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Gold Coast (Ghana), Africa
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Beauty
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- … The idea of female beauty in West Africa is compared to the European one. …
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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- … enough to proceed Northward and N.E. rd to make on the Coast of N.W. n Australia – in …
- … that quarter move Westward and Eastward to and from the East Coast of Africa” – and – to mention no …
- … were true – or the reverse. At the Abrolhos (off the Coast of Brazil) I educed the germ which I …
- … – nor can the neighbourhood of the Continent whose Coast lies nearly parallel with the course of …
- … the limits to which the land winds from the Inter-tropical Coast of Brazil extend their influence – …
- … are in the Cordillera of the Andes – or even on the Coast of the Pacific – between Concepcion and …
- … – I had journeyed on horseback to and fro along the Coast – had ascended the Head and visited the …
- … be cleared up in my forth coming Edition – and I leave the Coast of Peru – where I closed my …
- … Payta the times of high water vary gradually – as the Coast trends Westward” and on pages 83 and …
- … thence narrowing in Latitude as it approaches the American Coast – in consequence of the Southerly …
- … Horsburgh and published by him in his Chart of the S.W. “Coast of Sumatra and Islands Adjacent & …
- … to the outer margins and found a great surf breaking on the Coast – I can hardly explain the cause – …
- … “The next day I employed myself in examining (on the outer coast) the very interesting yet simple …
- … explorer, the name of “New South Wales” to the Eastern Coast *[9] but altho’, some three or four …
- … is to certify that Ma Bagoke, a native of Passier (East Coast of Borneo) about 40 years of age, …
- … for the purchase of spices there – and go on to the Pepper Coast, and purchase a Cargo there – take …
- … when some intelligence of the London prices reached the Coast and caused a rise in the rate there, …
- … In December 1823 returning from the Pepper-Port-Coast of Sumatra – the foremast of the ship was …
- … be shipped to Europe. The consideration of the delays on the Coast in loading – by the surf being …
- … the winds and currents and of the numerous dangers along the Coast and its vicinity shews the …
- … minor part (in bulk not in value) destined for the Pepper Coast – next proceed thither – purchase a …
- … but after leaving that place for Batavia kept so near ^the coast^ that he was driven ashore by a N.W …
- … boats and five armed row boats appropriated to protect the coast of Borneo against the Pirates who …
- … alluvial soil along the course of the river towards the Sea coast – that part of [ note …
- … with whom Dampier came across the Pacific from the West Coast of America – intended to stop at the …
- … Malay because they are very rarely visible from the opposite coast of Sumatra except in the morning …
- … ****[16] The sails cannot be safely unbent – because the coast being occasionally visited by …
Alexander Burns Usborne
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Alexander Burns Usborne was born in Kendal, Westmorland, in 1808, the son of Alexander and Margaret Usborne; his father died in 1818 and in his will was described as the purser on HMS Hannibal. His son joined the navy in 1825 aged 16 as a second-class…
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Darwin & coral reefs
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The central idea of Darwin's theory of coral reef formation, as it was later formulated, was that the islands were formed by the upward growth of coral as the Pacific Ocean floor gradually subsided. It overturned previous ideas and would in itself…
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- … as this; for the whole theory was thought out on the west coast of S. America before I had seen a …
- … that survive from the time Darwin spent on the west coast of South America. There are, however, …
- … Darwin in his observations on the elevation of the Chilean coast, makes clear that by April 1835, …
Darwin’s earthquakes
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Darwin experienced his first earthquake in 1834, but it was a few months later that he was really confronted with their power. Travelling north along the coast of Chile, Darwin and Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, were confronted with a series of…
Biogeography
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Observations aboard the Beagle During his five year journey around the world on HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin encountered many different landscapes and an enormous variety of flora and fauna. Some of his most…
Elleparu (York Minster)
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Elleparu was one of the Alakaluf, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del Fuego. He was captured by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830 after one the small boats used for surveying the narrow inlets of the coast of Tierra del Fuego…
Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications
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This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the geology of the Beagle voyage, and other publications on geological topics. Author-date citations refer to entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s…
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…
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- … In 1835, in the Chonos Archipelago off the coast of Chile, Darwin found ‘most curious’ …
Yokcushlu (Fuegia Basket)
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Yokcushlu was one of the Alakaluf, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del Fuego. She was one of the hostages seized by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, after the small boat used for surveying the narrow inlets of the coast of Tierra del…
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- … the small boat used for surveying the narrow inlets of the coast of Tierra del Fuego had been stolen …
The geology of the Beagle voyage
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The primary concern that linked much of Darwin’s geological work in the Beagle years was to understand the changing relation between the levels of land and sea. As he studied the shores of South America, and discovered shells inland at thousands of feet…
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- … The primary concern that linked much of Darwin’s geological work in the Beagle years was to …
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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- … captaincy aboard MS Adventur e, on a voyage to survey the coast of South America. The ship was …
The Voyage of the Beagle
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It was a letter from his friend and former teacher, John Stevens Henslow, that brought the 22-year-old Charles Darwin news of the offer of a place on board the Admiralty surveying vessel HMS Beagle on a voyage to chart the coast of South America. During…
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- … surveying vessel HMS Beagle on a voyage to chart the coast of South America. During the five …
Lake Wellington, Australia
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Answers from a mission station
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- … answers about indigenous Australians from the south east coast. …
Boat Memory
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Boat Memory was one of the indigenous people from Tierra del Fuego brought back to England by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830, but he remains as ghostly a figure as his name. What he was called by his own people is unknown, but the name Boat…
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- … the small boats used for surveying the narrow inlets of the coast had been stolen. During a …
Robert FitzRoy
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Robert FitzRoy was captain of HMS Beagle when Darwin was aboard. From 1831 to 1836 the two men lived in the closest proximity, their relationship revealed by the letters they exchanged while Darwin left the ship to explore the countries visited during the…
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- … 1828 to 1836 during two surveying voyages to the southern coast of South America, was born into an …
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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- … 1850]. —— 8 th Gosse Naturalist Rambles Coast of Devon [Gosse 1853]. —— Lawrence on …
- … the world; but more particularly to the north-west coast of America: performed in 1785, 1786 …
- … 1853. A naturalist’s rambles on the Devonshire coast. London. *128: 180; 128: 10 …
- … Archipelago, and along the previously unknown southern coast of New Guinea, performed during the …
- … from the Cape of Good Hope to Luanda, on the west coast: thence across the continent, from …
Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
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The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…
John Lort Stokes
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John Lort Stokes, naval officer, was Charles Darwin’s cabinmate on the Beagle voyage – not always an enviable position. After Darwin’s death, Stokes penned a description of their evenings spent working at the large table at the centre, Stokes at his…
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- … or beds of shells some yards above high water mark, on the coast fronting the barrier reef?’ (Stokes …
Richard Matthews
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Richard Matthews was 21 years old when he stepped aboard the Beagle, destined for a lonely career as a missionary in Tierra del Fuego. The Church Missionary Society had arranged for him to accompany the three Fuegians (Fuegia Basket, Jemmy Button, and York…
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- … to assist in setting up a mission at Wanganui, on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand. …
