# Transmutation notebooks of 1837–38 are a dated private data file, not a public 1837 treatise

Date: 1837

## The fact

In 1837–38 [Darwin](/people/charles-darwin) kept transmutation notebooks as a private data file. The instrument is that dated privacy of evidence, not a public 1837 treatise and not later website HTML as his act. Charles Darwin's documented role is: He wrote private notebooks. Later editors printed them.

## Context

Later editors at Darwin Online carry the public English. Sharing them as transmitters is required. The setting of Transmutation notebooks of 1837–38 are a dated private data file, not a public 1837 treatise is the public file around 1837-01-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [personal-data-protection](/drivers/personal-data-protection) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Darwin Online — transmutation notebooks at https://darwin-online.org.uk/ (Darwin Online / University of Cambridge). Independent locator: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Darwin, notebooks neighbourhood at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/darwinism/ (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Official carrier: Darwin Online — transmutation notebooks (https://darwin-online.org.uk/; Darwin Online / University of Cambridge). Independent carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Darwin, notebooks neighbourhood (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/darwinism/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

Official or archival record: Darwin Online — transmutation notebooks (https://darwin-online.org.uk/; Darwin Online / University of Cambridge).

## Significance

Worsening path from Transmutation notebooks of 1837–38 are a dated private data file, not a public 1837 treatise on 1837-01-01. Keeping the evidential notebooks private is a data-opacity path of low-to-medium weight inside science. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of Transmutation notebooks of 1837–38 are a dated private data file, not a public 1837 treatise under 1837-01-01 for Charles Darwin. Established: a sourced public record of Transmutation notebooks of 1837–38 are a dated private data file, not a public 1837 treatise under 1837-01-01.

The attached driver is personal-data-protection. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not treat later digital publication as 1837 HTML he authored. Mixed effects of Transmutation notebooks of 1837–38 are a dated private data file, not a public 1837 treatise are separate paths.

Shared responsibility is part of Transmutation notebooks of 1837–38 are a dated private data file, not a public 1837 treatise. Naming Charles Darwin does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1837-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## People

- Charles Darwin: https://factrail.ai/people/charles-darwin

## Drivers

- Personal-Data Protection: https://factrail.ai/drivers/personal-data-protection

## Sources

- https://darwin-online.org.uk/
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/darwinism/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/dar-notebook-privacy