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4.9 'Graphic', cartoon

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< Back to Introduction A cartoon which appeared in the Graphic in 1871 was unusual, in that it pictured a serious scientific challenge to Darwin’s theories. Sir William Thomson, later Lord Kelvin, a leading physicist based at the University of…

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  • … Lord Kelvin, a leading physicist based at the University of Glasgow, was President of the British …
  • … Geological Time, an address to the Geological Society of Glasgow’, 27 Feb. 1868, and ‘Of Geological …

2.24 Herbert Hampton statue, Lancaster

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< Back to Introduction The monument to Queen Victoria in Dalton Square, Lancaster, is one of many late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century public projects that featured Darwin among the great men of history – often, as here, in the context of…

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  • … Yale University Press, 2009), pp. 380–381. University of Glasgow, ‘Mapping the Practice and …

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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  • … a chapter on wool, and   history of the wool trade . Glasgow.  *119: 17v. Blackwall, …
  • … view of   the anomalies in the vegetable kingdom . Glasgow.  119: 17a Horne Tooke, John …

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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  • … bewitch the European-Philosopher-Squad and tempt the worthy ^Glasgow^ Professor Nichol to volunteer …
  • … own Darwin” (as the bonhomme Philosophic Professor in Glasgow University – very irreverently claims …
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