Robert Fitzroy

Standard Name: Fitzroy, Robert

Used Form: Captain Robert Fitzroy

Connections

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Textual Production	Amabel Williams-Ellis	AWE published an adaptation from the Beagle Expedition narratives of Charles Darwin and Robert Fitzroy , written in 1831-36: H.M.S. Beagle in South America. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production	Timberlake Wertenbaker	TW 's play After Darwin, exploring the conflict between naturalist Charles Darwin and ship's captain Robert Fitzroy , was produced at Hampstead Theatre , in London. Morley, Sheridan. “Summer School Is in Session: ’After Darwin’”. International Herald Tribune, 15 July 1998. 1

Captain Robert Fitzroy , head of the United Kingdom's Meteorological Department , began issuing the first routine weather forecasts in Britain.

Burton, Jim. “Robert FitzRoy and the Early History of the Meteorological Office”. British Journal for the History of Science, Vol.

, 1986, pp. 147-76.

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Fishman, Jack, and Robert Kalish. The Weather Revolution: Innovations and Imminent Breakthroughs in Accurate Forecasting. Plenum Press, 1994.

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Shaw, Sir Napier. Forcasting Weather. Constable, 1911.

Williams-Ellis, Amabel et al. H.M.S. Beagle in South America. Watts, 1930.