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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 …
- … Hout Bay he kept her lying with the English crew until the middle of January 1826 – when he at last …
- … 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 …
- … – “Lonely” – “Sequestered Isles” lying in the middle of the Indian Ocean (not the most placid of any …
- … ] 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 …
- … that Mr Hare came to these Islands before the middle of 1826 His Knightly credit for accuracy of …
- … 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, …
- … and that of the Scandinavian Vikings in what are called "the middle ages” whereas those others …
Essay: Design versus necessity
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—by Asa Gray DESIGN VERSUS NECESSITY.—DISCUSSION BETWEEN TWO READERS OF DARWIN’S TREATISE ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES, UPON ITS NATURAL THEOLOGY. (American Journal of Science and Arts, September, 1860) D.T.—Is Darwin’s theory atheistic or pantheistic…
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 …
- … of the chapter on instinct the previous March. By the middle of March 1859, Darwin had …
- … have descended from an ape-like progenitor. By the middle of November, the first reviews of …
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 …
- … in each other’s work. Publication By the middle of March 1859, Darwin had finished the …
- … have descended from an ape-like progenitor. By the middle of November, the first reviews of …
Photograph album of German and Austrian scientists
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The album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil Rade, and contained 165 portraits of German and Austrian scientists. The work was lavishly produced and bound in blue velvet with metal embossing. Its ornate…
