A friend emailed this link and even though I have only begun to poke around on it, but already I find it fascinating. Darwin OnLine is a searchable webbed database that contains more than 50,000 text pages and 40,000 images of publications and handwritten manuscripts. It also has the most comprehensive Darwin bibliography ever published and the largest manuscript catalogue ever assembled. More than 150 ancillary texts are also included, ranging from secondary reference works to contemporary reviews, obituaries, published descriptions of Darwin's Beagle specimens and important related works for understanding Darwin's context.
[pictured: "Darwin's" Galapagos finches]
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Awesome site!! Especially enjoyed the laptop pic. on front page. This will keep me busy reading till 20??...enjoy
The latest New Yorker has a wonderful article by Adam Gopnik (I think) about Darwin's skill as a writer.