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Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
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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- … Bath. Soc. Paper [ Letters and Papers of the Bath and West of England Society ]. 1 st to 8 …
- … [Barrow 1801]. well Skimmed B. Edwards Hist. of W. Indies [B. Edwards 1793–1801]. d[itt]o. …
- … W. Southey 1844] Oct. 20 th Lewis Journal in W. Indies [M. G. Lewis 1834] Nov 7. …
- … 1789]. p. 581. R. Soc. Cat. Acosta Nat. Hist. of Indies [Acosta 1604].— Report, Brit. …
- … The naturall and morall historie of the East and West Indies . Translated from the Spanish. …
- … through North and South Carolina, Georgia, east and west Florida . Philadelphia. 119: 5a, 9a …
- … Captain Parry’s voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage, in the years 1819–20. …
- … travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies. The first volume, containing the …
- … Isthmus of America, several coasts and islands in the West Indies, the Isles of Cape Verd, …
- … round the world; but more particularly to the north-west coast of America: performed in 1785 …
- … civil and commercial, of the British colonies in the West Indies . 3 vols. London. 119: 9a …
- … Journals of two expeditions of discovery in north-west and western Australia, during the …
- … for the discovery of copper mines, a north west passage, &c. in the years 1769, 1770 …
- … 155 Lewis, Matthew Gregory. 1834. Journal of a West Indian proprietor, kept during a …
- … a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Luanda, on the west coast: thence across the …
- … 119: 8a Letters and Papers of the Bath and West of England Society for the …
Introduction to the Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle
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'a humble toadyish follower…': Not all pictures of Darwin during the Beagle voyage are flattering. Published here for the first time is a complete transcript of a satirical account of the Beagle’s brief visit in 1836 to the Cocos Keeling islands…
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- … a British merchant who spent most of his life in the East Indies. He was the eldest son of a …
- … to the new British Lieutenant-Governor of Netherland East Indies, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles. …
- … Moluko, and by 1819 Hare was expelled from the Netherland Indies altogether. Hare’s response was to …
- … 1825-28. In HMS Aetna , Belcher then surveyed coasts of west and north Africa before replacing …
- … Oats, David. “Alexander Hare in the East Indies: A Reappraisal.” The Great Circle 21(1999): 1 …
Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
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Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
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…
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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- … being two flood tides and two only; both moving from East to West in the Antarctic Ocean – at twelve …
- … too a “powerful” one moving in that same Ocean – from West to East &c At the Rock …
- … and from N.E. n Australia to about 120˚ to 110˚ West Longitude in considerable extent from North …
- … say in mind, and observing that we steered too Southward of West (or toward the region of the steady …
- … were in much doubt, whether they lay to the east or to the west of us. There was most reason to …
- … commonly called boobies] flew past the ship towards the west. We steered directly after them and …
- … rn Passage (between the reefs stretching off from the West Point of Direction Isles and from the S …
- … “During another day I visited Horsburgh and the West Island. On the latter vegetation is perhaps …
- … near a 1/4 of a mile from the N.W. n part of the group [West point of Horsburgh Island]. The …
- … few he had hutted with his manager ^or overseer^ on the West Island near its northern end. As soon …
- … – this was the main body of these people thus kept on the West Island – about eighty in number – the …
- … – On this disagreement with Mr D – some more of the West I. Party having gone off – and Mr D not …
- … party which had till then been Bivouaced or stockaded on the West Isle and removed them to Horsburgh …
- … after being visited once or twice by a traveller from the West Isle he removed to the little isle on …
- … it was no pleasant trip for a traveller to make from the West Isle bivouac to the Eastern one may be …
- … it - “here is a fellow just made his way round from ^the^ West Island ( to see his children) from 4 …
- … for having landed a British Pariah upon a desert rock in the West Indian Seas – and worse still a …
- … Captain William Keeling employed in the service of the East Indies Company in 1608 amongst the …
- … it is used by all the transatlantic Gentlemen – South and West of Philadelphia – as also by many …
- … with whom Dampier came across the Pacific from the West Coast of America – intended to stop at the …
