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List of correspondents
Summary
Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
Summary
[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…
Matches: 16 hits
- … would – but for their having ousted the Pope from his office of Interpreter-general of the Bible – …
- … indebted to him.” But instead of acknowledging any such debt – Mr Ross deemed it to be of no other …
- … Mr Ross made a certain particular of the Survey to do the office of a private remark, which I, of …
- … nor their Hydrographers, who proceeded the Admiral, in that office, have observed its dicta – nor …
- … a due registry thereof has this day been registered in my office, as duly emancipated according to …
- … ship and delivered to the people by the hands of two of the office clerks (Eurasians) whilst Mr Hare …
- … how they had been duped, and set off to the nearest office of the magistrate class to make complaint …
- … time had passed on they resorted to another magistrate’s office situated farther off from them – but …
- … in these luting and fluting times – that – except any National Government gets mad enough to force …
- … times are likely to last until some hundred millions of the debt “National” [par] mensonge …
- … that he had purchased a Koran for the one who assumed the office of reader-expounder and chief …
- … if I had not calculated on being myself appointed to the office of Inspector-general – with a salary …
- … – kind – and just in every transaction – and when the national character of the Malays (of which are …
- … of justice, be deemed of, as being a free person. In his office of “Commissioner-general” in Borneo …
- … and in the exercise of that monopoly – contracted the debt – That interest alone is justly …
- … – whilst the Tories were gorging their bellies in the National clover field that they have had no …
Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
Summary
The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
Matches: 3 hits
- … a narrow margin. The defeat was seized upon as a matter of national pride by the Belgian zoologist …
- … medical statistics who worked in the registrar-general’s office, in drafting a memorandum. He asked …
- … the natural sciences tripos in December. He had fallen into debt, however, and had kept the matter …
