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125 1833 May. June Maldonado 125 Laguna mud banks at Bahia Blanca. which are covered at high water: — there were are likewise fragments of Mytilus which yet retained their colour. — All these shells were are in a very soft. decomposing state. This bed was is covered by another of black mud about 4 feet thick formed evidently by the lake or stream. — The clay bed with shells is one or two feet above the level of the lake. — the lake, as we have seen is below high water mark. I think therefore
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Maldonado 1833 December Armadilloes I have had opportunities of seeing something of four species of this genus.— hearing respecting their habitats.— The Taturia Pichiz (375 Spirits); the T. Apar. (403 spirits) called Mataco.— The T. villosa, called Paluda.— are all found in some numbers on the sandy plains of Bahia Blanca, Lat. 39°.— The three species show no difference in choice of situations.— The first Pichiz, or sometimes called Kerikincha; is excessively numerous in all the dry country of
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Map Bahia Blanca 1
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Sierra Ventana High plain lower plain Pueblo Abaxo marshes saltpetre brackish [sketch] Tosca Camp [sketch] Tosca camp (lower?) diluvium Colorado diluvium from the Sea Salem salt Pampas Saliferous sandstone low camp High Saliferous Plain Negro [right hand side, map:] Settlement Bahia Blanca False Bay Green bay Brightmans bay suppd Encampment Rio Colorado Union Bay Stone Island Greek Island Approximate scale Latitude 40 Bahia e todos los Santos Deer Island Stag Island Bay of St Blas Pt. Rasa Rio
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(a) The beach all along the N. coast (distance?) of the Bay of Bahia Blanca has rounded quartz pebbles. — ascertain distance These must have come from the Ventana, but previously to Tosca rock bed. — perhaps imbedded in such formation, as M: Hermoso P. Alta now again made free. — (b) This plain I estimate at 200 ft above the swamp; besides a plain of 30 or 40 feet of on which the town stands; the edge of the escarpments showed in many places this appearance which perhaps indicate other plain
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ferruginous base coating, in a bed, the solid rock. — This pudding-stone. was tolerably hard resembled those which now form on coasts, I look at this as the line of a former coast. In this country we first meet with salinas which will presently be described. — From the Ventana to the foot of Bahia Blanca, the plain of Tosca rock is in some most places covered by sandy earth it is traversed by some gentle valleys there are depressions, with no exit from them. — Specimens (1551. 1552) 1551. 1552 are
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? Winds from coast [illeg] of [illeg])5 (See extract from D'Orbigny about salinas salt fresh Bahia Blanca) 1 Aubuisson de Voisins 1819. 2 Parish 1839, pp. 122; 170. 3 Malte-Brun 1822-33, 2: 393-94; 399-400. 4 Pallas 1802-3, 1: 283-84. 5 Salisbury 1807. 2
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find in groups, lived on such two this first upraised land. This generally perhaps is the case, with the superior Tosca, of the northern part of the Tosca formation. In Between R. Negro Bahia Blanca, there is a remarkable sort of valley in which the Colorado flows. Its southern side is the sandstone cliff, where the plain suddenly alters its height. The northern is the ridge capped with Tosca rock, at the foot of which is a low Tosca plain, as on the other side there is a low one of sandstone
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Anon. Tomando tierra en el fondo de la Bahía de San José. (nd) CUL-DAR34.10-11 Transcribed and translated by Austin Whittall and Sergio Zagier (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/). [10] Tomando tierra en el fondo de la Bahía de San José, en la costa patagónica, se encuentran los vestigios de una población, que tuvo allí una sociedad de empresarios en 824. La población está situada sobre las primeras alturas que se encuentran después de desembarcado. Bajando de la población hacia la
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con qué hacer barro. De la población de que he hablado, sale un camino carril, que conduce a lo que los españoles llamaban la Estancia, que está 15 ó 18 millas de la Bahía, sobre una espaciosa salina. En la mitad de la cuesta que es preciso subir, después de haber bajado a la salina, para llegar a la Estancia por el camino más corto, se encuentra un matorral enteramente petrificado, pero que deja distinguir claramente los diferentes arbustos que lo formaban. Esta petrificación, que pesa tres o
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Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Bahia Blanca (appendix). (1833) CUL-DAR32.73-74 Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/) 73 1833 Bahia. Blanca. (appendix. — Having revisited P. Alta, seeing the neighbouring country. my opinion respecting its geology is completely altered (a) — renders superfluous the greater part of the following pages. — The P. Alta bed is not coeval with the great Tosca formation: this is clear from the Tosca, containing shells, from the presence
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wrote in his R.N. or Red notebook Fossil bones black as if from peat. — yet cetaceous bones so likewise [of miocene period]. — Mem Bahia blanca P. 204 Vol III. Lyell
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18 Mention Barnacle above level of [water] at [Repel]. returned Cacique [illeg] in like irreversible passes masses of cellular Porphyry. Mem at Rio. I suspect that Granite heated at bottom of ocean. Was Granite ever covered? Lithomarge [appears] to contain diff fossils. from harder rock to certain extent is it not more Auriferous? Crystals in Lithomarge fractured by admission of water to heated mass. Lithomarge found at mines to the South toward S. Paulo Prince Maximil road to Bahia Dr
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Webster, William Henry Bayley. 1834. Narrative of a voyage to the southern Atlantic Ocean, in the years 1828, 29, 30, performed in H.M. Sloop Chanticleer. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 2.
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] This is very good. ] added pencil. In transporting...Patagonia. ] ink. or plain] added pencil. [107] Mention...Porphyry. ] overwritten by added ink paragraphs 'Mem... to contain'. Mem...road to Bahia] ink. Dr. Forchhammer...Brazil] added ink. [108-9] pages in ink. [110] Is not...strata? ] ink. [111] Mem... c c.] ink. [112] page in ink. In 1692...Cavendish] pencil. [112] page in ink. [114] observed...versa. ] ink. at Guatemala...case] added ink. Do fragment...P 588:] ink. [115] page in ink. [116
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CUL-DAR39.167
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St Julian tuff — pumice tuff — observed by gypsum — very rich in
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Pampas formation = Both certainly contain infusoria = Mud fr Patagonian Bahia Blanca, Pampas, has 3 polygastrica 6 phtolithara which are sweet-water except one, marine, hence [2 words illeg] or perhaps brackish water = Mastodon - tooth 7: Polygastric 13 Phytolitharia ─ 1/2 sweet-water 1/2 sea-beach the former rather preponderant = [South America, p. 111: Under the microscope, according to Prof. Ehrenberg,* it consists of minute, triturated, cellular, glassy fragments of pumice, with some broken
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lower plains about Bahia Blanca stages 90-100 (1) 220 to 255. (2) 330 to 350 per (3) 580 to 590 (4) 710 5 840. (6) 950 (7) other at sea (7 yards) (?) 1200. estimate (9) 8 at least 8. = 52 39 13 60 780 39 52 90 100 250 350 580 710 840 950 P. [Des] St. Cruz 4
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. Desire 330. extending for my count. N. Gen P 330. Falk Land bay 350 S. of new Bay N of S. Julian plain 2 or 300 Plain sort of Coy. 200 to 300. Port Desire 245 to 255. C. Blanco 250. north George 250. S. of New Bay 200 to 220. North of St Joseph plain 200 300. Plains about 220 Rio many 200 at 200. Bahia Blanca 200 to 300. Bird Isd 500 great Plain within 590. 100 ft Plain 90 St Julian Port Desire 100: 100 mile apart All about St. Joseph Bay New Bay. [A leaf of smaller blue paper, pin holes at the
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quantity of white hardish friable Tosca or Lime (54): the whole [nearly] resembling Bahia Blanca of St. Jago Burnt for Lime. Beneath this came a great mass of coarse sand bits of shells vacuities. very poorly cemented together worked as a Freestone (55). rock hard rather brittle: its upper parts contained several Murex1 Venuses, [Odanton] c c 49-52. Which I imagine are of a the recent date = Near to the beach we came to cliffs forming a 1 A genus of marine snail. [page 82
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [143] Pampas Big Animal R. de las Contas Province of Bahia Brazil Caldcleugh I. P 48 Molar tooth 3 pounds Mendoza 4427ft Caldcleugh P. 288. (table of Baura's height in pass Apr:) Mastodon? Tarifa Temple. (St Helens, valle de Ibano Lima; and Ville de Ibano near Truxillo Rankin Hist Researches mandrite Humbold Mastodon in Alluvium near Grande By bones at P. Quito Los Gigantes near Mendoza Mastodon Paraguay Mr Caldcleugh Mastodon in possession of Don
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Darwin, C. R. [1835]. [Extracts from letters addressed to Professor Henslow]. Cambridge: [privately printed].
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not the slightest resemblance to the animal. I took several specimens of an Octopus, which possessed a most marvellous power of changing its colours; equalling any chamelion, and evidently accommodating the changes to the colour of the ground which it passed over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . We then sailed for Bahia, and touched at the rock of St Paul. This is a serpentine formation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . After touching at the Abrothos,1 we arrived here on April
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Darwin, C. R. [1835]. [Extracts from letters addressed to Professor Henslow]. Cambridge: [privately printed].
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I have just returned from a walk, and as a specimen how little the insects are known, Noterus, according to Dic. Class.1 consists solely of three European species. I, in one haul of my net, took five distinct species. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . At Bahia, the pegmatite and gneiss in beds had the same direction as was observed by Humboldt to prevail over Columbia, distant thirteen hundred miles. _____________ MONTE VIDEO, Aug. 15, 1832. MY collection of plants from the Abrothos is
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1835 Jan: P. of Lacuy (20) of St. Carlos. I see at the head of Chevereas creek, there is a small East dip. at a point which is exactly in the strike of strata from P. Tenuy, we have the usual alternations dipping to W 17 N 10 -12. Further on however the strata resemble immense inverted saucers dipping to SW even South. This saucer stratification is somewhat similar to the great spheres mentioned at Bahia in the Brazils. When we consider; the extreme regularity uniform thickness of the layers
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[calculation] 45 [-] 17 [=] 28 Jany. 30th. [1835] Went up the Harbor to the Westward, in a line of the strike of strata from Tenuy Headland, viz S 17 W. We find the same alternations of sandstone slaty clays, which dip exactly to W 17 N 10 or 12 . But further on the perfection of the observation is spoiled by finding inverted saucer shaped stratification (reminding me of Bahia on the coast of Brazil) where the more prominent dip is W 28 S. some even dipping S. = This if anything casts a doubt
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CUL-DAR37.716-795A
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Geological diary: Galapagos Islands [All images collated into a single sequence, together with transcription]
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arched gutters that the both 1 Cerro Tijeretas (Frigatebird hill), Isla San Crist bal (Chatham Island). 2 Southwest end of Bahia Stephens (Stephens Bay) near Punta Bassa, Isla San Crist bal (Chatham Island). 3 Cerro Tijeretas (Frigatebird Hill), Isla San Crist bal (Chatham Island). 759 (13
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online 796 1835 October Appendix to P 212. XXX In La Plata I have only proofs of a very small rise in raised beach of shells those scattered ones which are collected to be burnt for Lime. Brazil At Rio de Janeiro, the flat form of some of the valleys the low land abounding with shells, distant from the sea, in which old trees are growing, have been induced others as well as myself to suspect a small change of level.– At Bahia ( SF Salvador. there is a
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CUL-DAR37.716-795A
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bal (Chatham Island). 0°53.290'S 89°36.487'W 4 Bahia Tortuga de Agua Dulce (Terrapin Road), San Crist bal (Chatham Island). 0°42.150'S, 89°36.417'W N.B. Calc: Tufa] added pencil. 726 (1)v [notes to 727 (2)r] have their No lava in the folds which are now exposed. 727 (2)
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1845 1 Received from Mr Bell In hand of J.E. Gray, 1845. 1061. 1022. [ditto] 1173. 767 Leiolæmus Bibronii 1063. Leiolæmus tenuis 1064. Leiolæmus pictus 1082. [ditto] Busking on Rock in [Montaeus ] Nancagua 449 Leiolæmus Darwinii Bahia Blanca 399 [ditto] Bahia Blanca 387 Leiolæmus wiegmannii Bahia Blanca 421. [ditto 387 - 718] Bahia Blanca Rio Negro 609
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N. South Wales 1353 [do] 1364 Van Diemen's land 146 Bahia Brazil 193 Rio de Janeiro 163 Abrolhos islets, Brazil coast 162 [do] 218 Rio de Janeiro 257 Rio de Janeiro 251 Rio de Janeiro 454 Bahia Blanca Pat: 458 fish!!! M. Video 455 - Bahia Blanca 772 P. Desire Patagonia 992 [illeg] animal!!! 994. Crab !!!! wrong number 951 central Patagonia 950 [do] 760 [illeg] speciemen !!! 766. Port Desire 373 Bahia Blanca
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445 Bahia Blanca 386 do 707 Port Desire 397 Bahia Blanca 1198 Concepcion Chile 461 Monte Video 399 Bahia Blanca 1358 Van Diemen's Land. 1208 Coquimbo Chile 1061.62 - Valparaiso 1194 Copiapo North Chile Iquique Pem 1230 [do] 1453 C. of Good Hope 1305 Chat Id Galapagos 949 Leiolæmus Kingii - Patagonia River S. Cruz 1172 Valparaiso southern Chile 1173 [do] 686 Patagonia 1082. Leiolæmus tenuis Chiloe Archipelago
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Bahia Blanca - South of the Plata - or Northern Plata [in pencil, in Darwin's handwriting] 421. 453. 715. 461 Proctotretus n.s. probably the same as 423 c 423. 672. 399. 387.445 386. Proctotretus n.s. probably the same as 609 c 432 Proctotretus multimaculatus or very near it. also 454. 455. 4
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[This is the start of the second sequence: pp.1-25 In hand of Syms Covington, p. 4-6 In hand of Darwin] 1 1832. Reptiles in Spirits of Wine. 13. Gecko. (Hemidactilus Cuv) 24. Lizard, Porto Praya. 25. Do. 34. Gecko. Red hill do 37. Gecko. with mended tail. Porto Praya. 123. 124. Lizard. Fernando Noronha. Feb. and March 139. Lizard. Bahia Brazil Do. 146. Hyla (Laurenti) shot running up a lofty palm. Bahia. March (is a lizard, Paraguira
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Barlow, Nora ed. 1963. Darwin's ornithological notes. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (7): 201-278. With introduction, notes and appendix by the editor.
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Bahia Blanca. 1455 cop Larus: saffron yellow, base of lower mandible brownish orange, legs yellow. but not so bright as beak. These birds often fly 50 60 miles inland; frequent slaughtering houses; make the same noise, which the common English gulls do. when their breeding places are disturbed. Hab do 1456 cop Falco. Hab do [1833] Rio Negro. Lat 41°: sterile bushy plains 1458 cop Ibis, very common in large flocks in the great swampy plains between Bahia Blanca Buenos Ayres: flight soaring
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Barlow, Nora ed. 1963. Darwin's ornithological notes. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (7): 201-278. With introduction, notes and appendix by the editor.
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Valdivia Feb. 8, 1835 Arrived Bahia, Brazil Feb. 28, 1832 Left ditto Feb. 22, 1835 Left ditto March 18, 1832 Arrived Concepcion (earthquake) March 4, 1835 Arrived Rio de Janeiro April 5, 1832 Left ditto July 5, 1832 Arrived Gallao for Lima July 19, 1835 Arrived Monte Video July 26, 1832 Left ditto Sep. 7, 1835 Left ditto Aug. 19, 1832 Arrived Galapagos Arch. Sep. 16, 1835 Arrived Bahia Blanca Sep. 6, 1832 Left Galapagos Arch. Oct. 20, 1835 Left ditto Oct. 17, 1832 Arrived Tahiti Nov. 15, 1835 Arrived
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. The number size of buff orange marks were slightly different, sometimes more sometimes less than in those of B. Blanca.- 378 Lizard same as (373). 383 Coluber: (Heterodon Cuv?) above dark cream coloured, with symetrical marks of dark brown; beneath with black bright red irregular patches. The first of the maxillary teeth much developed distinct. Mouth very dilatable. - Was caught whilst eating a Lizard. Inhabits the dry sandy plains of Bahia
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FitzRoy, R. 1836. Sketch of the Surveying Voyages of his Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 1825-1836. Commanded by Captains P. P. King, P. Stokes, and R. Fitz-Roy, Royal Navy. Journal of the Geological Society of London 6: 311-343. (Communicated by John Barrow)
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Cove 0 15 55 6 05 47 9 30 Carrying the Chronometric Chain one Place farther Westward, gives for the position of New Zealand Bay of Islands Paihia Islet 35 16 30 11 37 12 Measuring Eastward from Bahia gives the following results: South. West. Brazil. Bahia Fort San Pedro 12 59 20 2 34 03 4 18 E. Ascension Barrack Square 7 55 33 0 57 37 13 30 W. St. Helena Close to high-water mark in the merid. of the Observatory 15 55 15 0 22 51 18 00 East. Cape Simon's Bay East end of Dock Yard 34 11 24 1 13 43
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CUL-DAR39.149-151
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little N. of Cape Frio to mouths of Maranhan are skirted with reefs.— the structure of them without doubt varies much .— north of Bahia from what I saw. I believe it mainly consists of a flat extended recent aggregation of sand pebbles: in the charts on a large scale it is represented in a very different manner (+).— (At Pernambuco describe reef) in mouths of many of the rivers, perfectly similar bars, for there are bars with channels fronting every one.— Even South of Bahia at Porto Seguro, there
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. Bulla. Fistularia. Echiura. Doris, same as 51. 52. 54. 55. Do 104. Bulla Nitidula c: Chiton fine orange colour; Worm same as 58: Caralina same 56: Annelidæ. from Do 107. 2 species of Cresis, V. 19 18 Limacina (Violet) V: 19(a) 116. Patellas (very flat) 125. Lepas (and Crab) St Jago. Feb. or March 127. 128. 129. Caryophyllae and upon them Pyrgoma. St Jago. Do 140. Murex (for dissecting) Bahia. Do Brazil 141. Fissurella and Astrea. Do Do 1 'do' and 'Do' = ditto. This page is in Syms Covington's
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1832 Shells in Spirits of Wine 145. Shells. Crustacea and Fish) Bahia March 155. Atlanta (pinkish shell). Lat 17° 12' S Long 36° 23' W. March 158. Janthina. (Crust. small fish) Lat 18°6′ S 36 6 West March 169. Phasianella. Do Abrolhos 170. Minute Multilocular shell. Do 173 Coronula. on rocks in profusion high water mark. March 29th Abrolhos 187. Land shell. Socêgo. April Rio de Janeiro 188. Fresh water shell Do Do 189. Two species fresh water shell Campos Novos. April Rio 199. Physa. Rio de
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there can be protruded a very long red coloured proboscis, terminal orifice with cartilaginous rim. Very commonly found on the shoals there are several ovules. these are about 1/12th in diameter, rounded, conical, with broader base, semi-transparent, on the summit is a circular lid, which falls. The situation of the ovules or eggs on the shell must be almost necessary, as the animal inhabits extensive sand banks, where there is no hard substance to fix them on. Bahia Blanca. Sept 417. Mya: dug
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. Bahia Blanca 441 Acari from the Puma do 502 do. summit of Kater's peak T. del Fuego 588 Acarus as common Snipes breast back yellowish brown legs, head spot behind head black E. Falkland Isd 635 Acarus swimming on surface of water colour 'art blood R Maldonado. 638 Pediculi very minute curious from head of Certhia (1248) 646 do from Cavia Cobaya Maldonado 658 do from Toco Toco (1267) 758 Common Fleas. St Fe. – La Plata 945 Acari in Ear of Cavia cobaya. Port Desire 1183 do. skin of Lizard 1185
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CUL-DAR39.68-89
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264. Pale grey rather earthy base. (white glass) with numerous elongated acicular crystals is in the Phonolitic very few of glassy Felspar 265. 266. 267. 268. nearly black grey, fine basalt; conch fracture, full of crystals of Olivine Bahia 310 x glittering feldspar do Hornblende obscurely arranged in layers.─ felspar looks scaly.─ highly crystalline.─ 311. do. rather more compact 312. granitic mixture of grains of Q. decomposing F. ferruginous 313. Layers (interrupted) of quartz in red
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1832 Septr Reptiles in Spirits of Wine Bahia Blanca. 434. 435. Lizard (Galactis?) Above liver brown with latero-dorsal pale streak; thighs of hinder legs pale yellow. 439. Trigonocephalus, same as (433) October. 440. Coluber. Belly plates yellowish; dorsal scales with central band greenish, tip black sides pale; back mottled greenish
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; differs from the following one in shape of scales, proportionate length of tail c. 624. Coluber. The commonest species in this country; is not same as taken at Bahia Blanca, reaches to be 3 or 4 feet long. The first maxillary tooth is very large; by aid of microscope I saw a narrow deep groove running down on convex surface. Is it for conveying poison? Specimen of tooth is in pill-box (1320) 631. Rana. Eye very prominent; behind and by the side of them fine
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Barlow, Nora ed. 1963. Darwin's ornithological notes. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (7): 201-278. With introduction, notes and appendix by the editor.
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. On the islets on the Parana I saw many of these compound nests. 1220 In small flocks feeding on the plains, in its flight habits resembling our field-fares: Hops (not walk). in stomach seeds ants. At Bahia Blanca I saw this bird pursuing catching on the wing large coleoptera; iris rich brown, 1221 cop Himantopus, legs rose pink. This bird is very numerous, in small; sometimes in tolerably large flocks. on the great swampy plains fens between the Sierra Ventana B. Ayres. The genus has been
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of feet, base of, some scattered irregular patches, on, the abdomen. The most intense Vermilion Red , back with few scattered spots of buff Orange . - The appearance of the Vermilion colour was as if the animal had crawled over a newly painted board. This toad inhabits the most dry and sandy plains of Bahia Blanca, where there is at present any no appearance of water over lodging. [377 in Darwin's handwriting
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. B. Blanca 427. Lacerta (of different species from 374) - Do. Do. 432 Lizard 433 Trigonocephalus, not uncommon on the sandy plains hillocks of Bahia Blanca: Body above marked with a chain of umber brown patches, the intervals being wood brown . From the triangular nose brightness of the eyes, aspect most fierce hideous. - The pupil of the eye consists of a vertical slot. The iris
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A73
Periodical contribution:
FitzRoy, R. 1836. Sketch of the Surveying Voyages of his Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 1825-1836. Commanded by Captains P. P. King, P. Stokes, and R. Fitz-Roy, Royal Navy. Journal of the Geological Society of London 6: 311-343. (Communicated by John Barrow)
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. Helen, Ascension, Bahia (in Brazil), Pernambuco, Cape Verd Islands, and Azores. At Falmouth the Beagle arrived in the beginning of October; thence she went to Plymouth, Portsmouth, and Greenwich. Directly the rates of her chronometers are ascertained she will go to Woolwich, and there be paid off. Mr. Usborne has returned from Peru by the way of Cape Horn. His little vessel, of only thirty-five tons burthen, was sold at Paita, when done with, for more than her first cost. Having thus attempted to
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CUL-DAR39.149-151
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of coast.─ In these northern parts, where reefs are most abundant, the water shoals very gradually, at the distance 9-10 leagues generally 30-40 fathoms water, but at twice that distance no bottom with 120 fathoms.─ Further South, in front of neighbouring country of Bahia the water is rather deeper at a distance of only 9 leagues somehow no bottom with 120, sometime with it or with 200; yet this geologically is very shoal in a plain 27 miles long, who could appreciate a rise of 1200 ft. The
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FitzRoy, R. and Darwin, C. R. 1836. A letter, containing remarks on the moral state of Tahiti, New Zealand &c. South African Christian Recorder 2 (4) (September): 221-238.
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the expulsion of the Jesuits, were the seats of flourishing establishments of Indians, at the least semi-civilized, increasing, and improving yearly. Yet in how few years had the missionaries effected so much! Southey1 informs us that the first six Jesuits who set foot in the New World, landed at Bahia de todos Santos, in April, 1549. Most distinguished among them was Manoel de Nobrega, the Apostle of Brazil, contemporary of the illustrious Xavier, and his rival in disinterested exertions for the
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