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Sydney, Australia
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Prospect of journey’s end
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- … to Tahiti and New Zealand and gives his impressions of Sydney and Fitzroy's character. …
Sydney, Australia
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Aborigines
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- … Hoping to answer Darwin's queries but 'unable to distinguish the aboriginal manner from the …
Syms Covington
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When Charles Darwin embarked on the Beagle voyage in 1831, Syms Covington was ‘fiddler & boy to Poop-cabin’. Covington kept an illustrated journal of his observations and experiences on the voyage, noting wildlife, landscapes, buildings and people and,…
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- … then decided to emigrate and to work his passage to Sydney, Australia. Darwin wrote a letter of …
- … from London) at Stroud, New South Wales, 130 miles north of Sydney. By 1843 Covington was working …
- … was working as a clerk in the company’s coal depot in Sydney. Darwin took considerable interest in …
- … in Twofold Bay, not far from Pambula, 280 miles south of Sydney, where he then lived. In 1852 Darwin …
Conrad Martens
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Conrad Martens was born in London, the son of an Austrian diplomat. He studied landscape painting under the watercolourist Copley Fielding (1789–1855), who also briefly taught Ruskin. In 1833 he was on board the Hyacinth, headed for India, but en route in…
Awards
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In 1991 the Modern Language Association of America awarded its first ever Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters to the editors of The correspondence of Charles Darwin. The Morton N. Cohen Award was established in 1989 by a gift from…
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- … correspondence of Charles Darwin , Frederick Burkhardt, Sydney Smith, and their collaborators have …
History of the Project
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The Darwin Correspondence Project was founded in 1974 by an American scholar, Frederick Burkhardt, with the help of Sydney Smith, a zoologist in the University of Cambridge (UK), and of Fred's wife, Anne Schlabach Burkhardt. They set out to locate all…
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- … an American scholar, Frederick Burkhardt, with the help of Sydney Smith, a zoologist in the …
Philip Gidley King
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King was born in Parramatta, New South Wales on 31 October 1817, son of Captain Phillip Parker King and Harriett (Lethbridge). His grandfather, also named Philip Gidley King, had been governor of New South Wales. As a child, King travelled to England with…
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- … the Australia Club and a director of the Mercantile Bank of Sydney. He died on 5 August 1904. …
2.26 Linnean Society medal
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< Back to Introduction In 1908 the Linnean Society celebrated the jubilee of ‘the greatest event’ in its whole history, which had occurred on 1 July 1858: the presentation by Charles Lyell and Joseph Hooker of papers by Darwin and Alfred Russel…
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- … to the Fitzwilliam Museum, whose newly appointed director Sydney Cockerell had requested one for 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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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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- … ] Vol: 3. 1848–50. [DAR 128: 11] 1855. Sydney Smith life [S. Smith 1855] …
- … of the Reformation, addressed to Roger Therry, Esq. Sydney. *119: 8v. Brown, Robert. …
- … 119: 5a; *128: 161 Plymley, Peter, pseud. (Sydney Smith). 1808. Letters on the …
- … Philadelphia. [Other eds.] 119: 7a, 13a Smith, Sydney. 1839–40. The works of the Rev. …
Darwin’s queries on expression
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When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
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- … 25 Feb 1869 Sydney, Australia Aborigines …
Who we were
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Many people have contributed to the Darwin Correspondence Project since it was first founded in 1974. Some names are now lost to us, and we would appreciate hearing from anyone who has contributed in the past and is not listed here. The final staff of…
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- … Saunders Andrew Sclater Tracey Slotta Sydney Smith Alison Soanes Emma …
Darwin in letters, 1881: Old friends and new admirers
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In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began writing about all the eminent men he had met. He embarked on this task, which formed an addition to his autobiography, because he had nothing else to do. He had…
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- … but my time is worth nothing.’ The Cambridge botanist Sydney Vines also thought the material was …
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…
Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep
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In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…
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- … continued to find Darwin’s work inspiring. The geologist Sydney Skertchly confessed on 27 February …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … to an abrupt end, as the curator of the Australian Museum in Sydney, Gerard Krefft, reported: ‘I …
