Male : Naturalist and writer, Married his cousin Emma Wedgwood (1808-1896) in 1839. They had 10 children

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Shrewsbury, Shropshire

Date of Birth : 1809 Date of Death : 1882 Age : 73

Education : Shrewsbury, Edinburgh (medicine) & Cambridge (Zoology)

1839-1840
Journal of Researches in the Geology & natural History of the Various Countries
Visited by HMS Beagle (1839 Henry Colburn)
(republ as A Naturalist's Voyage round the World)
Narrative of the Surveying Voyage of HM Ships Adventure & Beagle between 1826 &
1836 (1839-40 London) - 4 vols. with R Fitzroy & P P King
Journal of Researches into the Geology & Natural History of the Various Countries
visited by HMS Beagle .. (1840 London)
Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle (1840)

1841-1850
The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs : First Part of Geology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle
(1842 Smith Elder) (1889 Appleton NY)
Geological Observations of the Volcanic Islands Visited During the Voyage of the Beagle : 2nd Part
(1844 Smith Elder)
Geological Observations on South America : 3rd Part (1846)

1851-1860
A Monograph of the Fossil Lepapidae or Pedunculated Cirripedes of Great Britain
(1851 Paleontographical Soc, London)
Offered in 1999 for £250
A Monograph on the Sub-Class Cirripedia (1851 Ray Society, London)
A Monograph of the Fossil Balanidae and Verricidae of Great Britain
(1854 Palaeontographical Society, London)
On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
(1859 John Murray)
Offered for £9,375 in 1991
(1860 Murray. 2nd Ed)
(1860 Appleton NY)

1861-1870
On the Various Contrivances by which British & Foreign Orchids are Fertilized by Insects
(1862 Murray)
The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants (1865) (1875 Murray)
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication
(1868 Murray) - 2 vols
Offered for £600 in 1998
(1875 Murray. 2nd Ed - 2 vols)

1871-1880
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
(1871 Murray) - 2 vols
Offered in 1999 for £385
(1872 Murray. 2nd Ed)
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872 Murray)
Offered in 1999 for £600
(1873 Appleton NY)
(1890 Murray. 2nd Ed)
Insectivorous Plants (1875 Murray)
The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species (1875 Murray)
(1880 Murray. 2nd Ed)
Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands & Parts of S America visited (1876 2nd Ed)
The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom
(1876 Murray) (1878 Murray 2nd Ed)
The Power of Movement in Plants (1880 Murray)

1881-1890
The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms (1881 Murray)
Life & Letters, including an Autobiographical Chapter (1887 London) - 3 vols
Journals of Researches during a Voyage of HMS Beagle (1890 Murray. Illus edition)

After 1891
Charles Darwin : His Life told in an Autobiographical Chapter & in Selected Series of Letters
(1892 London) - edited by F Darwin
Collected Works (1904 Appleton NY) - 15 vols
The Foundations of the Origin of Species (Ed Francis Darwin)
(1909 CUP) - 2 essays written in 1842 & 1844
(Ed) N Barlow : Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle - Unpublished Letters & Notebooks
(1945) (1946 Philosophical Lib, NY)
The Voyage of HMS Beagle (1956 Ltd Eds Club, Cambridge) - 1500 signed by Robert Gibbings
On the Origin of the Species (1963 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by the engraver Paul Landacre
The Descent of Man, and Selection in relation to Sex
(1971 Griffin Press for Ltd Eds Club, Adelaide) - Peter Kredel 1500 signed

READING
1887-1925
G T Bettany : Life of Charles Darwin (1887 Walter Scott)
(Ed) Francis Darwin : The Life & Letters of Darwin (1887 Murray) - 3 vols
(1896 Appleton NY - 2 vols)
D G Ritchie : Darwinism and Politics (1889)
(Eds) Francis Darwin & A C Seward : More Letters (1903) - 2 vols
E B Poulton : Charles Darwin & the Origin of Species (1909 London)
A C Seward : Darwin and Modern Science (1909 CUP)
Leonard Huxley : Charles Darwin (1921)

1926-1960
George A Dorsey : The Evolution of Charles Darwin (1928 Allen & Unwin)
(Ed) Francis Darwin : Autobiography (1929)
Lionel Stevenson : Darwin Among the Poets (1932 Chicago)
Geoffrey West : Darwin - the Fragmentary Man (1937)
A Keith : Darwin Revalued (1955 London)
William Irvine : Apes, Angels and Victorians - A Joint Biography of Darwin & Huxley
(1955 Weidenfeld & Nicolson 25/-)
B J Loewenberg : Darwin, Wallace & the Theory of Natural Selection (1957 New Haven) - 385
(Ed) S A Barnett : A Century of Darwin (1958 London)
(Ed) Nora Barlow : The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882 (1958)
Gertrude Himmelfarb : Darwin & the Darwinian Revolution (1959 Chatto & Windus)
(Ed) B Glass : Forerunners of Darwin 1745-1859 (1959 Baltimore)
C D Darlington : Darwin's Place in History (1959 Oxford)

1961-1980
G Wichler : Charles Darwin - The Founder of the Theory of Evolution & Natural Selection
(1961 Pergamon Press)
Gavin de Beer : Charles Darwin (1963)
R B Freeman : The Works of Charles Darwin - An Annotated Bibliographical Handlist
(1965 Dawson, London)
Julian Huxley & H B D Kettlewell : Charles Darwin and His World (1965 London)
(Ed) Nora Barlos : Darwin & Henslow - The Growth of an Idea (1967)
Walter Karp : Charles Darwin and the Origin of Species (1968 Harper, NY)
John Chancellor : Charles Darwin (1973)
Sir Hedley Atkins : Down - The Home of the Darwins (1976 Phillimore)
R B Freeman : The Works of Charles Darwin - An Annotated Bibliographical Handlist
(1977 Dawsons, Folkstone. Rev Ed)
Paul H Barrett : The Collected Papers of Charles Darwin (1977 Chicago UP) - 2 vols
R B Freeman : Charles Darwin - A Companion (1978 Wm Dawson)

After 1981
Peter Brent : Charles Darwin - A Man of Enlarged Curiosity (1981 Heinemann)
(Eds) Roger G Chapman & Cleveland T Duval : Charles Darwin 1809-1882 - A Centennial
Commemorative (1982 Nova Pacifica, Wellington) - 750
R B Freerman : Darwin Pedigrees (1984 PP)
(Ed) F Burkhardt anmd S Smith : The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (1985-91 CUP) - 2 vols
(Ed) R D Keynes : Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary (1988 CUP)
John Bowlby : Charles Darwin - A Biography (1990 Hutchinson £19.95)
Adrian Desmond & James Moore : Darwin (1991 Michael Joseph £20)
The Correspondence of Charles Darwin 1821-1882 (1994 CUP) - 11 vols
Janet Browne : Charles Darwin - Voyaging (1995 Cape £25)
Keith Thomson : HMS Beagle - The Story of Darwin's Ship (1995 Norton, NY)
Niles Eldredge : Reinventing Darwin - The Great Evolutionary Debate (1995 Weidenfeld £18.99)
Randal Keynes : Annie's Box - Charles Darwin, His Daughter and Human Evolution
(2001 Fourth Estate £16.99)
Edna Healey : Emma Darwin - The Inspirational Wife of a Genius (2001 Headline £20)
Cyril Aydon : Charles Darwin (2002 Constable £14.99)
Janet Browne : Charles Darwin - The Power of Place (2002 Cape £25)