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The Galapagos
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The Beagle arrives in the Galápagos Islands
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Beagle Voyage
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In 1831, aged 22, Charles Darwin set sail on HMS Beagle for a voyage that would change his life and the way that we understand the world. Find out about the adventures that he had during his five years abroad.
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- … Using a range of primary sources, including letters diary entries and contemporary images, the …
Charles Darwin: the Beagle letters
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This volume contains the complete texts of all the letters that the young naturalist Charles Darwin wrote and received while sailing round the world on the surveying ship the Beaglebetween 1831 and 1836. They start with letters written as a new and…
Darwin & coral reefs
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The central idea of Darwin's theory of coral reef formation, as it was later formulated, was that the islands were formed by the upward growth of coral as the Pacific Ocean floor gradually subsided. It overturned previous ideas and would in itself…
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- … at about the same time, but certainly before leaving for the Galapagos early in September, Darwin …
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…
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,…
Teaching Evolution at Key Stage 3? Join our December workshop
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This free, exciting training and consultation event takes place on Tuesday 12th December at Cambridge University Library, 9.00-4.30. The workshop aims to support KS3 science teachers in delivering informed, dynamic Darwin-based sessions.
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- … developed by the Darwin Correspondence Project and Galapagos Conservation Trust See original …
Biogeography
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Observations aboard the Beagle During his five year journey around the world on HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin encountered many different landscapes and an enormous variety of flora and fauna. Some of his most…
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- … of the coast of South America, including the now-famous Galapagos archipelago. Darwin was fascinated …
Sydney, Australia
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Prospect of journey’s end
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- … Describes collecting in the Galapagos and his visits to Tahiti and New Zealand and gives his …
George James Stebbing
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George James Stebbing (1803—1860) travelled around the world with Charles Darwin on board HMS Beagle and helped him with measuring temperature on at least one occasion. However, Stebbing barely registers in Darwin’s correspondence. The only mention omits…
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- … assisted in measuring the coldness of the sea around the Galapagos Islands by a ‘very careful person …
Lima, Peru
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Looking forward to the Galapagos
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- … the Andes, and awaiting volcanoes and Tertiary strata on the Galapagos Islands. …
Exploring Evolution
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Exploring Evolution is a training programme for trainee teachers. It is designed to support and inspire educators to deliver engaging, relevant lessons on Darwin and evolution, following the UK curricula. The training is free and available in person (full…
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4.51 Frederick Holder 'Life and Work'
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< Back to Introduction A popular biography of Darwin for young readers by the American naturalist Charles Frederick Holder, published in 1891, sought to present him as ‘an example to the youth of all lands’ (p. v). Thus ‘our hero’ was shown to have…
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- … and ‘testing the speed of an elephant tortoise’ in the Galapagos – ‘To show the strength of the …
Darwin’s species notebooks: ‘I think . . .’
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I have lately been sadly tempted to be idle, that is as far as pure geology is concerned, by the delightful number of new views, which have been coming in, thickly & steadily, on the classification & affinities & instincts of animals—bearing…
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- … Darwin did not discover natural selection on the Galapagos, but in the largest city on Earth at the …
Natural selection
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How do new species arise? This was the ancient question that Charles Darwin tackled soon after returning to England from the Beagle voyage in October 1836. Darwin realised a crucial (and cruel) fact: far more individuals of each species were born than…
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- … Darwin made his discovery not in isolation on the Galapagos or on the Beagle voyage, but as a …
Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
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- … say: a veryfoolish one. I was so struck with distributionof Galapagos organisms etc etc. And with …
Darwin in letters, 1821-1836: Childhood to the Beagle voyage
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Darwin's first known letters were written when he was twelve. They continue through school-days at Shrewsbury, two years as a medical student at Edinburgh University, the undergraduate years at Cambridge, and the of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle.…
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- … Darwin's first known letters were written when he was twelve. They continue through his school …
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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- … The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of …
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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- … Journ of Cruize in Essex, 1812 [D. Porter 1815] account of Galapagos Tortoises (very good) Read …
