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2.14 Boehm, Westminster Abbey roundel
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< Back to Introduction A bronze plaque or medallion with a portrayal of Darwin was installed in Westminster Abbey in 1888, six years after his grand funeral and burial there. Like the seated statue of Darwin in the Natural History Museum of 1884–1885…
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- … be no possibility of a monument as grand as Rysbrack’s tomb of Newton, which stands against the …
- … was buried in the north nave aisle under a simple marble tomb slab, inscribed with his name and …
- … a few years later, was awkwardly separated from the tomb, being placed in a dark wall space in the …
- … still a little available space, to the left of Thynne’s tomb, plaques commemorating James Prescott …
2.22 L.-J. Chavalliaud statue in Liverpool
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< Back to Introduction At about the time when a statue of Darwin was being commissioned by the Shropshire Horticultural Society for his native town of Shrewsbury, his transformative contributions to the sciences of botany and horticulture were also…
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- … the 1890s, and received commissions for busts, statues and tomb monuments. When Thompson 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…
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- … shall no stranger come – to “break the silence of the tomb” as it may be denominated – at least with …
