Hugh Cuming - Journal of a Voyage from Valparaiso to the Society and the Adjacent Islands perform'd...
Hugh Cuming - Journal of a Voyage from Valparaiso to the Society and the Adjacent Islands perform'd in the Schooner Discoverer, Samuel Grimwood, Master, in the years 1827 and 1828, by Hugh Cuming
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Date
1827-1828
Call Numbers
A 1336
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Textual Records - (manuscript) 1 volume - 0.02 Meters
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Contents
25 Oct. 1827 - 28th [1828]; Account of the journey undertaken on the Discoverer to collect specimens. Includes nature of the course taken along the coastline of Chile and nearby islands (such as Cumberland Harbour, Mapafuera [i.e. Masafuera] Island, Easter Island, and Chain Island), weather conditions, history and physical descriptions of places v...
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Full title
Hugh Cuming - Journal of a Voyage from Valparaiso to the Society and the Adjacent Islands perform'd in the Schooner Discoverer, Samuel Grimwood, Master, in the years 1827 and 1828, by Hugh Cuming
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General note
Date are not apparent throughout the volume.
"D.S. Mitchell" signature on front endpaper.
Microfilm - CY 194 (A 1336)
Digital order no:a9790001
Contextual Information
Source
Bequeathed by D.S. Mitchell, 1907.
Administrative / Biographical history
Hugh Cuming, naturalist and traveller, was born in England. Around 1820 he migrated to Valparaiso, Chile, to commence a sail making business that he sold several years later. Cuming's interest in conchology motivated him to commission a schooner, the Discoverer, designed for the sole purpose of collecting botanical and zoological specimens for the...
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A 1336
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9AL4G0oY
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9AL4G0oY
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431523
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