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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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- … from the unpublished zoological and geological notes in the Darwin Archive (DAR 29–38), a brief …
- … is of four kinds: There are volumes now in the Darwin Library in Cambridge that contain …
- … notes made by CD during the voyage. They are in the Darwin Archive in the Cambridge University …
- … and symbols are used: DAR — Darwin Archive CUL — Cambridge University …
- … , conveys the following information: CD’s copy, now in Darwin Libary–CUL, was used on board. The …
- … 1 of volume 32 of CD’s geological diary (DAR 32.1) in the Darwin Archive. The copy in the Darwin …
- … . 2 vols. Strasbourg, 1819. (Inscription in vol. 1: ‘C. Darwin HMS Beagle’; DAR 32.1: 61). Darwin …
- … 26, 27, 28 . London, 1831. (DAR 31.1: 276v.; 33: 253v.). Darwin Library–CUL, 1832 Philadelphia …
- … Zoologie . Paris, 1816–30. (DAR 30.1: 6, 12v.). Darwin Library–CUL. § Blainville, Henri …
- … 2 vols. Paris, 1828. (Inscription in vol. 2: ‘Charles Darwin Rio Plata Aug 7 th . 1832’). Darwin …
- … (Letter from J. S. Henslow, 15–21 January [1833]). Darwin Library–CUL. § Bougainville, Louis …
- … Charles Whitley, 23 July 1834). ‘Philosophical tracts’, Darwin Library–CUL. § British …
- … 26–35. (DAR 35.2: 396). ‘Philosophical tracts’, Darwin Library–CUL ††. ‡ Buch, Leopold von. …
- … . . . by Robert Jameson. London, 1813. (DAR 30.2: 154). Darwin Library–CUL. Bulkeley, John …
- … 1822–4. ( Voyage , p. 182; Red notebook , p. 86). Darwin Library–Down †. Byron, George …
- … (editions unidentified; see also Hawkesworth, John). (DAR 32.2: 89v.; Robert FitzRoy’s letter to …
- … 1831. (DAR 32.1: 53). Desaulses de Freycinet, L. C. see Freycinet, L. C. Desaulses de …
- … la corvette . . .La Coquille 1822–5. Zoologie par MM. [R. P.] Lesson et [P.] Garnot. 2 vols., …
- … of geology in a series of essays. London, 1819. (DAR 32.2: 77) Greenough, George Bellas. …
- … (Inscriptions: vol. 1 (1830), ‘Given me by Capt. F.R C. Darwin’; vol.2 (1832), ‘Charles Darwin M: …
- … aux Îles Malouines en 1763–4. 2 vols. Paris, 1770. (DAR 32.2: 132v.). Darwin Library–CUL, Berlin …
- … concerning a future state . . . by a country pastor [R. W.]. London, 1829. (Letter from Caroline …
2.13 Edgar Boehm, statue in the NHM
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< Back to Introduction Edgar Boehm’s marble statue of Darwin in the Natural History Museum was commissioned by the committee of the Darwin Memorial Fund. This body had been set up by Darwin’s friends after his death in 1882, with the aim of providing…
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- … to Introduction Edgar Boehm’s marble statue of Darwin in the Natural History Museum was …
- … report shows that their donations did indeed range from the Darwin family’s £200 down to five …
- … a cost of £2,100, to pay for a bronze portrait medallion of Darwin in Westminster Abbey (also by …
- … sciences, and opened to the public in 1881, shortly before Darwin’s death. This government-funded …
- … was also a key aim. The introduction of the statue of Darwin on the central landing of the grand …
- … also symbolised acceptance by both church and state that Darwin, once anathematised as a threat to …
- … as a sign of the institution’s ‘official sanction’ of Darwin’s theories: rather, it was meant to …
- … which were directly explanatory of the scientific views of Darwin and his disciples. Richard Owen, …
- … central area of the hall were watched over by the figure of Darwin, and Boehm’s statue was even …
- … committee’s choice of Boehm to sculpt the portrait of Darwin could be construed as conservative and …
- … artist’. However, for many viewers, Boehm’s statue of Darwin, slightly over life size, seemed to …
- … legs crossed – an easy, unassuming pose seen in Leonard Darwin’s photograph of his father on the …
- … Fair ’s caricature . The collared cape or cloak that Darwin wore outdoors (depicted also in …
- … Moses , giving monumentality to the figure. Emma Darwin, always difficult to please with respect to …
- … think it was a strong likeness of him (Boehm had never seen Darwin in life), but the impressive …
- … her daughter-in-law Sara that Boehm’s characterisation of Darwin’s hands was unsatisfactory, so a …
- … was very well received; the Times writer thought that Darwin seemed to ‘welcome all coming …
- … in 1927, but put back there in 2008, in time for the Darwin bicentenary celebrations of 2009. …
- … 1883, was given to Cambridge University by members of the Darwin family in 1891, and placed in the …
- … death by the Countess of Derby; her daughter presented it to Darwin’s son George, who lent it to the …
- … white marble, inscribed on the front of the base ‘CHARLES DARWIN’, and on the right side, ‘J.E. …
- … 2 (PH/3/1/781-797, 801-1588); vol. 3 (PH1/3/1/1589-2226). ‘Darwin memorial’, Times (17 June, …
- … June 1885, p. 5. ‘Unveiling the statue of the late Charles Darwin in the Natural History Museum, …
- … (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1955), p. 176, no. 322, plaster cast of Boehm’s model. Entry …
- … R. Moore, ‘Charles Darwin lies in Westminster Abbey’ in R.J. Berry (ed.), Charles Darwin: A …
- … science through biographical narratives’, in M.J. Reiss, C.J. Boulter, D.L. Sanders (eds), Darwin …
