The Darwin Digital Library of Evolution at the American Museum of Natural History. (March 3, 2006)

From the Gallery section of the DDLE

The Darwin Digital Library of Evolution is based at the American Museum of Natural History Library (New York).

Its stated goal "is to make the full literature of evolution available online within a historically and topically coherent structure". Darwin's work is its pivot, but in addition it includes the 17th century to the present and encompasses the history of evolution as a scientific theory its origins and its cultural consequences.

The AMNH hopes that expanding the availability of the knowledge of the scientific and cultural history of evolution will aid in securing the place of evolutionary science in open societies.

Darwin recorded his experiments, observations, and thoughts in 16 books, 150 papers, and more than 80,000 pages of notes. The AMNH's digital library will post the Darwin corpus, including previously unpublished notebooks and drafts, together with numerous other key evolutionary texts. Among the titles already available are two of Darwin's early sketches on natural selection and Thomas Huxley's book on human evolution. The library will add works by his predecessors, successors, and detractors, including early French anatomist Georges Cuvier, the late Stephen Jay Gould, and Edward O. Wilson.