Darwin and the Galápagos Islands: Secondary Texts

Abzhanov, Arhat. “Darwin’s Galápagos finches in modern biology.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. B 12: Biological Sciences. 365.1543 (April 2010): 1001-1007.

Campbell, Neil A., Jane B. Reece, et al. Biology. 8th edition. Editor- in-Chief Beth Willbur. San Francisco, Boston, New York: Pearson/Benjamin Cummings, 2008.

Eldredge, Niles. Darwin, Discovering the Tree of Life. New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2005.

Estes, Gregory B., K. Thalia Grant, and Peter R. Grant.“Darwin in Galápagos: His Footsteps through the Archipelago.” Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London. 53.3 (2000): 343-368.

Freeman, F. B. The Works of Charles Darwin: An Annotated Bibliographical Handbook. 2nd edition. Folkestone, U.K.: Hamden, 1977.

Ghiselin, Michael T. The Triumph of the Darwinian Method. 1969. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 2003.

Grant, K. Thalia, and Gregory B. Estes. Darwin in Galápagos: Footsteps to a New World. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2009.

Hull, David L. “Darwin’s science and Victorian philosophy of science.” In The Cambridge Companion to Darwin. Edited by Jonathan Hodge and Gregory Radick. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003. Pp. 168-91.

Keynes, Richard. Fossils, Finches, and Fuegians. Charles Darwin’s Adventures and Discoveries on the Beagle, 1832-1836.London: HarperCollins, 2003.

Koob, Derry D., and William E. Boggs. The Nature of Life. Reading, Massachusetts, and London: Addison-Wesley, 1972.

Jackson, Michael H. Galápagos: A Natural History. Calgary, Alberta: Univ. of Calgary Press, 2004.

Miller, Kenneth R., and Joseph S. Levine. Biology. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2002.

Stewart, Paul. Galápagos: Key Environments. Oxford and London: Pergamon Press, 1984.

Sulloway, Frank J. “Darwin and His Finches: The Evolution of a Legend.” Journal of the History of Biology, 15.1 (Spring 1982): 1-53.

-----“Darwin and the Galápagos.” Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society, (1984): 29-59.

-----.“Tantalizing Tortoises and the Darwin-Galápagos Legend.” Journal of the History of Biology, 42 (2009): 3-31.

Weiner, Jonathan. The Beak of the Finch. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.

Woram, John. Charles Darwin Slept Here: Tales of Human History at World’s End. Rockville, New York: Rockville Press, 2005.

A Chronological List of Primary Darwinian Texts & Related Correspondence

Published Texts Related to Galápagos

Correspondence Related to Galápagos (Source: Darwin Correspondence Project [ L: Letter])

1831-1836: Field Notebooks 1831-1836 Beagle Diary, 1831-1836 1833-1836: L213(31 Aug 33); L270 (7-11 Mar33); L271(10 Mar 35); L281 (19 July-12Aug 35); L282 (9-12 Aug July-12Aug 35); L282 (9-12 Aug 35; L283(12 Ag 35); L284 (15 Aug 35); L286 (2 Set 35); L289 (27 Dec 35); L295 (28-9 Jan 36); L317 (30 Sept-10 Oct 36); L318 (1 Nov 36) 1837-1844: Charles Darwin’s Notebooks: 1836 -1844 1839 Journal and Remarks The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, 1838-1843 The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs (1842) 1842 Essay/Origin of Species 1844 Essay/Origin of Species 1837-1844: L341 (15 Jan 37); L353 (28 Mar 37); L354 (10 Apr 37); L355 (18May 37); L360 (19May-16 June 37);L359 (15 June 37); L366 (13 July 37); L367(30 July 37); L429a (3 Nov 38); L534 (18 Sept 39 L545 (1 Nov 39); L543 (10 Nov 39); L596 (30 Mar 41); L605 (Sept-Dec 42); L660 (22 Jan 43); L671 (21 Apr 43); L683 (19 July 43); L698 (2 Oct 43); L714 (13 or 20 Nov 43); L717 (28 Nov 43); L721 (10 Dec 43); L722 (12 Dec 43); L723 (12 Dec 43-11 Jan 44); L729 (11 Jan 44); L733 (27 Jan 44); L734 (29 Jan 44); L736 (23 Feb 44); L737 (23 Feb-6 May 44); L738 (6 May 44); L739 (9 Mar 44); L740 (11 May 44); L744 (31 Mar 44); L745 (5 Apr 44); L747 (20 Apr 44); L752 (28 May 44); L754 (1 Jun 44); L758 (17 Jun 44); L768 (29 Aug 44); L784 (28 Oct 44); L793 (25 Nov 44); L799 (12 Dec 44); L803 (25 Dec 44); L804 (30 Dec 44; L817 (22 Jan 44). 1845: 1845 Journal of Researches 1845: L842 (19 Mar 45); L844 (23 Mar 44); L849 (16 Apr 45); L848 (26 Apr-Aug 45); L861 (28 Apr 45); L862 (28 Apr 45);L863 (May 45); L867 (13 My 45); L868 (16 May 45); L869 (21 ay 45); L864a (22 May 45); L807 (c. June 45); L873 (June 45); L874 (June 45); L889 (11-12 July 45); L890 (11 July 45); L883 (later than 12 July 45); L884 (mid-July 45); L892 (22 July-19 Aug 45); L893 (23 July 45); L894 (24 July 45); L896 (27 July 45); L897 (25 July 45); L898 (29 July 45); L899 (30 July- Aug 45); L900 (15 or 22 Aug 45); L903 (23 Aug 45); L927 (17 Nov 45); L928 (19 Nov 45); L929 (21Nov 45) 1846-1855: No major texts 1846-1855: L945 (31 Jan 46); L947 1 Feb 46); L951(10 Feb 46); L958 (2 Mar 46); L961 (13 May 46); L964 (25 Mar 46); L971 (May 46); L986 (8 or 15 July 46); L994 (3 Sept 46); L996(3 Sept 46); L1004 (3 Oct 46); L1030 (23 Nov 46); L1031 (23 Nov 46); L1032 (24 Nov 46); L1058 (8 Feb 47); L1059 (9 Feb 47); L1569 (5 May 47); L1135 (13 Nov 47); L1174 (1 May 48); L1218 (Feb 49); L1236 (28 May 49); L1264 (1 Nov 49); L1271 (18 Nov 49); 1275 (4 Dec 49); L1276 (5 Dec 49); L1277 (7 Dec 49); L1287 (3 Jan 50); L1339 (13 June 50); L902 (16 Aug 53); L1792 (8 Dec 55) 1856: The Big Species Book (1856) 1856-1858: L2050 (11 Feb 56); L1862 (1-2 May 56); L1864 (2 May 56); L1870 (4 May 56); L1910 (5 June 56); L1921 (8 July 56); L2083 (27 Apr 57); L2334 (6 Oct 58) 1859: The Origin of Species (1859) 1859: L2449 (6 Apr 59); L2501 (3 Oct 59); L3132 (4 Oct 59); L2503 (11 Oct 59); L2590 (20 Dec 59); L2593 (22 Dec 59); L2606 (26 Dec 59); L2608 (27 Dec 59) 1860: Journal of Researches (1860) 1860: L2680 (14 Jan 60); 2683 (3 Feb 60); L2684 (4 Feb 60); L2725 (6 Mar 60); L2728 (12 May 60); L2900a (28 Aug 60); L2903 (1 Sept 60); L2925 (23 Sept 60); L2932a (30 Sept 60) 1862-1878: The Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilized by Insects (1862, 1877) Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication (1868, 1875) The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species (1877, 1878) The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilization in the Vegetable Kingdom (1876, 1878) The Autobiography of Charles Darwin: 1809-1878 (1959) 1862-1878: L3377(6 Jan 62); L3391 (16 Jan 62); L4154 (8 May 63); L4153a (11 May 63); L4155 (12 May 63); L4476 (20 Aug 64); L631 (10 Aug-8 Oct 64); L5167 (30 July 66); L5183 (7 Aug 66); L4975 (13 Dec 66); L5321 (24 Dec 66); L5381 (29 Jan 67); L5567 (1 June 67); L6822 (8 July 69); L8858 (12 April 73); L10132a (22 Aug 76); L11472 (12 Apr 78); L11473 (12 Apr 78); L11714 (4 Oct 78) Additional Galapagos related letters: L1853a; L1853b; L1860; L194; L1845a; L1860; L1974; L1846a; L1846b; L1846c; L1851 a, b; L1980b; L1984

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