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Lima, Peru
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Looking forward to the Galapagos
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- … Reflects on the geology of the Andes, and awaiting volcanoes and Tertiary strata on the Galapagos …
Mendoza, Argentina
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Geologising across the Andes
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- … Reports on his trip across the Andes and finds of fossil shells at 1200ft, and petrified trees. …
Cordillera Beagle expedition
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To mark the completion of the Darwin Project and the 214th anniversary of Darwin's birth, use our new interactive to explore 3D images of the rocks Darwin collected on a Beagle voyage inland expedition in the foothills of the Andes in 1834.
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- … Beagle voyage inland traverses of the foothills of the Andes Darwin made on horseback in August …
Concepción, Chile
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'Awful spectacle of desolation'
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- … city after the earthquake, his proof that both sides of the Andes have risen, and his plans to cross …
Richard Henry Corfield
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Richard Henry Corfield was in his final year at Shrewsbury School when Darwin started there. It’s hard to say how well they knew each other, but fifteen years later Corfield appeared again in Darwin’s life as a surprisingly familiar face on the other side…
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- … Darwin was heading to St Iago to admire the geology of the Andes mountains, Corfield was going to & …
Darwin & Geology
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The lessons Darwin learned from Adam Sedgwick at Cambridge, and in the field in North Wales, stood him in good stead during the Beagle voyage. While he was attached to the Beagle from 1831 to 1835, Darwin actually spent about two-thirds of his time ashore,…
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- … landfall at the Cape Verde islands, to the heights of the Andes, and the coral reefs of the Pacific, …
Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications
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This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the geology of the Beagle voyage, and other publications on geological topics. Author-date citations refer to entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s…
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- … an account of a transverse section of the Cordilleras of the Andes between Valparaiso and Mendoza. …
Alexander von Humboldt
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The phases of Charles Darwin’s career have often been defined by the books that he read, from Lyell’s Principles of Geology during the Beagle voyage to Malthus’s Essay on the Principle of Population during his London years. The book that encouraged him to…
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- … where he and his companion Aimé Bonpland scaled the Andes, explored the Orinoco River, and …
Books on the Beagle
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The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
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- … during some rapid journeys across the Pampas and among the Andes. London, 1826. (DAR 36.1: 469v.). …
Scientific Networks
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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
Darwin in letters, 1858-1859: Origin
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The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet rural existence filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on species, he was jolted into action by the arrival of an unexpected letter from Alfred Russel Wallace…
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- … The award citation praised his work on the geology of the Andes and on coral reefs, ‘which led to …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
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[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
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- … by hordes whose head-quarters are in the Cordillera of the Andes – or even on the Coast of the …
