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Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1988. Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Where the road crosses it, about a league further up, the water does not reach to the horses belly. The Jesuit Falkner, whose information, drawn from the Indians, is generally so very correct; |365| in his map, makes it a great river arising in the Andes. I think he is right. for the soldiers say, that in the middle of summer, there are floods, at the same time with the Colorado; if so it is clear there must be a channel for the snow water, although it is probably dry during the greater part
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Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1988. Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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the water. The bones were very large, I believe belonging to the Mastodon. they were so completely decayed soft, that I was unable to extract even a small bone. In the evening rode on another stage on the road, crossing the Monge, another brackish stream. 1 See Thomas Falkner, A description of Patagonia, and the adjoining parts of South America. Hereford, 1774. 2nd Unwell feverish, from having exerted myself too much in the sun. The change in latitude between St Fe Buenos Ayres is about 3
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Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1988. Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Ferry 397 8, 405 Endeavour, HMS 122, 367 Entre Rios province 190, 194, 206 Ephesus 296 Equator 4, 21, 37 8, 352, 354, 437 Estacado 313 Evans, Lieut. 432, 450 Exmoor 7 Falkland Islands xx, 102, 144 9, 220, 279 Falkner, Thomas 183, 193, 450 ] Falmouth 447 False Bay 426 False Cape Horn 132, 143 Fernando Noronha 39, 362 Figueroa, Governor 147 Figuireda, Manoel Joaquem da 56 8, 450 FitzRoy, Captain Robert xi xiii, 3, 5 7, 20, 28 9, 34, 36, 39, 48 51, 61, 64, 72, 77, 84 93, 99 107, 115, 121 5, 127 51
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F1956
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Herbert, Sandra. 1995. From Charles Darwin's portfolio: An early essay on South American geology and species. Earth Sciences History 14, no. 1: 23-36.
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, *These geologists describe a sandstone, considered by them as equivalent to the German keuper, as prevailing in the basin of the Amazons; and they assign the same formation, as the matrix of the diamond mines, a near approximation to the geological site of the Indian mines of this gem; the sandstone of the plains of Paraguay is however said to be tertiary molasse. 46. The Sierra de la Ventana is a mountain range in SW Buenos Aires province, Argentina. A foldout map in Thomas Falkner, A
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F1956
Periodical contribution:
Herbert, Sandra. 1995. From Charles Darwin's portfolio: An early essay on South American geology and species. Earth Sciences History 14, no. 1: 23-36.
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the South allowing partial re-appearances: if not destroyed highly injurious. such a cause would acting for such an extent must produce great sudden alterations. ___________________________ Mem: Report of Geolog: Paraguay Sandstone is said to be a Tertiary Molasse(?) (Nature? Authority?)45 if so. continuation R. Negro. Mendozan beds:- ___________________________ Where the Salinas. grandes are. West of Ventana. does not Falkner there are Spiny bushes? if so. Sandstone
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Darwin in Argentina. Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina 64, no. 1 (February 2009): 1-180.
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appendix 1). The aim of this contribution is to provide an update on the taxonomic status of the various taxa recognized or established by Owen (1837-45), and to consider the influence the specimens and their assignment had on the development of Darwin's ideas. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The first notices of South American fossils appear in the reports of early Spanish explorers to South America and in the earliest histories of America (e.g. Cieza de León 1553, Falkner 1774). These objects were interpreted
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