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Books

Dictionary of the History of Science, with W.F. Bynum and Roy Porter, eds. Macmillan and Princeton University Press, 1981; Barcelona, 1986; Italian translation, 1987; Chinese translation, 1988. Paperback editions UK and USA, 1985, 494 pp.
The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, edited with F.H. Burkhardt, S.Smith,et al.,8 vols, 1821-1860. Cambridge University Press, 1985-93.
Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches (1839) Edited with an introduction, with Michael Neve. Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1989. Reprinted 1995, reprinted 2003.
The Secular Ark: Studies in the History of Biogeography, Yale University Press, 1983.
Charles Darwin: Voyaging. Volume 1. New York: Alfred Knopf Inc; London: Jonathan Cape Ltd. 1995. Paperback, Princeton University Press and Pimlico, London, 1996.
Charles Darwin: The Power of Place. Volume 2. Alfred Knopf Inc.; London: Jonathan Cape, London, September 2002. Paperback, Princeton: Princeton University Press and Pimlico, London, 2003
Medicine in Literature. A CD-ROM teaching/resource pack produced for the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, distributed under licence, November 2002.
To See the Fellows Fight: Eye Witness Accounts of Meetings of the Geological Society of London and its Club, 1822-186. By J.C. Thackray. (Edited with Hugh Torrens and J.A. Secord). BSHS Monograph. Stanford in the Vale: British Society for the History of Science, 2003.
Darwin’s Origin of Species: A Biography. Atlantic Books, London, 2006
Charles Robert Darwin. From the Oxford New Dictionary of National Biography (with James Moore and Adrian Desmond). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Chapters in Books

1."Darwin and Expression" in D. Kohn, ed., The Darwinian Heritage (Princeton University Press, 1985), pp. 307-326.
2."Darwin and the face of Madness" in W.F. Bynum and Roy Porter, eds., The Anatomy of Madness (2 vols. London: Tavistock, 1985), vol. 1, pp. 151-165.
3."History of Biology" in V. Wyatt, ed., Information Sources in the Life Sciences (Butterworths, 1987), p. 177-186.
4. Subject Index, Charles Darwin’s Notebooks, 1836--1844: Geology, Transmutation of Species, Metaphysical Enquiries. Edited by P.H. Barrett et al, (Cambridge University Press, 1987), pp. 701-47.
5."Spas and Sensibilities: Darwin at Malvern" in Roy Porter, ed., The Medical History of Spas and Waters Medical History Supplement no. 5, 1990, 102-113.
6."Missionaries and the Human Mind: Charles Darwin and Robert FitzRoy," in Roy MacLeod and Philip E. Rehbock, eds, Darwin's Laboratory: Evolutionary Theory and Natural History in the Pacific (Honolulu, University of Hawai'i Press, 1994), pp. 263-282.
7."Biogeography and Empire," in Nicholas Jardine, James Secord and Emma Spary, eds., Cultures of Natural History: From Curiosity to Crisis, (Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 305-21.
8. "Botany in the boudoir and garden: the Banksian context" in D. Miller, ed., Visions of Empire: voyages, botany, and representations of nature (Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp.153-172.
9. “Une science imperialiste: l’histoire naturelle britannique et les voyages d’exploration de Banks a Darwin” in C. Blanckaert, ed., Le Museum au premier siecle de son histoire (Paris, Archives du Museum nationale d’ Histoire Naturelle, 1997), pp. 197-210.
10. “I could have retched all night: Charles Darwin and his body” in Christopher Lawrence and Steven Shapin, eds., Science Incarnate: Historical embodiments of Natural Knowledge (University of Chicago Press, 1998), pp. 240-287.
11. “I could have retched all night: Charles Darwin and his body” Reprinted in L. Schiebinger ed., Feminism and the Body (Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 317-354.
12. “Darwin,” Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, 3rd Edition. (Cambridge University Press 2000), pp.2537-41.
13. ‘Darwin,’ Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change (Wiley 2000)
14. ‘Botany for Gentlemen: Erasmus Darwin and The Loves of the Plants’ (see under articles) Reprinted in Open University Course workbook, A103, An introduction to the Humanities, 1999. Reprinted in S.G. Kohlstedt, ed., Isis Reader in Gender Studies (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), pp. 97-125.
15. “Darwin”, in Joy A. Palmer, ed., Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment (London: Routledge, 2001), pp.100-106.
16. “Noah’s Ark and the Flood” in R. Numbers and D. Lindberg, eds, When Science and Christianity Meet (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003), pp.111-138.
17.‘Constructing Darwinism in Literary Culture’ in Anne Julia Zweirlein (ed) Unmapped Countries: Biological Visions in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture, London Anthem Press, 2005, 55-70
18. 'Do collections make the collector?' In From Private to Public: Natural Collections and Museums, edited by Marco Beretta, Science History Publications, 2005, pp 171-187

Refereed Articles

1."The Charles Darwin--Joseph Hooker correspondence: an analysis of manuscript resources and their use in biography" Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 8 (1978): 340--66.
2."Darwin's botanical arithmetic and the principle of divergence, 1854-1858" Journal of the History of Biology 13 (1980): 53--89.
3."The making of the Memoir of Edward Forbes" Archives of Natural History 10 (1981): 205--19.
4."Botany for Gentlemen: Erasmus Darwin and The Loves of the Plants" Isis 80 (1989): 593--621.
5."Squibs and snobs: Science in humorous British undergraduate magazines around 1830" History of Science 30 (1992): 165--97.
6."A Science of Empire: British biogeography before Darwin" Review d'histoire des Sciences 4 (1992): 453--75.
7. “E le Mogli? (Why no Wives?)” Intersezioni (1995): 165-69, Special Number on “Le biografie scientifiche” edited by Antonello La Vergata.
8.“Officers and Council members of the BSHS, 1947-97” British Journal for the History of Science 30 (1997): 77-89.
9. “L’appel des nouveaux espaces,” Les Cahiers des Science & Vie, February 1999, no 49, 6-13.
10.“Darwin como vigere y escritor” (Darwin in Chile), Opening Address at International meeting Darwin in Chiloe, November 1999, published Ciencia Al Dia (2000) 4, vol 2, (www.ciencia.cl)
11.“A CD-Rom on Medicine in Literature” Health Information and Libraries Journal 18 (2001): 156-158
12. “Darwin in Caricature: A Study in the Popularisation and Dissemination of Evolution” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 145 (2001): 496-509.
13. “Natural History Collecting and the Biogeographical Tradition” Historia, Ciencias,Saude-Manguinhos (2001)
14. “Charles Darwin as a celebrity” Science in Context 16 (2003): 175-194
15.‘Science and celebrity: commemorating Charles Darwin’, The Hans Rausing Lecture 2004, Uppsala University (Uppsala University: Office for the History of Science, Salvia Småskrifter, 2005)
16.'Presidential Address: Commemorating Darwin' British Journal for the History of Science 38 (2005): 251-274

Contact

Email: jbrowne@fas.harvard.edu

Publications

Classes

Culture and Belief 47: The Darwinian Revolution
HS 131: History of Biology
HS 134: Nature on Display
HS 238: Rethinking the Darwinian Revolution: Seminar
HS 241: Medicine in Literature