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CUL-DAR41.13-23 Draft: [1836] 'Coral Islands' fair copy Text Image

abundantly on the shores of any of these islands, although not forming a reef; or whether as at the Galapagos it may be considered as absent. [erased pencil in margin appears to read 'q Covington'][pencil in margin: 'De Langle' 'coral'] This one fact would throw much light on the theoretical structure of all the coral formations. We know that in some parts of the world where coral is abundant as in the West Indies true Lagoon Islands do not occur. IIly High Islands encircles by a reef, as a picture

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CUL-DAR41.13-23 Draft: [1836] 'Coral Islands' fair copy Text Image

consisting of two parts; the outer margin of the breakwater, the part (2) solid (1) [these numbers refer to Covington putting these two words in the wrong order] of which is higher than all the rest; and a tract of very shallow water which varies in width from a 100 hundred yards to a mile. In this low part there are little narrow twisting channels and holes of deep water, and on the other hand many points, where the coral reaches to the surface. It is in this still water where an observer as has often

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EH88202366 Note: 1831--1836 Beagle Diary Text Image

; Covington, fiddler boy to Poop-cabin; Billet, gunroom-boy; Royal Marines, Beareley, sergeant; William, Jones, Burgess, Bute, Doyle, Martin, Middleton, Prior (midshipmen steward); Boatswain, Mr Sorrell; Carpenter, Mr May. [page] 197 Rio de Janeiro to M: Vide

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EH88202366 Note: 1831--1836 Beagle Diary Text Image

valleys is saline, I every day took long walks. Beyond the limits of the elevated central green circle, the wild valleys are quite desolate untenanted. Here to the geologist, there are scenes of interest, which shew the successive changes complicated violence, which have in past times happened. According to my views, St Helena has existed as an Isd from a very remote period, but that originally like most Volcanic Isds it has been raised in mass from beneath the waters. XX [Note in margin:] Covington

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CUL-DAR29.3.30 Note: [1838] Birds from Galapagos Archipelago collected by Syms Covington in Text Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online 8 Birds from Galapagos Archipelago collected by Syms Covington in possession of T. Eyton Esq Geospiza magnirostris, two specimens Charles Isld.— ✓ [Geospiza] fortis [two specimens] Charles Isld. ✓ [Geospiza] fuliginosa [two specimens] Chatham Isld. ✓ _______________________________________________ do collected by Fuller in Capt. F.R. possession (3)?92 Geospiza magnirostris + Charles Isld Chatham Isld ✓ 417 [Geospiza] strenua James Isld. ✓ 427 422 424

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EH88202332 Note: 1832--1833 Buenos Ayres notebook Text Image

Owe Hamond1 30 (1) [Had me 2] silver dollars Row[l]ett 4 Owe Hammon[d] as balance 21 Dollars. Rowett 4 Black Duck Plus Boro ; Borr 1 Dinner. Covington2 Trousers Drawers shirt. Good Success. Bay. dip to West 1 Robert Nicholas Hamond (1809-83), mate on HMS Druid, loaned to the Beagle in November 1832, and returned to England in May 1833. 2 Syms Covington (1816?-61), 'Fiddler and boy to the poop cabin' on Beagle's second voyage, he became Darwin's personal servant from 22 May 1833 until 25

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

collecting information specimens shopping; ladies [Nov.] 7th. Expecting to go off wasted the day. Dined with Mr. Gower, met the Colonel Vernon. Great traveller, pleasant evening. 1 Covington Fiddler boy to Poop Cabin at the beginning of the voyage. Became Darwin's servant in the second year, skinning and shooting the birds animals, so saving much of his time. See Letter 16. [page] 170 DARWI

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

Chapter 4 1835 THE BEGINNING of the new year is scantily annotated. The Beagle was charting the Chonos Archipelago, and FitzRoy depressed and Darwin suffering from sea-sickness in the many days spent at sea. Perhaps a note-book is missing. In Feb. he went in the Yawl up to Valdivia and made a further excursion. Stopped on road, found old man who made spirit wine, cyder and treacle from apples. Olives sometimes bear fruit grapes. After travelling some hours through forest (tormented by

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

[Ap.] 9th. All this time to Valparaiso not quite well, saw nothing, enjoyed nothing. [Ap.] 10th. From Colina to St. Jago pleasant city. [Ap.] 15th. Started for Valparaiso. Dead mens' heads on poles. Frozia[?] remarks that Llama and Guanaco dung in heaps, useful for fuel for Indians. Biscatche bones etc round holes, foot of Pampas Close to mountains Biscatchas, Ostrich, Peecheys in Uspallata. I heard all four kinds of Armadillo near Mendoza. Covington 8 dollars Wild Potatoe Seed. After a short

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

this a prospect to keep up the most flagging spirit? If 1 Sims Covington, who started on the voyage as Fiddler and Boy to the Poop Cabin, became his servant in the second year, thus releasing him from much of the drudgery of the collector. Old Robert gave his willing consent to the arrangement. [page] 87 LETTER

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

I am here with an entire throat. Such a set of misfortunes I have had this month, never before happened to poor mortal. My servant (Covington by name most invaluable I find him) was sent to the Estancia of the Merchant whose house I am staying in: he the other day nearly lost his life in a quicksand, my gun completely. We now hear the house is ransacked ( probably his clothes all stolen!). Communication with the country is absolutely cut off he cannot come into town, the Beagle before long

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

write again. Chas. Darwin. I sent home by Captain Beaufort about 2 or 3 months ago, some more of my Journal. Be sure acknowledge it, in more than one letter. LETTER NO. 19 [Not previously published] [To Miss Caroline Darwin] MONTE VIDEO. November 13th. 1833 My dear Caroline, I have to thank you for a letter dated September 1st one from Susan July 22nd. Since I wrote from Buenos Ayres, I have suffered a host of vexations, but at last everything has ended prosperously. I with much trouble by

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

Cottenham Fen, 203 Covington, Sims, becomes Charles' servant, 86, 88, 93, 102, 169 Cutfinger Cove, 172 Darwin, Caroline, character, 10, 11, 149 , educating Charles, 10 , early recollections of, 13 , letters to, 60, 64, 75, 79, 90, 93, 94, 104, 106, 112, 128, 136, 142 Darwin Catherine, character of, 12 , recollections of, 13, 149 , letters to, 67, 69, 84, 96, 100, 109, 121, 135, 140 Darwin Charles, voyage as training, 1, 2, 3, 31, 32 , at The Mount, 8, 9 , relation to Dr. Robert, 9 , memory of

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EH88202575 Note: 1839--1882 Charles Darwin's Address Book. Text Image

. Carrier to Mitcham Berryman Catherine Wheel Borough. William Berryman (b.1822), a weekly carrier between Catherine Wheel Inn, Borough, and Mitcham (in the Borough of Merton in South London), where Darwin's eldest son William went to a preparatory school. See F. Darwin, William Erasmus Darwin. Christ's College Magazine (1914). Text Berryman is not mentioned in the correspondence. Covington Syms Pambula Twofold Bay. N.S. Wales. Syms Covington (1816-1861), Darwin's servant and amanuensis during the

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F1925 Book: Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1988. Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Text Image PDF

3rd Harris Mr Rowlett went to the Creek, from thence in the Yawl on board. in the road they would pick up my servant the bones. 1 |358| 1 Syms Covington, originally 'Fiddler and boy to the Poop Cabin', had been appointed by FitzRoy as CD's servant on 22 May 1833 (see Correspondence 1: 311 15), though six months earlier CD appears already to have assumed some responsibility for clothing him, vide note 'Black duck Covington Trousers' in Down House Notebook 1.14 (see CD and the Voyage p. 169). He

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F1925 Book: Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1988. Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Text Image PDF

was difficult to transact any business, the shops being closed; there were constant apprehensions of the town being ransacked. The real danger lay with the lawless soldiery within; they robbed many people in the day time, at night the very sentinels stopped people to demand money from them. 1 1 In a letter to Caroline Darwin, CD wrote: 'Such a set of misfortunes I have had this month, never before happened to poor mortal. My servant (Covington by name most invaluable I find him) was sent to the

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F1925 Book: Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1988. Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Text Image PDF

Phillips, ships cook; Lester, cooper; Covington, fiddler boy to Poop-cabin; Billet, gunroom boy; Royal Marines. Beazeley, sergeant; Williams, Jones, Burgess, Bute, Doyle, Martin, Middleton, Prior (midshipmens steward); Boatswain, Mr Sorrell; Carpenter, Mr May; |197| Midshipmen, Mrss Stewart, Usborne, Johnson, Stokes, Mellersh, King, Forsyth. Hellyar, Captains clerk. Mr Bino, acting surgeon Mr Rowlett, purser. Mr Chaffers, Master. Mr Sulivan, 2d Lieutenant; Mr Wickham, 1st Lieutenant; R. FitzRoy

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F1925 Book: Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1988. Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Text Image PDF

III in 1837. Darwin, Emily Catherine (1810 66). CD's sister, known in the family as Catherine or Catty. Married Charles Langton as his second wife in 1863. [page] 450 Biographical registe

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F1925 Book: Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1988. Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Text Image PDF

margin: 'What [illeg] 500 feet [illeg]'. 2 See watercolour by Syms Covington labelled 'Walking Dress of the Females of Lima', reproduced in Beagle Record p. 239, which corresponds exactly with CD's description of the ladies concealing all but one eye beneath their mantilla. The chilimoya is Anana cherimola, the Peruvian custard apple. 9th September. H.M.S. Blonde arrived with Capt. FitzRoy on board; he subsequently during the Beagle stay resided in Lima. The country has continued in the same

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F1925 Book: Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1988. Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Text Image PDF

3 The passage from 'These numerous species ' to ' may be in progress' was written on a separate unnumbered page, and marked to be inserted here. 4 A note in the margin runs: 'Covington. Two pages marked XX(a) and XX(b).' These pages have been lost, but in Journal of Researches pp. 581 3 a passage is interpolated dealing with the changes in the fauna and flora of the island since the introduction of goats and hogs in 1502, and the presence of a species of land shell. Bulimus, in the higher

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F1925 Book: Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1988. Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Text Image PDF

Cowa-Cowa River 393 Cowper, Mr 58 Cruz, Don Benito 339 Cucao 282 5 Cudico mission 288 Cuesta de Chacabuco 323 Culpepper Island 364 Cuvier, Georges 5,109, 449 Dampier, William 425 Daniell, John 118, 449 Dartmoor 7 Darwin, Caroline xv xviii, 61, 72, 109, 112, 115, 152, 161, 198, 263, 344, 352 3, 385, 419, 449 Darwin, Catherine xv xviii, 117, 140, 152, 179, 263, 449 Darwin, Erasmus Alvey 10 11, 117, 450 Darwin, Robert xiii, 450 Darwin, Susan xvi xvii, xix, xxiii xxiv, 4, 112, 117, 152, 160, 450 Darwin

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F1821 Periodical contribution: Banks, M. R. and D. Leaman eds. 1999. Charles Darwin's Field Notes on the geology of Hobart Town - A modern appraisal. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 133(1): 29-50. Text Image PDF

Darwin climbed Porter Hill, an activity not hinted at in the memo or in his published works. The section also places any location other than the shoreline below Porter Hill out of contention as the site from which Darwin collected the type specimen of Stenopora tasmaniensis Lonsdale (cf. Banks 1971: 9). 8F: pebbles dropstones of older rocks, including those of earlier Palaeozoic siliceous sandstone. 8G: Darwin correctly pointed out that, had the greenstone been older than the sandstone, pebbles of

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F1821 Periodical contribution: Banks, M. R. and D. Leaman eds. 1999. Charles Darwin's Field Notes on the geology of Hobart Town - A modern appraisal. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 133(1): 29-50. Text Image PDF

as pleasant as some (Comment 10A) but, compared to his excursions in South America and over the Blue Mountains from Sydney, they were probably pleasant and little. It can now be shown that on Monday, 8 February, Darwin took the ferry across the river, and then walked around the shoreline as far as Howrah, inland to Knopwood Hill and back to the ferry over Mornington Hill (Comments 2D to 4A), not, as thought earlier, up Flagstaff Hill. Syms Covington, who noted that he had accompanied Darwin

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F1821 Periodical contribution: Banks, M. R. and D. Leaman eds. 1999. Charles Darwin's Field Notes on the geology of Hobart Town - A modern appraisal. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 133(1): 29-50. Text Image PDF

Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe. In three volumes, plus an Appendix to Volume II. Henry Colburn, London. Volume II. PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND EXPEDITION, 1831-1836, under the command of Captain Robert FitzRoy, R.N. Volume III: JOURNAL AND REMARKS, 1832-1836, by Charles Darwin. FLINDERS, M.,1801: OBSERVATIONS ON THE COASTS OF VAN DIEMEN'S LAND, on Bass's Strait and its islands and on part of the Coast of New South Wales, intended to accompany the charts of the late discoveries of those

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F1839 Periodical contribution: Chancellor, Gordon. 1990. Charles Darwin's St Helena Model Notebook. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series. 18(2): 203-228. Text Image PDF

Darwin's servant and amanuensis Syms Covington was making a fair copy of his master's personal diary, probably in the early months of 1837, for eventual publication as Journal of Researches (hereinafter referred to as JR), Darwin prepared an additional section on the geology and natural history of St Helena. This section appears on pp. 581 3 of JR, but as Nora Barlow pointed out in her edition of the personal-diary (Barlow, 1933: 439n58) the manuscript of this section appears to be lost, and

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F1566 Book: Barlow, Nora ed. 1933. Charles Darwin's diary of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. Cambridge: University Press. Text Image PDF

, Edward Main. Master of H.M.S. Beagle in 1831. Covington. Fiddler and boy to Poop cabin at the beginning of the voyage. Became Darwin's servant in the second year. My servant is an odd sort of person; I do not very much like him; but he is perhaps from his very oddity, very well adapted to all my purposes. I have taught him to skin and shoot birds. CD. Letters home, 1833, 1834. Darwin, Robert. 1766-1848. Charles's father. Lived at The Mount, Shrewsbury, in which town he was a well-known doctor

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F3275 Book: Gregorio, Mario A. -Di, ed. 1990. Charles Darwin's marginalia, vol. 1. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio, with the assistance of N.W. Gill. New York; London: Garland. Text Image PDF

-20wwhat an assumption!!! 508 ll-32m 509 4a generation /wt aided by endless attempts, of which only few are preserved.- Vide Hume's works 1-Am (Hume), 17-24m 510 27-32m/w This pro» the Dr 511 l-8m 512 25-26«; sex of Bees changed by food 514 3-22m 517 8-14m vol. 2, 40 4-8m/5w(CD?) 43 2-6m 46 22-25m 145 l-19w (not CD) 352 27-32m 573 2u/w (not CD) DARWIN, Robert Waring New experiments on the ocular spectra of light and colours London; J. Nichols; 1786 [CUL] DARWIN, Robert Waring Principia botanica

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F1817 Book: Barrett, Paul H., Gautrey, Peter J., Herbert, Sandra, Kohn, David, Smith, Sydney eds. 1987. Charles Darwin's notebooks, 1836-1844: Geology, transmutation of species, metaphysical enquiries. British Museum (Natural History); Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Text PDF

1838:4−15, discusses four varieties of temperament, viz., sanguine, lymphatic, bilious, and nervous, with mixed or equal amounts also existing. Darwin's statement is a general summary of Mayo's treatment of these 'Temperaments' as influenced by each other and by states of mental disposition. 112−1 Covington: Syms Covington. 114−1 Herbert Mayo 1838:140, 'In dreams, that which most strikes us are their monstrous and capricious combinations, and our want of surprise at their improbability.' 547

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F1817 Book: Barrett, Paul H., Gautrey, Peter J., Herbert, Sandra, Kohn, David, Smith, Sydney eds. 1987. Charles Darwin's notebooks, 1836-1844: Geology, transmutation of species, metaphysical enquiries. British Museum (Natural History); Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Text PDF

; collected shells and living orchids in the Pacific, on the coast of Chile, and in the Philippine Islands; returned to England in 1839. QEifc ZEd13 Darwin, Caroline Sarah. See Wedgwood, Caroline Sarah. Darwin, Emily Catherine, 1810−1866; Darwin's sister, became Charles Langton's second wife in 1863. M28, 33, 83 Darwin, Emma, 1808−1896; daughter of Elizabeth and Josiah Wedgwood II; Darwin's wife and cousin, married 29 January 1839. D21, 176, 177 E125 N61, 73, 112 Darwin, Erasmus, 1731−1802; physician

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