-5)]. Introduction
DAR210.8.1	Text Image		'Work finished If not marry' [Memorandum on marriage]. (1838).
DAR210.8.2	Text Image		'This is the Question Marry Not Marry' [Memorandum on marriage]. (7.1838).
DAR210.8.14	Text Image	.	[Emma Darwin's memo about Darwin's religious doubts] (c. 2.1839).
DAR210.8	Browse	.	W. E. Darwin & Francis Darwin on the religious part of the Autobiography… (DAR210 has been re-catalogued since microfilming.) 17 images
DAR210.9	Text Image		Emma Darwin's reminiscences of Charles Darwin's last years. (DAR210 has been re-catalogued since microfilming.) 17 images
DAR210.9.30	Text	.	'Things for a week' (5.1859). Darwin's list of items to take on holiday. Introduction
DAR210.10	Browse	.	Two Charles Darwin memoranda: Marry, Not Marry, This is the Question and Work finished; two Emma notes to Charles Darwin on religion. (DAR210 has been re-catalogued since microfilming.) 17 images
DAR210.11.37	Text	.	[Notebook of observations on the Darwin children]. (1839-1856).
DAR210.12	Browse	.	W. E. Darwin List of MSS at Bank in box, 1876 letter from Index (Ohio) (DAR210 has been re-catalogued since microfilming.) 5 images
DAR210.13	Browse Itemized		Letters on the death of Annie Darwin; memorial of Charles Waring Darwin. 153 images
DAR210.13.40	Text Image	.	'Our poor child, Annie' [Darwin's reminiscence of Anne Elizabeth Darwin] (30.04.1851).
DAR210.14	Browse Itemized	.	John Murray [publishers] accounts 1875-1880. (DAR210 has been re-catalogued since microfilming.) 54 images
DAR210.29	Browse	.	Darwin ancestry, pedigrees & misc. family letters. (DAR210 has been re-catalogued since microfilming.) 431 images
DAR212	Browse Itemized		Manuscript of Darwin's Introduction to Ernst Krause Erasmus Darwin, 1879. F1319
DAR213	Itemized		Proofs of Darwin's books: Erasmus Darwin; Different forms; Power of movement; Climbing plants; Descent of man 2d edn; Expression of the emotions; Insectivorous plants; Cross and self fertilisation; Origin of species 6th edn; Origin of species 6th edn 33rd thousand.
DAR214	Browse		Emma Darwin's Recipe Book. 94 images
DAR215	Browse Itemized		Items related to Darwin's funeral, obituaries & related correspondence, 1882 & items relating to Darwin's LL.D. degree, Cambridge 1877. 345 images
DAR216	Browse Itemized		Obituaries of Darwin, 1882. 126 images
DAR217.1	Browse		Sketch of species theory (copy of DAR6) [proofs of Foundations], [H. W. Rutherford, with Francis Darwin's notes & Judd corrections of proof.] 126 images
DAR217.2	Browse		Sketch of species theory 1842 (copy) [H. W. Rutherford], see DAR6. 261 images
DAR217.3	Browse		Beagle diary [1891 typescript copy], under Horace Darwin's supervision. [published in F1925] 748 images
DAR219.11-.12			forthcoming
DAR221	Browse Itemized		MS page of Origin of species, Descent of man, Expression of emotions. Manuscript catalogues of Darwin's papers and abstracts. Extract of correspondence with Mrs Haliberton. Printed papers: Extracts from letters to Henslow (1885), May on 'Darwin und Patrick Matthew', Letters from Darwin to A. Hancock, Calman on Patrick Matthew. 242 images
DAR222	Browse		Index to annotations by Darwin in his copies of Gardeners' Chronicle. 36 images
DAR225	Browse Itemized		Darwin family photographs, etc. & caricatures of Darwin. 296 images
DAR226	Browse Itemized		Scrapbooks of reviews of Darwin's works [2 volumes]. 781 images
DAR242	Browse Itemized		Emma Darwin's diaries (1824-1896). 3,325 images Introduction
DAR262	Itemized	.	Recollections of Darwin by Henrietta Emma Litchfield née Darwin (13 transcriptions)

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