Gaertner, Albin (1854–95)
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- … Lived in Vienna. https://www.geni.com/people/Dr-Albin-Gaertner/6000000022601107297 ( …
Harrison, M. J. (1846–1926)
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- … Heath-Caldwell, Biographies of interesting people , www.jjhc.info/harrisonmathew1926.htm ( …
Hill, E. S. (1819–80)
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- … Campaigned for the rights of indigenous peoples. Sydney Morning Herald , 25 March 1880, …
Ferretti, Gisberto (1845–86)
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- … d’Igiene 8 (1886): 339 https://www.geni.com/people/Gisberto-Ferretti/6000000037763856284 ( …
Evans, Margaret (1831/2–1909)
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- … the Darwins: the story of a house and the people who lived there. London: Royal College of …
Oliver, James (1801–80)
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- … 9 October 2007, http://www.astro.ubc.ca/people/scott/book.pdf (accessed 10 October 2007), …
Beveridge, Peter (1829–85)
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- … various ethnological works on Aboriginal peoples. Brother of Andrew Beveridge. Aust. dict. …
Hagenbeck, Carl (1844–1913)
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- … expeditions to capture animals. Put on ‘people’s shows’ (circuses) from 1874. Founded a …
Barstow, J. S. (1823–81)
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- … accessed 14 July 2015) www.geni.com/people/John-Barstow/ (accessed 14 July 2015) 30 …
Barstow, E. F. (1826–87)
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- … accessed 18 February 2021) www.geni.com/people/Eleonor-Condit/ (accessed 18 February 2021) …
Barstow, C. A. (1830–1910)
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- … accessed 18 February 2021) www.geni.com/people/Catherine-Andrew-Barstow/ 30 …
Galbraith, J. F. (1854–1934)
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- … Historical Society, www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/galbraith_jf.shtml (accessed 1 May 2012) …
Hartmann, Robert (1831/2–93)
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- … Wrote major ethnological studies of African peoples. Treiber 1993 , pp. 183–5 Bibliography …
Adanson, Michel (1727–1806)
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- … Studied the flora, fauna, geography, and peoples of Senegal, 1748–54; published L’histoire …
Morgan, L. H. (1818–81)
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- … the Iroquois and other Native American peoples. Published League of the Ho-de’no-sau-nee, …
Walter, Charles (1831–1907)
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- … his work recorded local Aboriginal people. Dictionary of Australian artists . Bibliography …
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Correspondents in Commentary
Boat Memory
Summary
Boat Memory was one of the indigenous people from Tierra del Fuego brought back to England by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830, but he remains as ghostly a figure as his name. What he was called by his own people is unknown, but the name Boat…
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- … Boat Memory was one of the indigenous people from Tierra del Fuego brought back to England by Robert …
- … ghostly a figure as his name. What he was called by his own people is unknown, but the name Boat …
- … Boat Memory, a member of the Alakaluf tribe, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del …
- … to Tierra del Fuego to act as moral exemplars to their own people and as interpreters for passing …
- … Chapman, Anne. 2010. European encounters with the Yamana people of Cape Horn, before and after …
Yokcushlu (Fuegia Basket)
Summary
Yokcushlu was one of the Alakaluf, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del Fuego. She was one of the hostages seized by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, after the small boat used for surveying the narrow inlets of the coast of Tierra del…
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- … Yokcushlu was one of the Alakaluf, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del Fuego. She …
- … to Tierra del Fuego to act as moral exemplars to their own people and interpreters for passing …
- … with Elleparu and Orundellico, met a select group of people, including FitzRoy’s relations, men …
- … Chapman, Anne. 2010. European encounters with the Yamana people of Cape Horn, before and after …
Elleparu (York Minster)
Summary
Elleparu was one of the Alakaluf, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del Fuego. He was captured by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830 after one the small boats used for surveying the narrow inlets of the coast of Tierra del Fuego…
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- … Elleparu was one of the Alakaluf, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del Fuego. He was …
- … as an intermediary between the English and the indigenous people of Tierra del Fuego. He chose …
- … Chapman, Anne. 2010. European encounters with the Yamana people of Cape Horn, before and after …
Orundellico (Jemmy Button)
Summary
Orundellico was one of the Yahgan, or canoe people of the southern part of Tierra del Fuego. He was the fourth hostage taken by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830 following the theft of the small surveying boat. This fourteen-year old boy was…
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- … Orundellico was one of the Yahgan, or canoe people of the southern part of Tierra del Fuego. He was …
- … sense of sympathy. Even though, as a member of a seafaring people, he could not understand Darwin’s …
- … 1864 he discovered that an epidemic had killed many of his people, including his father. Despite …
- … Chapman, Anne. 2010. European encounters with the Yamana people of Cape Horn, before and after …
St George Jackson Mivart
Summary
In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…
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- … the inheritance of mental and physical qualities would make people realise that their reproductive …
- … without legislation. In order to assess the probability that people would endure such restrictions, …
- … it & I regret it very much because there are so many people stupid enough to fancy or malicious …
Charles Harrison Blackley
Summary
You may not have heard of Charles Harrison Blackley (1820–1900), but if you are one of the 15 million people in the UK who suffer from hay fever, you are indebted to him. For it was he who identified pollen as the cause of the allergy. Darwin was…
John Lubbock
Summary
John Lubbock was eight years old when the Darwins moved into the neighbouring property of Down House, Down, Kent; the total of one hundred and seventy surviving letters he went on to exchange with Darwin is a large number considering that the two men lived…
Gaston de Saporta
Summary
The human-like qualities of great apes have always been a source of scientific and popular fascination, and no less in the Victorian period than in any other. Darwin himself, of course, marshalled similarities in physiology, behaviour and emotional…
Joseph Simms
Summary
The American doctor and author of works on physiognomy Joseph Simms wrote to Darwin on 14 September 1874, while he was staying in London. He enclosed a copy of his book Nature’s revelations of character (Simms 1873). He hoped it might 'prove…
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- … fact that American faces were becoming less different and people were ‘nearly as indistinguishable …
Syms Covington
Summary
When Charles Darwin embarked on the Beagle voyage in 1831, Syms Covington was ‘fiddler & boy to Poop-cabin’. Covington kept an illustrated journal of his observations and experiences on the voyage, noting wildlife, landscapes, buildings and people and,…
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- … on the voyage , noting wildlife, landscapes, buildings and people and, frequently, food. …
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Summary
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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- … often passing news and gossip, and and was one of the few people whose visits Darwin encouraged. In …
William Winwood Reade
Summary
On 19 May 1868, an African explorer and unsuccessful novelist, William Winwoode Reade (1838–1875) offered to help Darwin, and started a correspondence and, arguably, a collaboration, that would last until Reade's death. After a first 1861 tour of…
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- … book by HG Wells, George Orwell, and, even, Sherlock Holmes. People are sometimes surprised to find …
Jane Gray
Summary
Jane Loring Gray, the daughter of a Boston lawyer, married the Harvard botanist Asa Gray in 1848 and evidence suggests that she took an active interest in the scientific pursuits of her husband and his friends. Although she is only known to have…
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- … you on the Nile— I am afraid you will think us very stupid people not to have done more. But it is …
Benjamin Renshaw
Summary
How much like a monkey is a person? Did our ancestors really swing from trees? Are we descended from apes? By the 1870s, questions like these were on the tip of everyone’s tongue, even though Darwin himself never posed the problem of human evolution in…
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- … times quite savage. Unusually hairy people have often been the subject of …
Clémence Auguste Royer
Summary
Getting Origin translated into French was harder than Darwin had expected. The first translator he approached, Madame Belloc, turned him down on the grounds that the content was ‘too scientific‘, and then in 1860 the French political exile Pierre…
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- … none whatever!! It is really curious to know what conceited people there are in the world”. …
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
Summary
George Eliot was the pen name of celebrated Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880). She was born on the outskirts of Nuneaton in Warwickshire and was educated at boarding schools from the age of five until she was 16. Her education ended when she…
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- … a thorough and open discussion of a question about which people hitherto felt timid. So the world …
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…
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- … to illustrate more extensively the landscape and the people encountered on the voyage. …
William B. Bowles
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As a famous figure in the debates surrounding human evolution, Darwin could be something of a lightning rod for eccentric thinkers with their own ideas about his theories. The idea of a “missing link” compelled one such enthusiast to write to him about the…
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- … Africa; with accounts of the manners and customs of the people, and of the chase of the gorilla, the …
