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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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- … a moment longer to come home as he deserved to do.” That letter they shewed to Mr Ross and requested …
- … to somewhere else” – so now read “your brother's letter and then we may have something sure to …
- … wrote to him immediately before leaving for Sumatra – a letter calculated to elicit something …
- … – not all exaggerated – and Mr R sent him back with a letter [ f.183r p.73 ] as he proposed. …
- … was not of any profitable description but of what Mr H in letter to Mr R denominated “fiddle faddle” …
- … to a note from Mr H concerning the last mentioned fugitive a letter which – Mr H sent to Mr R – …
- … – Nevertheless – all that being as it may be – The Knight's velocity in the taking of the …
- … – paid a visit to the Settlement.” – III The Knight having my volume in his possession – Mr …
- … – de facto – titles as being – de jure – the Knight meant to convey a sneer – at all the …
- … on this, as on any other occasion – averred that – the Knight meant – the bona fide meaning of these …
- … Until the reality of the Apparition – reported by the knight as having appeared to him – has …
3.9 Leonard Darwin, photo on horseback
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< Back to Introduction It is so rare to encounter an image of Darwin in a specific locale that a family photograph of him riding his horse Tommy takes on a special interest. He is at the front of Down House, the door of which is open; it seems as…
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- … paces.’ Henrietta’s brother George reported to her in a letter of February 1870, ‘I have been doing …
- … c.1866, acting as the local magistrate, he wrote a warning letter to another local farmer, whose …
- … references and bibliography Darwin’s draft letter to a local farmer, c.1866, about the state of …
- … Darwin’s accident when riding Tommy on 9 April 1869. Letter from George Darwin to his sister …
3.3 Maull and Polyblank photo 2
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< Back to Introduction Despite the difficulties that arose in relation to Maull and Polyblank’s first photograph of Darwin, another one was produced, this time showing him in three-quarter view. It was evidently not taken at the same session as the…
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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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- … [A. von Humboldt 1811] Richardson’s Fauna Borealis [J. Richardson 1829–37] …
- … Paper on consciousness in brutes Blackwood June 1838 [J. F. Ferrie 1838]. H. C. Watson on …
- … to White Nat. Hist of Selbourne [E. T. Bennett ed. 1837 and [J. Rennie] ed. 1833] read 19 : …
- … what have they written.? “Hunt” [J. Hunt 1806] p. 290 …
- … [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824 …
- … chiefly on distribution of forms said to be Poor Sir. J. Edwards Botanical Tour [?J. E. Smith …
- … Butler. 3. first sermons [Butler 1834] recommended by Sir. J. Mackintosh J. Long Moral Nature …
- … 1834–40]: In Portfolio of “abstracts” 34 —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm …
- … says Blaine on Dogs in 2 d Edit. [Blaine 1824] gives all Knight’s facts on dogs instincts …
- … M rs Fry’s Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
- … Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleay’s letter to D r Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
- … classification of hermaphroditism—good letters of M r Knight July 8 th M.S. Voyage of …
- … Landt Description of Feroe [Landt 1810] —— T. A. Knight Treatise on the Culture of the Apple …
- … Versuch einer Gesichte Vienna 1852 [Unger 1852]. 86 p.p. 364. 8 vo (Much on Distribution of …
- … 1848] quoted in Braun Rejuvenescence [Braun 1853] p. 317 [DAR *128: 176] Moores …
- … Belon Hist de la nature des Oiseaux 1555 [Belon 1555] p 264 Quails at sea with seeds.— See for …
- … d'Horticulture de Paris ] vol. 1 1855. (I have read p. 209 to 268.) 99 Great work by …
- … [DAR *128: 167] Revue Horticol Imp. 1852. p. 102. Naudin Consid. Phil. sur l’espèce [Naudin …
- … Botany Nat. Hist. of East Tartary [Hablizl] 1789]. p. 581. R. Soc. Cat. Acosta Nat. …
- … [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
- … of the material from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward Shuckard to …
- … ( Notebooks , pp. 319–28). 55 The letter was addressed to Nicholas Aylward Vigors …
- … of a naturalist. 4th ed. London. *119: 13v. Knight, Thomas Andrew. 1797. A treatise …
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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- … voyage. Darwin expressed his current enthusiasm in a letter to William Darwin Fox, 23 May 1833 ( …
- … concern of eighteenth and nineteenth-century naturalists (Knight 1981). Many of Darwin’s …
- … help illustrate particular points: p 77. remarks on the difficulty caused by …
- … & so no wonder little accordance with Geolog. History. (B) p 77. considers Ornithorhyncus as …
- … was challenged in 1859 by August Krohn. As he admitted in a letter to Charles Lyell, 28 September …
- … (as Darwin called it in his Autobiography and in his letter to Lyell), was more than a matter of …
- … Toward the end of his study of Balanus , in a letter to Hooker on 25 September [1853] ( …
- … latter instrument suited his purposes well; he reported in a letter to Richard Owen, 26 March 1848 …
- … and mounting his specimens is well demonstrated by a letter he wrote to Charles Spence Bate, 13 …
- … Informing Darwin about the award ( Correspondence vol. 5, letter from J. D. Hooker, [4 November …
- … it was empirically invalid ( Calendar nos. 2118 and 2119, letter to T. H. Huxley, 5 July [1857] …
- … ^9^ CD discussed his conception of archetype in a letter to Huxley, 23 April [1853] ( …
