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Origin
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Darwin’s most famous work, Origin, had an inauspicious beginning. It grew out of his wish to establish priority for the species theory he had spent over twenty years researching. Darwin never intended to write Origin, and had resisted suggestions in 1856…
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- … him: By an odd coincidence, M r Wallace in the Malay Archipelago sent to me an Essay …
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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- … lavished praise on Wallace’s long-awaited book, The Malay Archipelago: the land of the orang-utan, …
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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- … I next came to the Dangerous (or Low Island) archipelago (N.E. of Otaheite) and took occasion to add …
- … winds) from the Northern side of this of this Low Island Archipelago – or that – nearest to the …
- … to the Southward of our track through the dangerous of our archipelago – where we arrived of the 13 …
- … Garcia – but that Island being only one of an extensive Archipelago of Isles and Banks could not …
- … at the Settlement, on a previous evening we staid to see a Malay dance. It did not commence, until …
- … place for commerce, and for maintaining a Seraglio of Malay women whom he confined to one island …
- … – and contractor for the establishing and maintaining a Malay convict Settlement on that Island – …
- … at all a “favourable place for maintaining a Seraglio of Malay women” – who by the bye are not quite …
- … of the women, and shutting them up on an Island which the Malay men” might not approach – deserted …
- … a very worthless character – brought from the East Indian Archipelago *[19] a number of Malay …
- … bringing with him his family and goods for Settlement. The Malay slaves soon ran away from the …
- … oath being one of the most or rather the most binding on Malay consciences – preliminary preparation …
- … Mr H induced the British Javanese Govt to establish a Malay convict settlement upon it – on the last …
- … the whole party residing together in a large house of Malay build, just such a structure as one sees …
- … many of my friends as have a tolerably correct notion of the Malay character – must have smiled at …
- … governed some hundreds of accidentally emancipated Malay convicts – as is elsewhere explained – who …
- … – I set forth the doctrines as being applicable only to a Malay population – and in the second – …
- … by our gesticulations and squintings alternately towards the Malay bystanders and the towards the …
- … wisely observed considering how well stocked with furniture Malay houses are all throughout …
- … I found that these two boys were some of Alexander Hare by a Malay woman. -bitants – and …
- … p.134 ] that the boys’ mother was a very dark skinned Malay woman – the girl’s mother was a very …
- … those “two red boys – sons of Alexander Hare and a Malay woman” the other particulars were not only …
- … Government – and therefore he was forced to substitute a Malay for a British population. There are …
- … injunctions – it has to be remarked, that in the Malay head – the place of the phrenological organ …
- … and as a natural consequence swarming with mosquitos. The Malay village was infinitely more inviting …
- … gazed – darkness pervaded space.” **[37] Howbeit the Malay village having been laid out and …
- … “Pulo Paghi” “Isles of the Morning” so named in Malay because they are very rarely visible from the …
- … Harding did no more than adopt the opinions held of the Malay character – by those who have had no …
Species theory made public
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Articles by both Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace describing their independently derived theories of species change, are read at a meeting of the Linnean Society. Darwin was at home with his family following the death of his son, Charles Waring, on 28 June…
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- … Waring, on 28 June. Wallace was on a field trip in the Malay archipelago. …
Letter from Wallace
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Alfred Russel Wallace, who was collecting natural history specimens in the Malay archipelago, sends Darwin an outline of his own theory of species change. Darwin was deeply shocked at how similar Wallace's ideas were to his own.
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- … Wallace, who was collecting natural history specimens in the Malay archipelago, sends Darwin an …
Before Origin: the ‘big book’
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Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…
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- … naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, who was collecting in the Malay Archipelago, was investigating …
- … from Wallace’s ‘large harvest of facts’ from the Malay Archipelago. ‘This summer will make the 20 …
- … continued to pursue his work on species theory while in the Malay Archipelago, decided to send his …
About Darwin
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To many of us, Darwin’s name is synonymous with his theory of evolution by natural selection. But even before the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859, he was publicly known through his popular book about the voyage of the Beagle, and he was…
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- … similar theory while collecting zoological specimens in the Malay Archipelago. At home in Downe, …
About Darwin
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To many of us, Darwin’s name is synonymous with his theory of evolution by natural selection. But even before the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859, he was publicly known through his popular book about the voyage of the Beagle, and he was…
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- … similar theory while collecting zoological specimens in the Malay Archipelago. At home in Downe, …
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
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- … mountain-ranges, as well as Ceylon; we cannot look to the Malay archipelago, for on the volcanic …
Fake Darwin: myths and misconceptions
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Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, with full debunking below...
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- … Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, …
