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New Zealand
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The Beagle arrives in New Zealand
Christchurch, New Zealand
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Māori
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- … The German explorer Julius von Haast has compiled a list of people to send Darwin's expression …
Bay of Islands, New Zealand
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In praise of missionaries
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- … Writes of his trip across the Pacific Ocean and his 10 days on Tahiti and defends the work of …
John Lort Stokes
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John Lort Stokes, naval officer, was Charles Darwin’s cabinmate on the Beagle voyage – not always an enviable position. After Darwin’s death, Stokes penned a description of their evenings spent working at the large table at the centre, Stokes at his…
New material added to the American edition of Origin
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A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
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- … American edition ( Origin US ed., pp. i–xi) New material added to chapter 4 on ‘Natural …
- … & Publisher’s, any arrangement for any profit.— The new Edit. is only Reprint; yet I have made …
- … sheets sent over in a few days … I shd be glad for the new Edit to be reprinted, & not the old.— …
- … and Fields about this prospect, he discovered that two New York publishers were already well on the …
- … and n. 2). The firm agreed, however, to consider preparing a new edition at some future date and …
- … 1860]. Darwin suggested to Gray that the title page of the new edition should read: “Reprinted from …
- … emendations that Darwin had sent were incorporated into the new edition. However, at some point, …
- … in the United States until 1873, when D. Appleton prepared a new edition taken from the sixth …
- … xiii., p. 581), his opinion that it is more probable that new species have been produced by descent …
- … la Soc. Geolog., 2d ser., tom. x., p. 357) suggested that as new diseases, supposed to have been …
- … of a particular nature, and thus have given rise to new forms. The ‘‘Philosophy of Creation’’ …
- … than the manner in which he shows that the introduction of new species is ‘‘a regular, not a casual, …
- … cases be rapid, whereas the process of the production of new species would always be slow. Imagine …
- … the process of modification and of giving birth to new forms will be retarded. Fifthly, and this I …
- … this difficulty so strongly, that he was led to suppose that new and simple forms were continually …
- … will tend to be higher than their progenitors; for each new species is formed by having had some …
- … in which European productions have recently spread over New Zealand, &c., &c. Page …
- … seems occasionally to be necessary for the production of a new being. In all, as far as is at …
Richard Matthews
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Richard Matthews was 21 years old when he stepped aboard the Beagle, destined for a lonely career as a missionary in Tierra del Fuego. The Church Missionary Society had arranged for him to accompany the three Fuegians (Fuegia Basket, Jemmy Button, and York…
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- … in Darwin’s correspondence. When the Beagle called at New Zealand, Matthews decided to join his …
- … had come to nothing, he must have been heartened by the New Zealand missionaries, who declared it …
- … at Wanganui, on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand. His involvement in a financial …
- … Matthews experienced considerable distress. He remained in New Zealand until his death in 1893. …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … (p. 488). Since the publication of Origin in 1859, new evidence that early humans had coexisted …
- … agreed that Lyell’s approach would sway many towards a new way of thinking, while Huxley’s book …
- … Honours abroad Darwin had also found a supporter in New Zealand. Julius von Haast, a German …
- … to geological and palaeontological discoveries made in New Zealand. Haast’s arduous explorations and …
- … Member of the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, New Zealand, of which Haast was a founding …
- … of Origin , that in order to prove the emergence of new species by natural selection, it was …
- … ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 29 May [1863] ). The new hothouse: tropical plants Darwin …
- … a pen. During the autumn of 1863, they collaborated in a new endeavour, producing an appeal against …
Darwin’s queries on expression
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When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
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- … with remote peoples. Replies were returned from Australia, New Zealand, Borneo, Malaysia, China, …
- … [before 30 June 1872] New University Club, St. James's Street, S.W., …
- … 12 May - 2 June 1867 Christchurch, New Zealand doesn& …
- … 4 Dec 1867 Christchurch, New Zealand includes …
- … 4 Dec 1867 Christchurch, New Zealand (about Kaiapoi, New Zealand) …
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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- … 1v.] 6 Books to be Read Humboldt’s New Spain—much about castes [A. von Humboldt …
- … [DAR *119: 4v.] Bevan’s work on Bees new Ed. 1838 [Bevan 1838] Harlaam Phys. & …
- … in high points very good. Smart 17 Beginning of a New School of metaphysic. [Smart 1839] …
- … [ Zoological Journal ] a second time Edinburg New [ Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal ] …
- … [Hallam 1837–9] D r . Lord has written some new book on Physiolog. & treats on origin …
- … voyage to Borneo [Keppel 1846] Life of David Hume— (new Edit) by Bell [Hume 1778] recommended …
- … 1831] Dieffenbach Travels into the interior of New Zealand [Dieffenbach 1843]. Capt. …
- … (amusing extracts). perhaps for Species theory Jesses new Book. (April 44) on Nat. Hist …
- … of the Wernerian Natural History Society ] Ed. New Phil Jour [ Edinburgh New …
- … [DAR 119: Page facing Inside Front Cover] Edig. New Phil. Journ.— 1849. Jan. Marten …
- … Abipones [Dobrizhoffer 1822] Edinburgh New Philosoph. Journ. [ Edinburgh New Philosophical …
- … to Siberia & Polar Sea [Wrangell 1840] Geological Report. New York 69 Jan. 6 th . …
- … —— 2. vols of Hume’s History [Hume 1763] —— New Home. Novel. F. Bremer [Bremer 1843a].— …
- … 1829] /poor/ extracted Nov 30. Dieffenbach’s New Zealand [Dieffenbach 1843] 1844 …
- … 1819]. —— Mem: of Board of Agriculture of New York [ Memoirs of the Board of Agriculture …
- … of D r . Follen [Follen 1844] The Exiles by Talvi. New York [Talvi 1853] Astoria by …
- … on species & vars. [Sweet 1820–30] Hort. Soc.? New York Board of Agriculture [ Memoirs …
- … [T. Bell 1837]. (read) Pictet Paleontologie new Edition [Pictet 1853–7] Pliny Nat …
- … Hutchison Dog Breaking 3 d . Edit [Hutchinson 1856] new information on Pointer & Retriever …
- … [ Annales des Sciences Naturelles ] Edinburgh New Philosoph [ Edinburgh New Philosophical …
- … and vegetable productions of New South Wales, New Zealand, and some of the Austral islands …
- … 13b Dieffenbach, Ernst. 1843. Travels in New Zealand; with contributions to the …
- … 1842. Report on the present state of the ichtyology of New Zealand. Report of the 12th meeting of …
Books on the Beagle
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The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
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- … for that purpose. Every Book, whether Old or New, bound or Unbound , is to be …
- … diary p. 62). * Arrowsmith, Aaron. A new general atlas, constructed from the latest …
- … of volumes on board unknown). Dampier, William. A new voyage round the world. London, …
- … Augustus. A narrative of a nine months’ residence in New Zealand in 1827 . . . London, 1832. …
- … Directions for sailing to and from the East Indies, China, New Holland, Cape of Good Hope and the …
- … narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of the new continent . . . 1799–1804 . . . …
- … Alexander von. Political essay on the kingdom of New Spain. Translated by John Black. 2 vols. …
- … to J. S. Henslow, 24 July – 7 November 1834). § New Testament (Greek). ( ’Beagle’ diary …
- … James Francis. Description of Chiasognathus Grantii a new lucanideous insect . . . …
Conrad Martens
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Conrad Martens was born in London, the son of an Austrian diplomat. He studied landscape painting under the watercolourist Copley Fielding (1789–1855), who also briefly taught Ruskin. In 1833 he was on board the Hyacinth, headed for India, but en route in…
Essay: Natural selection & natural theology
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—by Asa Gray NATURAL SELECTION NOT INCONSISTENT WITH NATURAL THEOLOGY. Atlantic Monthly for July, August, and October, 1860, reprinted in 1861. I Novelties are enticing to most people; to us they are simply annoying. We cling to a long-accepted…
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- … theory, just as we cling to an old suit of clothes. A new theory, like a new pair of breeches (the …
- … article, it oppresses with a sense of general discomfort. New notions and new styles worry us, till …
- … the matter, we might have come to conclude that the new doctrine was better than the old one, after …
- … of mind, it may well be believed that the perusal of the new book ‘On the Origin of Species by Means …
- … behind the rest of the world, we read the book in which the new theory is promulgated. We took it up …
- … man alters from time to time his instruments or machines, as new circumstances or conditions may …
- … he adds to the machine he possesses; he adapts a new rig or a new rudder to an old boat: this …
- … yet the wiser and therefore the actual way is to make a new vessel on a modified plan: this may …
- … This leads us to ask for the reasons which call for this new theory of transmutation. The beginning …
- … the advent of its infant brother. Indeed, to learn that the new-comer is the gift of God, far from …
- … times. Perhaps the last dodo did not long outlive his huge New Zealand kindred. The aurochs, once …
- … nothing that we know of forbids the hypothesis that some new species have been independently and …
- … of the aurochs, contemporary both of the old man and of the new? Still it is more natural, if not …
- … it is now certain that a gradual replacement of old forms by new ones is strongly suggestive of some …
- … such theories should take the form of a derivation of the new from the old seems to be inevitable, …
- … the bent of our prejudices, and hoping to fortify these by new and strong arguments, we are going …
- … of modification.’ This is the kernel of the new theory, the Darwinian creed, as recited …
- … of the very highest authority. But, in its bearings on the new theory, the point here turns not upon …
- … a crowd of marsupials; and the very strange birds of New Zealand had predecessors of similar …
- … this series of facts, and of many others like them. Upon the new hypothesis, ‘the succession of the …
- … Suffice it to say that these are the real strongholds of the new system on its theoretical side; …
- … perfected in the higher! A friend of ours, who accepts the new doctrine, confesses that for a long …
- … or send off branches on one side or the other, producing new lines (varieties), which run for a …
- … the present case, this impatience grows out of a fear that a new hypothesis may endanger cherished …
- … plants, are now proving to be better adapted for New Zealand than many of the indigenous ones—that …
- … time, the geologists of a new colony, dropped by the New Zealand fleet on its way to explore the …
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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- … received news of an exchange of letters on his theory in a New Zealand newspaper; the letters were …
- … 13, CD’s ‘Journal’, Appendix II). In May, he invited a new doctor, John Chapman, to Down and began a …
- … for its publication: ‘I think it contains a good deal new & some curious points, but it is so …
- … close and active interest, raising questions and suggesting new lines of research. John Scott …
- … for if he is correct, we certainly have what Huxley calls new physiological species arising’ ( …
- … circulate in the bodily fluids and are capable of generating new cells, though they remain dormant …
- … even if not, in the case of parthenogenesis), grows into a new embryo. Gemmules could also remain …
- … and ‘creational laws’, which produced modifications or new forms of life. According to Campbell, …
- … a supporter of Darwin’s theory, had recently returned from New Zealand, and sent Darwin his pamphlet …
- … Darwin’s theory that he had written to the Press , a New Zealand newspaper; this was part of an …
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
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- … of Origin (Bronn trans. 1863); he asked whether a new English edition containing corrections and …
- … it important that the remainder be included in the new edition; in his letter to Bronn of 25 April …
- … the second edition. In addition, Darwin referred to ‘a few new M.S. additions & corrections’, …
- … although they were returned to Darwin for possible use in a new American edition of Origin (see …
- … not one truly oceanic island (with the exception of New Zealand, Svalbard, and the adjacent Bear …
- … certain species have been modified and have given rise to new groups of forms, and others have …
- … 51 Although New Zealand is here spoken of as an oceanic island, it is in …
- … Clarke has lately maintained that this island, as well as New Caledonia, should be considered as …
- … Dr. Hochstetter has discovered a frog in the mountains of New Zealand which above all, and this is …
- … highly peculiar plant forms have originated which Australia, New Zealand and the southern tip of …
- … 54. p. 427. 55. p. 444. 56. p. 445. A new passage was added at this point in the …
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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- … first Edition – in the composition of a second, or – a new work rather – which shall consist of not …
- … foreign languages – translations attached &c &c &c in the new Edition – as for my …
- … cleared up all – it would be taking off the cream of my new work – and so perhaps cause that to …
- … the last these saucy remarks – I shall notice them in my new work – here however, I shall (as Sir P …
- … be so – before the publication [ f.152v p.12 ] of my new work – I shall then give in that – a …
- … till long after we had left Otaheite, and were approaching New Zealand” but, he will not have …
- … which stuck to us all the way from the Low Islands to near New Zealand – ^was^ apparently a cousin …
- … 50 pages (only one fourteenth part of the Volume) of the new and important information, which I …
- … a right to expect and shall not disappointed, that in my new work an 150 pages at least – shall be …
- … Again – of the invaluable remarks which I made in New Zealand – on all its concerns – I could only …
- … account – until I came to the decision of preparing my new work – in which such remarks and …
- … – that I shall give a minute and exact description of the new species of “Fortunes” which I …
- … 1841 to the British ship – John Orton of Liverpool – a new Vessel on her first voyage homeward-bound …
- … jointly with me – re-write the whole in my name – for my new Edition. The report as it stands in …
- … of its Coasts – examined by the Dutch, who named it “New Holland.” – Capt Cook indeed gave in his …
- … – we have not as yet seen or heard of such people as “New South Welshmen” or “women” – and suspect …
- … from being applied or deemed applicable to me – and in my new work designate these Islands, by the …
- … to the 9 th December 1825. He has given the name of – New Selma – to the village he has …
- … enough – on the laurels which he gathered in New Zealand – with these literary works for his pillow …
- … Malays on these Islands and the Natives of Otaheite or New Zealand. XIII On looking back …
- … at the Falkland Islands – and in a minor degree – at New Zealand – holding as I did an independent …
- … my efforts to put down the mutiny on board the whaler at New Zealand – had been worse than useless – …
- … to which I executed the functions of Governor of New Zealand – I should have been enabled to add – …
- … think that reasonable hopes of the better Government of New Zealand may now be entertained – Captain …
- … that Captain Fitzroy was a great benefactor of ^to^ New Zealand – having in a wonderfully short …
- … blunder in Folly’s treasury is now squandered – New Zealand may be considered as like a child – who …
- … the Fitzroy administration – a stable flagstaff in New Zealand, will be a sign of immense …
4.2 Augustus Earle, caricature drawing
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< Back to Introduction The paucity of evidence for Darwin’s appearance and general demeanour during the years of the Beagle voyage gives this humorous drawing of shipboard life a special interest. It is convincingly attributed to Augustus Earle, an…
Sydney, Australia
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Prospect of journey’s end
Marianne North
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Marianne North was born in Hastings where her father became a Liberal MP. Her family supported Marianne’s attempts at singing and painting as suitable activities for a Victorian lady. After her parents died, Marianne sold the family home and began…
Before Origin: the ‘big book’
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Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … 2 April 1874 ). Back over old ground New editions of Coral reefs and Descent …
- … Coral reefs His son Horace had suggested a new edition of the coral book in December 1873, …
- … his revision of Coral reefs, Darwin went to work on a new edition of Descent . In the preface …
- … for the communication of a surprising number of new facts and remarks’ ( Descent 2d ed., p. v). …
- … Nettleship Staley, and Titus Munson Coan, a physician in New York whose parents had been …
- … 1874 ). Though containing forty extra pages and three new illustrations, it was issued in a single …
- … worried that it would be ‘a great annoyance to go to a new publisher’ and advised that Darwin should …
- … but I do so with regret & with a hearty wish for many happy new years for you & yours’ …
- … Leonard, who had joined the Royal Engineers in 1871, went to New Zealand as photographer on an …
- … weather resulted in almost total failure of observations in New Zealand (see G. B. Airy ed. 1881). …
- … think I have made some curious discoveries. One of the chief new points is that it secretes a fluid …
- … 13 July [1874] ). The research may have been assisted by a new type of high resolution water …
- … letter to D. F. Nevill, 18 September [1874] ).Francis’s new wife, Amy, drew the plant ( letter to …
- … ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 November [1874] ). New colleagues and old The year 1874 …
- … Darwin’s French publisher, Charles Reinwald, engaged new translators to replace Jean Jacques …
- … of the world of stars , Darwin remarked: ‘It is quite a new light to me & a very interesting …
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