CUL-DAR42.141    Note:    [Undated]   Limestone with lead ore: Maldonado   Text   Image

bank of Rio Salado. there occurs beautifully crystallized gypsum. Mr Oakley. gave some to Mr Parish Mr Flint an american merchant has a large tooth at B. Ayres4 (Mr Oakley ?) 1 Miss Bartoza has not been identified. 2 Oakley was the agent of Woodbine Parish (1796-1882), the British consular representative. He is mentioned various times in the Beagle notebooks and the Geological diary, see here. 3 Mr Parry, a British merchant at Montevideo. 4 Latin for 'Viscaches after intercourse are connected to

F1571    Book:     Barlow, Nora ed. 1945. Charles Darwin and the voyage of the Beagle. London: Pilot Press.   Text   Image   PDF

reproduced significant passages relevant to the trend of his thought and the process of his development. I should like to thank Dr. Kenneth Oakley of the Geological Survey, who has given me most valuable advice over the interpretation of some of the notes, and has helped me with his comments. I must take the reader through the years of the voyage, but not necessarily note-book by note-book, because of a lack of chronology that exists in some of them. He did not complete one pocket book before

CUL-DAR32.63-72    Note:    1832.09.06-1832.10.19   Geological diary: Bahia Blanca   Text   Image

(a) In the newspaper accounts, the Megatherium lately presented by Mr Parish1 to the Geological society Novm. 20th,[1832] is stated to have been found in the mud in bed of the river Salado. — Upon examining Mr Oakley, who procured it for Mr Parish, it seems the river flows through cliffs of the Tosca. which doubtless is identical with that of Bahia Blanca Buenos Ayres (V b) from the his stating the occurrence of layers of concretionary marl Mr Oakley clearly recollects that one of the scapulas

CUL-DAR34.12-13    Note:    1832.11.00   Scattered facts communicated to me by different people   Text   Image

Salt is found in the ground south of the Plata Mr Lumb The Madrid Megatherium was found at Luxan said in Griffith1 to be near B. Ayres. Mr Oakley2 states there is a Villa de Luxan within some few leagues of the city. Off M: Video. Beds of muscles shells. above surface of river. are they of same date as Ensenado. or do they denote a fall in bed of the river? 1 Cuvier 1830 (edited by Edward Griffith), p. 133, discussed recently published bones of the head assigned to the Megatherium. 2 Mr Oakley

A668    Book:     Atkins, Hedley. 1976. Down: the home of the Darwins; the story of a house and the people who lived there. London: Royal College of Surgeons [Phillimore].   Text

cottage. So it was that on the valuation of Sir John Oakley, Buckston Browne bought Down House for 4,250, spending an additional 10,000 for repairs and endowing the estate with 20,000. The British Association bought out the remainder of Miss Ram's (the Schoolmistress) lease and, by gift, the property was handed over to the care of The British Association to be preserved in perpetuity as a Memorial to Charles Darwin. Through the agency of Sir Arthur Keith, Down House had been saved once more. (PL VIII

A27b    Book:     Freeman, R. B. 2007. Charles Darwin: A companion. 2d online edition, compiled by Sue Asscher.   Text

O Oakley, Mr A joiner with red hair . O provided at least one fossil bone. Probably the same man who had collected for Sir Woodbine Parish—Buenos Aires, London 175-177, 1839. 1833 CD met at Monte Video. Ogilby, William, 1808-1873. Irish barrister who studied Stonesfield slate. Ogle, William, 1827-1905. Physician and naturalist. Superintendent of Statistics to the Registrar General. CDL. 1865 CD advised O on experiments on fertilisation of flowers—LLiii 277. 1868 O to CD on Hippocrates's views