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Origin
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Darwin’s most famous work, Origin, had an inauspicious beginning. It grew out of his wish to establish priority for the species theory he had spent over twenty years researching. Darwin never intended to write Origin, and had resisted suggestions in 1856…
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- … Darwin’s ‘ Chapter on transmigration of forms across tropics ’. When Hooker’s essay was published …
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…
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- … to the recollections they inspired of his own travels in the tropics. Even before he left on the …
- … in the Cambridge University botanic garden to envision the tropics (see Correspondence vol. 1, …
- … him ‘thrill with delight at old recollections’ of the tropics ( Correspondence vol. 3, letter to …
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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- … altogether during the Glacial period the inhabitants of the tropics must have been greatly disturbed …
- … it is almost certain that many of the inhabitants of the tropics will have become in some degree …
- … been formerly higher than at present in various parts of the tropics, where temperate forms …
- … Page 408, par. 1, line 23, insert after ‘tropics’: 46 …
- … At one time I had hoped to find evidence that the tropics in some part of the world had escaped the …
- … how a vast number of peculiar forms confined to the tropics could have been therein preserved during …
Salvador da Bahia
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Seasickness and wonderfully increasing collections
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- … on his trip across the Atlantic Ocean and arrival in the tropics of Brazil. …
Darwin’s introduction to geology
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Darwin collected minerals as a child and was introduced to the science of geology at the University of Edinburgh, but he only became actively interested in the subject as he was completing his degree at Cambridge.
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- … Darwin became fascinated by the thought of travelling to the tropics in emulation of Alexander von …
Alexander von Humboldt
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The phases of Charles Darwin’s career have often been defined by the books that he read, from Lyell’s Principles of Geology during the Beagle voyage to Malthus’s Essay on the Principle of Population during his London years. The book that encouraged him to…
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- … He was captivated by Humboldt’s descriptions of the tropics, which he recited aloud to John Stevens …
Early Days
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment The young Charles Darwin From an early age, Darwin exhibited a keen interest in the natural world. His boyish fascination with naturalist pursuits deepened as he entered college and started to interact with…
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- … speaks excitedly of his anticipated trip to the tropics. DISCUSSION …
Alfred Russel Wallace’s essay on varieties
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The original manuscript about varieties that Wallace composed on the island of Gilolo and sent to Darwin from the neighbouring island of Ternate (Brooks 1984) has not been found. It was sent to Darwin as an enclosure in a letter (itself missing), and was…
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- … the reason why woodpeckers are scarce with us, while in the tropics they are among the most abundant …
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…
