| PW-51320-13 | Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | American Museum of Natural History | Foundations of Darwin's Science: A Digital Manuscripts Collection | 6/1/2013 - 5/31/2016 | $210,000.00 | David | | Kohn | | | | American Museum of Natural History | New York | NY | 10024-5193 | USA | 2013 | History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | Preservation and Access | 210000 | 0 | 209994 | 0 | The digitization of 30,000 scientific manuscripts and letters produced and received by Charles Darwin for access via the Darwin Manuscripts Project and Darwin Correspondence Project websites as well as the Cambridge Digital Library.
Foundations of Darwin's Science will fund a digital manuscript collection comprising 30,000 of the most important Darwin scientific manuscripts extant. The project will create high-resolution digital images of these manuscripts that will then be disseminated by the Darwin Manuscripts Project at the American Museum of Natural History. |