Person
Fitzroy, Robert
FRS
- Occupation
- Meteorologist and Naval officer
Summary
Robert Fitzroy commanded the "Beagle" from 1832 on the voyage that included Charles Darwin as naturalist. During the 1850s and 1860s he introduced weather forecasting to Great Britain but was shunned by the scientific community and finally committed suicide.
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Published resources
Books
- Gibbs, W. J., The Origins of Australian Meteorology, Metarch Papers No. 12 (Bureau of Meteorology, 1998). Details
Edited Books
- Stanbury, David ed., A narrative of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, being passages fron the Narrative written by Captain Robert FitzRoy, R.N., together with extracts from his logs, reports and letters; additional material from the diary and letters of Charles Darwin, notes from Midshipman Philip King and letters from Second Lieutenant Bartholomew Sullivan (London: Folio Society, 1977), 359 pp. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q213756. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/32057224. Details
- 'Fitzroy, Robert (1805-1865)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-822793. Details
Resource Sections
- Gibbs, W. J., 'The Origins of Australian Meteorology', in Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/0805.html. Details
See also
- Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/index_f.html. Details
- Moorehead, Alan, Darwin and the Beagle (Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin Books, 1969), 224 pp. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 15 September 2004
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