Charles Darwin bibliography

This is a partial list of the writings of Charles Darwin, including his main works.

All of his writings are available at The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online: the Table of Contents provides a complete bibliography of his works, including alternative editions, contributions to books & periodicals, correspondence, life, and a complete catalogue of his manuscripts. This is free to read, but not public domain, and includes work still under copyright. For public-domain plain text unauthoritative versions of his major works, see Works by Charles Darwin at Project Gutenberg.

There is a collected printed edition, the standard for scholarly use: The Works of Charles Darwin, edited by Paul H Barrett and Richard Broke Freeman. New York University Press, 1987–89. 29 vols. ISBN 0-8147-1796-9 LC

Published works

• 1829–1832. [Records of captured insects, in] Stephens, J. F., Illustrations of British entomology[1]
• 1835: Extracts from Letters to Henslow (Read at a meeting of the Cambridge Philosophical Society on 16 November 1835, with comments by John Stevens Henslow and Adam Sedgwick, and printed for private distribution dated 1 December 1835.[2] Selected remarks had been read by Sedgwick to the Geological Society of London on 18 November 1835, and these were summarised in Proceedings of the Geological Society published in 1836.[3] Further extracts were published in the Entomological Magazine and, with a review, in the Magazine of Natural History.[2] A reprint was issued in 1960, again for private distribution.)
• 1836: A LETTER, Containing Remarks on the Moral State of TAHITI, NEW ZEALAND, &c. – BY CAPT. R. FITZROY AND C. DARWIN, ESQ. OF H.M.S. 'Beagle.'[4]
• 1838–1843: Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle: published between 1839 and 1843 in five Parts (and nineteen numbers) by various authors, edited and superintended by Charles Darwin, who contributed sections to two of the Parts:
  • 1838: Part 1 No. 1 Fossil Mammalia, by Richard Owen (Preface and Geological introduction by Darwin)
  • 1838: Part 2 No. 1 Mammalia, by George R. Waterhouse (Geographical introduction and A notice of their habits and ranges by Darwin)
• 1839: Journal and Remarks (The Voyage of the Beagle)
• 1842: The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs
• 1844: Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle
• 1846: Geological Observations on South America
• 1849: Geology from A Manual of scientific enquiry; prepared for the use of Her Majesty's Navy: and adapted for travellers in general., John F.W. Herschel ed.
• 1851: A Monograph of the Sub-class Cirripedia, with Figures of all the Species. The Lepadidae; or, Pedunculated Cirripedes.
• 1851: A Monograph on the Fossil Lepadidae, or, Pedunculated Cirripedes of Great Britain
• 1854: A Monograph of the Sub-class Cirripedia, with Figures of all the Species. The Balanidae (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidae, etc.
• 1854: A Monograph on the Fossil Balanidæ and Verrucidæ of Great Britain
• 1858: On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection (Extract from an unpublished Work on Species)
• 1859: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
• 1862: On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects
• 1865: The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants (Linnean Society paper, published in book form in 1875)
• 1868: The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication
• 1871: The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
• 1872: The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
• 1875: Insectivorous Plants
• 1876: The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom
• 1877: The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species
• 1879: "Preface and 'a preliminary notice'" in Ernst Krause's Erasmus Darwin
• 1880: The Power of Movement in Plants
• 1881: The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms

Autobiography

• 1887: Autobiography of Charles Darwin (edited by his son Francis Darwin)
• 1958: Autobiography of Charles Darwin (Barlow, unexpurgated)

Correspondence

• Correspondence of Charles Darwin
• 1887: Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (ed. Francis Darwin)
• 1903: More Letters of Charles Darwin (ed. Francis Darwin and A.C. Seward)

Notes

1. Darwin Online: Darwin's insects in Stephens' Illustrations of British entomology (1829–32)
2. Extracts from letters addressed to Professor Henslow. Cambridge: [privately printed]
3. Proceedings of the Geological Society 2: 210–212
4. South African Christian Recorder 2 (4) (Sept. 1836): 221–238