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To Caroline Darwin   [28 April 1831]

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Had a pleasant week in London and is now enjoying Cambridge, where he is busy with work and social engagements.

Writes with great enthusiasm of his prospective trip to "the Tropics" [Canary Islands]. Henslow will cram him in geology. He is working regularly at Spanish.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:  [28 Apr 1831]
Classmark:  DAR 154: 30
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-98

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  • … enthusiasm of his prospective trip to "the Tropics" [Canary Islands]. Henslow will cram …
  • … am writing now my head is running about the Tropics: in the morning I go and gaze at Palm …
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Alfred Russel Wallace

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Wallace was a leading Victorian naturalist, with wide-ranging interests from biogeography and evolutionary theory to spiritualism and politics. He was born in 1823 in Usk, a small town in south-east Wales, and attended a grammar school in Hertford. At the…

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  • … field naturalists of his day, with unsurpassed knowledge on tropic flora, fauna, and native peoples. …

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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  • … and rain, with occasional calms and storms) extends to the Tropic of Capricorn and from N.E. n …
  • … the billowy swell raised by the S.W. y storms beyond the Tropic, runs up to these Islands (as it …

Movement in Plants

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The power of movement in plants, published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which the assistance of one of his children, Francis Darwin, is mentioned on the title page. The research for this…

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  • … begun to produce aerial roots. Darwin had hoped to study the tropic movements of such roots, but …