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Herbert, S. ed. 1980. The red notebook of Charles Darwin. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series 7 (24 April): 1-164.
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, 148 Rialeja, 60 (location?) Rio de Janeiro, 16e, 24, 37e, 56e, 65e Rock, Cape (Capo de S o Roque), 16e Salado (R o Salado), 64 Salta, 155, 157e Salvador, See Bahia Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands), 138, 181 Rio San Franciso (Rio S o Francisco do Norte), 16e [page] 164 SANDRA HERBER
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F1583e
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Herbert, S. ed. 1980. The red notebook of Charles Darwin. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series 7 (24 April): 1-164.
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Trade-Winds, Breezes, Storms, Seasons of the Year, Tides and Currents of the Torrid Zone throughout the World: With an Account of Natal in Africk, its Product, Negro's c. [1699] Vol. 3: A Voyage to New Holland, c. In the Year, 1699. Wherein are described, The Canary-Islands, the Isles of Mayo and St. Jago. The Bay of All Saints, with the Forts and Town of Bahia in Brasil. Cape Salvadore. The Winds on the Brasilian Coast. Abrohlo-Shoals. A Table of all the Variations observ'd in this Voyage
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9) We will here group together a few observations on the decomposed granites of Brazil. Rio observations. — Prince. Maximilian.1 at Bahia I believe the chief difference with the decomposed granites of other countries, which I have seen, is its more argillaceous nature, which might well arise. — Alluvium Pennant Spix Martius2 quote the contrariety of opinions. — Examine Eschwege3 interesting formation, curious minerals fractured state, gold, crystallized, diamonds. — great extent. (Pernambuco
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hence do fissure [in ink:] Bahia Brazil Aug: 183
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Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Bahia Brazil. CUL-DAR32.9-14 9 (1 Bahia Brazil Towards the extremity of the point of land, on which stands the city of Bahia in Brazil stands, I observed some rocks, belonging to the grand granitic formation, coated overlaid with a bright glossy coating. — The point where this recurred was where a small fresh-water stream rivulet entered on the sea beach. — The colour of the coating is of a fine rich brown colour which sometimes passes into a black; when seen
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pass under the sands conglomerates, or merely face them. — I believe from what I heard, that the higher land in the neighbourhood, is all constituted of the granite sand such as that of Olinda. — There is an evident connection between this formation the superficial one overlying the gneiss at Bahia. — I do not doubt. but to similar parent rocks occur likewise here, at some distance in the interior. — North of Pernambuco, for the whole space
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felspathic rocks? — With respect to the source of the ferruginous matter at Bahia, I think there can be no doubt it is owing to the percolation of rain water through the bright red clayey soil, which has resulted from the disintegrated gneiss. — ++ Humboldt adds. cementation seems to explain why the crusts augment so little in thickness. 2 1 Humboldt 1819-1829, vol. 5, p. 24. 2 Humboldt 1819-1829, vol. 5, p. 24. 14 vers
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Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Bahia. CUL-DAR32.3-8 Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/) 3 Bahia (1 The granitic rocks consist essentially of gneiss; of this some is coarse grained well characterized, but the 3838 greater part is highly felspathic: frequently by losing its mica quartz gaining Hornblende change colour of feldspar passes into a primitive greenstone. (Pegmatite) See specimens 3841-44 Allude to two kinds of incrustations on rocks of Ascension
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online 367 Bahia Brazil 1836 August Corallina 1463 Spirits 3854:55:56 This species is very common encrusting the smooth surfaces of the granitic rocks in the tidal pools.— Its colour in the under surfaces is rather paler than that of Corallina officinalis, but generally it is cream-coloured, with a tinge of flesh-red.— The extremities of the short rigid branches (in 1463) are either rounded white or acuminated into a cone. In this latter case the summit is
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Bahia Brazil Corallina microscope they are seen to consist of an envelope containing full of a pale brown granular matter. The envelope has a necklace form, owing to three ring-like contractions, partially dividing the little cylinder into four beads.— [sketch] These contractions do not appear to form true articulations, for they are far from separating the internal granular matter:— At the lower end, the terminal arti lobe has a point or navel of attached flocculent granular matter: the
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(6 The whole neighbouring country around Bahia, when viewed from a distance appears like a very level plain of about 300 ft elevation. At a few points near the sea beach, a level terrace of about 20 ft height may traced. The plain declines a little towards the sea, but is every where terminated by a steep wooded cliff: — The whole country moreover is intersected by very numerous, winding flat-bottomed valleys, which although not absolutely wide, are so when compared to the water small size of
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(3 Bahia. Brazil dark grey calcareous varnish at Ascension. From this analogy Must we believe that the ferruginous matter is deposited at times when the rocks are protected by an accidental covering of sand or shingle, or merely at the intervals of low water? — I rather incline to the former of these supposition because in one spot a patch of conglomerate still adhered to one side of a burnished point. — But Again how does the mechanical action of the surf aggregate consolidate into so hard a
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5 Bahia waters acquire great swiftness strike with force against the rocks of the banks 1 Humboldt also adds states that all these phenomena of coloration have hitherto appeared in the torrid zone only, in rivers that have periodical overflowings 2 in the Orinoca. the layer is said to occur in the parts periodically washed by the waters. — It In my case the it is easy to believe that the tidal action corresponds to the periodical overflowings. the action of the surf. to that of a rapid or a
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Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Brazil coast. [1836] CUL-DAR32.1-2 Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/) 1 Brazil coast (32.(1)) Baron. Roussin. 1 The coast N. of St Thomas (60 miles N. of C. Frio) is all low as compared to the part extending to St. Catherines mention general soundings. I have mentioned Proceedings northwards from Bahia the coast is generally low. — I have mentioned shells in Limestone at R. S. Francisco. — At Alagoas. There is no hard rock, so
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Darwin, C. R. [Beagle field notes] 'Bahia Brazil Aug: 1836' CUL-DAR38.954-956 Transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker. (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/). [954] dip dip dip [illeg] by N N by E SE by S NE by E SE by E ++ NE by N ++ [illeg] by W NE by N NW + NE + SE by E + NE by N + [illeg] E NE NW NE SW SE [illeg] by E NE by W W N W by N + N by E + ( [illeg] N.) N SE + NE + SW by W SE by S E NW NE NW by W NE by N [illeg] first Fort Between do fort light house. Between
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G. J. Malcolmson has described formation of shore of Coromandel. just same as. at Bahia Blanca — letter in drawer with important letters — 147
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[page excised, now in CUL-DAR42.157] Some of the Tosca nodules at Bahia Blanca Mr Malcolmson says are like Kankaer South Part of Luconia — Phillipines there is volcano on isld in large lake. — Berghaus Chart of do 143
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؟ Do not the Penguins replace the Auk Guillemots of the northern hemisphere, the Puffinuria the auks. — What structure do the auks bear trace of. — like Puffinuria does of Petrel? Study Birds of Europe for other representatives of this class. Pyrocephalus many Tyrannulae — replace warblers of Europe Study profoundly shells of Bahia Blanca Southern Hemisphere [97v
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[page excised, now in CUL-DAR42.115] The number of minute turbos in red earth with volutas. prove regular mud bank at Bahia Blanca. fl Flustra identical. recent bone bed. — November 8th 1877 (Memoranda so far distributed to various subjects) 34
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Krauss on Corallines from S. Sea, written in German. — Stuttgart. ranks these bodies amongst vegetables in Linn. Soc. — Mr Donn Carmichael Linn. Transact. Vol XII. p. 496. Birds at Tristan d'Acunha. — (Turdus Guayanensis ?) Emberiza Brasiliensis (?) Fulica Chloropus. says some of the species of smaller petrels are night birds agree with [word deleted] nocturnal habits of Crustacea. Mr Broderip says that Voluta found in not less than 7 fathoms water Mem Bahia Blanca De la Beche theoretical
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A307
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Waterhouse, George R. 1837. Notes on a collection of the genus Mus presented to the Society by Charles Darwin. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (14 February): 15-22.
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ab apice rostri ad marginem oculi. 0 6 ab apice rostri ad basin auris . 1 0 tarsi digitorumque 0 10 auris 0 6 H c species statur muri musculo appropinquat. Vellus in gul usque ad radicem album, in abdomine pallid cinereum ad basin. Hab. Bahia Blanca. MUS GRACILIPES. M. supr fuscus flavo-lavatus; hoc colore apud latera et in artubus l tiore; pilis pone aurem utramque, labiis, corporeque subt s, albis: pedibus parvulis, gracilibus, carneis, supra et ad calcem pilis albis tectis: caud gracili
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F1646
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Darwin, C. R. 1837. A sketch of the deposits containing extinct Mammalia in the neighbourhood of the Plata. [Read 3 May] Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 2: 542-544.
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rivers now hollowing out courses for themselves, have exposed, in many places, the skeletons of those ancient inhabitants of the neighbouring land. Mr. Darwin then briefly alluded to a small formation of mud and shingle at Bahia Blanca, some hundred miles south of the Plata, in which the remains of several extinct quadrupeds have been discovered. Amongst these he enumerated the Megatherium Cuvieri, the remains perhaps of a smaller species of Megatherium; a quadruped closely allied to the
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A156
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Waterhouse, G. R. 1837. Descriptions of some new species of exotic insects. [Read 5 December 1836]. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 2: 188-196, pl. XVII.
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tribe; viewed from above it resembles a species of Mordella. It has literally elytra or wing-cases, although they are not analogous to the members so called in Coleopterous insects. From Bahia. Plate XVII. Fig. 3. The insect seen from above ; 3 a, ditto seen sideways; 3 b, front of head and thorax; 3 d, fore-wing; 3 e, antenna
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A697
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Martin, W. 1837. Observations on three specimens of the genus Felis presented to the Society by Charles Darwin, Esq., Corr. Memb. Z. S. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 5: 3-4.
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greater size of the head. The second was the Chat Pampa of Azara, Felis Pajeros of Desmarest, shot at Bahia Blanca in latitude 33. The third and most interesting specimen, which had been shot at Buenos Ayres, Mr. Martin was disposed to consider as the Yagourondi or a closely allied species, since it agrees with that animal in its elongate form, stout limbs and small head, but differs from it in the greater proportionate length of tail, and also in its entire dimensions, as recorded by Desmarest
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A307
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Waterhouse, George R. 1837. Notes on a collection of the genus Mus presented to the Society by Charles Darwin. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (14 February): 15-22.
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skins of birds, and the skin of an alligator of large size, which have been received. At the request of the Chairman, Mr. Waterhouse brought under the notice of the Meeting numerous species of the genus Mus, forming part of the collection presented to this Society by Charles Darwin, Esq., a Corresponding Member. The specimens placed on the table had been collected at various parts of the Southern Coast of South America, viz. Coquimbo, Valparaiso, Port Desire, Maldonado, Bahia Blanca, c. Most of
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Darwin, C. R. 1837. [Notes on Rhea americana and Rhea darwinii]. [Read 14 March] Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 5: 35-36.
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crossing the Santa Cruz river, where its course was about 400 yards wide and the stream rapid. They make but slow progress, their necks are extended slightly forwards, but little of the body appears above water. At Bahia Blanca, in the months of October and September, an extraordinary number of eggs are found all over the country. The eggs either lie scattered about, or are collected together in a shallow excavation or nest; in the former case they are never hatched, and are termed by the
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A137
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Owen, R. 1838. Description d'une machoire inferieure et de dents de Toxodon trouvées à Bahia-Blanca, à 39° de latitude sur la cote Est de l'Amerique méridionale. Annales des Sciences Naturelles (Ser 2) (Zoologie) 2: 45-54, pls. 2-3.
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Owen, R. 1838. Description d'une machoire inferieure et de dents de Toxodon trouvées à Bahia-Blanca, à 39° de latitude sur la cote Est de l'Amerique méridionale. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, second series (Zoologie) 2: 45-54, pls. 2-3. [page] 45 DESCRIPTION d'une m choire inf rieure et de dents de Toxodon touv es Bahia-Blanca, 39 , de latitude sur la c te Est de l' Am rique m ridionale, Par M. OWEN. Comme j'examinais quelques fragmens de m choires et de dents faisant partie de la
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A134
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Owen, R. 1838. Beschreibung eines zu Bahia Blanca, unter 39° Breite auf der Ostküste des südlichen America's, gefundenen Unterkiefers und Zähne von Toxodon. Neue Notizen aus dem Gebiete der Natur- und Heilkunde 8 (174): 308-312.
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Owen, R. 1838. Beschreibung eines zu Bahia Blanca, unter 39° Breite auf der Ostküste des südlichen America's, gefundenen Unterkiefers und Zähne von Toxodon. Neue Notizen aus dem Gebiete der Natur- und Heilkunde 8 (174): 308-312. [page] 308 Beschreibung eines zu Bahia Blanca, unter 39° Breite auf der Ostküste des südlichen America's, gefundenen Unterkiefers und Zähne vom Toxodon. Von Owen. Als ich einige Kieferfragmente und Zähne untersuchte, welche zu einer, den Hrn. Darwin mitgebrachten
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Darwin, C. R. ed. 1838. Fossil Mammalia Part 1 no. 1 of The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. By Richard Owen. Edited and superintended by Charles Darwin. London: Smith Elder and Co. Includes by Darwin: Preface pp. [i]-iv and Geological introduction (pp. 3-12).
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Mr. G. Sowerby, who has been good enough to examine the shells which were found with the remains of the quadrupeds, has given me the following list. 1. Voluta angulata. 2. -------- colocynthis. 3. Oliva Brasiliensis. 4. ------- Nearly related to O. patula, but specimen imperfect. 5. ------- Nearly related to O. oryza; less nearly to small species now living at Bahia Blanca. 6. ------- Nov. spec. 7. Buccinum cochlidium. 8. ------------ globulosum. 9. ------------ One or two minute species
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Darwin, C. R. ed. 1838. Fossil Mammalia Part 1 no. 1 of The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. By Richard Owen. Edited and superintended by Charles Darwin. London: Smith Elder and Co. Includes by Darwin: Preface pp. [i]-iv and Geological introduction (pp. 3-12).
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safety, conclude, that the earthy matter, forming the surface of this lower one, together with its embedded skeleton, was deposited long after the existence of the present species, still inhabitants of the sea. According, therefore, to the chronology, taken from the duration of species among the molluscs, the fossil quadruped of Port St. Julian must have been coeval, or nearly so, with those from Bahia Blanca. Having now briefly described the principal circumstances in the geology of the three
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Darwin, C. R. ed. 1838. Mammalia Part 2 no. 2 of The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. By George R. Waterhouse. Edited and superintended by Charles Darwin. London: Smith Elder and Co.
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. . 13 0 of tail (fur included) . . 11 0 Habitat, Santa Cruz, Patagonia, (April,) and Bahia Blanca, (August.) The markings in this animal vary slightly in intensity; those on the body are generally indistinct, but the black rings on the legs are always very conspicuous. This animal takes its name from ‘paja,' the Spanish word for straw, from its habit of frequenting reeds. It is common over the whole of the great plains, which compose the eastern side of the southern part of America. According to
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Darwin, C. R. ed. 1838. Mammalia Part 2 no. 2 of The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. By George R. Waterhouse. Edited and superintended by Charles Darwin. London: Smith Elder and Co.
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the great posterior snag. The Spaniards say they can distinguish how old a deer is by the number of the branches on the horns. They affirmed that the specimen, of which figure 4 represents one of the horns, was nine years old. It certainly was a very old one, as all its teeth were decayed. This specimen was killed at Maldonado, in the middle of June; another specimen was killed at Bahia Blanca, (about three hundred and sixty miles southward,) in the month of October, with the hairy skin on the
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A37
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Walker, F. 1838. Descriptions of some Chalcidites discovered by C. Darwin, Esq. Entomogical Magazine. 5: 469-477.
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genua nigra; tarsi fulvi: al limpid nevi fulvi, basi flavi; stigma fuscum. (Corp. long. lin. 2 ; alar. lin. 4 .) August; Bahia, Brazil. Fem. Corpus convexum, pubescens, scite punctatum, parum nitens: caput transversum, breve, thorace vix angustius: oculi mediocres, subovati: ocelli vertice triangulum fingentes: antenn 13-articulat , pubescentes, fere filiformes; articulus 1us. gracilis, linearis; 2us. cyathiformis; 3us. et 4us. minimi; 5us. et sequentes ad 10um. lineares, approximati, sub
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Darwin, C. R. ed. 1838. Fossil Mammalia Part 1 no. 1 of The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. By Richard Owen. Edited and superintended by Charles Darwin. London: Smith Elder and Co. Includes by Darwin: Preface pp. [i]-iv and Geological introduction (pp. 3-12).
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the Plata; Bahia Blanca situated near the confines of Northern Patagonia; and Southern Patagonia. The first division includes an enormous area, abounding with the remains of large animals. To the eastward and southward of the great streams, which unite to form the estuary of the Plata, those almost boundless plains extend, which are known by the name of the Pampas. Their physical constitution does not vary over a wide extent; the traveller may pass for many hundred miles on a level surface
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Darwin, C. R. ed. 1838. Mammalia Part 2 no. 1 of The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. By George R. Waterhouse. Includes by Darwin: Geographical introduction (pp. i-v) and A notice of their habits and ranges. Edited and superintended by Charles Darwin. London: Smith Elder and Co.
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Expansion of the wings . . . 16 8 ear . . . . . 0 8½ This bat was caught at Bahia, (latitude 13° S.) on the coast of Brazil, in consequence of its having flown into a room where there was a light. I scarcely ever saw an animal so tenacious of life. D. FAMILY VESPERTILIONIDÆ. VESPERTILIO CHILOENSIS. PLATE III. V. fuscus: auribus mediocribus; trago elongato, angusto, apicem versus attenuato; fronte concavo; rostro obtuso; caudâ ad apicem extremum liberâ. DESCRIPTION. In size and colouring, this Bat very
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A180
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Darwin, C. R. 1838. Sur trois espèce du genre Felis. L'Institut 6 (235): 210-211.
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Darwin, C. R. 1838. Sur trois espèce du genre Felis. [page] 210 ZOOLOGIE: Chats. — M. Martin appelle l'attention de la Société sur trois individus du genre Felis, récemment offerts à la Société par M. Ch. Darwin. L'un de ces animaux paraît être un Chat de la race domestique, tué à l'état sauvage à Maldonado, et qui ne diffère de notre Chat ordinaire que par l'allongement et la plus grande dimension de sa tête. Le second est le Chat Pampa de d'Azara (Felis Pajeros de Desmarets), pris à Bahia
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F3413
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Darwin, C. R. 1972. [Letters to Charles Lyell]. In Wilson, Leonard G., Charles Lyell: the years to 1841: the revolution in geology. New Haven and London.
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see. I had a most interesting morning with Owen (who is gone to rest for a month in the N. of England) at the Coll. of Surgeons. We made out the rems. of 11 or 12 great animals, besides these some rodents, one of wh. is a distinct species, but most strictly S. American genus. At Bahia Blanca there were no less than five great Edentata! What could these monsters have fed upon. I am well convinced like the present Armadillos they lived on land nearly desert. I have worked out the non-relation of
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Darwin, C. R. ed. 1838. Fossil Mammalia Part 1 no. 1 of The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. By Richard Owen. Edited and superintended by Charles Darwin. London: Smith Elder and Co. Includes by Darwin: Preface pp. [i]-iv and Geological introduction (pp. 3-12).
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nearly all, its present inhabitants. Bahia Blanca, situated in latitude 39°, and about 250 miles south of the Plata, constitutes the second district, in which I found the remains of quadrupeds. This large bay is nearly surrounded by very low land, on which successive lines of sand dunes mark in many parts the retreat of the water. At some distance inland a formation of highly indurated marl, passing into limestone, forms an escarpment. Beyond this, rocks of the same character extend over a wide
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Darwin, C. R. ed. 1838. Fossil Mammalia Part 1 no. 1 of The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. By Richard Owen. Edited and superintended by Charles Darwin. London: Smith Elder and Co. Includes by Darwin: Preface pp. [i]-iv and Geological introduction (pp. 3-12).
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great formation. Nevertheless, the gravel bed of Bahia Blanca, although subsequent to the calcareous formation, may be of the same age with those parts of the Pampas, which stand at a low level near the Plata. For on this whole line of coast, I believe, as the land has continued rising, fresh littoral deposits have been formed; and each of these would often owe part of its materials to the degradation of the one last elevated. With respect to the relative age of the Monte Hermoso and Punta Alta
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Darwin, C. R. ed. 1838. Fossil Mammalia Part 1 no. 1 of The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. By Richard Owen. Edited and superintended by Charles Darwin. London: Smith Elder and Co. Includes by Darwin: Preface pp. [i]-iv and Geological introduction (pp. 3-12).
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wide and level plains; and the shoals of the ancient Bahia Blanca now form low headlands on the present coast. The third locality, which I have to specify, is Port St. Julian, in latitude 49° 15' on the coast of Southern Patagonia. The tertiary plains of that country are modelled into a succession of broad and level terraces, which abut one above the other; and where they approach the coast, are generally cut off by a line of precipitous cliff. The whole surface is thickly covered by a bed of
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Darwin, C. R. ed. 1838. Fossil Mammalia Part 1 no. 1 of The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. By Richard Owen. Edited and superintended by Charles Darwin. London: Smith Elder and Co. Includes by Darwin: Preface pp. [i]-iv and Geological introduction (pp. 3-12).
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... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DESCRIPTION OF FRAGMENTS OF A LOWER JAW AND TEETH OF A TOXODON. Found at Bahia Blanca, in latitude 39° on the East coast of South America. IN looking over some fragments of jaws and teeth, forming part of Mr. Darwin's collection of South American mammiferous remains, and which had been set aside with mutilated specimens referrible to species belonging to the family of Edentata, my attention was caught by the appearance of roots of teeth projecting, in a different direction
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Darwin, C. R. ed. 1838. Mammalia Part 2 no. 1 of The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. By George R. Waterhouse. Includes by Darwin: Geographical introduction (pp. i-v) and A notice of their habits and ranges. Edited and superintended by Charles Darwin. London: Smith Elder and Co.
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country assumes a brown and parched appearance. BAHIA BLANCA forms a large bay, in latitude 39° S. on a part of the coast, which falls within the territory of the province of Buenos Ayres, but which from its physical conditions would more properly be classed with Patagonia. The tertiary plains of PATAGONIA, extend from the Strait of Magellan to the Rio Negro, which is commonly assumed as their Northern boundary. This space of more than seven hundred miles in length, and in breadth reaching from
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Darwin, C. R. ed. 1838. Mammalia Part 2 no. 1 of The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. By George R. Waterhouse. Includes by Darwin: Geographical introduction (pp. i-v) and A notice of their habits and ranges. Edited and superintended by Charles Darwin. London: Smith Elder and Co.
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-leaf . . . . 0 3½ thumb (claw included) . . 0 5½ Expanse of the wings . . . . 10 0 tibia . . . . . 0 7 Habitat, Pernambuco, Brazil. (August.) This species appeared to be common at Pernambuco (five degrees north of Bahia). Upon entering an old lime-kiln in the middle of the day, I disturbed a considerable number of them: they did not seem to be much incommoded by the light, and their habitation was much less dark than that usually frequented as a sleeping place by these animals. D. I have named
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Darwin, C. R. ed. 1838. Birds Part 3 no. 1 of The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. by John Gould. Edited and superintended by Charles Darwin. London: Smith Elder and Co.
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these vultures, although common on the northern bank of the Plata, and likewise on the rivers south of it, are not found in the neighbourhood of Buenos Ayres, where the immense slaughtering establishments are attended by infinite numbers of Polybori and gulls. M. D'Orbigny supposes that their absence is owing to the scarcity of trees and bushes in the Pampas; but this view, I think, will hardly hold good, inasmuch as the country near Bahia Blanca, where the Gallinazo (together with the carrion
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Darwin, C. R. ed. 1838. Mammalia Part 2 no. 2 of The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. By George R. Waterhouse. Edited and superintended by Charles Darwin. London: Smith Elder and Co.
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that of Copiapó, where there is no fresh water, and where, with the exception of some small rodents, (the constant inhabitants of sterile regions) scarcely any other animal could exist. I saw also very many of these foxes wandering about by day (although Azara says they are nocturnal in Paraguay) on the plains of Santa Cruz, where various kinds of mice are abundant, and likewise around the Sierra Ventana. In the course of one day's ride in this latter neighbourhood, (not far from Bahia Blanca
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Darwin, C. R. ed. 1838. Mammalia Part 2 no. 2 of The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. By George R. Waterhouse. Edited and superintended by Charles Darwin. London: Smith Elder and Co.
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hides deeply scored. Herds appear sometimes to set out on exploring parties: at Bahia Blanca, where within thirty miles of the coast these animals are extremely scarce, I one day saw the tracks of thirty or forty, which had come in a direct line to a muddy salt water creek. They then must have perceived, that they were approaching the sea, for they had wheeled with the regularity of cavalry, and had returned back in as straight a line, as they had advanced. The Guanacoes have one singular
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Darwin, C. R. ed. 1838. Mammalia Part 2 no. 3 of The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. By George R. Waterhouse. Edited and superintended by Charles Darwin. London: Smith Elder and Co.
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the tubercles (which are as in Mus Musculus), however, are naked. The hairs of the moustaches are of moderate length, and of a blackish colour, some of them, however, are grayish white. In. Lines. In. Lines. Length from nose to root of tail . . 2 10 Length from nose to ear . . . 0 8¼ of tail . . . . . 1 7 of tarsus (claws included) . . 0 6½ from nose to eye . . . 0 41/3 of ear . . . . . 0 4¼ Habitat, Bahia Blanca, (September.) This species slightly exceeds the harvest mouse (Mus messorius) in size
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Darwin, C. R. ed. 1838. Mammalia Part 2 no. 3 of The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. By George R. Waterhouse. Edited and superintended by Charles Darwin. London: Smith Elder and Co.
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In. Lines. In. Lines. Length from nose to root of tail . . 3 7 Length of tarsus . . . . 0 10 of tail . . . . . 3 9 of ear . . . . . 0 6 from nose to ear . . . 1 0 Habitat, Bahia Blanca, (September.) Upon comparing the skull (Pl. 34, fig. 2, a.) of M. elegans with that of M. Musculus, the most evident points of distinction consist in the greater proportionate length of the nasal and frontal bones, and the slenderness of the zygomatic arch in the former animal. Length of skull 11 lines, width 6
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FitzRoy, R. 1839. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe. Proceedings of the second expedition, 1831-36, under the command of Captain Robert Fitz-Roy, R.N. London: Henry Colburn.
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[SAN SALVADOR. BAHIA
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FitzRoy, R. 1839. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe. Proceedings of the second expedition, 1831-36, under the command of Captain Robert Fitz-Roy, R.N. London: Henry Colburn.
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A. Earle. T. A. Prior. SAN SALVADOR, BAHIA. Published by Henry Colburn, Great Marlborough Street, 1838. [page break
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