F277    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1889. The structure and distribution of coral reefs. 3d ed. With a preface to the third edition by Francis Darwin and an appendix by T. G. Bonney. London: Smith Elder and Co.   Text   Image   PDF

. line, parallel to the currents on that shore. I should think the influence of the currents chiefly consisted in causing an extension, in a certain direction, of a proper foundation for the attachment of the coral. Round many intertropical islands, for instance the Abrolhos on the coast of Brazil surveyed by Captain FitzRoy, and, as I am informed by Mr. Cuming, round the Philippines, the bottom of the sea is entirely coated by irregular masses of coral, which although often of large size, do not

F277    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1889. The structure and distribution of coral reefs. 3d ed. With a preface to the third edition by Francis Darwin and an appendix by T. G. Bonney. London: Smith Elder and Co.   Text   Image   PDF

two other islands.1 According to a tradition which was communicated to Captain FitzRoy, it is believed in the Low Archipelago that the arrival of the first ship caused a great inundation which destroyed many lives. Mr. Stutchbury relates that in 1825, the western side of Chain Atoll in the same group, was completely devastated by a hurricane, and not less than 300 lives lost: 'in this instance it was evident, even to the natives, that the hurricane along was not sufficient to account for the

F277    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1889. The structure and distribution of coral reefs. 3d ed. With a preface to the third edition by Francis Darwin and an appendix by T. G. Bonney. London: Smith Elder and Co.   Text   Image   PDF

Lieut. Powell; scale of an inch to a mile; not nearly all the small submerged reefs in the lagoon are represented; the annular reef on the southern side is submerged. Fig. 10. KEELING, or COCOS ATOLL (or lagoon-island), in the Indian Ocean; from the survey by Capt. FitzRoy; scale of an inch to a mile; the lagoon south of the dotted line is very shallow, and is left almost bare at low water; the part north of the line is choked up with irregular reefs. The annular reef on the N.W. side is

F277    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1889. The structure and distribution of coral reefs. 3d ed. With a preface to the third edition by Francis Darwin and an appendix by T. G. Bonney. London: Smith Elder and Co.   Text   Image   PDF

absolutely prevent their growth.3 1 The mean temperature of the surface sea, from observations made by the direction of Captain FitzRoy on the shores of the Galapagos Islands, between the 16th of September and the 20th of October, 1835, was 68 Fahr. The lowest temperature observed was 58 5 at the S.W. end of Albemarle Island; and on the west coast of this island, it was several times 62 and 63 . The mean temperature of the sea in the Low Archipelago of atolls, and near Tahiti, from similar

F1062    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1891. La descendance de l'homme et la sélection sexuelle. Trans. by Edmond Barbier. Preface by Carl Vogt. Paris: C. Reinwald.   Text   Image   PDF

. Sur les Fuégiens, Kind and Fitzroy, Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, II, p. 182, 1839. Sur les Kalmucks, Mc-Lennan, Primit. [page break

CUL-DAR107.11-18    Draft:    1892   [Reminiscences of Mr Darwin on the Beagle] Darwin on the Beagle]   Text   Image

Darwin Online 11 Not to be published without Murray's leave. by P.G. King The Beagle's Voyage is destined to be for many years a celebrated one in the Annals of the Surveying Service of England as well as in Scientific circles, partly on account of the splendid work performed by her commander afterwards Admiral Fitzroy and also that she was the home for five years of Mr Charles Darwin of whom nothing that can be said can add one iota to his fame in the realms of thought and meditation. Within

A316    Pamphlet:     Parkyn, Ernest Albert. 1894. Darwin his work and influence a lecture delivered in the hall of Christ's College Cambridge. London: Methuen.   Text   Image   PDF

VOYAGE. 15 accepting an offer which was the great determining fact in his life. I of course refer to the offer made to him to go out on board H.M.S. Beagle as naturalist. Here, again, we must not forget that he owed this offer to the kindly recommendation of Henslow. His father first opposed his going, but giving way on the intervention of his uncle, Josiah Wedgwood, Darwin went to London to see Captain Fitzroy, commander of the Beagle. Fitzroy, as an ardent disciple of Lavater, was at first

A10    Book:     Sulivan, Henry Norton ed. 1896. [Impressions of Charles Darwin]. In Life and letters of the late Admiral Sir Batholomew James Sulivan. London: John Murray: 40, 42-3, 46, 381-2.   Text   Image

, Admiral FitzRoy, were interesting. When he came to the Board of Trade, FitzRoy was at the head of the Meteorological Office, and it was the duty of the officer in the place to which Sulivan was appointed to superintend FitzRoy's doings. But Sulivan made it the condition of his appointment that he should not be obliged to direct FitzRoy a sagacious condition, considering the previous relations and the individual characters and tempers of these two distinguished men. Sulivan's respect and admiration

A10    Book:     Sulivan, Henry Norton ed. 1896. [Impressions of Charles Darwin]. In Life and letters of the late Admiral Sir Batholomew James Sulivan. London: John Murray: 40, 42-3, 46, 381-2.   Text   Image

Sulivan dived down under the keel, and, having ascertained things were not very bad, came up the other side, bleeding from several scratches received from the jagged copper. FitzRoy, wishing to make doubly sure, then performed the same action himself. In May 1835. a Chilian gentleman lent FitzRoy the schooner Constitution, of twenty-six tons. Sulivan was despatched in her to examine the coast near Coquimbo, and that of Chili as far as Paposa. His commander wrote in allusion to this trip, I

A10    Book:     Sulivan, Henry Norton ed. 1896. [Impressions of Charles Darwin]. In Life and letters of the late Admiral Sir Batholomew James Sulivan. London: John Murray: 40, 42-3, 46, 381-2.   Text   Image

of scientific phenomena. Although not receiving the pay of a surveyor, Sulivan acted as one throughout the entire voyage. It was doubtless to this expedition that he owed his fondness for and skill in surveying and seamanship. There were no steam-launches or lifeboat cutters in those days ; all the work had to be done in sailing-boats. FitzRoy replaced the dangerous dipping lug with two standing lugs, and this rig Sulivan always adopted afterwards. In the Rio Plata he boasted of his boats

F2113    Book contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1896. [Recollections of Darwin]. In E. R. Lankester. 'Charles Robert Darwin'. In C. D. Warner ed. Library of the world's best literature ancient and modern. New York: R. S. Peale & J. A. Hill, vol. 2, pp. 4385-4393.   Text   PDF

individual, are evidence of deep sympathy between the natures of Darwin and his first teacher. Of Fitzroy, the captain of H.M.S. Beagle—with whom he quarreled for a day because Fitzroy defended slavery—Darwin says that he was in many ways the noblest character he ever knew. His love and admiration for Lyell were unbounded. Lyell was the man who taught him the method—the application of the causes at present discoverable in nature to the past history of the earth—by which he was led to the solution

A334    Book:     Poulton, Edward Bagnall. 1896. Charles Darwin and the theory of natural selection. London: Cassell & Co.   Text   Image

CHAPTER III. VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE (1831 36). ABOUT the time of the excursion with Sedgwick (the exact date is uncertain) Professor Henslow received a letter from George Peacock (formerly Dean of Ely and Lowndean Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge) stating that he had the offer to recommend a young man as naturalist to accompany Captain Fitzroy on a surveying expedition to many parts of the world. Leonard Jenyns (afterwards Blomefield) was evidently considered to be the most suitable person

A334    Book:     Poulton, Edward Bagnall. 1896. Charles Darwin and the theory of natural selection. London: Cassell & Co.   Text   Image

Plymouth, on October 24th the final start was not until December 27th his letters show that he had a very busy time making purchases and preparing for the voyage. These letters breathe the warmest affection to the members of his family and his friends, together with the keenest enthusiasm for Captain Fitzroy, the ship, and the voyage. The voyage of the Beagle lasted from December 27th, 1831, to October 2nd, 1836. Darwin says that it was by far the most important event in my life, and has

A10    Book:     Sulivan, Henry Norton ed. 1896. [Impressions of Charles Darwin]. In Life and letters of the late Admiral Sir Batholomew James Sulivan. London: John Murray: 40, 42-3, 46, 381-2.   Text   Image

may be my lot, remember that among your numerous friends one of the earliest and not the least sincere is ROBERT FITZROY. From the late Admiral A. Mellersh, C.B: HOVE, BRIGHTON, February 18th, 1891. DEAR MR. SULIVAN, I have not 'the pen of a ready writer,' but I may say that I have had, in nearly thirty years' actual sea-service, great opportunities of seeing and judging of naval officers, and I do not hesitate to declare my opinion that your father was amongst the 'first flight.' He was a

A334    Book:     Poulton, Edward Bagnall. 1896. Charles Darwin and the theory of natural selection. London: Cassell & Co.   Text   Image

Extinction, 43 45 Fertilisation of Germ Cells, 165; of Orchids, The, 193; of Flowers by Insects, 193; Effects of Cross- and Self-, 194 Fitzroy, Capt., of the Beagle, 21, 22 Flowers, The Fertilisation of, by Insects, 193; Effects of Cross- and Self-Fertilisation compared, 194; Different Forms on the same Plant, 195 Flustra, Darwin's Discovery of the Free-Swimming Larv of, 18 Forbes, Edward, and the Atlantis Hypothesis, 53 Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms, The, 191 Fox, W. Darwin

CUL-DAR107.30    Correspondence:   Lubbock John to Darwin F  1896.01.02   Lubbock John to Darwin F   Text   Image

reply to Wilberforce Fitzroy that the embryology of the individual in many cases represents the past history of the species I am Yours very sincerely, John Lubboc

F1548.2    Book:     Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 2   Text   Image   PDF

selection, ii. 68. Bateson, Miss A., on cross fertilisation in inconspicuous flowers, ii. 414. Bateson, W., on breeding lepidoptera in confinement, ii. 96; Mendel's Principles of Heredity, ii. 340. Batrachians, Kollmann on rudimentary digits, i. 363. Bauer, F., drawings by, ii. 273, 278. Bauhinia, sleep-movements of leaves, ii. 367. Beaches, S. American raised, ii. 119. Beagle (H.M.S.), circumstance of Darwin joining, i. 247; Darwin's views on species when on, i. 367; FitzRoy and voyage of, i. 247

F1548.2    Book:     Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 2   Text   Image   PDF

. 150, 165; mica-schists of, ii. 208. Time, and evolutionary changes, i. 168; ii. 5, 7; geological, i. 91, 313, 314; ii. 5, 7, 23, 150, 163; meaning of millions of years, ii. 163; Niagara as measure of geological, ii. 150; rate of deposition as measure of, ii. 23; Wallace on geological, ii. 23. Times, article by Huxley in, i. 135; letter by FitzRoy in, i. 129. [page 504

F1552.1    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 1.   Text   Image   PDF

of her visit. It was rather spoilt by Charles being so unwell almost the whole time of his stay in the country, and Emma not very well herself. Charles got some of his father's good doctoring and is much better again, but I suppose he is feeling the effect of too much exertion in every way during his voyage and must be careful not to work his head too hard now. His journal is come out at last along with two other thick volumes of Capt. Fitzroy and Capt. King of the same voyage, but I have not

A4    Book:     Rutherford, H. W., 1908. Catalogue of the library of Charles Darwin now in the Botany School, Cambridge. Compiled by H. W. Rutherford, of the University Library; with an Introduction by Francis Darwin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

. 1 (7 Parts). Vol. 2, Parts 1, 3, 4, 5. Fol. Sydney, N.S.W., 1877 . Q. 1 FitzRoy (Admiral Robert). Extracts from the Diary of an attempt to ascend the River Santa Cruz, in Patagonia...1834. (Extr.) 8vo. London, 1837. [Philos. Tracts, ii. 2.] 11 A Letter...on the Moral State of Tahiti, New Zealand, c. By Capt. R. FitzRoy, and Charles Darwin. (Extr.) 8vo. At Sea, 28th June, 1836. [Philos. Tracts, ii. 3.] 11 Fleming (John). The Philosophy of Zoology. 2 vols. 8vo. Edinburgh, 1822. 112 A History of

A35    Pamphlet:     Shipley, A.E. [1909]. Charles Darwin. [Cambridge, Privately Printed].   Text   Image

; and rejoices in his friendship with Leonard Jenyns. He became the friend of Adam Sedgwick, and in August, 1831, he accompanied him on a geological survey in North Wales. It was on returning from this trip that he found a letter from Henslow informing him that Captain Fitzroy was willing to give up part of his cabin to any young man who would volunteer without pay to act as naturalist on the classical voyage of the Beagle. Captain Fitzroy was going out to survey the southern coast of Tierra del

A318    Pamphlet:     Weismann, August. 1909. Charles Darwin und sein Lebenswerk: Festrede gehalten zu Freiburg i. Br. am 12. Februar 1909. Jena: Gustav Fischer.   Text   Image   PDF

wurde ihm gemacht. Es muß uns heute Seltsam erscheinen, daß ein junger Mann, der gerade eben seine Universitätsstudien vollendet, aber noch keinerlei wissenschaftliche Arbeit gemacht hatte, den Antrag erhielt, als Naturforscher ein königliches Schiff zu begleiten, das zu nautischen Untersuchungen rund um die Erde von der Regierung ausgesandt wurde. Das beweist wiederum, daß seine älteren Freunde große Erwartungen auf ihn setzten. Capitän Fitzroy von der englischen Kriegsflotte suchte einen jungen

A211    Book:     Geikie, A. 1909. Charles Darwin as geologist: The Rede Lecture given at the Darwin Centennial Commemoration on 24 June 1909. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

or three feet, while on an island about thirty miles off, Captain Fitzroy had found putrid mussel-shells still adhering to the rocks ten feet above high-water mark, where the inhabitants had previously dived at low-water spring-tides for these shells. He connected this result of the earthquake with the general rise of the whole continent, regarding it as a kind of sample of the process whereby the uplift had been brought about. As he remarked in his Journal: it is hardly possible to doubt that

A36    Periodical contribution:     Darwin Centenary Number. Christ's College Magazine. vol. XXIII, Easter Term, 1909.   Text   Image   PDF

owing to the cramped space in a brig of ten guns, Darwin was restricted to a single volume of general reading he selected the writings of a third great Christ's man, John Milton. Captain Fitzroy, like Mrs R. Wilfer, was a disciple of Lavater, and took exception to the shape of Darwin's nose. He doubted whether any one with my nose could possess sufficient energy and determination for the voyage. But on acquaintance his doubts soon vanished, and the captain and his naturalist became close

A36    Periodical contribution:     Darwin Centenary Number. Christ's College Magazine. vol. XXIII, Easter Term, 1909.   Text   Image   PDF

was on returning from this trip that he found a letter from Henslow informing him that Captain Fitzroy was willing to give up part of his cabin to any young man who would volunteer without pay to act as naturalist on the classical voyage of the Beagle. We have seen how Darwin had been influenced by the works of Paley; and it is interesting to record that when, 1 Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Vol. 1. p.166. [page] 19