Talk:The Origin of Species (1872)

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: (The_Origin_of_Species)
 * 1) November 24, 1859
 * 2) January 7, 1860
 * 3) 1861
 * 4) 1866
 * 5) February 10, 1869
 * 6) 1872 (by 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

First impression January 1902
 * 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:

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)