The acclaimed Prussian naturalist Alexander von Humboldt
(1769-1859) was referred to by Charles Darwin as 'the greatest
scientific traveller who ever lived'. Several of his works were in
the library aboard the Beagle, including the multi-volume Personal
Narrative of Travels, two books on geology and Tableaux de la
nature (all reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection). Darwin's
copy of this two-volume 1811 New York edition of Humboldt's
Political Essay (originally published in French earlier that year)
is inscribed 'Buenos Ayres', suggesting he acquired it there in
1832-3, without its accompanying atlas (forthcoming). Humboldt had
spent a year in Mexico in 1803-4, and was struck by its
'civilization' as compared to regions of South America that he had
visited earlier on his expedition. Volume 1 of his account contains
a 'geographical introduction' and discussions of physical
geography, agriculture, and the ethnic diversity, distribution and
health of the population.
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