• 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
• Creator
  Hugh Cuming, 1791-1865
• Call number
  A 1336
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1827-1828
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  431523
• Issue Copy
  Digitised : as .pdf
  
• Physical Description
  Textual Records - (manuscript) 1 volume - 0.02 Meters
  
• 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 British Museum and Botanical Gardens at Kew. In 1831, Cuming returned to England with a shipload of animals, plants, and shells for scientific study at various museums, gardens, and societies. Cuming corresponded with Charles Darwin about South American shells. -- Reference: "Famous malacologists", The dictionary of malacology, The Belgian Company of Malacology, Online Dec. 2003
• Scope and Content
  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 visited, life on board, wildlife encountered, species and botanical specimens collected, religion, interactions with natives, and observations on native customs and culture (134 pages).
• 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
• Name
  Discoverer (ship)
  
• Subject
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  Easter Island--Discovery and exploration.
  Mollusks--Pacific Ocean.
  Natural history--South America.
  Shells--Pacific Ocean.
  
• Place
  Chile
  Easter Island
  Oceania
  South America
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE14465904

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