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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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- … I. p. 71. account of Europæan plants transplanted Crawford Eastern Archipelago [Crawfurd 1820] …
- … [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824 …
- … 1834–40]: In Portfolio of “abstracts” 34 —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm …
- … M rs Fry’s Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
- … Cooper. Rural Scenes in N.A [Cooper 1850] G. Cummings South African Huntsmans life [Cumming …
- … Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleay’s letter to D r Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
- … [Malthus 1826] Oct 12 th W. Earle’s 60 Eastern Seas [Earl 1837]. 12th Sir S. 61 …
- … 22b] 1849 Feb. 5 th . Miss Martineau. Eastern Travels [H. Martineau 1848], …
- … 1855] praised by Erasmus.— Read Private Life of an Eastern King [Knighton] 1855] read …
- … [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
- … Archipelago [ Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia ] Vol I to V 1851 M. …
- … of Jamaica [Sloane 1707–25] d[itt]o Rumphius on Eastern Arch [?Rumphius 1741–55] d[itt]o …
- … of the material from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward Shuckard to …
- … ( Notebooks , pp. 319–28). 55 The letter was addressed to Nicholas Aylward Vigors …
- … to William Jackson Hooker. See Correspondence vol. 3, letter to J. D. Hooker, [5 or 12 November …
- … discoveries during four years’ wanderings in the wilds of south western Africa . London. 128: …
- … 1844. A narrative of a visit to the Mauritius and South Africa . London. *119: 18v.; 119: …
- … Bartram, William. 1791. Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, east and west …
- … the sperm whale . . . To which is added, a sketch of a South-Sea whaling voyage . London. *119 …
- … years 1843–46; employed surveying the islands of the Eastern Archipelago … With notes on the …
- … Bellamy, John Cremer. 1839. The natural history of South Devon . Plymouth. *119: 12v. …
- … upon the animal and vegetable productions of New South Wales, New Zealand, and some of the …
- … Peter Loefling’s travels through Spain and Cumana in South America. 2 vols. London. 119: 7a …
- … 119: 21b Broughton, William Grant. 1832. A letter in vindication of the principles of …
- … Five years of a hunter’s life in the far interior of South Africa . 2 vols. London. [Other eds. …
- … Isles of Cape Verd, the passage by Terra del Fuego, the south sea coasts of Chili, Peru, and …
- … 119: 22b Earl, George Windsor. 1837. The Eastern Seas; or, voyages and adventures in …
- … Terra Lindisfarnensis: the natural history of the Eastern Borders. Vol. I: The botany . …
- … M.]. 1858. English hearts and English hands; or, the railway and the trenches . London. 128: 23 …
- … Smiles, Samuel. 1857. The life of George Stephenson, railway engineer . London. [Other eds.] …
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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- … wave in the Tasmanian Ocean whilst passing Westward by the South of Australia to such an elevation …
- … with my assumption of what – is somewhat rare, in the South Atlantic – extraordinary currents – to …
- … who know that the old Kelt who during many years governed Eastern Australia and Van Dieman's …
- … to 110˚ West Longitude in considerable extent from North to South – and thence narrowing in Latitude …
- … celebrated government of that Great Britanniarum of the South – wherein as (I am ready to admit) by …
- … by the separations between the Islets which compose the Eastern side of the Chain (the Western …
- … the whole Southern groups as one Island) lie North and South of each other fifteen miles aparts and …
- … directions, only a mile from the Southern extreme of the South Keeling I could get no bottom with …
- … which is placed on the central and largest Isle of the Eastern side of the Chain about three miles …
- … (as it does to those of St Helena and Ascension in the South Atlantic *[5] ) causing breakers …
- … – too much to Southward first discovered by Mr Ross] the Eastern extremity, being in 7˚ 50' W. …
- … east side of the group, a fine sandy beach appeared on the Eastern Island. In the centre of the …
- … indeed gave in his capacity of explorer, the name of “New South Wales” to the Eastern Coast *[9] …
- … we have not as yet seen or heard of such people as “New South Welshmen” or “women” – and suspect …
- … never become a current one but be melted down into that of Eastern Australia. [ f.171r p.49 ] …
- … this work. They are in two distinct division lying north and south of each other. The northern, …
- … a moment longer to come home as he deserved to do.” That letter they shewed to Mr Ross and requested …
- … to somewhere else” – so now read “your brother's letter and then we may have something sure to …
- … wrote to him immediately before leaving for Sumatra – a letter calculated to elicit something …
- … as being the most “trustworthy” ^were^ kept on the Eastern Isle at Mr H's personal occupancy) …
- … – not all exaggerated – and Mr R sent him back with a letter [ f.183r p.73 ] as he proposed. …
- … was not of any profitable description but of what Mr H in letter to Mr R denominated “fiddle faddle” …
- … to a note from Mr H concerning the last mentioned fugitive a letter which – Mr H sent to Mr R – …
- … ] The three or four runaways mentioned in the forgoing letter had run to apply to Mr Ross – and on …
- … from frequenting your islands &c” and in this his second letter he writes “I told you how it …
- … for a traveller to make from the West Isle bivouac to the Eastern one may be seen by the following …
- … – lying as they do – in the track of commerce with Eastern Asia – and midway on the direct line …
- … placed under my orders to Scout and Patrol between those railway lines – ever and anon stepping out …
