Dr John van Wyhe is Director of The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online based at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge. Darwin Online is the largest collection of Darwin’s writings ever published, including all of his publications and a large number of his manuscripts and supplementary materials. Dr van Wyhe is also a member of Council for the British Society for the History of Science, general editor of its Monograph series, Director of its forthcoming Wheeler Online Library and a Bye-Fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge. He is preparing two scholarly books on Charles Darwin. The first, together with Gordon Chancellor and Kees Rookmaaker, is an edited transcription of Darwin’s Beagle field notebooks. The second is an edited volume of Darwin’s complete shorter publications.

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