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Darwin in Conversation exhibition
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Meet Charles Darwin as you have never met him before. Come to our exhibition at Cambridge University Library, running from 9 July to 3 December 2022, and discover a fascinating series of interwoven conversations with Darwin's many hundreds of…
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
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[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…
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- … [ f.146r Title page ] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement …
- … Preface To part II or that intended for N o II of the foresaid works. By Captain Robert …
- … would – but for their having ousted the Pope from his office of Interpreter-general of the Bible – …
- … 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 …
- … a moment longer to come home as he deserved to do.” That letter they shewed to Mr Ross and requested …
- … to somewhere else” – so now read “your brother's letter and then we may have something sure to …
- … wrote to him immediately before leaving for Sumatra – a letter calculated to elicit something …
- … – not all exaggerated – and Mr R sent him back with a letter [ f.183r p.73 ] as he proposed. …
- … pieces of information which I gave to him – The house post sinking story and the mode in which the …
- … had been fully approved by the master attendant and the secretary to the Govt. In process of time Mr …
- … Lords – after reading these enunciations – “What! A Post Captain R. N. printing and publishing these …
- … I say – that put me upon starting off on the instant post-haste to Mr Fag’s garret – where I grabbed …
- … thence hied to the Lord High Admiral –Tut – I mean, Mr Secretary to the Board – shewed him the trick …
- … my inadvertently giving the Title of Lord High Admiral to Mr Secretary – I was more in the right – …
- … that he (an M.A. & F.R.S. – who is – or has been, Secretary to the Grand Geological Society and …
- … Commission stuck upon the tail of Mathew's Gospel – is a post-apostolic fabrication – and that …
- … at the rate of several inches per annum – as per the house post story for which he has given me due …
Robert FitzRoy
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Robert FitzRoy was captain of HMS Beagle when Darwin was aboard. From 1831 to 1836 the two men lived in the closest proximity, their relationship revealed by the letters they exchanged while Darwin left the ship to explore the countries visited during the…
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- … Robert FitzRoy was captain of HMS Beagle when Darwin was aboard. From 1831 to 1836 the two men …
- … viewed through Darwin’s increasingly negative opinion of his once ‘ beau ideal ’ of a captain. …
- … with being in command in isolated areas; on the first voyage of the Beagle , FitzRoy’s …
- … metropolitan scientific elite, soon being appointed secretary of the Geological Society of London. …
- … governor of New Zealand in 1843, but was relieved of this post in 1845 after he worsened (through …
- … He pushed what became Britain’s first Meteorological Office beyond the collection of statistical …
- … In 1859, Darwin guessed that FitzRoy was the author of a letter to The Times, full of ‘ conceit …
Darwin in letters, 1880: Sensitivity and worms
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‘My heart & soul care for worms & nothing else in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on 14 November 1880. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of…
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- … 1880 . Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing …
- … my grandfather’s character is of much value to me’ ( letter to C. H. Tindal, 5 January 1880 ). …
- … have influenced the whole Kingdom, & even the world’ ( letter from J. L. Chester, 3 March 1880 …
- … delighted to find an ordinary mortal who could laugh’ ( letter from W. E. Darwin to Charles and …
- … much powder & shot’ ( Correspondence vol. 27, letter from Ernst Krause, 7 June 1879 , and …
- … modified; but now I much regret that I did not do so’ ( letter to Samuel Butler, 3 January 1880 ). …
- … hope there will not be too many for your convenience,’ the secretary wrote, ‘but the difficulty has …
- … asked Arabella Buckley, who had served as Charles Lyell’s secretary, to draft a statement of Wallace …
- … would finally be appreciated. He tried to interest the chief secretary for Ireland, William Edward …
- … distribute potatoes ‘gratis to the people’ through the Post Office, ‘until the whole kingdom should …
