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Darwin Chronologized

The purpose of this page is to use my photographs to illustrate some of the key events in Darwin's life.
Many of the pictures occur elsewhere in other contexts such as courses I have taught or trips I have taken.

It is organized by time.

The site is still being built and reorganized.
Ultimately, it will include the following:

+ Antecedents
+ Early life
+ College
+ Following the Voyage
+ Voyage of the Beagle
+ Life in Downe
+ Malverne - hydrotherapy and Annie's death
+ Career
+ Death
+ Consequents
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Antecedents

Darwin was descended from two famous grandfathers: Polymath Erasmus Darwin and Pottery Magnate Josiah Wedgwood.

Lichfield - home of Erasmus Darwin

Lichfield cathedral

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Erasmus plaque

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Iron bridge

Ironing things out

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Wroxeter

Barleston - The Wedgwood museum

"Wedged" in

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The venerable bead

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Early life

Shrewsbury ("ShrOsebury")

Darwin is born!

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The picture is taken at The Mount, home of Darwin's father who coincidently is also named Darwin.
Supposedly Charles was born on the second floor on the left side. I came back later to explore the room.

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The Charles at the Mount

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Old School Darwin

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Darwin and the Bellstone

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Mural philosophy

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Snowdon

Bob on top

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At 1,085 meters (3,560 feet), Snowdon was "the high point" of our trip.

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Darwin gets support from all directions

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Darwin peeps

College

After attending boarding school in Shropshire, Darwin traveled to Edinburgh to study medicine.
He transferred to Cambridge for divinity studies.

Edinburgh

Castle luminousity

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Edinburgh

Sitting atop Arthur's seat

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Darwinian education

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Darwin's Lothian home

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Darwin's home plaquated

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Darwin lothian around

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Fear and lothian in Edinburgh

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Cambridge

Sir Peter Lachmann presents Christ's College, Darwin presides from above

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The Voyage of the Beagle

The Beagle in Brazil

Leaf-cutter

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This leaf-cutter is meant to symbolism Darwin's fascination with the neotropical rainforest.
It is actually from an exhibit in the Natural History Museum in London
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The Beagle in Chile

Jardin Darwin

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Chuckie D's place in Patagonia

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Darwin was here - obviously

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Hacienda San Isidro - where Darwin stayed prior to climbing La Compana - the bell

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Darwin - plaquated on his climb up La Campana - no day was better spent

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Darwin - exuberant after his climb up La Campana - Aconcagua in the background

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Jardin Darwin

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Chuckie D's place in Patagonia

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Tring

Darwin's finches / Gould's revelation

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Zoology of the Beagle

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Kew

A kew-ious sense of elation

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Cambridge

Craig and Darwin's octopus

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"I was much interested, on several occasions, by watching the habits of an Octopus, or cuttle-fish. Although common in the pools of water left by the retiring tide, these animals were not easily caught. By means of their long arms and suckers, they could drag their bodies into very narrow crevices; and when thus fixed, it required great force to remove them. At other times they darted tail first, with the rapidity of an arrow, from one side of the pool to the other, at the same instant discolouring the water with a dark chestnut-brown ink. These animals also escape detection by a very extraordinary, chameleon-like power of changing their colour. They appear to vary their tints according to the nature of the ground over which they pass: when in deep water, their general shade was brownish purple, but when placed on the land, or in shallow water, this dark tint changed into one of a yellowish green. The colour, examined more carefully, was a French grey, with numerous minute spots of bright yellow: the former of these varied in intensity; the latter entirely disappeared and appeared again by turns. These changes were effected in such a manner, that clouds, varying in tint between a hyacinth red and a chestnut-brown, [4] were continually passing over the body. Any part, being subjected to a slight shock of galvanism, became almost black: a similar effect, but in a less degree, was produced by scratching the skin with a needle. These clouds, or blushes as they may be called, are said to be produced by the alternate expansion and contraction of minute vesicles containing variously coloured fluids."

Charles Darwin The Voyage of the Beagle

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Cirripedia

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Darwin's finch

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Darwin's last sand?

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Cape Town

Darwin geologizes at Sea Point

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Dolomite outcrop
Sea Point
May 12, 2013

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When the sun sets on Darwin

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Dolomite outcrop
Sea Point
May 12, 2013

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Darwin wasafiri at Conduit Head

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Following the voyage

London

Upper Gower residence

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Darwin Building Gower Street

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Life in Downe and Down House

Downe

Down House

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Studying Darwin's study

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Students mirror Darwin's life at Down

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The sandwalk

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Darwin's nepenthe

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Uncoordinated exuberance at Down House

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Following Darwin to the T.

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St. Mary's Church, Downe

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Career

Darwin spend eight years studying barnacles. He was apparently inspired by a particular sample that he collected during the voyage of the beagle.

Barnacles, Darwin, Stott, and Siegel

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Oxford

Natural History Museum - site of the famous Huxley-Wilberforce debate

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Darwin and Huxley

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Natural History Museum
London
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Darwin pixellated

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Shrewsbury, England
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Natural History Museum

Charles x 2

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Natural History Museum
London
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Malverne

Malverne is where Darwin took Dr Gully's "water cure". It is also where his eldest daughter Annie died. At this point, Darwin apparent lost his last vestige of belief in a benevolent god.

A dear and good child

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Mourning Annie

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Despite its purity, the Malverne water is associated with plaque

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Font of health

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Death

Darwin family tomb

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St. Mary's Church, Downe, England
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Laid to rest

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Westminster Cathedrale
"Under Newton"
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Consequents

Cambridge

Keynes and Darwin; Fossils, Finches, and Fuegeans

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Richard Keynes was Charles Darwin's great grand-son.
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London

The great and the great great

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Randall Keynes is Richard's son, so he is Charles Darwin's great, great grand-son.
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Modified: February 26, 2014
Created: February 22, 2014 (from ../england/darwinsafari2007.html)