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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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  • … [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] …
  • … Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleay’s letter to D r  Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
  • … Bath. Soc. Paper [ Letters and Papers of the Bath and West of   England Society ]. 1 st  to 8 …
  • … [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
  • … 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 …
  • … The naturall and morall historie of   the East and West Indies . Translated from the Spanish. …
  • … through North and South   Carolina, Georgia, east and west Florida . Philadelphia.  119: 5a, 9a …
  • … 119: 21b Broughton, William Grant. 1832.  A letter in vindication of   the principles of …
  • … of Captain Parry’s voyage for the   discovery of a north-west passage, in the years 1819–20.   …
  • … Isthmus of America, several   coasts and islands in the West Indies, the Isles of Cape   Verd, …
  • … round the world; but   more particularly to the north-west coast of America:   performed in 1785 …
  • … civil and   commercial, of the British colonies in the West Indies . 3 vols. London.  119: 9a …
  • … Journals of two expeditions of   discovery in north-west and western Australia, during the   …
  • … for the   discovery of copper   mines, a north west passage, &c. in the years 1769,   1770 …
  • … a journey   from the Cape of Good Hope to Luanda, on the west coast:   thence across the …
  • … by Bekhur to   Garoo and the Lake Manasarowara: with a letter from … J.   G. Gerard, Esq. …
  • … 1830. On the dying struggle of the dichotomous sytem. In a letter to N. A. Vigors.  Philosophical …
  • … of the geography of plants . Translated from the German by Margaret Johnston. London: Ray Society. …
  • … *119: 8v., 22v.; *128: 165 ——. 1850a. Letter to the Rev. John Bachman, on the question of …
  • … art of improving the   breeds of domestic animals. In a letter addressed to the   Right Hon. Sir …
  • … 1820.  Remarks on the improvement of   cattle, &c. in a letter to Sir John Saunders Sebright, …
  • … 119: 8a Letters and Papers of the Bath and West of England   Society for the …

Introduction to the Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle

Summary

'a humble toadyish follower…': Not all pictures of Darwin during the Beagle voyage are flattering.  Published here for the first time is a complete transcript of a satirical account of the Beagle’s brief visit in 1836 to the Cocos Keeling islands…

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  • … are not so marked. A final set refers to a comparison of a letter and a newspaper editorial. In all …
  • … 1825-28. In HMS Aetna , Belcher then surveyed coasts of west and north Africa before replacing …
  • … Selected Further Reading Ackrill, Margaret. “The Origins and Nature of the First …
  • … Historical Studies 21(1983): 229–44. Akrill, Margaret. “British imperialism in microcosm: …