The interests of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace in natural history and evolution took them to remote parts of the globe on hazardous, multi-sensory journeys that were ultimately about collecting. This paper introduces a methodology for exploring these complex experiences in more detail, informed by historical geography, anthropology, textual analysis and the geo-humanities. It involves looking for evidence of the richly stimulating and often challenging sensory dynamics within which they collected and connected data, observations, images, specimens, memories and ideas. Darwin's exploits in Tierra del Fuego are examined as a case study, with a particular focus on the collection of 'Fuegian' body paints in 1833. This type of analysis provides a fresh insight into the multi-sensory entanglement of encounter with people and place involved in the collecting process. It helps us to understand better the experiences that shaped what was collected and brought back to Britain, and the personal observations associated with these collections that sowed the seeds for Darwin's work on the origin of species.

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寻求一种分析19世纪科学和帝国征途的方法，以查尔斯·达尔文在火地岛的活动为例。

查尔斯·达尔文（Charles Darwin）和阿尔弗雷德·罗素·华莱士（Alfred Russel Wallace）对自然历史和进化的兴趣将他们带到了偏远地区，进行了危险的多感官旅程，这些旅程最终都是关于采集的。本文介绍了一种在历史地理学，人类学，文本分析和地理人文科学的指导下更详细地探索这些复杂经验的方法。它涉及寻找丰富刺激和通常具有挑战性的感觉动力学的证据，在其中他们收集并关联了数据，观察值，图像，标本，记忆和思想。作为案例研究，对达尔文在火地岛的开发进行了研究，并特别侧重于1833年收集的“ Fuegian”人体彩绘。这种类型的分析为收集过程中与人和场所的多感官纠缠提供了新的见解。它帮助我们更好地理解塑造了被收集并带回英国的经验，以及与这些收集相关的个人观察，为达尔文关于物种起源的工作播下了种子。