Writing tagged: ‘charles darwin’
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Taking stock in rolling stock
How Charles Darwin invested in the railways.
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Nidification
Darwin quizzes his cousin on nests.
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Syms’ place
The post office built by Syms Covington in the gold-rush town of Pambula, New South Wales is still standing.
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12-Jan-1836: Darwin in the Land of Oz
On 12th January 1836, ‘HMS Beagle’ arrived in Sydney harbour, with Charles Darwin on board.
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11-Jan-1844: Darwin confesses murder!
Darwin comes clean about his heretical views to Joseph Dalton Hooker, humorously likening admitting believing in evolution to ‘confessing a murder’.
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Darwin puts his foot down
Not impressed with Emma’s choice of wallpaper.
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Contemplating a tangled bank
Darwin’s tangled bank was most surely in Blighty!
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Pretty in pink
Pink iguana rewrites family tree.
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01-Mar-1853: Darwin on ice!
On 1st March 1853, Charles Darwin wrote to his son William about, erm… playing ice-hockey!
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Shock treatment
Charles Darwin tries galvanisation.
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It makes one’s blood boil
Slavery still occurring in Brazil 173 years after Darwin left.
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Such modest ambitions, Mr Darwin!
In 1841, Darwin’s ill-health evidently left him with low expectations of his future ability to contribute to science.