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You can now view Charles Darwin’s entire personal library collection

The completed library is detailed in a 300-page catalog, featuring 7,400 titles across 13,000 volumes

Newsroom February 13 08:56

For the very first time, the entire contents of the eclectic personal library of naturalist Charles Darwin has been published online, and a massive 9,300 entries come with links to the works, making them freely available to read.

In a painstakingly thorough project that’s taken 18 years to piece together, lead researcher John van Wyhe from the National University of Singapore (NUS) says it single-handedly takes Darwin’s library from a previously known 15% to an absolute 100%.

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The completed library is detailed in a 300-page catalog, featuring 7,400 titles across 13,000 volumes, and contains a diverse mix of books, pamphlets and journals. Previously, it was thought the library of the pioneering naturalist was believed to have contained 1,480 books.

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