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CUL-DAR29.1.A1-A49 (page sequence 71) Note: Darwin Charles Robert 1832.00.00--1833.00.00 [Beagle animal notes] (see also individual entries below) Text Image

goes round Picus on ground different rather desert places (no good reason) Icterus with yellow patch? (No good reason) yes Both Furnarii go round — one differs Long billed kind — (No good reason) yes Blancas yes (no good reason) Little owl yes (no good reason) Doves (?) Different Hummingbird dif? Teru teru (no good reason) Pointed tailed Tit-mouse (no good R) goes round Pategonian Furnarius (no good R) Are goatsuckers different yes [illeg] Red throated creeper yes (no reason) do Tufted Tit do

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CUL-DAR29.1.A1-A49 (page sequence 82) Note: Darwin Charles Robert 1832.00.00--1833.00.00 [Beagle animal notes] (see also individual entries below) Text Image

. Sturnus ruber Mellisuga Kingii, Carracara Little hawk Condor Common sparrow? Thenca to near St of Megallan Small Furnarius to Concepcion dark no. Distance (?). Very many birds common to Chili Plata La Plata (four Furnarii) (two or three icteri) (Thenca) (rusty colour finch on coast) long tailed tit. Sturnus ruber Valparaiso Tierra del Fuego Carrion hawk: Little hawk: Common Sparrow Thrush (Distance ?) Blue Finch Elycolites; little creeper little hummingbird. Sturnus ruber, icterus: black Kilty

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F1593 (page sequence 338) Book: Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. New York: Harper & Brothers. Text Image

CORRESPONDENCE ON BIOLOGY327 Mr. Samuel Waddington to A. R. Wallace 7 Whitehall Gardens, London, S.W. February ig, jgoi. Dear Sir,—I trust you will forgive a stranger (.rouhhiig you with a letter, but a friend has asked me whether, as a matter of fact, Darwin held that all living creatures, descended from one and the same [investor, and thai, the pedigree of a hummingbird and that of a hippopotamus would meet if traced far enough back. Can you tell me whether Darwin did teach this? I should

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F1583 (page sequence 675) Book: Stauffer, R. C. ed. 1975. Charles Darwin's Natural Selection; being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Text Image

forms unknown between hummingbird beaks, 345 Migration: Instinct variable, 491 n 1; Tasmanian bird with migratory and nonmigratory varieties, 258 Nesting: Artamus Different habits in Australia and New Zealand, 505; seizes other birds' nests, 507 n 4; Talegalla incubates eggs in fermenting debris, 5001 Graba, Carl Julian Allied species: Common and Faroe pied raven, 1212; Una troile (aalge) and O. lacrymans, 124 Migratory birds of Faroe, 495 Variation in seabirds, 1045, 111 Grafting, capacity

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A86 (page sequence 27) Periodical contribution: Sulloway, Frank J. 1982. The Beagle collections of Darwin's finches (Geospizinae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology Series 43, no. 2: 49-94. Text Image

specimens are Darwin's, they may have been acquired by Gustav Adolph Frank, and then by the Leiden Rijksmuseum, through the agency of John Gould. Gould at one time owned at least four Galapagos specimens collected by Darwin, and these he probably acquired in 1855 at the dispersal of the Zoological Society's Museum. Gould was a shrewd dealer in specimens, always on the lookout for birds that could be sold or exchanged to his advantage. It is said that for many years not a hummingbird arrived in