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2.23 Hope Pinker statue, Oxford Museum
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< Back to Introduction Henry Richard Hope Pinker’s life-size statue of Darwin was installed in the Oxford University Museum on 14 June 1899. It was the latest in a series of statues of great scientific thinkers, the ‘Founders and Improvers of Natural…
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- … newly-built extension of the building; it housed the Pitt Rivers Museum, which was devoted to the …
- … explains the effect of inexpressive blankness in Darwin’s cape, which contrasts painfully with his …
- … the graded artefacts of ‘primitive’ peoples in the Pitt-Rivers collection were all intended to …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … Comte Odart 1849” [Odart 1849] read very good . Rivers Catalogue of Roses [Rivers 1837] …
- … of Roses [Gore 1838] River’s Rose Amateur Guide [Rivers 1837] Hasselquist— voyage to …
- … list with me.— Harvey has published ‘Genera of Cape Plants’ [Harvey 1838].— Quayle …
- … through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland, to the North Cape, in 1798 and 1799, etc . 2 vols. London …
- … … and sketches of the various tribes surrounding the Cape of Good Hope . 2 vols. London. 119: …
- … James Fox. 1848. Journal of a residence at the Cape of Good Hope; with excursions into the …
- … coasts and islands in the West Indies, the Isles of Cape Verd, the passage by Terra del Fuego …
- … plants, arranged according to the natural system. Cape Town. *128: 159 ——. 1849. …
- … 8) Levaillant, François. 1790. Travels from the Cape of Good Hope into the interior …
- … in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Luanda, on the west coast …
- … naturelle des Orangers . Paris. 128: 2 Rivers, Thomas. 1837. The rose amateur’s …
- … Africa, in the years 1834–1836; fitted out by the Cape of Good Hope Association for …
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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- … and discuss – the subject of the wreck of H.M.S. Thetis on Cape Frio – unfortunately my confined …
- … R. having discovered in an old Gentleman’s library at the Cape of Good Hope – a manuscript of notes …
- … Schooner lying there on board the Borneo as passengers to Cape Good Hope. Mr Ross accordingly …
- … by Mr Hare – of his power to sell them at the Cape – which however would only be valid – after they …
- … for so small an alteration of it. On the passage to Cape Good Hope – those papers contracting …
- … – and when Mr Ross in the following year called at the Cape outward bound Mr Hare requested that he …
- … in Malacca – before the conquest of Java. At the Cape – the Government refused to allow of …
- … had the latter been known to them at the time. In the Cape Colony Mr Hare purchased a farm …
- … exposed to the S.W. y winds – hail and sleet of the Cape winters – fieldwork on it – in sheepskin …
- … with the same sort of repulse – next – Mr Hare being in Cape Town where he after remained a …
- … their driver sent off an express on horseback to Mr Hare's Cape Town agent whose country house …
- … two or three of his servants (personating policemen from Cape Town) met and ordered them back on …
- … Borneo, called according to the owner's instructions at the Cape and found Mr Hare expressing …
- … – and liked the custom of the people) after passing the Cape – he changed his mind and directed ^the …
- … the Indian Ocean (Horsburgh says “stormy weather off the Cape” but that is a mistake – the meaning …
- … for the homeward voyage. When Mr Hare left the Cape he wrote to his brothers (aforementioned) …
- … be suited. In one of his letters to them before leaving the Cape he had said – that “if he could get …
- … if that could be at all conveniently accomplished. At Cape of Good Hope by the commander of a …
- … for asking if you intended to stop – as I heard at the Cape from Capt Ol y [Ogilivy] that …
- … – and in corresponding with ^Mr H^ before he left the Cape – had expressed that he was not doing …
- … liberty by Mr H – when at Bencoolen on the way to the Cape – “but said they if you think we are …
- … – they are more corrupted by their communications with the Cape Boor’s slaves than you can have …
- … he proceeded with her to Java – thence to Bencoolen and Cape Good Hope with Mr Hare – his brother …
- … has a dull uniform aspect – there are no mountains or rivers *[24] – few trees are visible white …
- … as also on the general track of Maritime Commerce round the Cape of Good Hope, to and from Sunda …
- … their having been brought from the E.I.A. first – to Cape Good Hope – and thence to the Cocos. …
- … few brackish – indeed salt water – brooks can be termed rivers.” *[25] “De pig – he be de …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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