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Darwin Correspondence Project

What Darwin Read

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Inside the front cover of Darwin's 1830s reading notebook
Inside the front cover of Darwin's 1830s reading notebook
CUL DAR 119: 1
Cambridge University Library

Follow the links below to resources about the books and papers, mostly scientific, that Darwin read as student at Edinburgh, during the Beagle voyage, and later in his life.

Darwin and his family also read works of fiction by Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, and Jane Austen, among others.

Darwin’s student booklist

Books on the Beagle

Darwin’s reading notebooks

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