

Thalia Grant's transcription of the Galapagos notes, Guido Chiesura of parts of the Cape Verde, Azores, St Helena and Ascension sections and Maxwell and Doris Banks' of Hobart (published in Banks 1971).


Other significant contributions have been Claire Ring's transcription of Chiloe, Gregory B. John van Wyhe has edited Kees's transcriptions and added editorial notes and Gordon Chancellor has checked Rookmaaker's transcriptions against the online images and the original manuscripts. Various scholars have contributed to the transcription but by far the largest contribution has been that of Kees Rookmaaker. The transcriptions can be viewed alongside the images of the manucript at the click of a button. The entire Diary has now been transcribed and published here for the first time.

Images of the entire manuscript, donated to Cambridge University Library (CUL) in 1942, appeared on Darwin Online in 2006. The Darwin Online project has produced the first complete transcription of Darwin's Geological diary (CUL-DAR32-38) from the voyage of the Beagle (1831-1836). Darwin's Geological diary from the voyage of the Beagle An introduction by Gordon Chancellor
