Credits

This online exhibition is a reformatted version based on the content of the original exhibition, curated by Christoph Irmscher, created in 2009. View the original online exhibition via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine

The web version of the exhibit was written by Christoph Irmscher, Indiana University (www.christophirmscher.com). The author of several books, including most recently Longfellow Redux (paperback edition, 2008) and Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013), Christoph teaches English at Indiana University. His previous exhibits include “Public Poet, Private Man: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at 200.”

“Music for the Worms”, the original online exhibition, was designed by Alex Teschmacher. All photography is by Zach Downey, The Lilly Library. The curator wishes to thank Gabriel Swift (now at Princeton University) and Jim Canary for their help in creating the original exhibit. Thanks are due to Rosemary Clarkson of the Darwin Correspondence Project, who offered helpful advice and corrections.

Bibliographical Note

Bibliographical descriptions follow R.B. Freeman, The Works of Charles Darwin: An Annotated Bibiliogaphical Handlist (Folkestone, Kent, 1977), hereafter abbreviated as “Freeman.”

For biographical information, this exhibit relies on: Peter Brent, Charles Darwin: A Man of Enlarged Curiosity (NY: Norton, 1981); Janet Browne, Charles Darwin: Voyaging (NY: Knopf, 1995) and Charles Darwin: The Power of Place (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002); and Adrian Desmond and James Moore, Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist (NY: Norton, 1991) and Darwin’s Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin’s Views on Human Evolution (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2009).

All letters are quoted from the online archive of the Darwin Correspondence Project. For the view of Darwin presented here, see also Christoph Irmscher, “Darwin’s Beard,” Old Age and Ageing in British and American Literature, ed. Christa Jansohn (Münster: LIT, 2004), 87-106, and Christoph Irmscher, Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013).