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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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  • … C. Southey 1849–50] Curzon’s Monasteries of the East [Curzon 1849] Humboldts Letters …
  • … of letters [Hayley ed. 1809] 30 th  Notices on the East Indian Archipelago [Moor 1837].— …
  • … [Barrow 1801]. well Skimmed B. Edwards Hist. of W. Indies [B. Edwards 1793–1801]. d[itt]o. …
  • … W. Southey 1844] Oct. 20 th  Lewis Journal in W. Indies [M. G. Lewis 1834] Nov 7. …
  • … Man 1794 [Quayle 1794]. R. Soc. Botany Nat. Hist. of East Tartary [Hablizl] 1789]. p. 581. R. …
  • … couroucous et rupicole vert instances of American forms in East. Ind: Archipelago. Raffles. …
  • … de. 1604.  The naturall and morall historie of   the East and West Indies . Translated from the …
  • … Travels through North and South   Carolina, Georgia, east and west Florida . Philadelphia.  119: …
  • … The travels of Sir John Chardin into   Persia and the East-Indies. The first volume, containing …
  • … of America, several   coasts and islands in the West Indies, the Isles of Cape   Verd, the …
  • … and   commercial, of the British colonies in the West Indies . 3 vols. London.  119: 9a …
  • … countries . In  Posthumous papers bequeathed to the East Indian Company … By   … William …
  • … 3 [Hablizl, Carl]. 1789.  The natural history of East Tartary   traced through the three …
  • … of Persia, from the journals of a   traveller in the East . 2d ed. 2 vols. London.  119: 18b …
  • … a   complete … description of the wild sports of the East, and   exhibiting … the natural …

Introduction to the Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle

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'a humble toadyish follower…': Not all pictures of Darwin during the Beagle voyage are flattering.  Published here for the first time is a complete transcript of a satirical account of the Beagle’s brief visit in 1836 to the Cocos Keeling islands…

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  • … evidence to argue for a black Jesus and pointed out that to East Asians, all Europeans were “Franks. …
  • … was a British merchant who spent most of his life in the East Indies. He was the eldest son of a …
  • … to the new British Lieutenant-Governor of Netherland East Indies, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles. …
  • … Moluko, and by 1819 Hare was expelled from the Netherland Indies altogether. Hare’s response was to …
  • … surveying coasts in North and South America and the Far East. He was subsequently commissioned to …
  • … 383–97. Oats, David.  “Alexander Hare in the East Indies: A Reappraisal.” The Great Circle …

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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  • … Horsburgh, James.  Directions for sailing to and from the East Indies, China, New Holland, Cape of …

The writing of "Origin"

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From a quiet rural existence at Down in Kent, filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on the transmutation of species, Darwin was jolted into action in 1858 by the arrival of an unexpected letter (no longer extant) from Alfred Russel Wallace outlining a…

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  • … early as 14 May. Using records of the schedules of the Dutch East Indies mail service and of the …
  • … the schedules in Brooks 1984 show that another mail from the East Indies arrived in London on 17 …

Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants

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Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863  greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…

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  • … 40.  ‘Ind. Or.’: India Orientalis (East Indies). 41.  Brexia madagascariensis. 42.  An …
  • … 64.  ‘Ind. Occ.’: India Occidentalis (West Indies). 65.  Stylidium graminifolium. 66. …

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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  • … early as 14 May. Using records of the schedules of the Dutch East Indies mail service and of the …
  • … the schedules in Brooks 1984 show that another mail from the East Indies arrived in London on 17 …

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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  • … in that quarter move Westward and Eastward to and from the East Coast of Africa” – and – to mention …
  • … their being two flood tides and two only; both moving from East to West in the Antarctic Ocean – at …
  • … one moving in that same Ocean – from West to East &c At the Rock Islet of St Paul, in …
  • … the 31 st – were in much doubt, whether they lay to the east or to the west of us. There was most …
  • … in 1608-9 by Captain William Keeling who was in the East India Company’s service, and held a …
  • … width of page] his great work (the East India Navigation Directory) the name …
  • … Horsburgh Island]. The Houghton in 1788 – passed along the east side of the group, a fine sandy …
  • … “This is to certify that Ma Bagoke, a native of Passier (East Coast of Borneo) about 40 years of age …
  • … Mr Hare – a very worthless character – brought from the East Indian Archipelago *[19] a number of …
  • … evident, that even if I either had not “Horsburgh's East India Navigation Directory” or – did …
  • … ] and Mighty Prince James” the first “to serve the East India Company but he surely could also …
  • … by Captain William Keeling employed in the service of the East Indies Company in 1608 amongst the …
  • … as I had done – the information given by Horsburgh in the East India Navigation Directory – and in …
  • … column. 1 st Captain Horsburgh being Hydrographer to the East India Company had in his custody, …
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