Easter Island
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
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Journal of a voyage on board the HMS Resolution, 1772 - 1775
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/59/4: 1r-18r
Scope and Contents
Journal containing daily observations made during the voyage. This should be read in conjunction with [RGO 14/58] the logbook of the Resolution which provides more detailed daily entries. The journal provides summary entries of observations on the ship’s course, distance, latitudes and estimated longitudes, atmospheric pressure, temperature and wind direction, with additional remarks on observations made on shore, and occasional notes on the instruments and timekeepers, and on the ship’s...
Dates:
1772 - 1775
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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Log entries for March, 1774-03-01 - 1774-03-31
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/58: 93-100
Scope and Contents
Daily log entries recording the approach to and arrival at Easter Island. An entry for 11 March records Wales’ first glimpse of the Easter Island Moai statues, ‘Saw by the help of our glasses several large statues or obelisks of wood or stone which are probably the Idols mentioned by the relators of Roggervin’s [Roggevein’s] voyage’ [RGO 14/58: 95v]. Further descriptions of the statues and of their individual names are provided in the entry for 14 March [RGO 14/58: 96]. Wales also describes...
Dates:
1774-03-01 - 1774-03-31
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Map of Easter Island, 1774-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/58: 96a
Scope and Contents
Discovered by Roggervein [Roggevein] in 1722 and seen by Captain Cook in the Resolution, 1774. The course of the Resolution is plotted, along with the depth in fathoms at various points around the island, and the latitude and east and west longitude from Greenwich. Signed by William Wales.
Dates:
1774-03
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Mr Cumings list [of shells], 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 46.2: B13r
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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Cambridge University Library
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Darwin Archive
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'Origin of Species': portfolios I
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'Natural Selection' chapters 5 and 6, portfolios on Seeds and Flowers (Cattell Catalogues) and 'Habits of Bees': notes on fertilisation of flowers
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Materials for chapter 6
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Natural Selection Portfolio (DAR 46.2B)