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Montevideo, Uruguay
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Revolution and fossils
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- … Describes political turmoil and his fossil finds, including those of giant, extinct animals. …
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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- … gift of a bird’s nest intended for Darwin from a lawyer in Montevideo . He appeared in the …
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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- … career was distinguished. He saw action at the siege of Montevideo in 1845 when British and French …
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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- … prospect of sailing. He gives directions for sending mail to Montevideo. He talks of being a sort of …
