Famed naturalist Charles Darwin amassed an impressive personal library over the course of his life, much of which was preserved and cataloged upon his death in 1882. But many other items were lost, ...

Darwin's personal scientific library, the majority of which is held at Cambridge University Library, has been digitised in a collaborative effort involving Cambridge, the Darwin Manuscripts Project at ...

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300-page catalogue details thousands of books, journals, pamphlets and articles in naturalist’s library Details of Charles Darwin’s vast personal library, from a paper on epileptic guinea pigs to the ...

The library appears to be well-maintained with neatly stacked books. Libraries are special in some ways. Perhaps it's the intoxicating smell of rows and rows of books, the promise of discovering new ...