Darwin online update

Well, Stranger Fruit beat me to it (after I told him about it!) but there's a new version of Darwin's works online that has many juicy goodnesses, such as the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th editions of the Origin. Now we can check if these creationists are quoting properly. It has images as well as OCR'd text, and some of these editions were scanned from the Darwin family's own library. Also, there are field notebooks and lots of other stuff.

An OBE for John Van Wyhe, I say...

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Actually John, you didn't. Ian Musgrave did by mentioning that Nature was running a bit on it :)

By John Lynch (not verified) on 19 Oct 2006 #permalink