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Dr Gordon Chancellor

Gordon Chancellor is a palaeontologist by training, and a holder of the Diploma of the Museums Association, he has extensive experience of museums and archives both in Britain and overseas. He has been researching the HMS Beagle voyage of 1831-6 for 30 years, and has published on Darwin’s Beagle collections in the Oxford University Museum. He has also published Darwin’s St Helena Model notebook ( now part of English Heritage’s collection at Down House) and is now delighted to be part of the Darwin Online project as an Associate Editor. He is also assisting with The Beagle Project. Gordon is Business Manager at the UK Data Archive at the University of Essex. He can be contacted at gchanc@essex.ac.uk.

Gordon's forthcoming book, with John van Wyhe and Kees Rookmaaker, Charles Darwin's notebooks from the voyage of the Beagle, will be published by Cambridge University Press in July 2009. See the online versions of the Beagle notebooks here.

Gordon persuaded his father John (1925-1984), one of the finest marine artists of recent generations, to paint two pictures of the Beagle. Requests to reproduce either of these pictures must be directed to Gordon at gchanc@essex.ac.uk. Further information about John Chancellor’s work is available at www.johnchancellor.co.uk.

HMS Beagle in the Galapagos, 17 October 1835 2.15 p.m., by John Chancellor.
See Chancellor, John. 2007. FitzRoy's Beagle. [Previously unpublished manuscript c. 1980]. Introduction Text

Sorely Tried, HMS Beagle off Cape Horn, 13 January 1833 at 1.45 p.m., by John Chancellor. Courtesy of Gordon Chancellor.

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