The Rise of Darwin’s Atoll Theory

Rachel Katz http://www.vandjour.com/maldcpostales.htm

http://www.todayinliterature.com/biography/charles.darwin.asp

University of Edinburgh, then Cambridge

The College Days

http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/photos/cambridge_boston/pages/sunset%20Cambridge%20Common.htm

http://www.rampantscotland.com/let030222.htm

The Mentors

Revd. John Stevens Henslow http://www.gruts.com/darwin/articles/2000/henslow/index.php

Adam Segwick

http://www.gtj.org.uk/blowup.php?lang=en&id=26471&t=1

The Inspiration

http://www.longitudebooks.com/find/p/2632/mcms.html

A Companion/Naturalist on the Voyage

The Ship: H.M.S. Beagle

http://www.rit.edu/~rhrsbi/GalapagosPages/SlideShow/slides/Beagle.jpeghttp://www.mamolimodel.com/images/mv20.jpg

Questions in the Field I have not one clear

idea about cleavage, stratification, lines of upheaval. – I have no books, which tell me much and what they do I cannot apply to what I see. In consequence I draw my own conclusions, and mostly gloriously ridiculous ones they are.” Burkhardt pg.34

Asking for Help

“Very many thanks for your two notes, and especially for Maury’s map: also for Books which you are going to lend me.” Burkhardt 157

“When I return to England, you [Henslow] will have some hard work in winnowing my Geology; what little I know, I have learnt in such a curious fashion, that I often feel very doubtful about the number of grains: whatever number, they may turn out, I have enjoyed extreme pleasure in collecting them.” Burkhardt 34