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People featured in the German and Austrian photograph album
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Biographical details of people from the Habsburg Empire that appeared in the album of German and Austrian scientists sent to Darwin on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Johannes Mattes for providing these details and for permission to make his…
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- … Austrian Army as an officer, accompanied Maximilian I. to Mexico and received the rank of a major in …
- … and writer In 1852, he emigrated from Prussia to Mexico, became military officer in the …
- … name of the Viennese Horticultural Society, he traveled to Mexico (1845–48) and collected botanical …
Darwin on marriage
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On 11 November 1838 Darwin wrote in his journal ‘The day of days!’. He had proposed to his cousin, Emma Wedgwood, and been accepted; they were married on 29 January 1839. Darwin appears to have written these two notes weighing up the pros and cons of…
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- … If I travel it must be exclusively geological United States, Mexico Depend upon health & vigour …
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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- … Organum. &c [Bacon 1825–36] Prescott. Hist. of Mexico [W. H. Prescott 1843], strongly …
- … Montagu 1837]. —— 30 1. Vol of Prescotts Hist of Mexico [W. H. Prescott 1843] /Oct 1 st / 2 …
- … del Fuego, the south sea coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico . London. [Other eds.] *119: 3v.; …
- … Texas; or, a winter ramble … of the United States and Mexico . Edited by J. H. Olmsted. London. …
- … William Hickling. 1843. History of the conquest of Mexico, with a preliminary view of the …
- … indigenous and naturalized plants growing north of Mexico; arranged according to the …
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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- … from a journal written on the coasts of Chili, Peru and Mexico for the years 1820, 1821, 1822. 2 …
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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- … thousand feet, Dr. Seemann found the vegetation like that of Mexico, with forms of the torrid zone …
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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- … At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of …
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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- … these children in the mode adopted by the Spanish friars in Mexico – but in regular succession …
