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Darwin Chronologized
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
Antecedents
Darwin was descended from two famous grandfathers:
Polymath Erasmus Darwin and Pottery Magnate Josiah Wedgwood.
Lichfield - home of Erasmus Darwin
Lichfield cathedral
Erasmus plaque
Iron bridge
Ironing things out
Wroxeter
Barleston - The Wedgwood museum
"Wedged" in
The venerable bead
Shrewsbury ("ShrOsebury")
Darwin is born!
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.
The Charles at the Mount
Old School Darwin
Darwin and the Bellstone
Mural philosophy
Snowdon
Bob on top
At 1,085 meters (3,560 feet), Snowdon was "the high point" of our trip.
Darwin gets support from all directions
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
Edinburgh
Sitting atop Arthur's seat
Darwinian education
Darwin's Lothian home
Darwin's home plaquated
Darwin lothian around
Fear and lothian in Edinburgh
Cambridge
Sir Peter Lachmann presents Christ's College, Darwin presides from above
The Beagle in Brazil
Leaf-cutter
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
The Beagle in Chile
Jardin Darwin
Chuckie D's place in Patagonia
Darwin was here - obviously
Hacienda San Isidro - where Darwin stayed prior to climbing La Compana - the bell
Darwin - plaquated on his climb up La Campana - no day was better spent
Darwin - exuberant after his climb up La Campana - Aconcagua in the background
Jardin Darwin
Chuckie D's place in Patagonia
Tring
Darwin's finches / Gould's revelation
Zoology of the Beagle
Kew
A kew-ious sense of elation
Cambridge
Craig and Darwin's octopus
"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
Cirripedia
Darwin's finch
Darwin's last sand?
Darwin geologizes at Sea Point
Dolomite outcrop
Sea Point
May 12, 2013
When the sun sets on Darwin
Dolomite outcrop
Sea Point
May 12, 2013
Darwin wasafiri at Conduit Head
London
Upper Gower residence
Darwin Building Gower Street
Downe
Down House
Studying Darwin's study
Students mirror Darwin's life at Down
The sandwalk
Darwin's nepenthe
Uncoordinated exuberance at Down House
Following Darwin to the T.
St. Mary's Church, Downe
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
Oxford
Natural History Museum - site of the famous Huxley-Wilberforce debate
Darwin and Huxley
Natural History Museum
London
Darwin pixellated
Shrewsbury, England
Natural History Museum
Charles x 2
Natural History Museum
London
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
Mourning Annie
Despite its purity, the Malverne water is associated with plaque
Font of health
Darwin family tomb
St. Mary's Church, Downe, England
Laid to rest
Westminster Cathedrale
"Under Newton"
Cambridge
Keynes and Darwin; Fossils, Finches, and Fuegeans
Richard Keynes was Charles Darwin's great grand-son.
London
The great and the great great
Randall Keynes is Richard's son, so he is Charles Darwin's great, great grand-son.
Modified: February 26, 2014
Created: February 22, 2014 (from ../england/darwinsafari2007.html)