[Discussion] The complete work of Charles Darwin online

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

The complete work of Charles Darwin online

A major three year grant by the AHRC has been awarded to Professor James 
Secord
(Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of 
Cambridge) and
Professor Janet Browne (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine,
University College London) to create a comprehensive scholarly collection of
Charles Darwin’s published and unpublished writings, except for
correspondence, on the world wide web. The project, designed and 
directed by Dr
John van Wyhe (University of Cambridge), is based at The Centre for 
Research in
the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of
Cambridge.

The project aims to make available online every book, article and 
significant
unpublished manuscript by Darwin, including associated contemporary book 
reviews
and related sources. The letters are being published separately by the 
Darwin
Correspondence Project. New editorial introductions and notes will 
accompany all
the texts. Each page will be available as digital text and photo image 
form. All
of the digitised texts will retain page or folio numbers and full formatting
such as italics. An innovative feature will be a complete bibliography and
catalogue of manuscripts.

The site will be of invaluable use to students and scholars in the fields of
history, history of science, literature, philosophy, the natural 
sciences and
lay readers throughout the world. It will have a powerful custom-made search
engine providing integrated retrieval and display of material across the 
full
range of Darwin’s published works and manuscripts—in short 
almost
everything Darwin ever wrote.

For further information see: http://darwin-online.org.uk

Dr John van Wyhe,
The complete work of Charles Darwin online
CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX
Email: jmv21@cam.ac.uk

Visit the website at http://darwin-online.org.uk/