Darwin digitalized
BBC News reports that the Darwin Correspondence project will make nearly 5,000 letters in their collection accessible online tomorrow. Based at the University of Cambridge, the project has been collecting and publishing letters to and from Charles Darwin since 1974. They’ve published 15 volumes of Darwin’s letters as books, and an agreement with the publisher will allow online access to digital copies of the correspondence four years after hard copy publication.
This project complements Darwin Online, an independent project also based at the University of Cambridge. Darwin Online has made writings by and about Charles Darwin available since 2002, and also includes downloadable audio files and 45,000 images.