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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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  • … John Clunies Ross (1786-1854) was born in Weisdale, Shetland. The eldest son of a teacher, George …
  • … Ross brought with him to Cocos-Keeling in 1827. He was from Shetland, and so, as Ross pointedly …

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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  • … quadrupeds, birds, reptiles and fishes of   Orkney and Shetland … from a manuscript in the   …
  • … 1849. On the vegetable colonisation of the British Islands, Shetland, Feroe, and Iceland.  …
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