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A622    Periodical contribution:     Ghiselin, Michael T. 2009. Darwin: A reader's guide. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences (155 [12 February]), 185 pp, 3 figs.   Text   PDF
, consulted with his uncle Josiah Wedgwood II SEPTEMBER 1, CD Henslow from Shrewsbury, accepting offer SEPTEMBER 2 5, Cambridge SEPTEMBER 5 11, London, preparing for voyage SEPTEMBER 11 16, trip to Devonport with FitzRoy to see the Beagle SEPTEMBER 17 20, London, preparing for voyage SEPTEMBER 21, Cambridge SEPTEMBER 22, Shrewsbury OCTOBER 2, left home for voyage, via London OCTOBER 24, reached Plymouth, began diary DECEMBER 10 and 21, sailed but driven back DECEMBER 27, sailed for South America 1832
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A622    Periodical contribution:     Ghiselin, Michael T. 2009. Darwin: A reader's guide. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences (155 [12 February]), 185 pp, 3 figs.   Text   PDF
, Darwin still had to fulfill the residence requirements and his time seems largely to have been devoted to preparing for a career as a scientist, and that included some travel. By good fortune he was offered the post of unofficial naturalist and gentlemanly companion to the captain, Robert FitzRoy, on a surveying voyage on H.M.S. Beagle. Although Darwin's father at first refused to grant permission, his mother's brother, Josiah Wedgwood II, intervened and the invitation was accepted. The Beagle
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A622    Periodical contribution:     Ghiselin, Michael T. 2009. Darwin: A reader's guide. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences (155 [12 February]), 185 pp, 3 figs.   Text   PDF
in the voyage Darwin showed his diary to Captain FitzRoy, who liked it very much and encouraged him to publish it. The diary was the basis for Darwin's first book, which is popularly known as The Voyage of the Beagle. It was extensively supplemented by additional material, and much revised. (The Diary itself, edited by Richard Darwin Keynes, has been published.) The first edition, published in 1839, appeared as part of a series that includes FitzRoy's account of the voyage. It was prepared at a
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A622    Periodical contribution:     Ghiselin, Michael T. 2009. Darwin: A reader's guide. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences (155 [12 February]), 185 pp, 3 figs.   Text   PDF
Hobart MARCH 4 5, observations on confervae at sea MARCH 6 14, King George's Sound, Australia APRIL 1 12, Cocos-Keeling Islands APRIL 29 MAY 9, Mauritius MAY, Red Notebook begins around this time MAY 31 JUNE 15, Cape of Good Hope JUNE 3, first meeting with Sir John Herschel JUNE 8 15, socialized with Herschel and others JUNE 28, FitzRoy/Darwin paper on Tahiti written at sea JUNE 29, crossed Tropic of Capricorn JULY 8 14, St. Helena JULY 19 23, Ascension Island AUGUST 1 6, Bahia, Brazil AUGUST 12
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A622    Periodical contribution:     Ghiselin, Michael T. 2009. Darwin: A reader's guide. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences (155 [12 February]), 185 pp, 3 figs.   Text   PDF
Advancement of Science at Southampton SEPTEMBER 12, to Portsmouth and Isle of Wight coast SEPTEMBER 13, to Winchester SEPTEMBER 14, to Netley Abbey Southampton SEPTEMBER 17, returned home SEPTEMBER 22, to Knole Park OCTOBER, two trips to London OCTOBER 1, finished proofs of South America OCTOBER 1, began paper on Arthrobalanus OCTOBER 9, finished Playfair's biography of Hutton OCTOBER 10 12 ca., Sulivans and Hooker visited OCTOBER, 28, CD FitzRoy, on dissecting Cryptophialus NOVEMBER 18, attended
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A622    Periodical contribution:     Ghiselin, Michael T. 2009. Darwin: A reader's guide. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences (155 [12 February]), 185 pp, 3 figs.   Text   PDF
; Hooker astonished them with trimorphic Catasetum OCTOBER 28, Saturday, Lyells departed NOVEMBER 2 4, to London NOVEMBER 2, elected to Council of Royal Society of London NOVEMBER 30 DECEMBER 1, to London: attended meeting of Royal Society on the 30th DECEMBER 1, breakfast at home of Sir Robert Inglis; present were, among others: FitzRoy, Owen, Herschel, and Robert Brown 1855 JANUARY 18, took a house in London for a month JANUARY 25, attended meetings of Council of the Royal Society and
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A622    Periodical contribution:     Ghiselin, Michael T. 2009. Darwin: A reader's guide. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences (155 [12 February]), 185 pp, 3 figs.   Text   PDF
(last child) born DECEMBER 6, note on cross breeding of legumes published 1857 Botanical arithmetic; experiments on plant ecology JANUARY 13 16, to London JANUARY 15, attended meeting of Philosophical Club and lecture at Royal Society JANUARY 26, finished chapter 4 of Natural Selection on variation in nature FEBRUARY 23, Captain and Mrs. FitzRoy came to lunch MARCH 3, finished chapter 5 of Natural Selection on struggle for existence MARCH 4 7, to London MARCH 5, attended meeting of Philosophical
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A622    Periodical contribution:     Ghiselin, Michael T. 2009. Darwin: A reader's guide. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences (155 [12 February]), 185 pp, 3 figs.   Text   PDF
OCTOBER 3, Lyell CD, commenting on proofs of Origin OCTOBER 11, CD Lyell, responding to comments NOVEMBER 22, Origin sold out at publishers' trade sale NOVEMBER 23, Huxley CD, high praise for Origin NOVEMBER 24, Origin published NOVEMBER 25, Sedgwick CD, unkind criticisms of Origin DECEMBER, got 2nd Origin through press DECEMBER 1, pseudonymous letter from FitzRoy to Times DECEMBER 7, left Ilkley for brief stay in London DECEMBER 9, returned to Down DECEMBER 13, CD Huxley on Variation MS DECEMBER 26
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A622    Periodical contribution:     Ghiselin, Michael T. 2009. Darwin: A reader's guide. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences (155 [12 February]), 185 pp, 3 figs.   Text   PDF
, corrected paper on climbing plants JANUARY 18, sent Climbing Plants to be published JANUARY 31, Hugh Falconer died FEBRUARY 2, Climbing Plants abstract read to Linnean Society by Frederick Currey; Bentham and Hooker in the audience MARCH 4 6, J.D. Hooker spent the week end at Down house APRIL 9, CD A. Gray; says he is correcting proofs of Climbing Plants APRIL 9, Appomattox Court House; end of U.S. Civil War APRIL 14, John Lubbock came to lunch APRIL 22, health became worse APRIL 30, FitzRoy committed
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A622    Periodical contribution:     Ghiselin, Michael T. 2009. Darwin: A reader's guide. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences (155 [12 February]), 185 pp, 3 figs.   Text   PDF
Journal of Botany, v. 3, p. 310-348. Hope, Frederick William, 1838. Descriptions of some species of Carabidae, collected by Charles Darwin, Esq., in his late voyage. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, v. 2, p. 128-131. Jenyns, Leonard, 1840-1842. Fish. Part IV of The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the Command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N. during the Years 1832 to 1836. London: Smith, Elder, xv + 172 p.; Pl. I-XXIX. Lubbock, John, 1853. Description of a new genus of
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A622    Periodical contribution:     Ghiselin, Michael T. 2009. Darwin: A reader's guide. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences (155 [12 February]), 185 pp, 3 figs.   Text   PDF
Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Vol. I, Pisces, Reptilia, Aves, Marsupialia. Vol. II, Mammalia Placentalia. London: Royal College of Surgeons, 914 p. Owen, Richard, and Darwin, Charles, 1838-1840. Fossil Mammalia, Described by Richard Owen with a Geological Introduction by Charles Darwin, Part I. of The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the Command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N., during the Years 1832 to 1836. London: Smith, Elder, iv + 111 p.; Plates I-XXXI. Porter
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A622    Periodical contribution:     Ghiselin, Michael T. 2009. Darwin: A reader's guide. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences (155 [12 February]), 185 pp, 3 figs.   Text   PDF
and Magazine of Natural History, 1, v. 16, no. 106, p. 317-324. Waterhouse, George R., and Darwin, Charles, 1838-1839. Mammalia, Described by George Waterhouse, with a Notice of their Habits and Ranges by Charles Darwin, Part II. of The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the Command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N., during the Years 1832 to 1836. London: Smith, Elder, ix + 97 p.; Pl. I-XXXV. White, Adam, 1841. Description of new or little known Arachnida. Annals and Magazine of Natural
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A622    Periodical contribution:     Ghiselin, Michael T. 2009. Darwin: A reader's guide. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences (155 [12 February]), 185 pp, 3 figs.   Text   PDF
Psychiatry. Tavistock Publications: London. Browne, Janet, 1989. Botany for gentlemen: Erasmus Darwin and The Loves of the Plants. Isis, v. 80, p. 593-621. Browne, Janet, 1994. Missionaries and the human mind: Charles Darwin and Robert FitzRoy, ch. 9 in MacLeod, R., and Rehbock, P. F., eds., Darwin's Laboratory: Evolutionary Theory and Natural History in the Pacific. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, p. 263-282. Browne, Janet, 1995. Charles Darwin: Voyaging: Volume One of a Biography. New
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A622    Periodical contribution:     Ghiselin, Michael T. 2009. Darwin: A reader's guide. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences (155 [12 February]), 185 pp, 3 figs.   Text   PDF
in Commemoration of the Centenary of the Birth of Charles Darwin and of the Fiftieth Anniversary of The Origin of Species. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 385-400. Darwin, Francis, 1912. FitzRoy and Darwin, 1831-1836. Nature, v. 88, p. 547-548. Darwin, Francis, 1914. William Erasmus Darwin, 1839-1914. Christ's College Magazine, v. 29, p. 16-23. Darwin, Francis, and Seward, Albert Charles, 1903. More Letters of Charles Darwin: a Record of his Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished
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A622    Periodical contribution:     Ghiselin, Michael T. 2009. Darwin: A reader's guide. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences (155 [12 February]), 185 pp, 3 figs.   Text   PDF
Nature. Berkeley: University of California Press, p. 369-390. Grene, Marjorie, 1993. Recent biographies of Darwin: the complexity of context. Perspectives on Science, v. 1, p. 659-675. Grene, Marjorie, 2001. Darwin, Cuvier and Geoffroy: comments and questions. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, v. 23, p. 187-211. Gribbin, John, and Gribbin, Mary, 2003. FitzRoy: the Remarkable Story of Darwin's Captain and the Invention of the Weather Forecast. New Haven: Yale University Press, xii + 336 p
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A622    Periodical contribution:     Ghiselin, Michael T. 2009. Darwin: A reader's guide. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences (155 [12 February]), 185 pp, 3 figs.   Text   PDF
and Modern Science: Essays in Commemoration of the Centenary of the Birth of Charles Darwin and of the Fiftieth Anniversary of The Origin of Species. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 3-17. Thomson, Keith Stewart, 1986. Natural science in the 1830s: the link from Newton to Darwin. American Scientist, v. 74, p. 397-399. Thomson, Keith Stewart, 1995. H.M.S. Beagle: the Story of Darwin's Ship. New York: Norton, 320 p. Thomson, Keith Stewart, 1995. Fitzroy and Darwin: the odd couple. American
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F1881    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 2020. On the origin of species. The science classic. With an introduction by John van Wyhe. Capstone. 419pp.   Text
latest techniques of field geology by Professor Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873) during a tour of north Wales. THE BEAGLE VOYAGE             Just at this time, Professor Henslow was able to pass on to Darwin the offer of Commander Robert FitzRoy (1805-1865) of travelling on a Royal Navy survey ship, HMS Beagle, as a scientific person or naturalist. It has become a commonplace in recent years to read that Darwin was not the official naturalist on the Beagle but actually the captain's companion. In fact
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