XI.—<i>Extracts from a few rough notes of a journey across the Pampas of Buenos Ayres to Tucuman, in</i> 1835

Tweedie, James

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“…As well as gardening and running a store with his family, 10 Tweedie set off on a series of expeditions that generated plants, money from patrons such as Hooker and the Duke of Bedford, and for a period some fame as Hooker referred to his specimens and published two accounts of his travels in his magazine Annals of Natural History. 11 These reports provide us with detailed first-hand descriptions of the frustrations and hardships endured by early plant collectors as they travelled to remote and often dangerous locations. For example, Tweedie's expedition in April and May 1837 to the Serras de Tandil, 12 a low range of rocky hills about 300 miles south of Buenos Aires, began with his joining a caravan of six oxcarts setting out on a trading trip.…”

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John Tweedie and Charles Darwin in Buenos Aires

Ollerton

Chancellor²,

Wyhe³

2012

Notes Rec. R. Soc.

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The journey of exploration undertaken by Charles Darwin FRS during the voyage of HMS Beagle has a central place within the historical development of evolutionary theory and has been intensively studied. Despite this, new facts continue to emerge about some of the details of Darwin's activities. Drawing on recently published Darwin material and unpublished letters in the archives of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, we document a hitherto unexamined link between Darwin and John Tweedie (1775-1862), a relatively obscure Scottish gardener turned South American plant collector. All of the available evidence points to a meeting between the two men in Buenos Aires in 1832. Tweedie provided Darwin with information about the geography of the Rio Paraná, including the locality of fossilized wood eroding from the river bank. It also seems likely that Tweedie supplied Darwin with seeds that he later shipped back to John Stevens Henslow in Cambridge. Although this brief meeting was at the time relatively unimportant to either man, echoes of that encounter have resonated with Tweedie's descendants to the present day and have formed the basis for a family story about a written correspondence between Darwin and Tweedie. Local information supplied to Darwin by residents such as Tweedie was clearly important and deserves further attention.

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confidence: 99%