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Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882

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• The Autobiography of Charles Darwin (as published in "The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin"), by Charles Darwin, ed. by Francis Darwin (Gutenberg text)
• Darwin and Modern Science: Essays in Commemoration of the Centenary of the Birth of Charles Darwin and of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Publication of The Origin of Species, ed. by A. C. Seward (Gutenberg text)
• Darwiniana, by Thomas Henry Huxley (Gutenberg text)
• The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (two-volume edition), by Charles Darwin, ed. by Francis Darwin
  • volume I: Gutenberg text
  • volume II: Gutenberg text
• The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (three-volume edition; with other autobiographical material), by Charles Darwin, ed. by Francis Darwin (illustraed HTML and page images with commentary at Charles Darwin Online)
• Lingua ex Machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky With the Human Brain (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000), by William H. Calvin and Derek Bickerton (illustrated HTML with commentary at williamcalvin.com)
• Darwin's Metaphor: Nature's Place in Victorian Culture, by Robert M. Young (HTML in the UK)
• Marxism and Darwinism, by Anton Pannekoek, trans. by Nathan Weiser (HTML at marxists.org)
• Shelley's View of Nature Contrasted with Darwin's, by Mathilde Blind (HTML at indiana.edu)
• Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• More Letters of Charles Darwin, by Charles Darwin, ed. by Francis Darwin and A. C. Seward
  • HTML and page images with commentary at Charles Darwin Online
  • volume I: Gutenberg text
  • volume II: Gutenberg text

• Darwin in Russian Thought (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), by Alexander Vucinich (HTML at UC Press)
• Beasts of the Modern Imagination: Darwin, Nietzsche, Kafka, Ernst, and Lawrence (originally published 1985; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Margot Norris (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Disasters Darwinism Brought to Humanity, by Hârun Yahya (multiple formats at harunyahya.info)
• The Evolution Deceit (electronic edition), by Hârun Yahya (multiple formats at harunyahya.info)
• The Vital Science: Biology and the Literary Imagination, 1860-1900, by Peter Morton (HTML at Google)

• Darwinism: Science or Philosophy? Proceedings of a Symposium Entitled "Darwinism: Scientific Inference or Philosophical Preference?" Held on the Southern Methodist University Campus in Dallas, Texas, USA, March 26-28, 1992, ed. by Jon A. Buell and Virginia Hearn (HTML at leaderu.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, by Alfred Russel Wallace and James Marchant
  • volume I: Gutenberg text
  • volume II: Gutenberg text
• Diary of a Journey Through the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida, From July 1, 1765 to April 10, 1766 (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, new series v33 part 1; Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1942), by John Bartram, ed. by Francis Harper (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nat the Naturalist, by George Manville Fenn (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• "Worlds Not Realized" (London: Bell and Daldy, 1856), by Mrs. Alfred Gatty (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fathers of Biology (London: Percival and Co., 1890), by Charles McRae (Gutenberg text)

• John James Audubon, by John Burroughs (Gutenberg text)

• Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall; With Notices of Their Botanical Contemporaries (Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1849), by William Darlington, contrib. by Peter Collinson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Eliza Brightwen, Naturalist and Philanthropist: An Autobiography (New York: American Tract Society, ca. 1909), by Mrs. Brightwen, ed. by W. H. Chesson, contrib. by Edmund Gosse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eliza Brightwen: The Life and Thoughts of a Naturalist (London and Leipzig: T. F. Unwin, 1909), by Mrs. Brightwen, ed. by W. H. Chesson, contrib. by Edmund Gosse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• John Burroughs, Boy and Man (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1920), by Clara Barrus (illustrated HTML at catskillarchive.com)
• The Seer of Slabsides (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1921), by Dallas Lore Sharp (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Our Friend John Burroughs, by Clara Barrus (Gutenberg text)

• Rachel Carson: Pen Against Poison (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2007), ed. by George Clack and Bruce Odessey (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Mark Catesby: The Colonial Audubon (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1961), by George Frederick Frick and Raymond Phineas Stearns (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life and Remains of John Clare, the "Northamptonshire Peasant Poet", by John Clare, ed. by J. L. Cherry (Gutenberg text)
• The Life of John Clare, by Frederick Martin (Gutenberg text)

• The Life of Philibert Commerson, D. M., Naturalist du Roi: An Old-World Story of French Travel and Science in the Days of Linnaeus (London: J. Murray, 1909), by Samuel Pasfield Oliver, ed. by G. F. Scott Elliot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin, Chiefly During His Residence in Lichfield: With Anecdotes of His Friends, and Criticisms on His Writings (London: J. Johnson, 1804), by Anna Seward (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Erasmus Darwin (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1880), by Ernst Krause, trans. by W. S. Dallas, contrib. by Charles Darwin (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Hanbury Family (2 volumes; London: A. L. Humphreys, 1916), by A. Audrey Locke (page images at HathiTrust)

• Baron d'Holbach: A Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France, by Max Pearson Cushing (Gutenberg text)

• Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley, by Thomas Henry Huxley and Leonard Huxley
  • volume 1: Gutenberg text
  • volume 2: Gutenberg text
  • volume 3: Gutenberg text
• Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley; With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement (New York: D. Apleton and Co., 1897), by Edward Clodd
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Freethinkers of the Nineteenth Century (London: Chapman and Hall, 1920), by Janet E. Courtney (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies (London: Chatto and Windus, 1888), by Walter Besant (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Story of My Heart: My Autobiography (London et al: Longmans, Green and Co., 1922), by Richard Jefferies, contrib. by Charles James Longman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Story of My Heart, by Richard Jefferies (Gutenberg text)

• Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution: His Life and Work; With Translations of His Writings on Organic Evolution (New York et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1901), by A. S. Packard, contrib. by Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de Lamarck (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Letters to a Friend, by John Muir (HTML at Sierra Club)
• My First Summer in the Sierra, by John Muir
  • HTML at Sierra Club
  • page images at loc.gov
• Stickeen, by John Muir (HTML at Sierra Club)

• Recollections of a Happy Life: Being the Autobiography of Marianne North (second edition, 2 volumes; New York and London: Macmillan, 1892), by Marianne North, ed. by Janet Catherine North Symonds (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recollections of a Happy Life: Being the Autobiography of Marianne North (2 volumes; New York and London: Macmillan, 1894), by Marianne North, ed. by Janet Catherine North Symonds
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

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