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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 …
- … visited during the Beagle ’s voyage round the world. FitzRoy and Darwin could not have been more …
- … especially on religious matters and evolutionary theory. FitzRoy is now too often viewed through …
- … Darwin’s correspondence, however, illuminates many of FitzRoy’s ‘splendid qualities’ as well as his …
- … suicide. At the time of his father’s death in 1829, FitzRoy was surveying an isolated region of …
- … in isolated areas; on the first voyage of the Beagle , FitzRoy’s predecessor, Captain Pringle …
- … months of solitary survey work. It was for this reason that FitzRoy was advised to take a naturalist …
- … hoped, would mitigate the hardships of command. In September 1831 he was informed by Francis …
- … ’. For his part, Darwin thought ‘ Cap. FitzRoy is every thing that is delightful ’ and ‘ …
- … & resolution ’. This did not occur at sea, but while FitzRoy was putting in long hours …
- … at sea by preventing–or, at least, explaining–shipwreck. FitzRoy was sure that a change in the …
- … In taking this action, as with other unauthorised decisions FitzRoy made to ensure the fulfilment of …
- … 1836, two years later than originally planned, Darwin told FitzRoy: ‘ If you do not receive much …
- … ’. Social experiments On arriving home, FitzRoy almost immediately declared ‘ I …
- … a most inconvenient time to marry ’, according to Darwin. FitzRoy then turned to the production of …
- … in a number of editions as Journal of researches. But FitzRoy’s work was never intended to …
- … or decline in human societies. As a devout Christian, FitzRoy believed that all human society came …
- … extreme than that of Darwin ; they were, according to FitzRoy, like the Britons when first …
- … be effected by education and explained by phrenology. FitzRoy’s most intense contact with …
- … work was washed away, and a second was stolen by natives. FitzRoy took several hostages over the …
- … took another man, Orundellico, whom he called Jemmy Button. FitzRoy recklessly decided to turn the …
- … in Tierra del Fuego. Both enterprises failed, leaving FitzRoy shaken by the evidence of the …
- … importance of missionary work. In 1836, Darwin joined with FitzRoy in defending the value of …
- … In 1859, Darwin guessed that FitzRoy was the author of a letter to The Times, full of ‘ conceit …
- … Katharine Anderson, ed., Narrative of the Beagle voyage, 1831-1836 , 4 vols. London: Pickering …
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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- … be stowed away in dry and secure places’. So wrote Captain FitzRoy in the Narrative (2: 18). CD, …
- … . . . There will be plenty of room for Books.’ (Letter from Robert FitzRoy, 23 September 1831 …
- … to in the regulations have unfortunately been lost and FitzRoy, so far as is known, left no records …
- … the ‘immense stock’ which CD mentions may be had from a letter FitzRoy wrote to his sister during an …
- … on board the Beagle § — mentioned in a letter or other source as being on board …
- … Beering’s Strait . . . 1825, 26, 27, 28 . London, 1831. (DAR 31.1: 276v.; 33: 253v.). Darwin …
- … Naturelle 3 (1834): 84–115. (DAR 37.1: 677v.; letter to J. S. Henslow, 12 July 1835). * …
- … d’histoire naturelle . 17 vols. Paris, 1822–31. (Letter from J. S. Henslow, 15–21 January [1833]). …
- … a report of the proceedings . . . Cambridge, 1833. (Letter to Charles Whitley, 23 July 1834). …
- … of the 2d meeting . . . Oxford, 1832 . London, 1833. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, March 1834 and …
- … . . .Translated . . . by John Black. With Notes . . . by Robert Jameson. London, 1813. (DAR 30.2: …
- … unidentified; see also Hawkesworth, John). (DAR 32.2: 89v.; Robert FitzRoy’s letter to the South …
- … la Beche, Henry Thomas. A geological manual. London, 1831. (DAR 32.1: 53). Desaulses de …
- … of geometry. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 30 October 1831). ‡ Falkner, Thomas. A description …
- … naturelle faites dans l’Amérique du Sud . . . 1830 et 1831. Annales des Sciences Naturelles 28 …
- … géologie et de climatologie asiatiques. 2 vols. Paris, 1831. (DAR 35.2: 401; Stoddart 1962, p. 22a …
- … from J. S. Henslow to CD ‘on his departure’, September 1831). Darwin Library–CUL ††. * …
- … barometer. 2d ed. London, n.d. [1802]. (Letter to Robert FitzRoy, [10 October 1831]). DAR 196.2 †. …
- … The history of England. Volume one. London, 1830. (Robert FitzRoy’s letter to the South African …
- … . . . 2 vols. London, 1826. (DAR 31.2: 319; letter to Robert Fitzroy, 28 August 1834). Darwin …
- … 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1804 . . . London, 1805. (Robert FitzRoy’s letter to the South …
The Voyage of the Beagle
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It was a letter from his friend and former teacher, John Stevens Henslow, that brought the 22-year-old Charles Darwin news of the offer of a place on board the Admiralty surveying vessel HMS Beagle on a voyage to chart the coast of South America. During…
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- … never was a finer chance for a man of zeal & spirit. ( Letter from J. S. Henslow, 24 August …
- … brought him to wider scientific attention. Henslow's letter was waiting for Darwin when …
- … to study and explore, and who would be a companion for Robert FitzRoy , the Beagle 's …
- … It took several weeks to persuade his reluctant father, Robert Waring Darwin , to give his …
- … the Beagle finally sailed from Plymouth on 27 December 1831, Charles was on board. They did not …
Introduction to the Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle
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'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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- … The satire, which purports to be a new edition of Robert FitzRoy's Narrative of the …
- … them personally, Ross took bitter exception to Darwin and FitzRoy’s later accounts of both the …
- … century, the circumnavigation of HMS Beagle in 1831 to 1836. Our other substantial accounts of …
- … , and especially the works published in 1839 by her captain, Robert FitzRoy and his naturalist …
- … wife and foreman on the one hand and the texts written by FitzRoy and Darwin on the other. We can …
- … servants, or wage labourers; the apparent contribution of FitzRoy’s visit to a subsequent …
- … the settlement at Cocos Keeling by Royal Navy captains like FitzRoy and Belcher; and, last but by no …
- … of historical interest. Ross’ picture of both FitzRoy and Darwin on this voyage is unlike …
- … man wrote well: Darwin was trite and conventional , while FitzRoy produced endlessly pompous …
- … today who dips into this manuscript will find his attacks on FitzRoy’s style a striking instance of …
- … Purportedly a prospectus and preamble to a new edition of FitzRoy’s Narrative , Ross produced …
- … of person – sometime Master of a Merchant Ship” and FitzRoy’s fictional amanuensis in preparing a …
- … his upper lip as he thought to himself.” He imagines “FitzRoy” in turn envisioning others reading …
- … is “a churnful of sour whey in a literary dairy” while FitzRoy with his “Peripatetic Academical mode …
- … in the satire is Ross’ mock authorial persona of Captain Robert FitzRoy (see above, and Anderson …
- … sections of two parallel columns. Eleven of these refer to FitzRoy’s Narrative and are marked in …
- … are not so marked. A final set refers to a comparison of a letter and a newspaper editorial. In all …
- … little but Ross’ account of the situation from 1827 to 1831, it seems clear that the two men had …
- … reference to Hare’s ‘Seraglio.’ Leaving the field in 1831, Hare died in Bencoolen in Sumatra at the …
- … national meteorological office. Born in 1805 to Lord Charles FitzRoy, and grandson of the duke of …
- … and Beagle , titled Proceedings of the Second Expedition 1831-1836 . It was accompanied by an …
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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- … intended for N o II of the foresaid works. By Captain Robert Fitzroy R.N. In the first …
- … green water. “April 6 th I accompanied Captain Fitzroy to the Islet which forms the S.E. …
- … 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. …
- … was not of any profitable description but of what Mr H in letter to Mr R denominated “fiddle faddle” …
- … to a note from Mr H concerning the last mentioned fugitive a letter which – Mr H sent to Mr R – …
- … ] The three or four runaways mentioned in the forgoing letter had run to apply to Mr Ross – and on …
- … from frequenting your islands &c” and in this his second letter he writes “I told you how it …
- … at present only as by the bye” – In reply to Mr Ross’ letter which he sent with the paper –Mr H …
- … as I did – but of this more anon. It was in Feby 1831 that the Barque arrived at the Cocos …
- … Cocos from England in Feb y 1827 and Mr H left in March 1831 my chronological ideas must be …
- … the Eastern one may be seen by the following extract from a letter dated 19 th May and sent by Mr …
- … when he saw this motive assigned to him! Bah! Captain Fitzroy cannot be such a Booby, as to have …
- … – but in most other respects they are (both by Captain Fitzroy and myself) considered as slaves.” …
- … think to themselves) “if he had been – Captain Fitzroy would surely have mentioned it.” …
- … number of two hundred?” “Oh they are some few born since 1831 and the others are people brought from …
- … The two concluding chapters of my volume – the “Fitzroy” – to wit first Edition – on the theological …
- … Copy Extract Of a letter sent to Captain Ross by Captain Harding of H.M …
Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots
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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…
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- … his publishers, he warned that it was ‘dry as dust’ ( letter to R. F. Cooke, 9 September 1879 ). …
- … turned out, alas, very dull & has disappointed me much’ ( letter to Francis Galton, 15 [June …
- … home again’, he fretted, just days before his departure ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, [after 26 …
- … many blessings, was finding old age ‘a dismal time’ ( letter to Henry Johnson, 24 September 1879 ) …
- … wrinkles one all over like a baked pear’ ( enclosure in letter from R. W. Dixon, 20 December 1879 …
- … itself, or gone some other way round?’ At least the last letter of 1879 contained a warmer note and …
- … office to complete Horace’s marriage settlement ( letter from W. M. Hacon, 31 December 1879 ). …
- … but they were ‘as nice and good as could be’ ( letter from Karl Beger, [ c. 12 February 1879] ) …
- … on your life’s work, which is crowned with glory’ ( letter from Ernst Haeckel, 9 February 1879 ). …
- … to wish Darwin a ‘long and serene evening of life’. This letter crossed with one from Darwin, …
- … the statement ‘In the beginning was carbon’ ( letter from Hermann Müller, 14 February 1879 ). …
- … as the ‘organ of “uncultivated materialism”’ ( letter from Francis Darwin, [after 2 June 1879 ]). …
- … up the glory & would please Francis’, he pointed out ( letter from E. A. Darwin, 13 March [1879 …
- … the life of Dr. Darwin to send to Krause, warning him that Robert Waring Darwin, Darwin’s father, …
- … wholly & shamefully ignorant of my grandfathers life’ ( letter to Ernst Krause, 14 March 1879 …
- … the translation, with a few particulars about the family and Robert Waring Darwin’s remarks about …
- … that when Darwin was suggested as a companion for Captain Robert FitzRoy on the Beagle voyage, …
- … known philosopher and poet’ ( Correspondence vol. 1, letter from Francis Beaufort to Robert …
- … these things with the when & the where, & the who—’ ( letter from V. H. Darwin, 28 May …
- … paternal grandparents thought ‘perfect in every way’ ( letter from E. A. Wheler, 25 March 1879 ). …
- … heard of him ‘constantly, & always with pride’ ( letter from Reginald Darwin, 29 March 1879 ). …
- … essay might end up ‘interfering with each other’ ( letter to Ernst Krause, 27 March 1879 ). Darwin …
- … made such an introduction ‘almost indispensable’ ( letter from Ernst Krause, 7 June 1879 ). Darwin …
- … everything into ridicule. He hates scientific men’ ( letter to Ernst Krause, 14 May 1879 ). …
- … must be ‘in some degree interesting to the public’ ( letter to Reginald Darwin, 10 April [1879] ). …
- … ‘very tastefully and well, and with little fatigue’ ( letter to G. H. Darwin, 12 July 1879 , and …
- … ‘more perplexed than ever about life of D r . D’ ( letter to Francis Darwin, 12 July [1879] ). …
Natural Science and Femininity
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Discussion Questions|Letters A conflation of masculine intellect and feminine thoughts, habits and feelings, male naturalists like Darwin inhabited an uncertain gendered identity. Working from the private domestic comfort of their homes and exercising…
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- … Britain? Letters Letter 109 - Wedgwood, J. to Darwin, …
- … pursuit of real, professional work on his return. Letter 158 - Darwin to Darwin, R. W., …
- … colour and “beauty” of tropical vegetation. Letter 542 - Darwin to Wedgwood, C. S., [27 …
- … meals, family time and walks into town with Emma. Letter 555 - Darwin to FitzRoy, R., …
- … ‘ A Biographical Sketch of an Infant ’. Letter 2781 - Doubleday, H. to Darwin, [3 May …
- … them in the north-facing borders of his garden. Letter 2864 - Darwin to Hooker, J. D., …
- … and “never saw anything so beautiful”. Letter 4230 - Darwin to Gardeners’ Chronicle, [2 …
- … linked with his domestic family life. Letter 4377 - Haeckel, E. P. A. to Darwin, [2 …
- … at least provide Darwin with aesthetic pleasure. Letter 4436 - Darwin to Hooker, J. D., …
- … he has moved one or two of them into his bedroom. Letter 4469 - Hooker, J. D. to Darwin …
- … before expecting to dedicate his life to science. Letter 4472 - Hooker, J. D. to Darwin …
- … duty to the public to contribute more than this. Letter 6044 - Darwin to Darwin, G. H., …
- … and influence to help shape his sons’ fortunes. Letter 6046 - Weir, J. J. to Darwin, …
- … from the comfort of his “ pretty garden ”. Letter 6139 - Doubleday, H. to Darwin, [22 …
- … moths all of which were conducted in his home. Letter 6453 - Langton, E. to Wedgwood, S …
- … attracted to dark spots on the bedroom wallpaper. Letter 10821 - Graham C. C. to Darwin …
- … Graham celebrates the writings of Darwin’s father, Robert . Robert Darwin was “the very closest …
Darwin & coral reefs
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The central idea of Darwin's theory of coral reef formation, as it was later formulated, was that the islands were formed by the upward growth of coral as the Pacific Ocean floor gradually subsided. It overturned previous ideas and would in itself…
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- … of coral as the Pacific Ocean floor gradually subsided. A letter from Robert Edward Alison, who had …
- … first sighting of a coral island is confirmed by a letter to his sister Caroline, written on 29 …
- … the time of the visit of the Beagle to Tahiti. The letter of 29 April was written shortly after …
- … he had a sound theory and one that was worth publishing. The letter continues: ‘I hope to be able to …
- … been subjected to the power of organic arrangement. Capt. FitzRoy at the distance of but little more …
- … Darwin tells his sister Susan that has told Captain FitzRoy and Captain Beaufort that before he …
- … sure they will visit the South Sea Islands: [9 September 1831] . The first evidence of …
- … reef formation: A geological friend of Darwin’s in Chile, Robert Alison, alludes to Darwin’s newly …
- … heart’ to have finished writing his book on coral reefs: letter to Leonard Jenyns [9 May 1842] . …
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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- … a convert to) Darwin’s theory, died at the end of January; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle …
- … The death of Hugh Falconer Darwin’s first letter to Hooker of 1865 suggests that the family …
- … having all the Boys at home: they make the house jolly’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865] …
- … had failed to include among the grounds of the award ( see letter from Hugh Falconer to Erasmus …
- … his letters to Darwin, and Darwin responded warmly: ‘Your letter is by far the grandest eulogium …
- … may well rest content that I have not laboured in vain’ ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 6 January [1865] …
- … always a most kind friend to me. So the world goes.—’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 February [1865] …
- … for our griefs & pains: these alone are unalloyed’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 3 February 1865 …
- … gas.— Sic transit gloria mundi, with a vengeance’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 February [1865] ). …
- … added, ‘I know it is folly & nonsense to try anyone’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865] …
- … ineffective, and Darwin had given it up by early July ( see letter to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] …
- … of anything, & that almost exclusively bread & meat’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 15 August [1865] …
- … better, attributing the improvement to Jones’s diet ( see letter to T. H. Huxley, 4 October [1865] …
- … he was ‘able to write about an hour on most days’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 December [1865] ). …
- … others very forward, except the last & concluding one’ ( letter to John Murray, 31 March [1865] …
- … my book will be ready for the press in the autumn’ ( letter to John Murray, 4 April [1865] ). In …
- … however, ‘I am never idle when I can do anything’ ( letter to John Murray, 2 June [1865] ). It was …
- … might be more willing to bear the expense of the woodcuts ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865 …
- … & I loathe the whole subject like tartar emetic’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 January [1865] ) …
- … you will be an unnatural parent, for it is your child’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 19 April 1865 ; …
- … needed for references, probably from the Linnean Society ( letter to [Richard Kippist], 4 June …
- … in or before November 1864 ( Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Ernst Haeckel, 21 November [1864 …
- … 1865 that he had just finished hearing it read aloud ( letter to Fritz Müller, 10 August [1865] ). …
- … Linnean Society for publication in Müller’s name ( see letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, …
- … so weak that I am not able to do any scientific work’ ( letter to Fritz Müller, 20 September [1865] …
- … coloured varieties (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to John Scott, 19 November [1862] ). …
- … from J. D. Hooker, [3 November 1865] ). The death of Robert FitzRoy Another …
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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- … Library of useful knowledge Horse, cow, sheep [Youatt 1831, 1834, 1837]. Verey Philosophie d …
- … papers. read Audubons Ornithol: Biography [Audubon 1831–9]— 4 Vols. well worth reading …
- … 1828a]. quoted by D r Ryan on marriage [Ryan 1831] (read) Babbington on Flora of Channel …
- … [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824 …
- … &c. Also Encyclop. of Agriculture by Loudon [Loudon 1831]. Book I. ch. 7 & Book II. Ch. 8. …
- … 1834–40]: In Portfolio of “abstracts” 34 —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm …
- … of Authors in Loudon’s Encyclop. of Agriculture [Loudon 1831] Dieffenbach Travels into the …
- … 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] …
- … end Herschel’s Introd to Nat. Philosophy [Herschel 1831] d[itt]o 2 d time of Reading 62 …
- … 1838] 14 Boswell’s life of Johnsons [Boswell 1831] 4 vols 25 Phillips Geology [J. …
- … references at end of each Chap. June 1. King & FitzRoy’s Voyages [King 1839 and FitzRoy …
- … ] to end of 1838. —— Youatt on the Horse [Youatt 1831] Library of Useful K. 1840 …
- … 1780] Johnson. Tour to Hebrides by Boswell [Boswell 1831] Philip Van Artevelde [H. …
- … H. Smith 1841] Dec. Encyclop. of Agriculture [Loudon 1831] (skimmed & abst) Jan 9 …
- … [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
- … [Brewster 1831] March. 8 Houdins the conjurer Life [Robert-Houdin [1859] 19 …
- … 21 Erasmus Alvey Darwin. 22 Robert Waring Darwin. 23 The …
- … 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 cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology, edited by Robert Bentley Todd, was issued in parts. …
- … Pulteney. 1847. Instinct. In vol. 3, pp. 1–29, of Todd, Robert Bentley, The cyclopædia of anatomy …
- … on the progress of civilisation . Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers. 119: 22a Anon. …
- … Therry, Esq. Sydney. *119: 8v. Brown, Robert. 1814. General remarks, geographical …
- … … Translated by John Black. With notes … by Robert Jameson . London. [Darwin Library.] …
- … by her niece. 7 vols. London. 119: 12b, 18b Burns, Robert. 1786. Poems, chiefly in the …
- … London. [Other eds.] 119: 11b [Chambers, Robert]. 1844. Vestiges of the natural history …
- … of those countries . London. *119: 13v. FitzRoy, Robert. 1839. Narrative of the …
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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- … two extensive series of lectures by the mineralogist Robert Jameson and the chemist Thomas Hope. He …
- … field trip to study the stratigraphy of North Wales. A letter written beforehand to Henslow …
- … at the Darwin family home in Shrewsbury in early August 1831 and together they travelled to the …
- … Darwin returned to Shrewsbury from Wales on 29 August 1831. He had scarcely put down his geological …
- … his Cambridge mentors had earned him an invitation to join Robert FitzRoy for a surveying expedition …
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…
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- … 9 July – 3 December 2022 Milstein Exhibition Centre, Cambridge University …
