Joyce Dixon

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Zoological colour on HMS Beagle: Charles Darwin’s chromatic language

On 25 April 1832 the Royal Navy vessel HMS Beagle was anchored in the blue waters of Botafogo Bay, Brazil. The naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882) was leaving the Beagle in a small boat, en route to a temporary residence on the mainland, when a series of waves swamped the vessel and scattered his ‘most useful’ possessions into the sea.…

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