258 Charles Darwin. 



A DARWINIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY. 

 BY FREDERICK W. TRUE, M.S., 



Librarian of the U. S. National Museum, and Curator of Department of 

 Mammals. 



The complete bibliography of Darwinism should 

 contain, not alone the works which emanated from 

 the busy brain and ready pen of Darwin himself, but 

 the many other productions which these called into 

 life. The acquiescences of friends, the objections of 

 critics, the censures of foes, should all be enrolled in 

 their proper places as representing the ripples and 

 counter-ripples in the sea of thought, produced by 

 the weighty ideas which dropped from the clear 

 mind of the philosopher. It is not to the merits of 

 these, however, that I can call your attention, but 

 only to a few facts relative to the books of Darwin 

 himself. 



I would not have you suppose, if indeed one 

 could, after the lucid remarks to which you have 

 listened, that the faulty and, I fear, almost indis- 

 cernible list of published works, which I have 

 attempted to exhibit before you, reveals more than 

 a moiety of Darwin's writings.* A large number of 

 comprehensive papers, pregnant notes, and incisive 

 queries are contained in those storehouses of pre- 

 cise knowledge, the journals of science, and the pub- 

 lications of learned societies. During more than half 

 a century, from the beginning of Darwin's career 

 to its very close, scarcely a year passed in which a 



* The speaker referred to two large scrolls hanging on the lecture- 

 room walls, upon which were inscribed a list of Darwin's most im- 

 portant publications, 



