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Tierra del Fuego

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:

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(a) Hence the whole face lengthens or as it is often said of a person having bad news his face fell, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 195.4: 46r
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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin draft text?


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Dates: 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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Examined course of torrent of Conway above the C[apel] Curig [erosion and transport by running water and glaciers], 1842-06-19

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 27.1: B1-B20
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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin; written at Capel Curig


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Dates: 1842-06-19
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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It might be well worth to get a list of 46 sp[ecies] from Hooker common to T[ierra] del Fuego N[orth America & Europe, 1869-01-25

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 15.1: B43r
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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


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Dates: 1869-01-25
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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Log entries for December, 1774-12-01 - 1774-12-31

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/58: 139v-145
Scope and Contents Daily log entries, except for 21-26 December for which there is a single summarised entry. The Resolution was travelling on a course via Cape Noir to Tierra del Fuego. An entry for 20 December includes a detailed account of the observations taken by Wales on shore, and a description of Tierra del Fuego where they resupplied with wood, wild celery and plentiful wild geese (which enabled a Christmas feast to be had). Wales notes that ‘excepting the Society & Friendly Islands, Terra del...
Dates: 1774-12-01 - 1774-12-31
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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Log entries for January, 1775-01-01 - 1775-01-31

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/58: 145v-153
Scope and Contents Daily log entries, covering the voyage from Tierra del Fuego to South Georgia Island, and towards the South Sandwich Islands. Three maps are included. An entry for 3 January describes Staten Land [Staten Island] of which he says ‘It did not appear to me by far so frightful as it seems to have done to the relator of Lord Anson’s voyage’. He observes that it abounded with ducks and geese, and with sea fowl such as penguins and seagulls ‘of which most of our people eat (sic) and thought very...
Dates: 1775-01-01 - 1775-01-31
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 the Southern Coast of Tierra del Fuego, Straits la Maire and Staten Island, 1774-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/58: 146b
Scope and Contents Showing Cape Disseada [Deseada], Cape Noir, Schapenbam’s Bay, Whintband’s Bay, Nassau Bay, Success Bay, Cape Success, Port Maurice, Cape St. Vincent, Cape San Diego, Cape St. Anthony, Cape San Juan, Cape St. Bartholomew, Staten Land, New Isle, Terbalten’s Isle, [Enouts?] Isle, Barnevelt’s Isle, Hermete’s Isles, and Cape Horn. The course of the Resolution is plotted, with soundings shown in Nassau Bay. The latitude and east and west longitude from Greenwich are indicated in the border. Signed...
Dates: 1774-01
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 Norman / T[ierra] del Fuego Falkland Islands Kerguelen Land / 5 & upwards [versus] 3, 2, 1, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 16: 136a-136b
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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


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Dates: 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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NS I Chap 6-19 Note, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 46.2: B37
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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


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Dates: 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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NS I Glacial Period-25 Note, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 50: E34r
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The contests between productions of N & S hemispheres…


Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


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Dates: 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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NS II Distribution of animals-46 Note, 1840-01-01 - 1882-04-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 205.3: 69r
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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


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Dates: 1840-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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NS II Distribution of animals-86 Note, 1840-01-01 - 1882-04-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 205.3: 110
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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


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Dates: 1840-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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NS II Distribution of animals-135 Note, 1855-02-01 - 1855-02-28

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 205.3: 172r
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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


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Dates: 1855-02-01 - 1855-02-28
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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NS II Distribution of animals-148 Note, 1840-01-01 - 1882-04-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 205.3: 191
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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


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Dates: 1840-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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NS II Distribution of animals-160 Note, 1856-05-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 205.3: 205r
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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


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Dates: 1856-05-09
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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NS II Distribution of animals-161 Note, 1856-07-01 - 1856-07-31

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 205.3: 206-207
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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


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Dates: 1856-07-01 - 1856-07-31
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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NS II Distribution of animals-197 Note, 1840-01-01 - 1882-04-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 205.3: 247
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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


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Dates: 1840-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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NS II Embryology-49 Note, 1855-12-01 - 1855-12-31

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 205.6: 61r
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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


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Dates: 1855-12-01 - 1855-12-31
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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NS II Geographical distribution and species-54 Note, 1855-07-01 - 1855-07-31

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 205.4: 66-67
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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


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Dates: 1855-07-01 - 1855-07-31
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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NS II Means of distribution-83 Note, 1840-01-01 - 1882-04-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 205.2: 83r
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If there had ever been as much Land in southern hemisphere as in Northern we shd not feel much surprise at the identity of many plants


Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


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Dates: 1840-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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NS II Means of distribution-93 Note, 1840-01-01 - 1882-04-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 205.2: 95
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The Facts tending to show double Creation


Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


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Dates: 1840-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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NS II Means of distribution-104 Note, 1840-01-01 - 1882-04-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 205.2: 106r
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Can amount of peculiarity in S[outhern] Headlands as C[ape] of G[ood] Hope & S[outh] Australia


Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


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Dates: 1840-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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NS II Palaeontology, geology-311 Note, 1861-03-23

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 205.9: 362
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We must not suppose every country as rich as Europe in successive fossils


Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


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Dates: 1861-03-23
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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Observations at a bay on the south-west side of Terra del Fuego, 1774-12-22 - 1774-12-27

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/59/2: 20r-21r
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These include daily observations; lunar observations; observations for the variation of the needle; observations for the error of the line of collimation and the latitude of the place; observations for the going of the clock; observations for the going of Mr Kendall’s watch; observations on the tides; and observations for the dip of the needle.

Dates: 1774-12-22 - 1774-12-27
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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On expression / In passion the nervous system has been accustomed to send forth certain quantity of its influence to the muscles, 1839-03-27

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 189: 1
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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin most crossed out


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Dates: 1839-03-27
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Reflection on reading my Geological notes / V[ide] Calcleugh Geological Map, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 42: 93-96
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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


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Dates: 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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