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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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  • … (or toward the region of the steady trade winds) from the Northern side of this of this Low Island …
  • … with the Sun’s declination. Whilst he is in the Northern hemisphere, the [ f.162v p.32 ] …
  • … almost filled with branching coral and coral sand. The small Northern Island is about a mile in …
  • … had applied the name of Keeling’s Isle “to the distant Northern Island (which Capt H. had in …
  • … and in Lat 11˚ 50' S. distant 14' North d , from the most northern one of the group. In …
  • … distinct division lying north and south of each other. The northern, consists of one Island only, …
  • … with his manager ^or overseer^ on the West Island near its northern end. As soon as their “how d& …
  • … might have been had if wanted. We first went round the Northern Keeling group. On this Island …

Rewriting Origin - the later editions

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For such an iconic work, the text of Origin was far from static. It was a living thing that Darwin continued to shape for the rest of his life, refining his ‘one long argument’ through a further five English editions.  Many of his changes were made in…

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  • … was to explain the existence of similar species in both the northern and southern temperate zones. …
  • … between hemispheres, with temperatures in the non-glaciated hemisphere rising ( Origin  5th ed. …
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