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4.42 'Punch' Sambourne cartoon 3
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< Back to Introduction Linley Sambourne’s last caricature of Darwin, ‘Man is But a Worm’, was published in Punch’s Almanac for 1882 on 6 December 1881, only four months before Darwin’s death. Like Sambourne’s ‘Punch’s Fancy Portraits. No. 54. Charles…
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- … and a caveman, and finally a flashy Victorian man about town, who doffs his top hat to Darwin. The …
Black Venus
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Sadiah Qureshi (University of Birmingham) on the film Vénus Noire (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2010) Sara Baartman has long been characterised as ‘Black Venus’, or ‘Vénus Noire’. The epithet encapsulates how her exploitation and objectification whilst alive…
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- … the African people…. It is the story of the loss of our ancient freedom … [and] of our reduction to …
- … a wealthy Cape merchant. She then lived and worked in Cape Town for more than a decade before …
- … and a sense of how and why Baartman ever chose to leave Cape Town, the film consistently focuses on …
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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- … all the super-interesting extracts from hitherto unknown ancient and modern writings in Latin, …
- … one of India &c – which also was most probably that of ancient Egypt. – In which however the …
- … Do these Isles ever appear – laid down on any somewhat ancient chart of the Indian Ocean – with the …
- … number of "True born Englishmen" than any other city or town within the circuit of the …
- … Mr Hare requested that he would go to his lawyer in Cape Town and formerly give his attestation to …
- … the same sort of repulse – next – Mr Hare being in Cape Town where he after remained a considerable …
- … driver sent off an express on horseback to Mr Hare's Cape Town agent whose country house stood …
- … by all (exclusive of those on Horsburgh’s Isle) except his ancient sub wife – modern duenna and …
- … N.B. It appears that the Red-Republican system is of an ancient a pedigree as that other venerable …
- … ] would so overload the Vessel with the bones of the ancient Brobdignagians that she would …
- … as it may be denominated – at least with reference to the ancient men of Brobdignag and now a Genii …
- … orange and apple trees (these being in fact of the real ancient Hesperidian species) and directly I …
- … Savagism to a semicivilization – analogous to that of the ancient Greeks in the time of Homer – and …
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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- … Read Aristotle to see whether any of my views are ancient 9 Study with profound care …
- … Strand [DAR *128: 165] D r . Badham “Ancient & Modern Tattle” on Fish …
- … 119: 16a ——. 1854. Prose Halieutics; or, ancient and modern fish tattle . London. …
- … plants, arranged according to the natural system. Cape Town. *128: 159 ——. 1849. The …
- … 1851. A manual of elementary geology; or, the ancient changes of the earth and its inhabitants …
- … with an account of the political history and ancient manners, and of the origin, language, …
- … Ker. 1821–2. Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, Ancient Babylonia. 2 vols. London. *119: …
- … conquest of Mexico, with a preliminary view of the ancient Mexican civilization and the …
- … John Gardner. 1837–41. Manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians. 6 vols. London. [Other …
Darwin in letters, 1861: Gaining allies
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The year 1861 marked an important change in the direction of Darwin’s work. He had weathered the storm that followed the publication of Origin, and felt cautiously optimistic about the ultimate acceptance of his ideas. The letters from this year provide an…
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- … told Darwin that he knew of a banker in a south of England town who was seeking a partner. William, …
Review: The Origin of Species
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- by Asa Gray THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION (American Journal of Science and Arts, March, 1860) This book is already exciting much attention. Two American editions are announced, through which it will become familiar to many…
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- … earlier date, but of no definite distinction; genera, more ancient species, and so on. The human …
- … of time, is by no means a novel proposition. Not to speak of ancient speculations of the sort, it is …
- … but it has been observed that the trees now growing on the ancient Indian mounds, in the Southern …
- … conditions, and so at length turns out a chronometer, a town clock, or a series of organisms of the …
Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…
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- … charges of heresy brought by an ecclesiastical court in Cape Town. The court was concerned about the …
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
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Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…
