To J. S. Henslow [20–7] September 1833
Summary
Informs JSH that a Spanish friend has offered him a cargo of bones. If they arrive, he has arranged with Edward Lumb to forward them to JSH. [Forwarded to JSH with 244.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [20–7] Sept 1833 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 19 DAR/1/1/19) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-216 |
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- … To J. S. Henslow [20–7] September 1833 …
- … 19 DAR/1/1/19) Charles Robert Darwin Buenos Ayres [20–7] Sept 1833 John Stevens Henslow …
- … Buenos Ayres September 1833 My dear Henslow A Spanish friend in Entre Rios has promised to …
- … another, containing a specimen found later in 1833. From Lumb’s letter of 8 May 1834 , it …
To J. S. Henslow March 1834
Summary
On fossils ([Megatherium], etc.), plants, shells sent and new ones found; geological observations. Asks for help in understanding cleavage and planes of deposition.
A new species of ostrich. Cites differences in size, colour, nidification, and geographical distribution.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | Mar 1834 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 21 DAR/1/1/21) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-238 |
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- … volume of miscellaneous printed papers). See ‘Beagle’ diary , p. 209. Whewell 1833 . …
- … letter to J. S. Henslow, 12 November 1833 , n. 3. It was not a Mastodon but a hitherto …
- … to a map of cotidal lines. [Read 2 May 1833. ] Philosophical Transactions of the Royal …
- … President for the Cambridge meeting in 1833. There is no record that CD received it, …
- … shipped from the Plata in July & November 1833. — With the latter there was a heavy box of …
- … volume of Lyell’s Principles of geology (1833). CD first mentions having received it in …
To J. S. Henslow 11 April 1833
Summary
Description of the months at Tierra del Fuego. His first sight of the primitive Fuegians. Geological and zoological observations and specimens.
The Falklands: geological and zoological observations.
Convinced the [Megatherium] sent to Royal College of Physicians [by Woodbine Parish] belongs to same formation as bones he sent home.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 11 Apr 1833 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 17 DAR/1/1/17) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-204 |
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- … To J. S. Henslow 11 April 1833 …
- … letters: 17 DAR/1/1/17) Charles Robert Darwin HMS Beagle 11 Apr 1833 John Stevens Henslow …
- … April 11 th . — 1833 My dear Henslow We are now running up from the Falkland Islands to …
- … letter from J. S. Henslow, 31 August 1833 . A reference to Woodbine Parish’s agent, ‘Mr …
To J. S. Henslow 12 November 1833
Summary
Is sending a cargo of specimens – birds’ skins, small quadrupeds, and fossil bones.
Describes his overland trip from Rio Negro to Buenos Aires and his expedition to Santa Fé.
Asks for mineralogical works to help him with the volcanic rocks of the west coast.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 12 Nov 1833 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 20 DAR/1/1/20) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-229 |
From E. A. Darwin to J. S. Henslow 23 January [1833]
Summary
EAD will forward a book and letter to CD; thanks JSH for sending CD’s letters.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 23 Jan [1833] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 15 DAR/1/1/15) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-198 |
To J. S. Henslow 18 July 1833
Summary
Fears JSH will think his collections scanty. Makes it a constant rule to prefer obscure and diminutive tribes of animals.
Now has a servant whom he has taught to skin birds, etc.
Lists four barrels of specimens he is sending.
Gives future route. He looks forward to the western coast of South America.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 18 July 1833 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 18 DAR/1/1/18) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-210 |
To J. S. Henslow 24 July – 7 November 1834
Summary
CD is excited by JSH’s high opinion of his collections.
Discusses his notes and some new discoveries. Summary of events since leaving Falklands.
Geology of Patagonia.
Corallines at Tierra del Fuego convince him of artificiality of arrangement of their families by Lamarck and Cuvier.
Geological expedition in Andes, ending with serious illness. Specimens being sent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 24 July & 28 Oct & 7 Nov 1834 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 22 DAR/1/1/22) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-251 |
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- … found on the island of Chiloé. Gay 1833 . A lightly annotated copy is in ‘Philosophical …
- … have made me. — One is dated Dec 12 th . 1833 the other Jan: 15 th of the same year ! — By …
- … University Press. 1985–. Gay, Claude. 1833. Aperçu sur les recherches d’histoire naturelle …
- … NZ). [Vols. 4,7,9] Stephens, James Francis. 1833. Description of Chiasognathus grantii , a …
- … letter from J. S. Henslow, 15–21 January 1833 . Henslow marked this passage, 3.6 ‘With …
- … three (1813) of Burney 1803–17 . Stephens 1833 . CD may have received a copy of the paper …
To J. S. Henslow 28 [September 1831]
Summary
Has collected [Phalli] in Shropshire and compared them with Barmouth species. Is convinced they are different.
Asks JSH for introductions to R. T. Lowe and Andrew Smith.
Has been given another week’s respite by FitzRoy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 28 [Sept 1831] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 7 DAR/1/1/7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-138 |
To J. S. Henslow [c. 26 October –] 24 November [1832]
Summary
A French collector [Alcide d’Orbigny] has been at the Rio Negro and will probably have "taken the cream". CD’s luck with fossil bones, among them a large extinct armadillo-like animal. Describes some birds, toads, Crustacea, and other marine specimens. Nearly all plants flowering at Bahia Blanca were collected. Is sending two large casks of fossil bones by packet.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [c. 26 Oct –] 24 Nov [1832] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 14 DAR/1/1/14) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-192 |
From Edward Lumb to J. S. Henslow 2 May 1834
Summary
On CD’s instructions EL has forwarded a case containing part of the head of [Megatherium].
| Author: | Edward Lumb |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 2 May 1834 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-244 |
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- … Owen named it Toxodon platensis . See letter to J. S. Henslow, [20–7] September 1833 . …
To J. S. Henslow [10 November 1839]
Summary
Urges JSH to describe Galapagos species in a paper on the flora of the islands.
Has been interested in geographical distribution and would be interested to have a paper by JSH on the general character of flora of Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia.
"I keep on steadily collecting every sort of fact which may throw light on the origin & variation of species."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [10 Nov 1839] |
| Classmark: | The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (Heineman Collection MA 7127) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-543 |
To J. S. Henslow [1 August 1837]
Summary
Botanical queries for Journal of researches, which is about to go to press.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [1 Aug 1837] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 38 DAR/1/1/38) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-368 |
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- … du Pérou), exécuté pendant les années 1826 … 1833. 6 vols. in 7 and 4 atlases. Paris and …
To J. S. Henslow [28–9] January 1836
Summary
His joy at prospect of journey’s end in eight months’ time.
Observations on Australia.
Reports on his collecting in Galapagos – its flora and very curious birds; its instructive geology.
Tahiti and good work of missionaries.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [28–9] Jan 1836 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 29 DAR/1/1/29) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-295 |
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- … see letter from J. S. Henslow, 31 August 1833 , n. 3). The Galápagos birds are famous …
To J. S. Henslow [23 July –] 15 August [1832]
Summary
Specimens being sent off. Describes his collection of rocks, plants, and insects. Some particularly interesting specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [23 July –] 15 Aug [1832] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 13 DAR/1/1/13) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-178 |
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- … letter from J. S. Henslow, 15–21 January 1833 , in which he asks whether CD has mistaken …
To J. S. Henslow [21 January 1838]
Summary
Sends rock specimen for W. H. Miller. Asks JSH to see whether there is any geology in P. B. Webb and Sabin Berthelot, Histoire naturelle des Îles Canaries [1835–50]. Finds his work on geology growing so large that it will take more than one volume and asks whether this will make publication aid more difficult.
Has accepted Secretaryship of the Geological Society.
Will not come to Cambridge because "as long as I continue well I cannot bear to leave my work for half a day".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [21 Jan 1838] |
| Classmark: | Historical Society of Pennsylvania (Dreer collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-400 |
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- … of February, 1838. Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 2 (1833–8): 624-49. …
From R. W. Darwin and the Misses Darwin to J. S. Henslow 1 February 1833
Summary
Send their thanks to JSH for allowing them to see the two letters, one written ten days later than any they have received.
| Author: | Robert Waring Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood; Susan Elizabeth Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 1 Feb 1833 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 16 DAR/1/1/16) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-199 |
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| Darwin, Caroline | (1) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, R. W. | (1) |
| Henslow, J. S. | |
| Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (1) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, R. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (1) |
| Langton, Catherine | (1) |
| Lumb, Edward | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Caroline | (1) |
That monstrous stain: To J. M. Herbert, 2 June 1833
Summary
Darwin did not consider himself to be a particularly good writer, but many of his letters contain not just a wealth of information, but also beautifully expressed descriptions and impressions that would be the envy of any essayist or novelist. Such is the…
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- … Abolition Act (3 & 4 Will. IV c. 73) was passed in August 1833 and came into force a year later. …
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
Summary
Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…
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- … enthusiasm in a letter to William Darwin Fox, 23 May 1833 ( Correspondence vol. 1): …
Race, Civilization, and Progress
Summary
Darwin's first reflections on human progress were prompted by his experiences in the slave-owning colony of Brazil, and by his encounters with the Yahgan peoples of Tierra del Fuego. Harsh conditions, privation, poor climate, bondage and servitude,…
John Stevens Henslow
Summary
The letters Darwin exchanged with John Stevens Henslow, professor of Botany and Mineralogy at Cambridge University, were among the most significant of his life. It was a letter from Henslow that brought Darwin the invitation to sail round the world as…
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- … electric explosion ( from Henslow, 15–21 January 1833 ) During the voyage it was …
Darwin on race and gender
Summary
Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…
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- … Key letters: Letter to J. S. Henslow, 11 April 1833 Letter to C. R. Lyell, 11 …
Books on the Beagle
Summary
The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
Matches: 16 hits
- … two references to Felix Azara’s works in notes made during 1833 cite secondary sources (DAR 33: 254 …
- … 1822–31. (Letter from J. S. Henslow, 15–21 January [1833]). Darwin Library–CUL. § …
- … signatures of the members . . . who met at Cambridge, June 1833. With a report of the proceedings . …
- … Report of the 2d meeting . . . Oxford, 1832 . London, 1833. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, March 1834 …
- … de M. Gay. Annales des Sciences Naturelles 28 (1833): 26–35. (DAR 35.2: 396). ‘Philosophical …
- … vols. Edinburgh, 1822. (Letter from Susan Darwin, 15 October 1833). Darwin Library–CUL ††. …
- … . . 1830 et 1831. Annales des Sciences Naturelles 28 (1833): 369–93. (DAR 35.2: 396). …
- … Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 2 (1833–8): 44–70. (DAR 37.2: 797). …
- … ‘Charles Darwin M: Video. Novem r . 1832’; vol. 3 (1833): ‘C. Darwin’; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 …
- … Miss Martineau’. (Letter from Caroline Darwin, 28 October [1833]). Maskelyne, Nevil. Tables …
- … of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar . . . 2 vols. London, 1833. ( Red notebook , p. 64). …
- … (Vols. 3–7 inscribed ‘Chas. Darwin Buenos Ayres Sept. 1833’). CUL Adv.d.79.22–6. § Rivero, …
- … Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 4 (1833): 209–17. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 …
- … 1832. (DAR 30.1: 2v.; letter to J. M. Herbert, 2 June 1833). Ulloa, A. de. See Juan, G. and …
- … London, 1829. (Letter from Caroline Darwin, 28 October [1833]). § Whewell, William. Essay …
- … Transactions of the Royal Society of London 123 (1833): 147–236. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, March …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
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…
Matches: 29 hits
- … sur la Fauna des iles de la Sonde et Japon [Temminck 1833].— —Have read it. Ogleby Temminck. …
- … of Selbourne [E. T. Bennett ed. 1837 and [J. Rennie] ed. 1833] read 19 : French [? Annales de la …
- … Geograph Soc Siebold’s Japan [P. F. B. von Siebold 1833–50]— d[itt]o Kalm’s Travels in …
- … Darby’s Louisiana [darby 1816] & Finch Travels [Finch 1833]. (Lyell) Maximilian in Brazil …
- … Lives of Kepler & Galileo. Drinkwater [J. E. Drinkwater] 1833]— Prof. Smyth. French …
- … Boisduval is author of Fauna of Madagascar [Boisduval 1833]: Suite— Decandolle on Botany [A. de …
- … countries Birds of Japan [P. F. B. von Siebold 1833–50] Zoolog. Soc “Memoires du …
- … 5 s 1834–43 1. Humming Birds, Vol. 1 [Jardine 1833]. 3. Humming Birds, Vol 2 …
- … 1848] (Boot) 44 (read) Bethunes lives [Drinkwater 1833] (Boot) Leslie life of …
- … [Mackintosh 1836] Bell on the Hand [C. Bell 1833] Wilkinson’s Egyptian remains [?J. G. …
- … 10 th Surville-Marion [Crozet 1783]. Fanning [Fanning 1833], Dixon [G. Dixon ed. 1789]. Voyages …
- … other numbers 25. Owen & Botelers Africa [W. F. Owen 1833 and Boteler 1835] well skimmed …
- … (for second time) Whewell’s Bridgewater Treatise [Whewell 1833] March 1 st . Philosoph. …
- … —— 28 th Glöger Abanden der Vogel [Glöger 1833].— Dec r . 1 Meyens Geography of Plants …
- … Société Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou ]. Vols for 1833, 1837, 1838, 1842, 43, 44—not all …
- … ed. 1837], notes by W. Herbert, Rennie [J. Rennie] ed. 1833]. 6. H. Miller First Impressions …
- … very amusing March 10 John Galt Autobiography [Galt 1833] poor —— 20 th Thiers …
- … la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux ] Tom VI. & VII. 1833–1835 118 22 d . Bulletin …
- … Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle ] Tom. I (lost). II 1833. III 1834. & IV 1835: …
- … 22] 1858 Hewitsons Oology [Hewitson [1833–42].— Nov. 12. Yarrell’s …
- … 18 The entries from ‘Volneys’ to [Temminck 1833] on page [5v.] are taken from the inside back …
- … Bennett’s edition (1837) and for James Rennie’s edition (1833) of Gilbert White’s Natural History …
- … ed. (1844) in Darwin Library.] 119: 8a ——. 1833. The hand. Its mechanism and vital …
- … of a whaling voyage round the globe, from the year 1833 to 1836. Comprising sketches of …
- … *119: 20v. Boisduval de Chauffour, Jean Alphonse. 1833. Faune entomologique de …
- … 16b [Drinkwater, afterwards Bethune, John Elliot]. 1833. Lives of eminent persons, …
- … and adventures in the Indian Archipelago, in 1832, 1833, 1834 . London. 119: 3a …
- … countries . Hereford. 119: 1a Fanning, Edmund. 1833. Voyages round the world: with …
- … Mrs. P. Sinnett. London. 119: 17b Finch, John. 1833. Travels in the United States of …
Conrad Martens
Summary
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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Darwin’s introduction to geology
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Darwin collected minerals as a child and was introduced to the science of geology at the University of Edinburgh, but he only became actively interested in the subject as he was completing his degree at Cambridge.
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- … Darwin collected minerals as a child and was introduced to the science of geology during his …
George Keen
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George Keen (1794–1884) was born in England. He had arrived in Buenos Aires by 1820, making him one of the earliest settlers from Britain. In 1821 he married Mary Yates (1802/3–72), the sister of John, William and Elizabeth Yates, another family of early…
Adam Sedgwick
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One of the early leaders of geology in Britain, Adam Sedgwick was born in the Yorkshire village of Dent in 1785. Attending Trinity College Cambridge, he was ordained as clergyman and in 1818 was appointed to the Woodwardian Chair of Geology, which offered…
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- … One of the early leaders of geology in Britain, Adam Sedgwick was born in the Yorkshire village …
Scientific Practice
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Specialism|Experiment|Microscopes|Collecting|Theory Letter writing is often seen as a part of scientific communication, rather than as integral to knowledge making. This section shows how correspondence could help to shape the practice of science, from…
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- … Letter 207 — Darwin, C. R. to Fox, W. D., 23 May 1833 Darwin tells Fox to buy a microscope. …
Edward Lumb
Summary
Edward Lumb was born in Yorkshire. According to the memoirs of his daughter Anne, Lady Macdonell, he travelled to Buenos Aires aged sixteen with his merchant uncle, Charles Poynton, and after some fortunate enterprises set up in business there. In 1833…
Scientific Networks
Summary
Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
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- … 196 — Henslow, J. S. to Darwin, C. R., 15 & 21 Jan [1833] Henslow acknowledges receipt of …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the Netherlands. Many thanks to Hester Loeff for identifying and researching them. No. …
Alexander Burns Usborne
Summary
Alexander Burns Usborne was born in Kendal, Westmorland, in 1808, the son of Alexander and Margaret Usborne; his father died in 1818 and in his will was described as the purser on HMS Hannibal. His son joined the navy in 1825 aged 16 as a second-class…
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- … appointed to the Beagle , becoming assistant surveyor in 1833; Mount Usborne, the highest point …
4.2 Augustus Earle, caricature drawing
Summary
< 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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- … had to resign his post and leave the ship in late 1832 or 1833 due to illness, and he subsequently …
George Robert Waterhouse
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George Waterhouse was born on 6 March 1810 in Somers Town, North London. His father was a solicitor’s clerk and an amateur lepidopterist. George was educated from 1821-24 at Koekelberg near Brussels. On his return he worked for a time as an apprentice to…
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- … of the founders of the Entomological Society of London in 1833, and was president from 1849-50. …
Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications
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This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the geology of the Beagle voyage, and other publications on geological topics. Author-date citations refer to entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s…
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- … east and west coasts of South America, in the years 1832, 1833, 1834, and 1835, with an account of a …
Syms Covington
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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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- … shoot and skin birds, Darwin employed him as his servant in 1833. Covington accompanied Darwin on …
