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Darwin's Fantastical Voyage

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Learn about Darwin's adventures on his epic journey.

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  • … These activities explore Darwin’s life changing voyage aboard HMS Beagle. Using letters home, …

George Keen

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George Keen (1794–1884) was born in England. He had arrived in Buenos Aires by 1820, making him one of the earliest settlers from Britain. In 1821 he married Mary Yates (1802/3–72), the sister of John, William and Elizabeth Yates, another family of early…

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  • … Edward Lumb, with his mercantile contacts, arranged for the fossils to be shipped to England . …

Science, Work and Manliness

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Discussion Questions|Letters In 1859, popular didactic writer William Landels published the first edition of what proved to be one of his best-selling works, How Men Are Made. "It is by work, work, work" he told his middle class audience, …

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  • … praises de Bosquet on the the publication of his work on fossils . He draws particular attention …

Darwin in letters, 1844–1846: Building a scientific network

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The scientific results of the Beagle voyage still dominated Darwin's working life, but he broadened his continuing investigations into the nature and origin of species. Far from being a recluse, Darwin was at the heart of British scientific society,…

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  • … breakdown in his health. Volcanoes, rocks, and fossils Darwin’s published work during …

Living and fossil cirripedia

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Darwin published four volumes on barnacles, the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia, between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and two on fossil species. Written for a specialist audience, they are among the most challenging and least read of Darwin’s works…

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  • … by a chitinous membrane which deteriorates after death, most fossils consist of single valves. …
  • … of fossil genera by his belief in the material relation of fossils to living species. A significant …
  • … a work that included both forms, and the separation of fossils from living species made more sense …
  • … Society in 1847. ‘With respect to publication of the fossils, I have not yet thought’, Darwin told …
  • … society’s brief was to publish work on undescribed British fossils. Darwin immediately began to …
  • … telling Bowerbank that he would soon ‘ receive a lot of fossils from Copenhagen-chalk, named by …

4.2 Augustus Earle, caricature drawing

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< Back to Introduction The paucity of evidence for Darwin’s appearance and general demeanour during the years of the Beagle voyage gives this humorous drawing of shipboard life a special interest. It is convincingly attributed to Augustus Earle, an…

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  • … from September 1832, when Darwin was bringing many giant fossils and animal specimens onto the ship …
  • … (in a clockwise progression) ‘Antidiluvian’ [sic], ‘Fossils’, ‘os femoris’ and ‘Tusk 4003 BC’. …

Darwin & Glen Roy

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Although Darwin was best known for his geological work in South America and other remote Beagle destinations, he made one noteworthy attempt to explain a puzzling feature of British geology.  In 1838, two years after returning from the voyage, he travelled…

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  • … he instead had to explain why the sea had left no marine fossils on the sides of the glen and why it …
  • … across Scotland.  He argued that the preservation of both fossils and old sea beaches should be …

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…

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  • … H.M.S. Beagle , for which he described the locations of the fossils and the habitats and behaviour …
  • … of common English weeds—when he had hoped for living fossils of unknown varieties—he was convinced …

Scientific Networks

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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…

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  • … on distribution of Galapagos organisms, South American fossils, and facts he has gathered that led …
  • … 1834 Henslow notes that Darwin’s cargo is safe; the fossils have been sent to William Clift. …

Zoology of the Beagle published

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The first part of The Zoology of the voyage of HMS Beagle is published. Darwin organised and superintended its publication, and wrote up the locations of the fossils, and the habitats and behaviour of the living species, he had collected.

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  • … its publication, and wrote up the locations of the fossils, and the habitats and behaviour of the …

Charles Darwin’s letters: a selection 1825-1859

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The letters in this volume span the years from 1825, when Darwin was a student at the University of Edinburgh, to the end of 1859, when the Origin of Species was published. The early letters portray Darwin as a lively sixteen-year-old medical student. Two…

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  • … unique to that archipelago. In London, the similarity of the fossils of extinct mammals he had found …
  • … about month of previous March —on character of S. American fossils—& species on Galapagos …

Edward Lumb

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Edward Lumb was born in Yorkshire. According to the memoirs of his daughter Anne, Lady Macdonell, he travelled to Buenos Aires aged sixteen with his merchant uncle, Charles Poynton, and after some fortunate enterprises set up in business there. In 1833…

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  • … His mercantile contacts enabled him to dispatch fossils back to Britain for Darwin: he arranged for …

Arthur Mellersh

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Arthur Mellersh was a midshipman (promoted to mate during the voyage) serving on the Beagle at the time when Darwin was travelling around the world. One account suggests an inauspicious start to their friendship; apparently Mellersh introduced himself…

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  • … could help Darwin by making any particular observations on fossils. He also enquired about some …

Bartholomew James Sulivan

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On Christmas Day 1866, Bartholomew Sulivan sat down to write a typically long and chatty letter to his old friend, Charles Darwin, commiserating on shared ill-health, glorying in the achievements of their children, offering to collect plant specimens, and…

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  • … to the Falklands with HMS Arrow , and went on to collect fossils during naval surveys of the …

About Darwin

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To many of us, Darwin’s name is synonymous with his theory of evolution by natural selection.  But even before the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859, he was publicly known through his popular book about the voyage of the Beagle, and he was…

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  • … to England in 1836, Darwin had unearthed enormous mammalian fossils in South America, developed a …

About Darwin

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To many of us, Darwin’s name is synonymous with his theory of evolution by natural selection.  But even before the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859, he was publicly known through his popular book about the voyage of the Beagle, and he was…

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  • … to England in 1836, Darwin had unearthed enormous mammalian fossils in South America, developed a …

Darwin and Design

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At the beginning of the nineteenth century in Britain, religion and the sciences were generally thought to be in harmony. The study of God’s word in the Bible, and of his works in nature, were considered to be part of the same truth. One version of this…

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  • … wisdom and benevolence as a designer. Some key fossils of Megatherium had been supplied by …

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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  • … development. B. All that we ought to expect is that if our fossils were perfect, that embryonic …

How old is the earth?

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One of Darwin’s chief difficulties in making converts to his views, was convincing a sceptical public, and some equally sceptical physicists, that there had been enough time since the advent of life on earth for the slow process of natural selection to…

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  • … ’  The strata of the Cambrian geological era were rich in fossils of a wide range of animals but …

The Lyell–Lubbock dispute

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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…

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  • … communicating with them, and of seeing their collections of fossils and works of art, made me feel …
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