America
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Bentham believes Aegiphila is exclusively America & Steudel mistaken / Dioicous, 1876-12-14
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 109: A10r
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1876-12-14
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Birds-13 Note, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 84.2: 13r
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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Charles Wogan: Plan de la Compagnie Royale Americaine
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6572
Scope and Contents
37 folios: (fo. 2) title page; (fo. 3) introduction; (fo. 11) text. On folio 2v is '44' (circled).
Dates:
1740-1743 (Circa)
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Diary, 1941-01-14 - 1941-12-26
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/PEAK/1/1
Scope and Contents
Diary covering Charles Peake’s time as Lord Halifax’s Personal Assistant from 14 January to 26 December 1941. Subjects covered for January include: travelling across America; attending church; Halifax’s love of corduroy trousers; drafting Halifax’s speeches; meeting US President [Franklin Roosevelt] on the destroyer; reflections on the use of oil and electricity in the ship’s kitchen; reviewing a delegation of American admirals; travelling to the US Embassy; Peake’s concern about...
Dates:
1941-01-14 - 1941-12-26
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Galapagos Insects, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 46.2: B7
Scope and Contents
Insects / In these genera two of the islands have each their own species
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin Insects / In these genera two of the islands have each their own species
(Note)
Dates:
1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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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)
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Notes for Journal of researches 2nd edit
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Hive Bees visit Trifolium incarnatum but never Mr Miner[?] has remarked in America the common red Clover, 1858-06-07 - 1858-07-16
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 76: B145
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1858-06-07 - 1858-07-16
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In wasps & Humble Bees in which (I believe) females at first work, 1848-06-01 - 1848-06-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 73: 21-22
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1848-06-01 - 1848-06-30
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Invertebrates-27 Note, 1870-03-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 81: 33
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Bates - Bubas bijou[?] come as next genus to Onitis & the [male] has great projection on thorax
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1870-03-07
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Journal of a Voyage to America
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9207
Scope and Contents
Anonymous account of a voyage from Liverpool to New York of a British visitor, possibly a businessman, in 1815. The account includes impressions of New York, Pennsylvania, Baltimore, and Washington, with notes on American political and military history. The volume also contains a transcript from the Boston Daily Advertizer, 22 June 1815, on the treatment of Blacks in America. There is a letter from George Kitson Clark to Frank Thistlethwaite, 8 December 1959, explaining the provenance of the...
Dates:
1815
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L[inum] perenne / Mr Meehan has stated berfore the Academy of Science at Philadelphia, 1817-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 133.19: 42
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin and Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
(Note)
Dates:
1817-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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Man-17 Note, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 80: B17
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Huxley says Orang very abnormal - Length of arms & dentition connect Gibbon Orang Chimpanzee & Gorilla
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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NS I Chap 3-27 Note, 1854-10-01 - 1854-10-31
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 49: 43r
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1854-10-01 - 1854-10-31
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NS I Chap 3-77 Note, 1863-03-13 - 1863-07-05
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 49: 93-94
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1863-03-13 - 1863-07-05
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NS I Chap 5-38 Note, 1857-12-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 46.1: 41-42
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1857-12-01
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NS I Continental Extensions-3 Note, 1856-02-26
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 50: D12-D13
Scope and Contents
Arguments against Atlantis
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1856-02-26
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NS I Continental Extensions-5 Note, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 50: D16
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At Glacial period, when Vaccinium &c got to top of W Indian islds - land probably almost continuous
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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NS I Glacial Period-13 Note, 1859-12-16
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 50: E19
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Hooker in letter says many plants the commonest on W[est] side of Baffin Bay including species found all over Siberia N[orthern] Europe & Lapland are not found in Greenland
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1859-12-16
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NS II Distribution of animals-55 Note, 1840-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 205.3: 78
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1840-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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NS II Distribution of animals-64 Note, 1840-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 205.3: 87
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1840-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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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
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1855-02-01 - 1855-02-28
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NS II Distribution of animals-173 Note, 1860-02-01 - 1860-02-29
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 205.3: 220r
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1860-02-01 - 1860-02-29
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NS II Geographical distribution and species-61 Note, 1840-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 205.4: 74r
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1840-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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NS II Hybridism-107 Note, 1861-11-18
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 205.7: 157-158
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1861-11-18
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NS II Monochaetum - notes on plants-2 Note, 1841-06-01 - 1841-06-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 205.8: 2
Scope and Contents
A scarlet Azalea wh[ich] flowered badly
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin; written at Maer
(Note)
Dates:
1841-06-01 - 1841-06-30
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NS II Palaeontology, geology-95 Note, 1840-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 205.9: 109r
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1840-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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