A591    Pamphlet:     Armstrong, Patrick. 1992. Charles Darwin's last island: Terceira, Azores, 1836. Geowest no. 27.   Text   Image

slowly and at 11.00 the Hemp cable (presumably the major anchor rope) was got up to dry; perhaps Captain FitzRoy was looking for work to keep the men occupied while they waited. Once an Austrian brig passed them, a tiny spot of relief to the hours of tedium. Darwin wrote in his diary a contrary wind detained us , but was keenly observing the island from a few miles offshore, comparing the landscape with that of Terceira: The Isd of St Michael's is considerably larger three times as populous enjoys a

F3705    Book:     Armstrong, Patrick. 1992. Darwin's desolate islands: A naturalist in the Falklands, 1833 and 1834. Chippenham: Picton Publishing.   Text

gloomy, with some rain about, the anchor was weighed and the Beagle moved across the sound. Later in the morning, the log reports, the weather improved, the cutter and the yawl were put out, and the crew were employed variously about ship's duties . These duties, for the next day or two, included getting as much as possible of the Magellan's stores aboard (Covington's Diary indicates and that FitzRoy also bought most of the wreck of the Magellan as firewood), undertaking repair work on one of the

F3705    Book:     Armstrong, Patrick. 1992. Darwin's desolate islands: A naturalist in the Falklands, 1833 and 1834. Chippenham: Picton Publishing.   Text

it looked like a clear; but at dinner the Captain said the glass says we have not had the worst. About an hour later it reached us in all its fury. The French Brig let go four anchors; the English schooner drove; little more would have added another wreck. At 10.15pm the Beagle's yawl was swamped at her moorings, but by midnight she had been brought alongside. Just before 2.00am the yawl was towed to shore and emptied. Some gear and sails were lost. FitzRoy expressed the opinion that some

F3705    Book:     Armstrong, Patrick. 1992. Darwin's desolate islands: A naturalist in the Falklands, 1833 and 1834. Chippenham: Picton Publishing.   Text

resembled the old Buccaneers. The Unicorn impressed Captain FitzRoy and he purchased her to assist in the hydrographic survey, renaming the vessel the Adventure. Darwin approved: She is a fine vessel of 170 tuns [sic], drawing 10 feet of water and an excellent sea boat. If the Admiralty sanctions the provisioning payment of men, this day will be an important one in the history of the Beagle. Perhaps it may shorten our cruize [sic]; anyhow it will double the work done; when at sea, it is always

F3705    Book:     Armstrong, Patrick. 1992. Darwin's desolate islands: A naturalist in the Falklands, 1833 and 1834. Chippenham: Picton Publishing.   Text

appeared on the scene, Lieutenant Smith and his squad of marines managed to capture Antonio Rivero, the ringleader, confining him to an islet. On the arrival of the Beagle, FitzRoy had him put in irons (the log records: Tuesday 18 March Received on board Antonis Rivers, Prisoner). Two others, Jose Maria Luna, who turned King's evidence and an Englishman named Channon, who was apparently less implicated in the murders, were also received on board, but under less austere conditions. William Low

F3705    Book:     Armstrong, Patrick. 1992. Darwin's desolate islands: A naturalist in the Falklands, 1833 and 1834. Chippenham: Picton Publishing.   Text

the ridges north of the Sound, and noting the somewhat confused mass of stone-runs towards the south. And there are indeed three ranges of hills between Berkeley Sound and the sea, southwards at Port FitzRoy, assuming that Mt Kent is considered part of the main range. The weather and visibility must have been a good deal better than it had been a fortnight before when he trekked overland to Choiseul Sound. Returning towards the ship, Darwin noted Thrushes in flocks . Flocks of Falklands thrushes

F3705    Book:     Armstrong, Patrick. 1992. Darwin's desolate islands: A naturalist in the Falklands, 1833 and 1834. Chippenham: Picton Publishing.   Text

appreciated the tangled web of relationships between the living and non-living components of the environment: The motion of the sea seems necessary to the life of its productions: this island is much intersected by water (Capt FitzRoy has compared it it the arms of a Cuttlefish). These far inland seas are nearly motionless, they seem to produce hardly any organic beings. Creusia occasionally encrust the rocks, even where streams enter. The grebe (1917) proves that some few small fish are

A591    Pamphlet:     Armstrong, Patrick. 1992. Charles Darwin's last island: Terceira, Azores, 1836. Geowest no. 27.   Text   Image

British consul (FitzRoy made a point of paying courtesy calls on local dignitaries at a number of the ports that [page] 1

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.   Text   Image   PDF

Mammalia. The cat procured by Capt. P. P. King on the Beagle's surveying voyage of 1826-1830 is also described as Felis pajeros in the published version of the voyage. See FitzRoy, Narrative, Vol. 1, Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830, by P. P. King, pp. 116-117, 530. (Manuscripts from the first voyage were available to Darwin on the Beagle's second [page] 3

A860    Periodical contribution:     Pearson, Paul N. 1996. Charles Darwin on the origin and diversity of igneous rocks. Earth Sciences History 15, no. 1: 49-67.   Text   Image

78. Cambridge University Library, Manuscripts department, DAR 35.2:363. 79. Cambridge University Library, Manuscripts department, DAR 35.2:391. 80. Charles Darwin, Geological Observations on South America, Being the Third Part of the Geology of the Voyage of the Beagle Under the Command of Capt. Fitzroy, R.N., During the Years 1832-1836, (London: Smith Elder, 1846), pp. 184-185. 81. Cambridge University Library, Manuscripts department, DAR 36.2:532. 82. Scrope, Considerations, p. 146. 83

A860    Periodical contribution:     Pearson, Paul N. 1996. Charles Darwin on the origin and diversity of igneous rocks. Earth Sciences History 15, no. 1: 49-67.   Text   Image

. Cambridge University Library, Manuscripts department, DAR 32.1:34. 70. Charles Darwin. Journal and Remarks, 1832-1836, Vol. 3. of R. Fitzroy (ed.), Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships 'Adventure' and 'Beagle'; Between the Years 1826 and 1836, (London, 1839), p. 291. 71. Frank J. Sulloway, Darwin and his finches: the evolution of a legend, Journal of the History of Biology, 1982, 15:1-53. 72. Frank J. Sulloway, Darwin's conversion: the Beagle voyage and its aftermath, Journal

A345    Periodical contribution:     Herbert, Sandra. 1999. An 1830s view from outside Switzerland: Charles Darwin on the "Beryl Blue" glaciers of Tierra del Fuego. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 92: 339-346.   Text   Image   PDF

Fig. 2. Color Chart from Patrick Syme, Werner's Nomenclature of Colours (1821). The precise phrase beryl blue does not appear on the chart but the colors numbered 46, 51, 58 and 60 are all associated with Beryl in the minerals column. Fig. 3. Conrad Martens's painting Mount Sarmiento from Warp Bay. The painting originally appeared, reproduced in black and white, in FitzRoy 1839, vol. 2, facing p. 359. A color reproduction of the painting appears in Keynes 1979, p. 113. The pencil sketch from

A345    Periodical contribution:     Herbert, Sandra. 1999. An 1830s view from outside Switzerland: Charles Darwin on the "Beryl Blue" glaciers of Tierra del Fuego. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 92: 339-346.   Text   Image   PDF

glaciers, that he wondered why the Beagle Channel had not filled up (DAR 32.2: 122v). In his notes, like FitzRoy, Darwin compared masses of ice falling from glaciers into the Channel to a miniature of the icebergs of the Antarctic seas (DAR 32.2: 122; FitzRoy 1839, vol. 2: 216). In his Diary from the voyage (Keynes 1988: 139-140) he repeated this analogy and added a note comparing the distribution of glaciers in the northern and southern hemispheres: The occurrence of glaciers reaching to water's

A345    Periodical contribution:     Herbert, Sandra. 1999. An 1830s view from outside Switzerland: Charles Darwin on the "Beryl Blue" glaciers of Tierra del Fuego. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 92: 339-346.   Text   Image   PDF

notes he added that the ocean was very deep at some points off the east coast of Tierra del Fuego: 660 feet about a mile Pt. S. Anna, and no sounding at 1536 feet east of Cape Froward in midchannel. This depth made water transport for rocks difficult to imagine. Overall Darwin was aware that the subject of the transportation of rocks was a matter of interest among geologists. In his notes (DAR 34.2:169) he mentioned Robert FitzRoy (1805-1865), Captain of H.M.S. Beagle, having received inquiries

A345    Periodical contribution:     Herbert, Sandra. 1999. An 1830s view from outside Switzerland: Charles Darwin on the "Beryl Blue" glaciers of Tierra del Fuego. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 92: 339-346.   Text   Image   PDF

and Devon. Transactions of the Geological Society of London 2nd ser., 1, 95-102. Burkhardt, F. Smith, S. 1986: The correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 2. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. Darwin, C. 1839a: Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle ... 1832-1836. Henry Colburn, London. (Separate issue of FitzRoy 1839, vol. 3.) - 1839b: Observations on the parallel roads of Glen Roy. and of other parts of Lochaber in

A345    Periodical contribution:     Herbert, Sandra. 1999. An 1830s view from outside Switzerland: Charles Darwin on the "Beryl Blue" glaciers of Tierra del Fuego. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 92: 339-346.   Text   Image   PDF

had been set in print but held until FitzRoy was finished with his own work. As time went on, Darwin found material he wished to add to his text, and in the fall of 1838 he wrote a series of extended notes, or addenda, for his volume. I mention the circumstance because it may account for the invective tone of Darwin's remarks, which were likely thrown off and published without the benefit of any solicitous editorial eye. In an addendum to his Journal of Researches Darwin declared that the problem

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

(fig. 5: Routes 10 and 11 February). In the discussion of the route in the paper on the memo (Banks 1971: Comment L, p. 7) mention was made of the possibility that he used the coach road, but this was not opened until 1869 (de Quincey 1987: 55). It is known from Darwin's diary that he climbed the southern side of the mountain. His most likely route would be to have followed the early part of the Bridle Road from Hobart Town to the Huon River, i.e. from Fitzroy Gardens or Stoney Steps along the

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

before the 7th. It is at least possible that Captain FitzRoy, as commander of an expedition with the prime function of measuring latitude and longitude, called upon or made contact with Frankland as Surveyor-General soon after the Beagle reached Sullivans Cove and may well have introduced Darwin to him. With Frankland, Darwin would have found a community of interests. Frankland was born in Somerset, UK, in 1800, joined the army in 1819 and served in India (Eldershaw 1966: 410-411). He was

A2112    Book:     Armstrong, Patrick. 2004. Darwin's other islands. London: Continuum.   Text

Darwin's Other Islands Figure 12.3 Breadfruit still flourish in the gardens of Tahiti Not all was perfect, however. Both Darwin and FitzRoy felt that the women were less attractive than the men; some of the houses were not as clean as they might have been; and they deplored the ragged and sometimes dirty European-style clothes worn in place of the traditional costume. Both have something to say in their accounts of the voyage about Tahitian society and customs: houses, artefacts, canoes, food

A2112    Book:     Armstrong, Patrick. 2004. Darwin's other islands. London: Continuum.   Text

Zealand). Just over a week later the ship was within sight of the hills of New Zealand's North Island, but because of contrary winds it was another two days (21 December 1835) before HMS Beagle stood into the Bay of Islands. Notes 1. Captain FitzRoy, in his Narrative, p. 506, refers to a 'black tern', possibly the sooty tern (Sterna fuscata) - one of the few species of tern often seen far from land - and tropic birds (genus Phaethon). 2. FitzRoy refers to Honden Island: Narrative, pp. 507-8. 3

A2112    Book:     Armstrong, Patrick. 2004. Darwin's other islands. London: Continuum.   Text

. FitzRoy therefore resolved to establish the missionary community on the northwestern corner of Navarin Island, close to the area from which Jemmy Button originally came, on Ponsonby Sound. On the morning of 19 January, three whaleboats and the yawl set off for the entrance to the Beagle Channel, named by FitzRoy during the previous voyage. There were 28 persons in the group - FitzRoy, Darwin, Matthews, the Fuegians and a good number of the 61 [page

A161    Periodical contribution:     Steinheimer, F. D. 2004. Charles Darwin's bird collection and ornithological knowledge during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, 1831-1836. Journal of Ornithology 145(4): 300-320, 4 figures (appendix [pp. 1-40]).   Text   Image   PDF

(1839a) The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Capt. Fitzroy, R. N., during the years 1832 to 1836. Part 3: Birds, issue 2 [pp 17-32, pls. 11-20]. Smith, Elder and Co., London [The works of Charles Darwin. Barrett PH, Freeman RB (eds 1987), vol. 5, New York University Press, New York] Gould J, Darwin C (1839b) The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Capt. Fitzroy, R. N., during the years 1832 to 1836. Part 3: Birds, issue 3 [pp 33-56, pls. 21-30

A2112    Book:     Armstrong, Patrick. 2004. Darwin's other islands. London: Continuum.   Text

Introduction: The Origins of the Darwin Voyage, and an Overview from Henslow suggesting that he might be interested in accompanying Captain FitzRoy on the Beagle voyage as a 'supernumerary'. Dr Darwin initially was not in favour, but with the help of friends Charles managed to swing him round. An interview with FitzRoy in London followed. The next few months were spent in a frantic round of assembling equipment and materials for the voyage, and obtaining instruction in the best methods of

A2112    Book:     Armstrong, Patrick. 2004. Darwin's other islands. London: Continuum.   Text

Darwin's Other Islands for example) of East Falkland with the lavas and ashes of some of his volcanic islands, that was vital to him.1 The log of the Beagle, Darwin's copious notes and letters, writings by other persons aboard and his specimens allow a very accurate reconstruction of the weeks that the little surveying sloop was at Berkeley Sound. Let us briefly accompany the crew as they approached this outpost for the first time. On the afternoon of Friday, 3 March 1833, Captain FitzRoy was

A2112    Book:     Armstrong, Patrick. 2004. Darwin's other islands. London: Continuum.   Text

.) As we have seen, however, the Beagle left Port Jackson in late January, at the height of the southern summer, and so it was possible for FitzRoy to take the ship by the southern route, via Hobart Town and King George's Sound. The Captain's letter to the Admiralty, written from Port Jackson on 29 January 1836, reads: 'The Beagle . . . will sail tomorrow for Van Diemen's Land. Thence she will proceed towards England, touching at King George's Sound, the Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope and St Helena.'1