F1840    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 2000. Charles Darwin's zoology notes & specimen lists from H.M.S. Beagle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

for disagreement with the account given in the Dic. Class. Next it was a migration of driver ants that attracted his attention, then the movements of some pulmonates, and a few weeks later (see p. 48) he came across 'the only butterfly I ever saw make use of its legs in running, this one will avoid being caught by shuffling to one side'. Many further examples could be quoted, among which one of the highlights would be his classical description (see p. 104) of the coating of the Beagle's rigging

F1840    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 2000. Charles Darwin's zoology notes & specimen lists from H.M.S. Beagle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

abundant a Bombylius. The orders Orthoptera, Hemiptera, Neuroptera, produced scarcely anything. In Hymenoptera, a large Pompilus8 was common, as was its prey Mygalus4: also a large humble bee feeding on the wild pea. I saw three species of Lepidop: diurni : the Nocturn were more abundant. [note (a)] Ants are very common: on Sept 22d Swarms were on the wing. [note ends] [CD P. 115 continues] Entomostraces9(Lophyropes) (b) This animal does not come in any of Latreilles families. In general appearance

F1840    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 2000. Charles Darwin's zoology notes & specimen lists from H.M.S. Beagle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

wings legs of most minute Diptera, probably Tripulid . It is evident the humming bird[s] search these insects out, in their winter-quarters, amongst the thick foliage of the Bromelias. [note (a)] I opened stomach of this species killed near Valparaiso, there were as much debris of insects as in a Certhia. besides Diptera I pretty clearly recognized remains not so very small of ants. [note ends] [CD P. 266 continues] Besides the birds I have collected I know of the following birds: the Condor

F1840    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 2000. Charles Darwin's zoology notes & specimen lists from H.M.S. Beagle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

common here 672 I Acarus from Cavia Capybara (Linn:) 673 I Ricinus from Rhynchops 674 I Moth common on the Mount 675 I Beetle. found in the middle of an ants nest. 676 I Carabidous beetle. common under the drift of the tide. 677 I X [entries 677 and 678 later crossed through] Heterom: 4: Poecilus. Dermestes. Necrobia. Haltica. Galeruca. Coccinella. Forficula. Harpales. Omarus. Pterostichus. Trechus. Peryphus. 2 Curculio. Forficula. Corixa. 2 Harpalus. Noloptes. Capsida. Colymbetes. Formia

A827    Beagle Library:     Seoane, Mateo. 1831. Neuman and Baretti's dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages. 5th ed. 2 vols. London: n.p. Volume 1: Spanish and English.   Text

ants suck. 2. Seed resembling the berry of laurel. 3. (Na t.) Sort of small vessel. 4. (Gal.) Figure of a large serpent borne at festivals. 5. (Na t.) Turn or twist of a cable. 6. Kind of a red gum. 7. (Ant.) Head. COC R, va. 1. To make grimaces or wry faces. 2. (Met.) To coax, to gain by wheedling and flattering. COCAR R, va. To gather or collect the leaves of cocoa. COCC NEO, NEA, a. Of a purple colour. COCCI N, sf. Coction, the boiling of any thing. C CE, sf. (Ant.) A kick. V. Coz. COCEAD R

EH88202324    Note:    1832   Cape de Verds Notebook   Text   Image

shades in proportion so much darker Scale in nature amongst spiders kept up by hymenop1 in absence of Carabid supplied by the Ants. 2 may after been less of insects caterpillars June 10th [1832] gneiss dipping SW! silence well exemplified 1 Hymenoptera: social insects (wasps, ants, bees etc). 2 This observation was published in Journal of researches, p. 39. [page 85b

EH88202324    Note:    1832   Cape de Verds Notebook   Text   Image

ants nest 3 feet high 2 thick with a tube at bottom Lichen,1 mosses Terns noddy on trees alight beautiful pink flowers on the top of mountain on trees 1 Specimen not in spirits 309 in Zoology notes, p. 372 'from the highest peak of Fernando Noronha'. [page 46b

A832    Beagle Library:     Turner, Sharon. 1832. The sacred history of the world, as displayed in the Creation and subsequent events to the Deluge, attempted to be philosophically considered in a series of letters to a son. Volume 1. 2nd ed. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman.   Text

pitched battles and to deny them a similarity of mind with those of their superiors, who have soldiers, tacties, and wars.76 That Ants have slaves; and make expeditions to capture other Ants, to reduce them to servitude;77 that they should keep smaller Insects, the Aphides, in order that they may milk them, or extract from their bodies a saccharine fluid for their own nourishment, as we take the milk from cows;78 and that they should keep assemblages of these, as their separate and private

A832    Beagle Library:     Turner, Sharon. 1832. The sacred history of the world, as displayed in the Creation and subsequent events to the Deluge, attempted to be philosophically considered in a series of letters to a son. Volume 1. 2nd ed. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman.   Text

laws and polities. What seemed poetry in Virgil as to the Bees, has been found to be only a part of the truth, as to their associations. The diminutive Ants are still most extraordinary. The Wasps display kindred minds and habits.75 It is not possible to read of the wars and duels of the Ants, or of the Bees to find them assemble in armies, make evolutions, and fight 74 N. Dict. d'Hist. Nat. Kirby, v. 4, p. 21. Mr. Rennie also says, 'Social Insects, as soon as they arrive at maturity, are

A832    Beagle Library:     Turner, Sharon. 1832. The sacred history of the world, as displayed in the Creation and subsequent events to the Deluge, attempted to be philosophically considered in a series of letters to a son. Volume 1. 2nd ed. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman.   Text

ply memory also, which many facts satisfactorily indicate.59 There seem to be reasonable grounds to infer that Insects communicate their ideas and wishes to each other;60 and that Ants perceive what another needs, and voluntarily assist him to attain his end.61 Dr. Franklin inferred such a communication between this class of Insects, from a fact of his own observa 59 A swarm of Bees lodged in an opening beneath some tiles. They were drawn from this place, and hived; but every year, for eight