Talk:The Origin of Species (1872)

Information about this edition
Edition:	Sixth London Edition, with all Additions and Corrections, 1872
Source:	darwin-online.org.uk: text; images; PDF, John Murray, 1872, (Eleventh Thousand.) archive.org: On The Origin of Species, John Murray, 1873, (Thirteenth Thousand.) See also #Editions
Contributor(s):	Phillip Barnes
Level of progress:
Notes:	Search the book
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Directory?

Is it possible to employ a directory for each subsection as opposed to the current set up involving adding a new page? It would make linking in the headers much easier.

Please reply. I would especially like to hear from the page creator/creation team.

Thanks

enjoymoreradio

The cureent set-up is incorrect. I will fix it to use subpages. --BirgitteSB 02:15, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Incomplete headings

Various chapters have incomplete headings. For one thing, they are not marked-up, being set in all-caps. For another, some headings are completely missing. Also, I have some doubts that the body text is complete. --Dan Polansky 11:10, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Source of the Text

Whatever the source of the text, BBC Evolution Weekend - The Origin of Species Online seems to have the same edition of the text. --Dan Polansky 13:15, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Editions

Dates of publication

(w:The_Origin_of_Species#Publication)

1. November 24, 1859
2. January 7, 1860
3. 1861
4. 1866
5. February 10, 1869
6. 1872 (by w:John Murray (publisher)

Digital editions on darwin-online.org.uk

• 1859. On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. 1st ed. Text Image PDF F373
• 1860. On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. 2d ed. Text Image PDF F376
• 1861. On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. 3d ed. Text Image PDF F381
• 1866. On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. 4th ed. Text Image PDF F385
• 1869. On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. 5th ed. Text Image PDF F387
• 1872. The origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. 6th ed. Text F391

Digital editions on archive.org

• 1873, Sixth edition (thirteenth thousand), John Murray,
• 1878, D. Appleton and Company, 1878, New York,
• vol 2, 1889, D. Appleton and Company, 1898, in two volumes
• vol 2, 1896, D. Appleton and Company, 1898, in two volumes
• vol 2, 1898, D. Appleton and Company, 1898, in two volumes
• 1902, P. F. Collier & Son
• c1909, P. F. Collier & Son
• Unknown, Hurst & Company
• 1910 (corrected version), John Murray.
• Unknown, Hurst & Company
• 19??, Merrill and Baker
• ????, H M Caldwell Company
• Vol 1 & 2, Books Inc.
• 1907?, Henry Frowde, printed by R & R Clark, Limited, Edinburgh, with a note by Grant Allen, and the following printing information:

“

First impression January 1902 Second impression June 1902 Third impression January 1904 Fourth impression 1905

”

I am currently working on uploading the 1859 edition. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 08:05, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

I have added one edition. --Dan Polansky (talk) 12:02, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Outlines

I have started adding outlines to individual chapters, following the original editions. The outlines cannot be replaced with mere tables of contents generated by the wiki software: The outlines consist of titles different from those actually used as section headings. --Dan Polansky (talk) 12:11, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Index file

I've transformed the text into PR-Format and corrected it (following the original 1872/3 edition, Index:Origin of Species 1872.djvu), --D.H (talk) 12:15, 8 January 2011 (UTC)