Darwin Correspondence Project

Resources on Charles Darwin:

• The Darwin Archive page at Cambridge University Library
• An annotated calendar of the letters of Charles Darwin in the American Philosophical Society (PDF)
• The Darwin Manuscripts Project: digitised resources including an edition of Darwin’s  notebooks
• Darwin Online : a comprehensive collection of Darwin’s published writings and other material
• Darwin the Geologist at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Cambridge
• Aboutdarwin.com: a wide-ranging collection of resources including a timeline
• The John Murray Archive at the National Library of Scotland, and their timeline for the publication of Origin.
• Darwin’s Plants from the Beagle Voyage: images of plant specimens collected by Darwin during the voyage, and now in the University of Cambridge Herbarium.
• Darwin’s Pigeons, a resource for all things to do with Darwin’s research and publication on pigeon breeding, including a photo of Darwin Correspondence Project Director, Jim Secord, with his favourite breed, here.
  

Information on correspondents:

• A site dedicated to Joseph Dalton Hooker

Research resources:

• The Archives Hub: a gateway to descriptions of archives in UK universities and colleges, with  a highlight on Darwin collections
• The Biodiversity Heritage Library: a multi-institutional project to digitize the world’s major collections of books on biodiversity
• ITIS: taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world
• IPNI: the International Plant Names Index
• Darwin @LSE: recent developments in evolutionary thinking, including bibliographic resources

Educational resources:

• ARKIVE: Charles Darwin educational resources provided in association with the British Council
• Resources on Darwin and the teaching of evolution from the Wellcome Trust
• Information for schools from “Darwin 200? and the Natural History Museum, especially the Great Plant Hunt: following in Darwin’s footsteps,  and the Evolution pages
• Understanding evolution for teachers:  provided by the University of California Museum of Paleontology
• The Open University’s Evolution Megalab
• The teachers’ guide to Peter Sis’s The Book of Life, an excellent book on evolution for children, and an animated excerpt
• Information for schools on pond ecology from the British Ecological Society, including construction information
• Charles Darwin and Evolution: pages from Christ’s College, Cambridge, including good introductions for kids and teachers