Special Days/Darwin Day
12th February is Darwin Day
Background
This Wikipedia article and the Darwin Day Celebration website both contain information about the purpose and history of Darwin Day. DP first observed this event in 2004.
For our purposes, it is a focused release date for books by and about evolution and the natural sciences, as well as books by and about those who opposed evolution.
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Wishlist - Darwin Day themed books we would like to get to DP
If you find a book you think would be a good addition to Project Gutenberg, first search to see if it is already in progress here, if it's not then please add it below, according to its source. If you can't find it online (check out the online libraries listed in scanned books, below), then put it under Hard Copy. Alternatively, post on the forum.
Scanned books
This is a list of books found available at the various online scan archives related to Darwin Day themes that would be suitable for DP. The list is here in the event a CP/PM is looking for a Darwin Day Project to put through the rounds.
Please list here (any comments to the forum):
Hard copy
Please list here (any comments to the forum):
Providing content
If there's a title you're particularly interested in working on that's not yet in PG but is eligible (i.e., in the public domain), try posting in the Providing Content forum on the "Books I'd Like to See in PG" thread, mention it is for Darwin's Day and if the scans are available online, it will probably be available in a week or so as if by magic--Content Providers enjoy supplying books that workers are enthusiastic about. Please also leave a note here that you have asked for the project, and, move it to in progress once it gets underway. It will be listed as a new project to be released on Darwin's Day here.
Content providers start a book in the process of reaching Project Gutenberg. If you want to do this check out Content providers.
- REMEMBER:
- Please use the regular Coordinated_Scan_Harvesting pages to claim any project you want to work on.
- Please conduct the regular CP Clearence Searches before claiming a book. List of books In progress and completed: here. The title could have been claimed or cleared by anyone else since the date it was added :).
- To keep things organised, please also leave a note here that you have claimed the project, and, move it to in progress once it gets underway.
Books claimed or requested from Content Providers forum
Please list here (any comments to the forum):
Projects
See the full list of all Darwin Day projects at DP here.
Please use the format:
- *<projectinfo id="projectID#">%link% (%state%)</projectinfo> (edit this section, copy *<projectinfo...projectinfo> to the list and replace the # with the projectID number from the book's project page).
This will automatically update the book's progress as it moves through the system.
Please add tags from the tag list as appropriate.
If you are interested in working on any of these books, you can be notified when it becomes available to work on. Click the link to reach the project page, scroll down to the bottom and tick the box by "Project becomes available in a round". I hope this is incentive to get to the higher qualifications - it is certainly possible for you to reach F1 in the time it takes a book to get through the proofing rounds. And then to PPer, as it gets through F2!
Darwin Day Content In Progress
- Kosmos - Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung (Erster Band) {fraktur}, by Humboldt, Alexander von (proj_post_first_checked_out).
Posted to Project Gutenberg
- A Critique of the theory of evolution, by Morgan, Thomas Hunt
- A monograph on the sub-class Cirripedia by Darwin, Charles
- A candid examination of theism by Physicus (Romanes, George John)
- Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences Vol 1 by Alfred Russel Wallace
- Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences Vol 2 by Alfred Russel Wallace
- Chatterbox Stories of Natural History by Anonymous
- Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection. [1871], by Wallace, Alfred Russel.
- Country Walks of a Naturalist with his Children by Houghton, Rev. W.
- Creative Evolution, by Bergson, Henri.
- Darwin by Bradford, Gamaliel
- Darwin and After Darwin, Vol 1, by Romanes, George John.
- Darwin and After Darwin, Vol 2, by Romanes, George John.
- Darwinism Stated by Darwin Himself by Darwin, Charles.
- Descent of Man, Vol I (1st edition, 1871) by Charles Darwin (1809-1882).
- Descent of Man, Vol II (1st edition, 1871) by Charles Darwin (1809-1882).
- Die Welträtsel {fraktur} by Haeckel, Ernst.
- Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects by Herbert Spencer
- Evolution [1900] by Jevons, F. B.
- Evolution; its nature, its evidences, and its relation to religious thought, 2d ed., rev. by LeConte, Joseph
- Evolution in Modern Thought, by Various.
- Evolution Old & New by Butler, Samuel
- The Foundations of the Origin of Species {No P2}, by Darwin, Charles.
- Gedanken über Religion, by Romanes, George John.
- Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society-Vol 3, by Various.
- Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution, by Alpheus Spring Packard.
- Lectures and Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley
- Life of Charles Darwin, by Bettany, G. T.
- Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus by MacGillivray, William.
- Man and his Ancestor [1900], by Morris, Charles
- Mind and Motion and Monism [1895], by Romanes, George John.
- Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle - Volume 1 (of 3), by Fitz-Roy, Robert.
- On the Genesis of Species (1871), by St.George Mivart (1827-1900).
- Origin of Species (2nd edition, 1860), by Charles Darwin (1809-1882).
- Socialism and Modern Science by Enrico Ferri
- Streifzüge an der Riviera, by Eduard Strasburger
- The Case Against Evolution, by George Barry O'Toole
- The Church, the Schools and Evolution, by Conant, J. E
- The Illustrated Story of Evolution by Gauvin, Marshall J.
- The modes of origin of lowest organisms: including a discussion of the experiments of M. Pasteur, and a reply to some statements by Professors Huxley and Tyndall, by Bastian, H. Charlton
- The Philosophy of Evolution, by Carpenter, Stephen H.
- The Science and Philosophy of Organism by Driesch, Hans
- The Scientific Evidences of Organic Evolution [1882] by George John Romanes
- The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society: a Poem, with Philosophical Notes (1803), by Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802).
- The Theistic Conception of the World [1875], by Cocker, B. F.
- The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality, by Schmid, Rudolf.
- The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication. Vol II (1st edition, 1868), by Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
- Thomas Henry Huxley by Leonard Huxley
- Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch of His Life and Work by P. Chalmers Mitchell
- The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication. Vol I (1st edition, 1868), by Charles Darwin (1809-1882).
- Was Man Created? [1880], by Henry A. Mott, Jr.
- What is Darwinism? [1874] by Charles Hodge
- Zoonomia Vol 1 by Erasmus Darwin
- Zoonomia (2), by Darwin, Erasmus.
Darwin Day tags
Please expand on this list (any comments to the forum).
- Creationism
- Darwin
- Evolution
- Diversity
- Natural selection
