A750    Beagle Library:     Bulkeley, John and Cummins, John. 1743. A voyage to the South-Seas, in the years 1740-1, containing a faithful narrative of the loss of his Majesty's ship the Wager. London: Jacob Robinson.   Text

it in Taste. The Whales here are not at all equal in Size to the Whales in Greenland, being not larger than the Grampus. [page] 21

A781.01    Beagle Library:     Hawkesworth, John. 1773. An account of the voyages undertaken for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook in the Dolphin, the Swallow and the Endeavour drawn from the journals which were kept by the several commanders and from the papers of Joseph Banks. 3 vols. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell. vol. 1.   Text

1766. March. Sunday 16. fears, and we concluded that we must have struck either a whale or a grampus, from which the ship was not likely to receive much damage, not in fact did the receive any. About this time also we had the misfortune to bury our carpenter's mate, a very ingenious and diligent young man, who had never been well after our leaving Batavia. Tuesday 25. On the 25th, we crossed the equator, in longitude 17 10 W. and the next morning, Captain Cumming came on board, and informed me

A758.03    Beagle Library:     Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 3.   Text

77 30,27 East. A fresh gale, and fair weather. 6 27 41 200 19 79 30,29 Easterly. A gentle breeze, and some rain. 7 28 56 200 6 12 10 72 30,23 Ditto. Moderate wind, and some showers. 8 30 18 201 3 72 30,26 Ditto. A fresh breeze, and fair weather. 9 30 59 202 5 13 59 73 30,27 S.S.E A light breeze, and drizzling rain. Saw a grampus. 10 31 21 203 14 63 30,31 Variable. Moderate wind, and showers. 11 30 58 205 22 58 30,51 Northerly. Brisk wind. Cold, and cloudy weather. 12 30 13 203 14 63 30,52 N. N. E

A759.01    Beagle Library:     Cuvier, Georges. 1817. Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation pour servir de base a l'histoire naturelle des animaux. 4 vols. Paris: Deterville. vol. 1.   Text

. L'Epaulard des Saintongeois, Buts kopf et Schwerdt fisch des Hollandais et des Allemands, Grampus des Anglais (2). (Delph. orca et Delph. gladiator.) Lacep., XV, I, et moins bien, V, 3. A dents grosses, coniques, un peu crochues, au nombre de onze partout, les post rieures aplaties transversalement; le corps noir dessus, blanc dessous; une tache blanch tre sur l' il, en forme de croissant; la nageoire dorsale lev e et pointue. C'est le plus grand des dauphins, qui a souvent de vingt vingt-cinq pieds

A731.01    Beagle Library:     Scoresby, William. 1820. An account of the Arctic regions, with a history and description of the northern whale-fishery. 2 vols. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Hurst, Robinson and Co. vol. 1.   Text

in deep seas, where they would be incapable of surviving under the immense pressure of the column of water resting on the bottom. A quantity of blubber, from 2 to 3 inches in thickness, and amounting sometimes to above half a ton, encompasses the whole body. This affords a large proportion of very fine oil. The skull of the narwal, like those of the Delphinus deductor, porpus, beluga, grampus, dolphin, c., is concave above, and sends forth a large flat wedge-shaped process in front, which

A743.07    Beagle Library:     Bory de Saint-Vincent, Jean Baptiste Georges Marie, ed. 1822-31. Dictionnaire classique d'histoire naturelle. 17 vols. Paris: Rey & Gravier. vol. 7.   Text

nombreuses dans les r gions quinoxiales, et surtout dans les Antilles et dans l'Am rique m ridionale. (AD. B.) GRAMPUS. MAM. Syn. d'Epaulard, esp ce du genre Dauphin. V. ce mot. (B.) GRANADI POIS. (Risso.) Les L pidol pres Nice. (B.) GRANADILLA. BOT. PHAN. C' tait sous ce nom que les anciens botanistes, avant Linn , d signaient le genre Passiflore. V. ce mot. (G..N.) GRANAOU. POIS. (Risso.) Le Grondin dans la mer de Nice. V. TRI GLE. (B.) GRANATITE. MIN. V. GRENATITE et STAUROTIDE. *GR AND

A743.05    Beagle Library:     Bory de Saint-Vincent, Jean Baptiste Georges Marie, ed. 1822-31. Dictionnaire classique d'histoire naturelle. 17 vols. Paris: Rey & Gravier. vol. 5.   Text

petite vari t du Marsouin. 10. DAUPHIN GLADIATEUR ou EPAULABD, Delphinus Orca, Fabricius, Bonnaterre et Lac p de; Grampus des Anglais (de grand Poisson, alt r en Graspois par les Normands tablis en Angleterre lors de la conqu le); le Swerdtfisch d'Eg de, figur la page 48, o se lit pour texte la description du Squale Scie; l'Ep e de mer d'Anderson; enfin Cuvier croit que c'est le B lier de mer de Pline, lib. 9, cap. 5, d'Elien, lib. 15, cap. 2. Il a la nageoire dorsale pointue et lev e; le corps noir

A761.11    Beagle Library:     Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 11: Fossil remains.   Text

chalk formation, wherever it exists in the environs of Paris. They have also been found in a few other localities, which it would be superfluous to enumerate. It is quite certain, however, that an animal of this genus, now proper to the torrid zone, inhabited the ancient sea which covered Europe with its shells, at a period subsequent to the chalk formation, but anterior to that of the gypsum in which the ancient pachydermata were found. FOSSIL DOLPHINS. A dolphin, approximating to the grampus and

A761.11    Beagle Library:     Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 11: Fossil remains.   Text

certainty of the following remains. There is, as we have seen, a collection of vertebr in the Paris Museum, from the basin of Anvers, which approach the form of the corresponding vertebr in the dolphins, but the body of which is more elongated in proportion to their diameter, and which appear to have belonged to two or three species of different sizes, the largest of which may have been double the size of the grampus. There are also among them some flatted ones, almost similar to those of the

A761.04    Beagle Library:     Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 4: Mammalia (4)   Text

The Beluga. (Delph. Leucas, Gm.) Nine teeth throughout, thick and blunt at the end; spine of a yellowish white; as large as the Grampus. Found in all the Icy Sea, whence it often ascends pretty high into the rivers. The HYPEROODONTES, (Lacep.) The body and muzzle are conformed like those of the Dolphins proper; but there are only two small teeth in front of the lower jaw, which do not always appear externally. In the palate are many small tubercles. Only one species is known from twenty to

A761.04    Beagle Library:     Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 4: Mammalia (4)   Text

Grampus (Delphinus Gladiator). The first is an animal of considerable power, though the tyranny which it exercises in the empire of the waters, has been much exaggerated by the genius of fiction. The audacity of these animals is excessive when assembled in troops. These bands are so bold and ferocious, that though the isolated individuals never prey except on such fishes as the pleuronectes, c., thus mustered they will venture to attack the largest Cetacea. They fall upon the Great Whale with such

A803    Beagle Library:     Lesson, René-Primevère. 1827. Manuel de mammalogie, ou histoire naturelle des mammifères. Paris: Roret.   Text

. Delphinus leucocephalus, Less. et Garn. Zool. p. 184. Taille d'environ 6 pieds; dorsale prolong e et longue, aigu au sommet; couleur g n rale d'un gris fonc ; la t te et le cou enti rement d'un blanc blouissant, la t te courte et ramass e et plus conique encore que dans le marsouin ordinaire. Vu en mer dans l'Archipel dangereux. 1081e Esp ce. MARSOUIN ESPADON, Phoc na gladiator. Delphinus gladiator, Lac p. Le Grampus, Cuv. On donne l'espadon de 20 25 pieds de longueur; sa nageoire dorsale est plac e pr

A761.16    Beagle Library:     Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 16: Tabular view of classification; index.   Text

Delphinus globiceps, v. 385 grampus, v. 384 griseus, v. 385 Hunteri, v. 386 hyperoodon, v. 386 Leucas, iv. 437. 467; v. 385 maximus, v. 384 Mongitori, v. 383 nesarnak, iv. 456; v. 382 niger, v. 382 orca, iv. 436. 455; v. 383, 384 Peronii, v. 384 phocsena, iv. 436; v. 383 pinna in dorso nulla, v. 386 Rissoanus, v. 385 rostra tus, iv. 435; v. 382 Sinensis, v. 383 tursio, iv. 435; v. 382 ventricosus, v. 385 Delundung, ii. 419 Desman, ii. 185; v. 105 of Russia, ii. 18. 189 of the Pyrenees, ii. 190

A784.02    Beagle Library:     Horsburgh, James. 1829. India directory, or directions for sailing to and from the East Indies, China, New Holland, Cape of Good Hope, Brazil and the interjacent ports. 3d ed. 2 vols. London: Author. vol. 2.   Text

the N. E. side of it; bore away South and S. S.W. to go between them and the Little Catwick. When the Little Catwick was on with Pulo Sapata bearing S. E. by E., and the Great Catwick W. by N. N., had 21 fathoms water in mid-channel, which appeared to be about 4 miles wide; but the weather being thick, with rain, the distance may not be very correct. H. M. S. Grampus, with four China ships, passed between the Catwicks, October 17th, 1810, having rounded the North end of the Great Catwick within

A784.01    Beagle Library:     Horsburgh, James. 1829. India directory, or directions for sailing to and from the East Indies, China, New Holland, Cape of Good Hope, Brazil and the interjacent ports. 3d ed. 2 vols. London: Author. vol. 1.   Text

soon as possible, the tides being much influenced * The Nereus passed between them, and Capt. Heywood observes, that there are good passages between all the islands which lie off the entrance of Rio Janeiro harbour. In September, 1803, H. M. ships Sceptre and Grampus, with the outward-bound fleet for India, steered in for the harbour in the afternoon, 16th September. At 7 P.M. it became squally and dark, with thunder, lightning, and rain; the shore was discernible only by the flashes of

A784.02    Beagle Library:     Horsburgh, James. 1829. India directory, or directions for sailing to and from the East Indies, China, New Holland, Cape of Good Hope, Brazil and the interjacent ports. 3d ed. 2 vols. London: Author. vol. 2.   Text

February, 1815, under convoy of H. M. S. Grampus. The Winchelsea* anchored in 12 fathoms blue mud, with Rajah Bassa Peak N. E. by E. E., extremes from N. E. to S. E. E., off shore 1 mile, which is a good birth for watering, there being two runs of fine water issuing from the high land nearly abreast, and another to the eastward of Cocoa-nut Point, either of which would supply a fleet of ships. The fleet from China, under convoy of H. M. S. Cornelia, Capt. William Owen, anchored here January

A784.02    Beagle Library:     Horsburgh, James. 1829. India directory, or directions for sailing to and from the East Indies, China, New Holland, Cape of Good Hope, Brazil and the interjacent ports. 3d ed. 2 vols. London: Author. vol. 2.   Text

southerly from Cape Padaran, got on the western part of Holland's Bank, and the Canton, Glatton, and H. M. S. Grampus struck, although at a considerable distance from each other; the latter ship drawing 20 feet, struck hard several times, had 22 feet water by the lead, and was lifted over the rocky pyramids by the swell. These ships struck, in lat. 10 38 to 10 41 N., the Gap of Padaran bearing N. 16 E., the sand hill on Mui-guio about N. N.W., Mount Taicou about W. by N. N., and the centre of

A548    Book:     Cuvier, Georges. 1830. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization . . . with additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed. By Edward Griffith and others. Supplementary volume on the fossils. London: Whittacker.   Text   Image

cetacea, speak with tolerable certainty of the following remains. There is, as we have seen, a collection of vertebrae in the Paris Museum, from the basin of Anvers, which approach the form of the corresponding vertebrae in the dolphins, but the body of which is more elongated in proportion to their diameter, and which appear to have belonged to two or three species of different sizes, the largest of which may have been double the size of the grampus. There are also among them some flatted ones

A827    Beagle Library:     Seoane, Mateo. 1831. Neuman and Baretti's dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages. 5th ed. 2 vols. London: n.p. Volume 1: Spanish and English.   Text

. Terrestrial sphere, celestial body. 3. Circle described by any of the mundane spheres. ORBICUL R, a. Orbicular, round, circular. ORBICULARM NTE, ad. Orbicularly. O'RBITA, sf. 1. Orbit, the line described by the revolution of a planet. 2. Cavity or socket wherein the eye is placed. O'RCA, sm. (Ict.) Grampus. Delphinus orca L. ORCII LLA, sf. (Bot.) Archil or argil. Lichen roccella L. O'RCO, sm. 1. (Ict.) Grampus. V. Orca. 2. Hell. ORD LIA, sf. Ordeal, a trial by fire or water. ORDE TA, sf. 1

A769    Beagle Library:     Earle, Augustus. 1832. A narrative of a nine months' residence in New Zealand in 1827, together with a journal of a residence in Tristan d'Acunha. London: Longman, Rees, orme, Brown, Green, and Longman.   Text

sustenance whatever on shore. I examined the contents of the stomach of one they had just killed, but could not make out the nature of what it contained. The matter was of a remarkably bright green colour. They have many enemies, even in the water; one called the killer, a species of grampus, which makes terrible havoc amongst them, and will attack and take away the carcase of one from alongside a boat. But man is their greatest enemy, and causes the most destruction to their race: he pursues

A832    Beagle Library:     Turner, Sharon. 1832. The sacred history of the world, as displayed in the Creation and subsequent events to the Deluge, attempted to be philosophically considered in a series of letters to a son. Volume 1. 2nd ed. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman.   Text

localities.36 Some wander to great 33 The Turbot weighs sometimes 30 lbs. and the common Eel and Torpedo 20 lbs.: as the Plaice will reach to 16 lbs. and the Flounder to 6 lbs T. Linn. But these are not their ordinary sizes. Yet Capt. Franklin found common Trout in some of the lakes of the Cree Indians upwars of 60 lbs.; at Beaver Lake, 30 lbs was no uncommon size. Journ. p. 93. 34 The Sword Grampus, Orca, in the European and Atlantic Seas, is 24 feet long and 12 feet broad. It attacks and

A832    Beagle Library:     Turner, Sharon. 1832. The sacred history of the world, as displayed in the Creation and subsequent events to the Deluge, attempted to be philosophically considered in a series of letters to a son. Volume 1. 2nd ed. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman.   Text

also this electrifying power. 18 The incident mentioned by Anderson is, that as two Whales were sailing together, a male and a female, one was harpooned by the whale-fishers. It made a long and formidable resistance. Its companion attended and assisted it, and when the wounded one expired, stretched itself with great bellowing sounds upon the dead fish, and voluntarily shared its fate, Golds. Nat. Hist. vol. 3, p. 443. A female Grampus and her young one were ashore when attacked. The mother got off

F1574a    Pamphlet:     de Beer, Gavin ed. 1960. Darwin's notebooks on transmutation of species. Part I. First notebook [B] (July 1837-February 1838). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (2) (January): 23-73.   Text   Image   PDF

that was to create species on the Galapagos islands doing before those islands emerged above the sea? (pp. 98, 194, 218). Absolute knowledge that species die and others replace them. Two hypotheses: fresh creations is mere assumption; points gained if any facts are connected. (p. 104). The Grand question which every naturalist ought to have before him when dissecting a whale, or classifying a mite, a grampus or an insect is What are the Laws of Life? (p. 229). SUBJECTS TREATED IN THE FIRST

F271    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1842. The structure and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the Beagle, under the command of Capt. FitzRoy, R.N. during the years 1832 to 1836. London: Smith Elder and Co.   Text   Image   PDF

Fringing-reefs, on banks of sediment, 58 their appearance when elevated, 54 their growth influenced by currents, 58 by shallowness of sea, 57 Galapagos arch., 151 Galega, 185 Gambier islds. section of, 48 Gambier islds., 152 Gardner, 157 Gaspar rico, 163 Geological composition of coral-formations, 116 Gilbert arch., 162 Gilolo, 173 Glorioso, 185 Gloucester isld., 96 Glover reef, 202 Gomez, 151 Gouap, 170 Goulou, 170 Grampus, 171 Gran Cocal, 162 Great Chagos bank, description and theory of, 39

CUL-DAR205.1.5    Printed:    1873.05.15   Notes from the Challenger II `Nature' 8: 51-52(53) (breaks off)   Text   Image

forms of life. Not a bird was to be seen from morning to night. A few kittiwakes {Lams tridactylus) followed the ship for the first few days after we left Tene-rifie, but even these had disappeared. A single petrel (Thaiassidroma pelagica) was seen one day from one of the boats on a towing-net excursion, but we had not seen one of the southern sea-birds. For the last day or two some of the larger sea-mammals and fishes had been visible. A large grampus (Orca gladiator) had been moving round the