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

is an excellent vessel: new, but well tried, and again the usual strength. The want of room is very bad, but we must make the best of it. I like the officers, (as Cap. Fitzroy says, they would not do for St. James), but they are evidently [a] very intelligent, active, determined set of young fellows. I keep on balancing accounts; there are several contras which I did not expect, but on the other hand, the pros far outweigh them. The time of sailing keeps on receding in a greater ratio than the

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

marked out: but when I left they were, and mine is a capital one, certainly next best to the Captain's, and remarkably light. My companion most luckily, I think, will turn out to be the officer whom I shall like best. Cap. Fitzroy says he will take care that one corner is so fitted up that I shall be comfortable in it, and shall consider [it] my home; but that also I shall always have the run of his. My cabin is the drawing one, and in the middle is a large table over which we two sleep in hammocks

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

account of his wife; I hope she is as nice a little lady as he seems to think and assuredly deserves. How very strange it will be thus finding all my friends old married men with families. July 12th. I have received three more letters making the chain complete from England to February 1835. Capt. Fitzroy has arrived in good spirits and in a short time we sail for the Galapagos. He has just stated five minutes ago on the Quarter Deck that this time [next] year we shall be very near to England. I am

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

beavor hats, and an endless variety of similar things , which Darwin brands as showing culpable folly and negligence , but which caused the sailors considerable merriment when it came to the unloading of the earthenware chamber pots. The story of Jemmy Button's presence on board must here be told that queer native boy who figures in the Beagle story, and about whom we should so gladly know more. Captain FitzRoy had taken him on board when he had sailed in these waters on the earlier surveying

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

builds nest in trees Slept on deck on account of Muskitoes and heat2 Earlier in the voyage a river expedition from Rio de Janeiro in which Darwin did not take part, had led to illness of all the eight who went, three of whom died. Darwin commented on the frequency of such occurrences, and sought in vain for any explanation. FitzRoy gave an emphatic warning against sleeping in the vicinity of rivers in hot climates; neither would look upon the Mosquito as a suspicious intermediary. Perhaps Darwin's

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

thought of Lyell's Principles of Geology. With his mind running on these problems, and with FitzRoy as a not very open-minded companion, this was joy indeed. It must be remembered that Lyell's Principles of Geology was published in three volumes in 1830-3; the first he had taken with him and it influenced him deeply. The second reached him in Monte Video in November, 1832. On the way up the West coast, his thoughts were more and more turning to the actual scenes of volcanic eruption and earth

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

that if I once get them well, and change my manner of living about the same time, they will generally remain well. What is the dose? 1 Tell Edward my gun is dirty: what is Erasmus's direction? tell me if you think there is time to write and to receive an answer before I start, as I should like particularly to know what he thinks about it. I suppose you do not know Sir J. Macintosh's direction? I write all this as if it was settled, but it is not more than it was, excepting that from Cap. Fitzroy

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

INDEX Aconcagua, volcano of, 107, 226 Admiralty, instructions to Captain FitzRoy, 1 , refusal to help over auxiliary craft, 82, 108, 109, 184, 228, 229 African desert, 141 Andean lakes, 220 Andes, 86, 103, 106, 107, 115, 116, 170 Arauco, 124 Archipelagoes, zoology of, 246 Armadillo, 167, 238 Arracife, R., 207 Ascencion, 133, 136, 142, 144, 245, 257, 260, 261 Atacama, desert of, 119 Audubon, lecture by, 20 , theory concerning condors, 227 Austen, Jane, novels of, 66, 89 Australia, 132, 133, 136

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

Edgcombe, Mount, 176 Edinburgh University, 19, 20 Elephant, 147 Empson, William, editor of Edinburgh Review, 148 England, 140, 141, 142, 145 , longing for, 240, 245 , comparison with, 251 English home, 206 , superiority, 224, 252 Entre Rios, 92, 206, 209 Eyton, Thomas, ornithologist, up at Cambridge with Charles, 53 Falkland Islands, 76, 79, 82, 91, 96, 97, 101, 136, 177, et. seq., 217 8, 245 Fernando Noronhas, 157 FitzRoy, Captain Robert, Commander of the expedition, 118, 124, 138, 147, 155, 157

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F2442 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1945. Autobiografía de Darwin; seguida de los recuerdos de la vida diaria de mi padre y la religión de Darwin por Sir Francis Darwin. Buenos Ayres: Nova. Text

mucho con FitzRoy, me dijo que había estado a punto de no ser aceptado ¡a causa de la forma de mi nariz! Él era un discípulo apasionado de Lavater y estaba convencido de que podía juzgar el carácter de un hombre por la configuración de sus facciones; y dudaba que una persona con una nariz como la mía tuviera la energía y decisión suficientes para hacer la travesía. Pero creo que posteriormente se alegró de que mi nariz hubiera mentido. El carácter de Fitz-Roy era muy singular, con rasgos de gran

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A6590 Pamphlet: Anon. [1946.] Historical and descriptive catalogue of the Darwin Memorial at Down House Downe, Kent. British Association for the Advancement of Science. [London: n.p.] 35pp. Text Image PDF

Darwin during the voyage, from which was written the Diary of which the original MS. is shown. Above: H.M.S. Beagle in the Straits of Magellan. Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy (1805 65). Commander of H.M.S. Beagle (1828 36), during which period Darwin made his voyage in her (1831 36). Hydrographer, meteorologist, Governor of New Zealand (1843 45). Stamps issued by the Government of Eucador, 1935, in commemoration of Darwin's landing in the Galapagos Islands, 1835. The peculiar fauna of the islands

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CUL-DAR132.1 Printed: [1946] 'Historical and descriptive catalogue of the Darwin Memorial at Down House, Downe, Kent' [London]: 35pp Text Image

Darwin during the voyage, from which was written the Diary of which the original MS. is shown. Above: H.M.S. Beagle in the Straits of Magellan. Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy (1805 65). Commander of H.M.S. Beagle (1828 36), during which period Darwin made his voyage in her (1831 36). Hydrographer, meteorologist, Governor of New Zealand (1843 45). Stamps issued by the Government of Eucador, 1935, in commemoration of Darwin's landing in the Galapagos Islands, 1835. The peculiar fauna of the islands

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A6590 Pamphlet: Anon. [1946.] Historical and descriptive catalogue of the Darwin Memorial at Down House Downe, Kent. British Association for the Advancement of Science. [London: n.p.] 35pp. Text Image PDF

. Prof. John Stevens Henslow, F.R.S., Professor of Mineralogy and of Botany, Cambridge. Darwin was his pupil and friend, and Henslow introduced him to Capt. Fitzroy of H.M.S. Beagle. Prof. Edward Forbes, F.R.S., Professor of Botany, King's College, London, 1842; Professor of Natural History, Edinburgh, 1854. Founded the 'Red Lions' dining club in the British Association, 1839. A series of Vanity Fair cartoons of subjects who became Presidents of the Association was mainly presented by

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CUL-DAR132.1 Printed: [1946] 'Historical and descriptive catalogue of the Darwin Memorial at Down House, Downe, Kent' [London]: 35pp Text Image

. Prof. John Stevens Henslow, F.R.S., Professor of Mineralogy and of Botany, Cambridge. Darwin was his pupil and friend, and Henslow introduced him to Capt. Fitzroy of H.M.S. Beagle. Prof. Edward Forbes, F.R.S., Professor of Botany, King's College, London, 1842; Professor of Natural History, Edinburgh, 1854. Founded the 'Red Lions' dining club in the British Association, 1839. A series of Vanity Fair cartoons of subjects who became Presidents of the Association was mainly presented by

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A257 Periodical contribution: Sulivan, N. A. 1951. Management of Ships Under Sail. The mariner's Mirror 37: 243-245. Text

Sulivan, N. A. 1951. Management of Ships Under Sail. The mariner's Mirror 37: 243-245. [page] 243 MANAGEMENT OF SHIPS UNDER SAIL The following notes were written by my grandfather, Admiral Sir Bartholomew Sulivan, and relate to the period 1832-46. I have not enough experience to know whether any of his ideas were out of the ordinary, but coming from such seamen as himself and Fitzroy, they may be worth recording. Bartholomew James Sulivan entered the Navy in 1823 through the R.N. College. He

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F1497 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1958. The autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882. With the original omissions restored. Edited and with appendix and notes by his grand-daughter Nora Barlow. London: Collins. Text Image PDF

-53, 58, 59 Effects of Cross and Self-Fertilization in the Vegetable Kingdom, 133, 135 Erewhon, 199 Expression of the Emotions in Man Animals, 131 Evolution, 13, 49, 120-121, 131, 135, 149, 152-157 Eyton, T. C., 68 Falconer, Hugh, 105 Farrer, Euphemia (née Wedgwood), 110 Fawcett, Henry, 161 Fertilization of Orchids, 127, 133, 134, 135, 151 Fitzroy, Robert, 71-76, 79, 81, 226, 240 Flustra, 50, 51 Forbes, E., 125 Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Earthworms, 136 Fox, W. Darwin, 63

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F1595 Periodical contribution: de Beer, Gavin ed. 1959. Some unpublished letters of Charles Darwin. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London. 14: 12-66. Text PDF

the Beagle I am indebted to the Naval Records at the Admiralty and to Miss K. F. Lindsay-Macdougall of the National Maritime Museum. APPENDIX III CAPTAIN FITZROY Robert FitzRoy (1805-1865), afterwards Admiral, Governor of New Zealand (1843- 1845), F.R.S. (1851); commanded the Beagle in the latter part (1828-1830) of her first voyage and during the whole of the second voyage (1831-1836) when Darwin accompanied him. It was as joint author with FitzRoy that Darwin published his first paper

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F1573 Periodical contribution: de Beer, Gavin ed. 1959. Darwin's journal. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (1): 1-21. Text Image PDF

character of S. American fossils— species on Galapagos Archipelago. These facts origin (especially latter) of all my views. From March 13th to end of September entirely employed in my Journal.6 June 26th Short visit to Shrewsbury. Sept. 25th Shrewsbury returned by Maer reached London Oct. 21st. Nov. 20th Two days Isle of Wight to see Fox. 1 Robert FitzRoy (1805-1865). 2 A brief history of H.M.S. Beagle is given in Sir Gavin de Beer: Some unpublished letters of Charles Darwin , Appendix II

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F1595 Periodical contribution: de Beer, Gavin ed. 1959. Some unpublished letters of Charles Darwin. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London. 14: 12-66. Text PDF

APPENDIX IV FUEGIA BASKET Fuegia was one of the Fuegians that Captain FitzRoy captured as hostages for the theft of a boat, and brought back to England in 1830 to teach them Christianity and the use of tools at his own expense, with the ultimate aim of making the fate of shipwrecked mariners less precarious if they should be cast up on the shores where these cannibals lived. One of FitzRoy's chief inducements to undertake the voyage of the Beagle on which Darwin sailed was to return these

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F1595 Periodical contribution: de Beer, Gavin ed. 1959. Some unpublished letters of Charles Darwin. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London. 14: 12-66. Text PDF

returning to England. He settled afterwards in Australia and lived at Pambula, near Twofold Bay, New South Wales. Science owes a debt to Syms Covington which it has not adequately recognized. In Darwin's letter1 to his sister Catherine, 22 May 1833, he advanced reasons for incurring the expenditure of £60 a year on a personal attendant. Captain FitzRoy had appointed a seaman to be with him, but Darwin did not think it right on his part to take a seaman away from his normal duties on board ship

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F1595 Periodical contribution: de Beer, Gavin ed. 1959. Some unpublished letters of Charles Darwin. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London. 14: 12-66. Text PDF

FitzRoy and C. Darwin, Esq., of H.M.S. Beagle', dated At Sea, 28June 1836, which appeared in the South African Christian Recorder (printed and published by G. J. Pike, St. George's Street, Cape Town), 2, No. 4, September 1836. This information is derived from the Catalogue of the library of Charles Darwin now in the Botany School, Cambridge, compiled by H. W. Rutherford, with an Introduction by Francis Darwin (Cambridge, 1908), p. 20 (where the name of the publication is not given; Charles

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F1595 Periodical contribution: de Beer, Gavin ed. 1959. Some unpublished letters of Charles Darwin. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London. 14: 12-66. Text PDF

distribution of coral reefs (London, 1842). 3 The zoology of the voyage of the Beagle, edited by Charles Darwin (London, 1839- 43). 4 The Beagle had returned from her last surveying voyage under Captain J. L. Stokes. A brief account of the history of H.M.S. Beagle is given in Appendix II. 5 Mrs Evans, wife of Darwin's father's butler: an entry which shows that Covington was familiar with Shrewsbury. 6 On Robert FitzRoy see Appendix III. (Letter 2) [Charles Darwin to Syms Covington]1 Down

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F1595 Periodical contribution: de Beer, Gavin ed. 1959. Some unpublished letters of Charles Darwin. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London. 14: 12-66. Text PDF

, of £1,000 a year, I believe, and has beaten two Admirals and Captain FitzRoy, who tried for the same place.3 By the way Captain F. with Mrs. F. are coming to lunch with me on their road home from the Marquis of Camden. Poor Captain F. has lately lost his only daughter, a beautiful and charming girl of about 16 or 17 years old. I lately dined with one of your great Australian potentates, Sir W. Macarthur,4 and heard a great deal of news of Australia, and drank some admirable Australian wine

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F1595 Periodical contribution: de Beer, Gavin ed. 1959. Some unpublished letters of Charles Darwin. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London. 14: 12-66. Text PDF

out-ofdoor work such is not required, I suppose. You say you have eight children; we beat you by one. My eldest is between 18 and 19 and is going to Cambridge in October to be educated as a Barrister, for want of a better and honester trade. I hope Pambula flourishes; in your last letter you express some fear about the road being turned and trade being thus injured; I hope that this has not happened. I have not seen a soul of an old shipmate, except Captain FitzRoy, for the last year. Captain

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F1595 Periodical contribution: de Beer, Gavin ed. 1959. Some unpublished letters of Charles Darwin. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London. 14: 12-66. Text PDF

winter of 1825 went to the Edinburgh University for two years, thence to Christ's College Cambridge, where he took his B.A. degree in 1831. In the autumn of 1831 Captain FitzRoy R.N., having offered to give up part of his own cabin to any naturalist who would accompany H.M.S. Beagle in her surveying voyage circumnavigation, Mr. Darwin volunteered his services without salary, but on condition that he should have the entire disposal of his collections. The Beagle sailed from England Dec. 27 1831

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F1573 Periodical contribution: de Beer, Gavin ed. 1959. Darwin's journal. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (1): 1-21. Text Image PDF

have been of the greatest value to him when visiting South America in the Beagle. (cf. L. L., vol. 1, p. 190.) It is not generally known that Darwin also contemplated a voyage to South America. This emerges from the following letter addressed by the Hydrographer of the Navy, Captain Francis Beaufort R. N. (1774-1857), to Captain Robert FitzRoy R. N., for the text which I am indebted to Rear-Admiral K. St. B. Collins, R.N., O.B.E., D.S.C., Hydrographer of the Navy. Capn Fitzroy Sepr 1 1831 My dear

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F1573 Periodical contribution: de Beer, Gavin ed. 1959. Darwin's journal. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (1): 1-21. Text Image PDF

countries visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world, under the command of Captain FitzRoy, R.N. London 1845. 6 George Howard Darwin (1845-1912). 7 The Hon. and Rev. William Herbert (1778-1847), the distinguished plant geneticist. (cf. L. L., vol. 1, p. 343.) 8 Charles Waterton (1782-1865) (cf. L. L., vol. 1, p. 343.) 9 (cf. L. L., vol. 1, p. 344.) 10 Camp Hill, Staffs, home of Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood (1778-1856). 11 Knole Park (or Knowle Park) near Sevenoaks. 12 This was the

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F1595 Periodical contribution: de Beer, Gavin ed. 1959. Some unpublished letters of Charles Darwin. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London. 14: 12-66. Text PDF

any, they had better be directed to the Geological Society Somerset House and a letter sent to inform me of them. I shall not publish my book for 8 months more. I have now six children three boys three girls all, thank God are well strong. I have not seen any of our old officers for a long time. Captain Fitzroy has the command of a fine steamer frigate. Captain Sullivan5 has gone out to settle for a few years trade at the Falkland Islands, taken his family with him. I know nothing of the others

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F1595 Periodical contribution: de Beer, Gavin ed. 1959. Some unpublished letters of Charles Darwin. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London. 14: 12-66. Text PDF

it. I feel a great interest about Australia, and read every book I can get hold of. I lately read a long one by Colonel Munday.2 I really have no news to tell you of myself; we live a most quiet life. I have not yet finished my second volume on the Barnacles, but hope soon to do so, and begin some other subject. I saw a few weeks ago Captain FitzRoy; perhaps you heard that a year or two ago he had the great misfortune of losing his wife. I am afraid he lost much money by his government of New

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F1595 Periodical contribution: de Beer, Gavin ed. 1959. Some unpublished letters of Charles Darwin. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London. 14: 12-66. Text PDF

make anyone past boyhood wish to be in a warmer and better climate. We were during this time in London, for we took a house for a month to have a little amusement, but the weather was cold and the streets all so dirty and snowy that it looked very dismal. The Thames was nearly quite frozen over. I have heard nothing of late of our old shipmates. Captain FitzRoy is head of a department for keeping an account of observations on wind, weather, and currents made all over the world. He is married

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F1595 Periodical contribution: de Beer, Gavin ed. 1959. Some unpublished letters of Charles Darwin. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London. 14: 12-66. Text PDF

the Paris Museum of Natural History (where five years previously Owen had worked with Cuvier) as a repository for Darwin's collections, had been discussed. 4 A number of specimens collected by Darwin and described in the Zoology of the voyage of the Beagle were presented to the British Museum in 1837 by Sir William Burnett (Physician-General of the Navy) and Captain FitzRoy. Some of Darwin's specimens were given to the Zoological Society's Museum, from which they were transferred to the British

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F1595 Periodical contribution: de Beer, Gavin ed. 1959. Some unpublished letters of Charles Darwin. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London. 14: 12-66. Text PDF

under Captain Pringle Stokes and, after his death in 1828, under Captain Robert FitzRoy. He served as Assistant Surveyor in the voyage with Darwin, and he sailed a third time in the Beagle as Lieutenant and Assistant Surveyor under Captain John Clement Wickham in 1837, and succeeded him in command in 1841 until the ship's return to England in 1843. In his book Discoveries in Australia (London, 1846, 2, pp. 5, 6), Stokes wrote under the date 9 September, 1839: 'A wide bay appearing between two

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A94 Pamphlet: Anon. 1960. Handlist of Darwin papers at the University Library Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Text Image PDF

Genus Bonatea'* 142 Wharton, W. J. S. Notes on Rodriguez and Zanzibar 69 White, Adam. Descriptions of Beagle specimens of Arachnidae* 133(8) Wind gauge. Table for Lind's wind gage for Captain Fitzroy 29 (iii) Wisconsin. G. W. Featherstonhaugh: Report of a Geological Reconnoissance [of Wisconsin area]* 131 Woodpeckers. Notes on the Habits of Pampas Woodpeckers* 135(14) Worms Articles by E. R. Lankester and E.-L. Trouessart* 64 'Brief Descriptions of Several Terrestrial Planariae and of Some

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A94 Pamphlet: Anon. 1960. Handlist of Darwin papers at the University Library Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Text Image PDF

. Beagle, 1832 6, on: (i) Animals, pp. 1 50. Descriptions, notes, etc. Fish in spirits of wine: 20 pages with a brown paper wrapper. Insects: 2 pages, and a letter: C. C. Babington, 1 July 1837. Shells in spirits of wine [8 pages]. (ii) Birds. (iii) Shells. Lists of Beagle specimens. Catalogue of boxes of corallines [10 small pieces of paper]. Insects in spirits of wine [one sheet only]. Zoological plates and references. 'Table for Lind's wind gage for Captain Fitzroy of H.M.S. Beagle'. Mammalia in

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A94 Pamphlet: Anon. 1960. Handlist of Darwin papers at the University Library Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Text Image PDF

Notes on the fertility of Antirrhinum 51 'On the Agency of Bees in the Fertilization of Papilionaceous Flowers, and on the Crossing of Kidney Beans' 27 (i) On the Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilized by Insects Material for 2nd ed. 70 Proof sheets of 2nd ed.* 140(6) Field, The, 1864-5* 138(3) Fish. List of Beagle specimens in alcohol 29 (i) Fitzroy, Captain Robert. Table for Lind's wind gage for him 29 (iii) Flies, see Diptera Flowers 'Bees Boring Holes in Flowers' 27 (i

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A94 Pamphlet: Anon. 1960. Handlist of Darwin papers at the University Library Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Text Image PDF

for Captain Fitzroy 29 (iii) Lochaber, see Geology, British Isles Lyell, C. A. R. Wallace's criticism of him on geological climates and On the Origin of Species* 133(14) Lythrum salicaria. 'On the Sexual Relations of the Three Forms of Lythrum salicaria' 27 (ii) Malay Archipelago, see East Indies Mammals. List of Beagle specimens in alcohol 29 (iii) See also Children, Dogs, Man, Mastodons Mammut americanum. Isaac Hays: 'Descriptions of the Inferior Maxillary Bones of Mastodons '* 139(4) Man 'The

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A1036a Book: [Gautry, P. J.] 1961. Darwin library: list of books received in the University Library Cambridge March-May 1961. [Cambridge: unpublished typescript]. [Annotated copy in the Manuscripts Reading Room in Cambridge University Library] Text Image PDF

his works. (D) 8o. Philadelphia, 1868. Murray (Lindley). An English grammar. In 2 vols. 5th ed. improved. York, 1824. (D) Robt. Fitzroy 1831 Nägeli (Carl). Botanische Mittheilungen. Imperfect. (D) 8o. München, 1866. Nautical Almanack Tables. See Maskelyne (N). [page 19

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F1598 Book: Barlow, Nora ed. 1967. Darwin and Henslow. The growth of an idea. London: Bentham-Moxon Trust, John Murray. Text Image PDF

Captain Robert FitzRoy, Commander of H.M.S. Beagle, c. 1836 [page] 5

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F1598 Book: Barlow, Nora ed. 1967. Darwin and Henslow. The growth of an idea. London: Bentham-Moxon Trust, John Murray. Text Image PDF

Charles Darwin, 1840. An unsigned sketch for the well-known portrait by George Richmond, found in the cellars of the Cambridge Botany School in 1929 [Captain Robert FitzRoy, c. 1836

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F1598 Book: Barlow, Nora ed. 1967. Darwin and Henslow. The growth of an idea. London: Bentham-Moxon Trust, John Murray. Text Image PDF

ILLUSTRATIONS Charles Darwin, 1840. facing 52 Captain Robert FitzRoy, Commander of H.M.S. Beagle, c. 1836. 53 From a drawing in the possession of Miss Eileen Smyth, Dymock, Glos., by her kind permission. 'Fuegian wigwams at Hope Harbour in the Magdalen Channel.' 68 From Voyages of the Beagle (1839), vol. I, p. 126. P. P. King. Fuegian natives in the Straits of Magellan, nearly one hundred years after Darwin's visit. 69 'Fuegians going to trade their children as slaves with the Patagonians

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F1598 Book: Barlow, Nora ed. 1967. Darwin and Henslow. The growth of an idea. London: Bentham-Moxon Trust, John Murray. Text Image PDF

should not be lost I look forward with great interest to the benefit which our collections of natural history may receive from your labours. The circumstances are these Captain Fitzroy (a nephew of the Duke of Grafton's) sails at the end of September in a ship to survey in the first instance the S. Coast of Terra del Fuego, afterwards to visit the S. Seas Islands to return by the Indian Archipelago to England: the expedition is entirely for scientific purposes the ship will generally wait your

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F1598 Book: Barlow, Nora ed. 1967. Darwin and Henslow. The growth of an idea. London: Bentham-Moxon Trust, John Murray. Text Image PDF

spends a week at Madeira islands: then Rio de Janeiro. They all think most extremely probable home by the Indian Archipelago: but till that is decided, I will not be so. What has induced Cap. Fitzroy to take a better view of the case is; that Mr. Chester, who was going as a friend, cannot go: so that I shall have his place in every respect. Cap Fitzroy has good stock of books, many of which were in my list, rifles etc. So that the outfit will be much less expensive than I supposed. The vessel

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F1598 Book: Barlow, Nora ed. 1967. Darwin and Henslow. The growth of an idea. London: Bentham-Moxon Trust, John Murray. Text Image PDF

. Jenyns, tell him I am to have a parcel to bring for him from Mr. Yarrell: Would you enquire from him, in what Edinburgh Journal, there are some papers by Coldstream Foggo? send an answer to this question. I must have a rain-gauge. I hope when I return from Plymouth I shall find a letter from you: I received one today from Prof. Sedgwick, but have not yet had time to read it. You can have no idea how busy I am all day long. owing to my confidence in Cap Fitzroy I am as happy as a king: if you

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F1598 Book: Barlow, Nora ed. 1967. Darwin and Henslow. The growth of an idea. London: Bentham-Moxon Trust, John Murray. Text Image PDF

ing Captain Fitzroy. It is certainly a very serious objection, the very short time for all my preparations, as not only body but mind wants making up for such an undertaking. But if it had not been for my Father, I would have taken all risks. What was the reason, that a Naturalist was not long ago fixed upon? I am very much obliged for the trouble you have had about it there certainly could not have been a better opportunity. I shall come up in October to Cambridge, when I long to have some

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F1598 Book: Barlow, Nora ed. 1967. Darwin and Henslow. The growth of an idea. London: Bentham-Moxon Trust, John Murray. Text Image PDF

Postmark.] Monte Video 24 Nov 1832 My dear Henslow, We arrived here on the 24th of Octob: after our first cruize on the coast of Patagonia: North of the Rio Negro we fell in with some little Schooners employed in sealing; to save the loss of time in surveying the intricate mass of banks, Capt. FitzRoy has hired two of them has put officers in them.1 It took us nearly a month fitting them out; as soon as this was finished we came back here, are now preparing for a long cruize to the South. I

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F1598 Book: Barlow, Nora ed. 1967. Darwin and Henslow. The growth of an idea. London: Bentham-Moxon Trust, John Murray. Text Image PDF

Beagle with Capt. Fitzroy to explore the coast of S. America. 13 from May 13, 1832, to July 12, 1833 written in S.A. or in the Beagle on the Coast. 2 Janry 1836 July 1836 from Sydney St Helena on his way home both highly interesting. 1 Oct. 6, 1836 from his father Dr D's house at Shrewsbury immediately on his return London 13 Oct 1836 Nov 1836 from London Cambridge, chiefly 40 about preparg for the press. The letters are all most honourable to C.D. for zeal acute observation head heart Above all

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F1598 Book: Barlow, Nora ed. 1967. Darwin and Henslow. The growth of an idea. London: Bentham-Moxon Trust, John Murray. Text Image PDF

voyage, offers the most attractions. This is a shamefully untidy letter, but you must forgive me believe me My dear Henslow Yours most truly obliged Charles Darwin Novr: 7th LETTER 351 [To: Revd. Prof. Henslow Cambridge] October 4th, 1834. Valparaiso My dear Henslow I have been unwell am not yet out of bed. I write to tell you that Capt. FitzRoy sent, a week ago, by H.M.S. Samarang through Portsmouth. 2 Casks, containing bones stones a box with 6 small bottles, with very valuable specimens

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F1598 Book: Barlow, Nora ed. 1967. Darwin and Henslow. The growth of an idea. London: Bentham-Moxon Trust, John Murray. Text Image PDF

sooner. I put it off yesterday the day before owing to the Coronation1 not seeing Cap. FitzRoy therefore not having anything particular to communicate. Today I did not come home till too late for the post, having spent it with Cap Fitz going about the town ordering things. by this you will perceive it is all settled; that is to say I cannot possibly conceive any cause happening of sufficient weight to alter my determination. I have ordered pistols a rifle, both of which by Fitzroys account I

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Shropshire. August. Went on Geological tour by Llangollen, Ruthven, Conway, Bangor Kapel Curig where I left Professor Sedgwick crossed the mountains to Barmouth. Returned to Shrewsbury at end of August. Refused offer of voyage [Aug. 30, 1831]. Sept. Went to Maer returned with Uncle Jos to Shrewsbury [Sept. 1, 1831] thence to Cambridge [Sept. 2, 1831] London [Sept. 5, 1831]. Sept 11 went with Capt FitzRoy in steamer to Plymouth to see Beagle. Sep 22d returned to Shrewsbury passing through Cambridge

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Fuego home by the East Indies I have been asked by Peacock who will read forward this to you from London to recommend him a naturalist as companion to Capt Fitzroy employed by Government to survey the S. extremity of America. I have stated that I consider you to be the best qualified person I know of who is likely to undertake such a situation I state this not on the supposition of yr. being a finished Naturalist, but as amply qualified for collecting, observing, noting anything new to be