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Beagle Voyage

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In 1831, aged 22, Charles Darwin set sail on HMS Beagle for a voyage that would change his life and the way that we understand the world. Find out about the adventures that he had during his five years abroad.

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  • … Using a range of primary sources, including letters diary entries and contemporary images, the …

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…

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  • … the travel art of Augustus Earle’, Journal of Historical Geography , 43 (Jan. 2014), pp. 60-70. …

William Winwood Reade

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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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  • … about William Winwood Reade, see Felix Driver, Geography Militant, Cultures of …

Darwin in letters, 1861: Gaining allies

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The year 1861 marked an important change in the direction of Darwin’s work. He had weathered the storm that followed the publication of Origin, and felt cautiously optimistic about the ultimate acceptance of his ideas. The letters from this year provide an…

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  • … when Herschel, in a newly published text,  Physical geography , partially endorsed his views, …

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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  • … by Forster [Forster 1848] M rs  Somerville’s Geography [M. Somerville 1848] Trials …
  • … der Vogel [Glöger 1833].— Dec r . 1 Meyens Geography of Plants [Meyen 1846]. —— 12 …
  • … and 1798,   including observations on the geology and geography, the   natural history … and …
  • … Travels in New Zealand; with   contributions to the   geography, geology, botany, and natural   …
  • … a view   to illustrate the natural history and physical geography of that   kingdom, in a series …
  • … *119: 14v. ——. 1846.  Outlines of the geography of plants . Translated from the German by …
  • … 119: 14a Somerville, Mary. 1848.  Physical geography . 2 vols. London. [Other eds.]  …
  • … Great Salt Lake of Utah: including a description of its   geography, natural history and minerals, …
  • … 22b Swainson, William. 1835.  A treatise on the geography and   classification of …

4.48 'Puck', cartoon 5

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< Back to Introduction Following on from Reason Against Unreason and The Sun of the Nineteenth Century, another cartoon in the American humorous magazine Puck depicted Darwin as the epitome of philosophical enlightenment. The Universal Church of the…

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  • … They are listening to a lecture – or a sermon – on geography; the lecturer gestures dramatically to …

Darwin's Fantastical Voyage

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Learn about Darwin's adventures on his epic journey.

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  • … These activities explore Darwin’s life changing voyage aboard HMS Beagle. Using letters home, …

4.47 'Puck' cartoon 4

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< Back to Introduction Following on from Reason Against Unreason and The Sun of the Nineteenth Century, another cartoon in the American humorous magazine Puck depicted Darwin as the epitome of philosophical enlightenment. The Universal Church of the…

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  • … They are listening to a lecture – or a sermon – on geography; the lecturer gestures dramatically to …

Biodiversity and its histories

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The Darwin Correspondence Project was co-sponsor of Biodiversity and its Histories, which brought together scholars and researchers in ecology, politics, geography, anthropology, cultural history, and history and philosophy of science, to explore how…

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  • … together scholars and researchers in ecology, politics, geography, anthropology, cultural history, …

Dining at Down House

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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Dining, Digestion, and Darwin's Domestic Life While Darwin is best remembered for his scientific accomplishments, he greatly valued and was strongly influenced by his domestic life. Darwin's…

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  • … amidst the excitement of South American cities, cultures, geography, flora and fauna) Darwin …

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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  • … of seawater, the hibernation of crocodiles, and the geography and mineralogy of locations from the …

People featured in the German and Austrian photograph album

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Biographical details of people from the Habsburg Empire that appeared in the album of German and Austrian scientists sent to Darwin on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Johannes Mattes for providing these details and for permission to make his…

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  • … As the son of Vienna’s chief constable, he studied geography at the University of Vienna (Dr., 1884) …

Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest

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The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of  Origin. Darwin got the fourth…

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  • … value attached to different forms of evidence in geology, geography, botany, palaeontology, and …

Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics

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On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…

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  • … denunciations in both the Saturday meeting and in the geography section. Darwin, who had been kept …

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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  • … 153). King, Philip Parker. Some observations upon the geography of the southern extremity of …
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