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Anon. 1839. [Review of] Narratives of the Surveying Voyages of H.M.S. Adventure and Beagle, between the Years 1826 and 1836 [Second Notice]. Athenaeum no. 607 (15 June): 446-449. PDF A1049
Anon. 1845. [Review of] Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the various countries visited by His Majety's ship Beagle. North American Review 61, Issue 128 (July): 181-199. Text Image A40
Anon. 1845. [Darwin's discoveries in South America] Extinct races from South America. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal. New Series 4, no. 91 (7 September): 197-200. PDF A1039
Anon. 1846. [Review of] Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the various countries visited by H.B.M.S Beagle round the world. United States Democratic Review 18, no. 95 (May): 398. Text Image A41
Anon. 1847. [Review of] Geological observations made during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. British Quarterly Review 5: 358-387. Text A680
Anon. 1859. Charles Darwin on the origin of species. Chambers's Journal 11: 388-391. Text Image A507
Anon. 1859. [Review of] Origin of species. Saturday Review 8 (24 Dec.): 775-776. CUL-DAR226.1.145 Text
Anon. 1859. Review of the Origin of Species. John Bull and Brittannia, 1859 Image A972
Anon. 1859. [Review of] On the origin of species. Saturday Review (London) (24 December): 775-776. Text Image [Including 15 October 1859 advertizement for Origin of species] A514
Anon. 1860. [Review of Origin of species.] Species. All the Year Round 3(58): 174-178. Image PDF A1018
Anon. 1860. Darwin on the Origin of Species. New Englander 18 (70) (May): 516-519. Text Image A561
Anon. 1860. Natural selection. All the Year Round 3 no. 63 (7 July): 293-299. Text Image A509
Anon. 1860. [Review of] On the Origin of Species, by Means of Natural Selection. Charles Darwin. Living Age 66, Issue 848 (1 September): 474-506. Text Image A58
Anon. 1861. [Review of Origin of species.] Transmutation of Species. All the Year Round 4(98): 519-521. Image PDF A1019
Anon. 1868. [Review of] Variation of Plants and Animals under Domestication. Athenaeum 15 Feb 1868: 243-244. CUL-DAR226.1.13 Text
Anon. 1868. [Review of] Variation of animals and plants under domestication. Gardeners' Chronicle (22 February): 184. Text Image A610
Anon. 1868. Artificial selection and pangenesis. Popular Science Review 7 (April): 176-80. Text Image A611
Anon. 1868. [Review of] Variation of animals and plants under domestication. Lancet 1 (18 April, 16 May): 501, 622-3; 2 (5 September): 313-14. Text Image A605
Anon. 1868. [Review of] The Variation of animals and plants under domestication. American Naturalist 2 (4) (June) 208-209. Text Image A117
Anon. 1868. Darwin and pangenesis. Quarterly Journal of Science 5 (July): 295-313. Text Image A609
Anon. 1868. [Review of] Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication. North American Review 107 (Issue 220, July): 362-368. Text Image A67
Anon. 1868. [Review of] Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication. Atlantic Monthly 22 (Issue 129, July): 122-124. Text Image A65
Anon. 1868. [Review of] Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication. Putnam's monthly magazine of American literature, science and art 12 (10 October): 505-506. Text Image A66
Anon. 1868. [Review of] The Variation of animals and plants under domestication. American Naturalist 2 (10) (December) 547-553. Text Image A116
Anon. 1871. [Review of] Descent of Man. Saturday Review 3 April: 276-277. CUL-DAR226.2.102-104 Text
Anon. 1871. [Review of] Descent of man. Examiner 3 April: 233-234. CUL-DAR226.2.78 Text
Anon. 1871. [Review of] Descent of Man. Athenaeum 3 April: 275-277. CUL-DAR226.2.69-70 Text
Anon. 1871. [Review of the Descent of Man]. Annual Register 368. Text A28
Anon. 1871. [Review of] The Descent of Man. Edinburgh Review (American Edition) 134 (no. 273, July): 99-120. PDF A933
Anon. 1873. [Review of] The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 2: 444-446. Text Image A70
Anon. 1873. [Mocking comments on Expression.] Mr. Charles Darwin at Home. Public Ledger [Memphis, Tennessee] vol. XV, no. 126 (25 January): 1. Text A1125
Anon. 1876. Darwin's Insectivorous Plants. North American Review 122 (Issue 251, April): 425-437. Text Image A71
Anon. 1878. [Review of] Darwin's Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species. The American Naturalist 12(2) (February) 115-116. Text Image A111
Anon. 1881. [Review of] The Power of Movement in Plants. by Charles Darwin; Francis Darwin. Science 2 (No. 39, 26 March): 144. Text Image A72
Anon. 1882. [Review of] Darwin's Formation of Vegetable Mold Through the Action of Worms. The American Naturalist 16(6) (June) 499-500. Text Image A110
Adams, L. T. 1874. Mr. Darwin and the theory of natural selection. New Englander (Issue 129, October) 33: 741-770. Text Image A59
Agassiz, J. L. R. 1860. [Review of] On the Origin of species. American Journal of Science and Arts (Ser. 2) 30 (July): 142-154. Image A45
A. M. 1875. [Review of] Insectivorous plants. Garden, an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches 8 (24 July): 63-65. Text Image A664
B. 1836. Darwin, C.:- Extracts from Letters to Professor Henslow of Cambridge. Magazine of natural history 9 (64): 441-5. Image A594
Bain, A. 1873. Review of 'Darwin on expression:' being a postcript to The senses and the intellect. London: Longmans, Green, & Co. Text Image A251
[Bowen, F.] 1860. [Review of] On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. North American Review 90: 474-506. Text Image A15
Boyd, T. 1859. [Review of] On the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties. Zoologist 17: 6357-6359. Text Image A42
[Brewer, W. H.]. 1868. [Review of] The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication. American journal of science and arts 46 (136) (July): 140-143. Image A881
[Broderip, W. J.] 1839. [Review of] Narrative... [and] Journal of researches... Quarterly Review 65, no. 129 (December): 194-234. Text Image A515
Bronn, H. G. 1860. [Review of] Ch. Darwin: on the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life (502 pp. 8o, London 1859). Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde 112-116. Text A16
Brown-Séquard, C.Ē. 1861. Review of Origin of Species [In French]. Revue germanique (July): pp. 523-59. PDF A1065
Carpenter, W. B. 1860. The Theory of Development in Nature. British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review 25 (April): 367-404. Text Image A46
[Carpenter, W. B.] 1860. Darwin on the Origin of Species. National Review 10: 188-214. Text A17
C. E. B. 1881. [Review of] Darwin's The Power of Movement in Plants. American Naturalist 15(9) (September) 729. Text Image A112
[Chambers, Robert.] 1875. [Review of Insectivorous Plants]. A carnivorous plant. Chambers's Journal, no. 608, (21 August): 530. Text A1124
Cobbe, F. P. 1871. Darwinism in morals [review of Descent of man]. The theological review 8: 167-192. PDF A1034
[Crawford, J.] 1859. [Review of] Origin of species. Examiner pp. 772-773. Text Image
[Church, W. R.] 1860. [Review of] On the origin of species. Guardian (London) (8 February): 134-135. Text Image A512
[Dallas, W. S.?]. 1868. [Review of] Variation of animals and plants under domestication. Westminster Review n.s. 35 (January): 207-27. Text Image A606
Daubeny, C. G. B. 1861. Remarks on the final causes of the sexuality of plants, with particular reference to Mr Darwin's work "On the origin of species by natural selection". Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 30th meeting (1861), Transactions of the sections: 109-110. Text Image A62
[Dawkins, W. B.]. 1868. [Review of] Variation of animals and plants under domestication. Edinburgh Review 128 (October): 414-50. Text Image A603
Dawson, J. W. 1860. [Review of] Darwin on the origin of species by means of natural selection. Canadian Naturalist and Geologist 5: 100-120. Image A47
DuBois H. A. 1865. The origin and antiquity of man: Darwin, Huxley and Lyell [part I]. American Quarterly Church Review, and Ecclesiastical Register 17 (2) (July): 169-197. Text Image A564.1
DuBois H. A. 1865. The origin and antiquity of man: Darwin, Huxley and Lyell, part II. American Quarterly Church Review, and Ecclesiastical Register 17 (3) (October): 337-366. Text Image A564.2
DuBois H. A. 1866. The origin and antiquity of man: Darwin, Huxley and Lyell, part III. American Quarterly Church Review, and Ecclesiastical Register 17 (4) (January): 505-534. Text Image A564.3
DuBois H. A. 1866. Analysis of Darwin, Huxley and Lyell: being a critical examination of the views of these authors in regard to the origin and antiquity of man. Republication from the American Quarterly Church Review. Text Image A565
[Duns, J.] 1860. [Review of] On the Origin of species. North British Review 32 (May): 455-486. Text Image A48
D. T. A. 1860. Palaeontology. Dublin University Magazine 55 (June): 712-722. Text Image A510
EJC. 1860. [Review of] The Origin of Species. Canadian Journal of Industry, Science and Art (N.S.) 5 (28): 367-387. Image A877
Fawcett, H. 1860. A Popular Exposition of Mr Darwin on the Origin of Species. Macmillan's Magazine (3 December): 81-92. Text Image A23
Fraser, George. 1871. Sexual Selection. Nature (20 April): 489. Image A1026
Frost, S. T. 1867. Darwin and Domestication. Harper's new monthly magazine 36 (Issue 211): 58-63. Text Image A64
Galton, F. 1871. Pangenesis. Nature 4 (4 May): 5-6. Image A68
[Gray, A.] 1860. Review of Darwin's theory on the origin of species by means of natural selection. American Journal of Science and Arts (Ser. 2) 29 (March): 153-184. Text Image A50
[Gray, A.] 1860. [Review of] On the Origin of Species. Atlantic Monthly 6 (July-August): 109-116, 229-239. Text Image A49
Gray, A. 1860. The origin of species. Athenaeum (4 August): 161. [Extract from Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 4 (1860): 411-15]. Text Image A213
[Gray, A.] 1860. Discussion between two readers of Darwin's treatise on the Origin of Species, upon its natural theology. American Journal of Science and Arts 30 (89) (September): 226-239. Text Image A566
[Gray, A.] 1860. Darwin and his reviewers. Atlantic Monthly 6 (October): 406-425. Text Image A51
Gray, A. 1861. A free examination of Darwin's treatise on the Origin of Species, and of its American reviewers. Reprinted from the Atlantic monthly for July, August, and October, 1860. London: Trübner & Co., Boston: Ticknor and Fields. Image A567
[Hall]. 1860. [Review of] On the Origin of Species. New York Times 9 (2658) (28 March): 3. Text Image A562
[Hall, B.] 1839. [Review of] Narrative of the Voyages of H. M. S. Adventure and Beagle; .... London: 1839. Edinburgh Review or Critical Journal 69, no. 140 (July): 467-493. Text Image A225
Hibberd, S. 1861. The genesis of organic forms. Recreative Science 2 (January): 266-267. Text Image A513
Higgins, H. H. 1860. On Darwin's theory of the "Origin of species". Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool 15: 42-49. Text Image A52
Hooker, J. D. 1859. [Review of] On the origin of species. Gardeners' Chronicle (31 December): 1052. part 1. Image A511
Hopkins, W. 1860. Physical Theories of the Phenomena of Life. Fraser's Magazine 61 (June): 739-752; 62 (July): 74-90. Image A53
Hussey, A. 1859. [Review of] On the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties. Zoologist 17: 6474-6475. Text Image A44
Hutton F. W. 1860. [Review of] On the origin of species. Geologist 3 (December): 464-472. Text Image A55
Hutton, F. W. 1861. Some remarks on Darwin's theory. Geologist 4: 132-136, 183-188. Text Image A54
Huxley, T. H. 1859. Time and life: Mr Darwin's "Origin of species." Macmillan's Magazine 1: 142-148. Text Image A43
[Huxley, T. H.] 1859. Darwin on the origin of species. The Times (26 December): 8-9. Text Image A166
Huxley, T. H. 1860. On species and races, and their origin. Medical Circular No. 401 (7 March): 149-150. Text Image A327
[Huxley, T. H.] 1860. [Review of] The origin of Species. Westminster Review 17 (n.s.): 541-70. Text Image A32
Huxley, T. H. 1860. On species, races and their origin. Journal Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain 3 (February): 195-200. Text Image A56
Huxley, T. H. 1864. Criticisms on "The origin of species." Natural History Review. n.s. 4: 566-80. Text Image A63
Jackson, 1842. [Review of] The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs.... Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London 12: 115-120. Text A13
[Jardine, W.] 1860. [Review of] On the origin of species. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal n.s. 11: 280-289. Text Image A57
J. D. 1868. Darwin's theory of pangenesis. Scientific Opinion (18 November): 49. Text A20
[Jenkin, F.] 1867. [Review of] The origin of species. North British Review 46 (June): 277-318. Text Image A24
Jewell, J. S. 1871. [Review of] Origin of Species. The ladies' repository: a monthly periodical, devoted to literature, arts, and religion 8 (1 July): 1-4 (2 August): 81-85. Image PDF A1035
Kirchner, [Oskar von]. 1881. [Review of 'Movement of plants'] Charles Darwin (mit Unterstützung von Francis Darwin), Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen. Biologisches Centralblatt 1 (6, 30 June): 161-168. PDF
Laugel, A. 1860. Nouvelle théorie d'histoire naturelle: l'origine des espèces (On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin; London, John Murray, 1859). Revue des deux mondes 26, no. 3 (1 April): pp. 644-671. Image A583
[Leifchild, J. R.] 1859. [Review of] On the origin of species. Athenaeum no. 1673 (19 November): 659-660. Text Image A506
Lewes, G. H. 1860. Studies in animal life. Cornhill Magazine 1: 438-447. (Reprinted from John Bull 24 December 1859). Text Image A508
Lewes, G. H. 1868. Mr. Darwin's hypotheses. Fortnightly Review n.s. 3 (April, June); 353-73, 611-28, 4 (July), (November): 61-80, 492-509. Text Image A604
[Lowell, J. A.] 1860. [Review of] Darwin's Origin of Species. Christian Examiner and Theological Review 6: 449-464. Text Image PDF A22
Lyon, W.P. 1872. Homo versus Darwin: a judicial examination of statements recently published by Mr. Darwin regarding "The descent of Man". Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger. PDF A960
[Maclaren, C.] 1842. [Review of] `Coral islands' The Scotsman Text Image
Mantegazza, P. 1868. Carlo Darwin e il suo ultimo libro. [Review of] Variation and Origin of Species, 4th ed.] Nuova Antologia 8 (May): 70-98. Text Image A608
Mivart, St. G. J. 1871. [Review of] The Descent of Man, and selection in relation to sex. Quarterly Review 131 (July): 47-90. Text Image A69
[Morris, J.] 1860. [Review of] On the origin of species. Dublin Review 48: 50-81. Text Image A253
Murray, A. 1860. On Mr Darwin's theory of the origin of species. (Read 20 February) Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 4: 274-291. Text A14
[Owen, R.] 1860. [Review of Origin & other works.] Edinburgh Review 111: 487-532. Text Image A30
Parsons, T. 1860. [Review of] On the Origin of species. American Journal of Science and Arts (Ser. 2) 30 (July): 1-13. Text Image A60
Pictet, F. J. 1860. Sur l'origine de l'espèce par Charles Darwin. Archives des Sciences, Bibliotheque Universelle (Ser. 2) 7 (March): 233-255. Text Image A61
Pye-Smith, P.H. 1871. Review of Descent of Man. Nature 3 (6 April): 443-445; (part 2): (13 April): 463-465. Text Image A887
S. 1873. Bain's review of "Darwin on expression". Nature (6 November): 2-3. Text Image A21
Stebbing, T. T. R. 1871. The 'Times' Review of Darwin's 'Descent of Man'. Nature, (20 April): 488-9. Text Image A1027
Tegetmeier, W. B. 1862. Darwin on orchids. Register (August): 38-9. Text Image A81
Thomatis, D. 1875. Carnivorous Plants and Darwinism. The Telegraph [Brisbane] (29 September), p. 3. Text A1123
[Thurber, G.]. 1868. Varieties and variation. American Agriculturalist 27 (May): 176-7. Text Image A601
Tristram, H. B. 1860. [Review of Origin of species]. President's Address. (Read 29 March) Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club, 4 (1858-60), 218-228. Text PDF A1009
[Wallace, A. R.] 1867. [Review of Origin 4th edn] Mimicry, and other protective resemblances among animals. Westminster and foreign quarterly review Vol. 88, No. 173, n.s. 32 No.1 (1 July): 1-43. Text A272
Wallace, A. R. 1871. [Review of] The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex. By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S., &c. In two volumes with illustrations. John Murray, 1871. The Academy 2, no. 20 (15 March): 177-183. Text A270
Wallace, A. R. 1873. [Review of] The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S., &c. London: Murray. 1872. Quarterly Journal of Science 3, no. 37 (January): 113-118. Text A271
WH. 1863. [Review of] The Origin of Species. Canadian Journal of Industry, Science and Art (N.S.) 8 (47): 390-404. Image A878
Whittaker, T. 1884. [Review of] Mental evolution in animals. Mind 9 (34) (April): 291-295. Image A119
[Wilberforce, S.] 1860. [Review of] On the Origin of Species, by means of Natural Selection; or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. By Charles Darwin, M. A., F.R.S. London, 1860. Quarterly Review 108: 225-264. Text Image A19
Wilson, W. C. 1861. [Review of] Darwin On the Origin of Species. Methodist Quarterly Review 43 (October): 605-627. PDF A1038
[Wollaston, T. V.] 1860. [Review of] On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection; or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.—By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S., &c. London, 1859. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5: 132-143. Text Image A18