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F59    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1890. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle etc. London: John Murray. First Murray illustrated edition.   Text   Image   PDF
, blindness of, 53 Protococcus nivalis, 345 Pteroptochos, two species of, 288 species of, 297, 307 Puente del Inca, 356, 380 Puffinuria Berardii, 309 Puffinus cinereus, 309 Puma, habits of, 144, 193, 287 flesh of, 122 Puna, or short respiration, 344 Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca, 83 Gorda, 136, 380 Huantam , 317 Pyrophorus luminosus, 32 QUADRUPEDS, fossil, 83, 136, 141, 164, 182 large, do not require luxuriant vegetation, 89 weight of, 91 Quartz of the Ventana, 122 of Tapalguen, 122 of Falkland Island
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F59    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1890. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle etc. London: John Murray. First Murray illustrated edition.   Text   Image   PDF
himself in the list of American travellers second only to Humboldt. H [page] 98 BAHIA BLANC
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F59    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1890. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle etc. London: John Murray. First Murray illustrated edition.   Text   Image   PDF
this is a mistake. Captain Head referred to the plant which I have mentioned a few lines lower down under the title of giant thistle. Whether it is a true thistle, I do not know; but it is quite different from the cardoon; and more like a thistle properly so called. [page] 126 BAHIA BLANCA TO BUENOS AYRE
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F59    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1890. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle etc. London: John Murray. First Murray illustrated edition.   Text   Image   PDF
, 525 on phosphorescence of the sea, 172 on noises from a hill, 385 Eimeo, island of, 432; barrier-reef, 433 Elater, springing powers of, 32 Electricity of atmosphere within Andes, 348 Elephant, weight of, 91 Elevated shells, 89, 136, 180, 266, 313, 331, 367, 393 Elevation of coasts of Chile, 266, 313, 323, 331, 355, 367, 381 Bahia Blanca, 87 Pampas, 137 Patagonia, 180, 395 mountain-chains, 333 Cordillera, 338, 343, 354 Peru, 393 within human period, 395 fringing-reefs, 508 Entomology of the
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F59    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1890. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle etc. London: John Murray. First Murray illustrated edition.   Text   Image   PDF
., on floating islands, 283 on shells in brackish water, 22 Geese at the Falkland Islands, 210 Geographical distribution of American animals, 138, 349 of frogs, 407 of fauna of Galapagos, 419 Geology of Cordillera, 341, 355 of St. Jago, 6 of St. Paul, 8 of Brazil, 12 of Bahia Blanca, 86 of Pampas, 136 of Patagonia, 180, 190 Georgia, climate of, 263 Geospiza, 405, 420 Gill, Mr., on an upheaved river-bed, 382 Gillies, Dr., on the Cordillera, 345 Glaciers in Tierra del Fuego, 237, 260, 261 in lat
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A268    Book:     Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons.   Text   Image   PDF
[page] Tame Indians at Bahia Blanca. 5
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A268    Book:     Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons.   Text   Image   PDF
CHAPTER IV. IN SOUTHERN SEAS. The Log-Book—Bahia—Singular Appearance of the Water—The Vampire Bat—Slavery—Trips into the Country—Rare Collections—In the Brazilian Forest—Shooting Monkeys—The Click of a Butterfly—Jumping Spiders—Electrical Displays— The Plata. THE sea life of our young hero was a time of continued activity. Every moment when not completely incapacitated by sea-sickness was devoted to his studies, and to the natural history log-book which he was keeping. From the stern of the
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A268    Book:     Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons.   Text   Image   PDF
CHAPTER IV. PAGE IN SOUTHERN SEAS 31 The Log-Book—Bahia—Singular Appearance of the Water —The Vampire Bat—Slavery—Trips into the Country—-Rare Collections—In the Brazilian Forest—Shooting Monkeys—The Click of a Butterfly—Jumping Spiders—Electrical Displays—The Plata. CHAPTER V. IN THE LAND OF THE SACRED TREE 47 The Rio Negro—Trips into the Interior—The Sacred Tree —Superstition of Natives—Salt Lakes—Bahia Blanca—A Tomb of Giants—The Mylodon Darwinii—The Armadillo —Hibernation—Careful Work—War
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A268    Book:     Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons.   Text   Image   PDF
Armadillo, 49 Callao, 103 Cape Horn, 70 Ascenium, 121 Cape of Good Hope, 128 Aspalax, 44 Cape Verde Islands, 22 Atavism, 181 Capybara, 43 Atlantic cable. Atoll, 117 Cattle, peculiar breed of, 67 Azara, 45, 65 Chacao, 87 Azores, 122 Chamisso, 114 B Charles Island, 111 Bahia, 28 Chatham, 107 Bahia Blanca, 104 Chile, 37 Baker, Frank, 195, 250 Chiloe, 37 Banda Oriental, 104 Chonos Archipelago, 87 Bastile 170 Cirripedia, 264 Beagle, 5, 19, 263 Cocoa-nut, 115 Beagle Inlet, 80 Colorado River, 4 Conception, 90
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F1461    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF
, especially the geology. I have written this much in order to save time at Bahia. Decidedly the most striking thing in the Tropics is the novelty of the vegetable forms. Cocoa-nuts could well be imagined from drawings, if you add to them a graceful lightness which no European tree partakes of. Bananas and plantains are exactly the same as those in hothouses, the acacias or tamarinds are striking from the blueness of their foliage; but of the glorious orange trees, no description, no drawings
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A268    Book:     Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons.   Text   Image   PDF
CHAPTER V. IN THE LAND OF THE SACRED TREE. The Rio Negro—Trips into the Interior—The Sacred Tree—Superstition of Natives—Salt Lakes—Bahia Blanca—A Tomb of Giants—The Mylodon Darwinii—The Armadillo—Hibernation —Careful Work—War—General Rosas—Brutal Natives—Skilled Equestrians. FROM Maldonado the Beagle sailed south, arriving at the mouth of the Rio Negro in August, 1833. Here Darwin found a newer and more interesting field for work, and applied himself assiduously to the investigation of the
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A268    Book:     Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons.   Text   Image   PDF
and his notes on this one point were voluminous. When frost came at Bahia Blanca, few small animals were to be found except by digging, the lizards and insects having taken to the earth. Later they reappeared, and we here have an interesting example of the care and thoroughness which Darwin gave to all his work. In his log-book he writes: During the first eleven days, whilst nature was dormant, the mean temperature, taken from observations made every two hours on board the Beagle, was 51°; and
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F1461    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF
does not kill himself, he will during this voyage do a wonderful quantity of work. . . . February 26th. About 280 miles from Bahia. We have been singularly unlucky in not meeting with any homeward-bound vessels, but I suppose [at] Bahia we certainly shall be able to write to England. Since writing the first part of [this] letter nothing has occurred except crossing the Equator, and being shaved. This most disagreeable operation, consists in having your face rubbed with paint and tar, which forms a
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A268    Book:     Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons.   Text   Image   PDF
into a sail full of water, having as a consolation the reflection that he was but one of many predecessors. On the last day of February the Beagle made Bahia, where Darwin for the first time found himself in a purely Southern country with a wealth of tropical verdure on every hand. The ocean teemed with animal life, new and striking to his eye, while it was but a step into the tropical forest, where vegetation ran wild and flourished with a rank exuberance that he had never dreamed of. In his
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A268    Book:     Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons.   Text   Image   PDF
Bahia, was Rio de Janeiro, and while here Darwin went on an extended trip into the interior, going over ground which no naturalist of his attainments had passed before. The country was rich in promise, and, being made up of forest and clearing and abounding in lakes and streams, specimens were everywhere found. The birds engaged his attention, especially the white cranes and egrets, while in the forests he was particularly attracted by the luxuriant vegetation and the wonderful and beautiful
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A268    Book:     Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons.   Text   Image   PDF
, waiting until the latter had disappeared, to help themselves to such articles as possessed any value. The young naturalist here first encountered the agouti, and he notes it as a singular fact that, while in 1670 the animal was found much farther to the south, it now occupied a restricted area. From Bahia Blanca, which was reached in the latter part of August, Darwin travelled overland to Buenos Ayres. The former was one of the most interesting localities he had visited, as here he discovered a
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A268    Book:     Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons.   Text   Image   PDF
account of its habits. As we have seen in a previous chapter, he followed it on horseback, racing with the huge bird in sport, watching it at once with the eye of a naturalist and sportsman. The rhea he found, though living upon grasses and tender roots, by no means confined itself to this diet, as one day while lying in concealment at Bahia Blanca he saw a number come down to the mud flats and feed there, obtaining, according to the Gauchos, small fish; and that they take to the water readily he
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A268    Book:     Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons.   Text   Image   PDF
of the cock ostrich. Darwin found bird-nesting for ostrich eggs an easy task, the nests being very plentiful everywhere at Bahia Blanca in the months of September and October. Four nests were found to contain twenty-two eggs, while another bore twenty-seven. The egg-hunting was followed on horseback, and one day Darwin almost ran over a cock sitting on a nest. The Gauchos informed him that at times the males were exceedingly fierce, attacking all intruders, leaping at them much after the fashion
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A268    Book:     Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons.   Text   Image   PDF
numerous full-grown shells and beetles, which must have been lying dormant. Humboldt has related the strange accident of a hovel having been erected over a spot where a young crocodile lay buried in the hardened mud. He adds, 'The Indians often find enormous boas, which they call Uji, or water serpents, in the same lethargic state. To reanimate them, they must be irritated or wetted with water. While waiting for the Beagle at Bahia Blanca, Darwin witnessed some of the incidents of a war which was
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A268    Book:     Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons.   Text   Image   PDF
interested me, and I took scrupulous care in ascertaining that it had been embedded contemporaneously with the other remains, for I was not then aware that amongst the fossils from Bahia Blanca there was a horse's tooth hidden in the matrix, nor was it then known with certainty that the remains of horses are common in South America. Mr. Lyell has lately brought from the United States a tooth of a horse, and it is an interesting fact that Professor Owen could find, in no species, either fossil or
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A268    Book:     Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons.   Text   Image   PDF
possessed, besides hollow-horned ruminants, the elephant, mastodon, horse, and three genera of Edentata. Within nearly this same period (as proved by the shells at Bahia Blanca) South America possessed a mastodon, horse, hollow-horned ruminant, and the same three genera of Edentata. Hence it is evident that North and South America, in having within a late geological period these several genera in common, were much more closely related in the character of their terrestrial inhabitants than they
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A268    Book:     Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons.   Text   Image   PDF
coast is some way distant from the Cordillera, the rising there may have been slower than here. At Bahia Blanca, the elevation has been only a few feet since the numerous gigantic quadrupeds were there entombed; and, according to the generally received opinion, when these extinct animals were living man did not exist. But the rising of that part of the coast of Patagonia is perhaps noways connected with the Cordillera, but rather with a line of old volcanic rocks in Banda Oriental, so that it
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A268    Book:     Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons.   Text   Image   PDF
introduced In 1502, and in 1724 it is said the old trees had mostly fallen. There can be but little doubt that this great change in the vegetation affected not only the land-shells, causing eight species to become extinct, but likewise a multitude of insects. From St. Helena the Beagle made Ascencion, a volcanic island, where was found an interesting geological field, and from here bore away for Bahia again, to complete the chronometrical measurement of the world, around which she had passed. On the way
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CUL-DAR107.11-18    Draft:    1892   [Reminiscences of Mr Darwin on the Beagle] Darwin on the Beagle]   Text   Image
The Beagle's Voyage by P.G. King Castro. It was on this occasion that Mr Darwin remarked upon the great hospitality shown by parsons to visitors from whom they expect no return and with whom they may never again have any intercourse. The following event is still fresh as ever in the memory of the writer. It was necessary to erect a beacon as a guide to vessels making for Bahia Blanca South of the Entrance to the River Plata. The Beagle anchored some distance from that bar bound Bay on the open
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F1461    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF
, for I positively suffer more from sea-sickness now than three years ago. C.D. to R. W. Darwin. Bahia, or San Salvador, Brazil. [February 8, 1832.] I find after the first page I have been writing to my sisters. MY DEAR FATHER I am writing this on the 8th of February, one day's sail past St. Jago (Cape de Verd), and intend taking the chance of meeting with a homeward-bound vessel somewhere about the equator. The date, however, will tell this whenever the opportunity occurs. I will now begin from
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F1461    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF
the, 308. Athen um Club, 147. 'Atlantic Monthly,' Asa Gray's articles in the, 248. Atolls, formation of, 282. Audubon, 14. Autobiography, 5-54. 'Automata,' 327. Aveling, Dr., on C. Darwin's religious views, 65, note. BABBAGE and Carlyle, 36. Bachelor of Arts, degree taken, 18. B r, Karl Ernest von, 213. Bahia, forest scenery at, 131; letter to R. W. Darwin from 128. Barmouth, visit to, 106. Bates, H. W., paper on mimetic butterflies, 251; Darwin's opinion of, 251 note; 'Naturalist on the Amazons
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F1461    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF
his eagle eye he could generally detect something amiss about the ship, and was then unsparing in his blame. He was very kind to me, but was a man very difficult to live with on the intimate terms which necessarily followed from our messing by ourselves in the same cabin. We had several quarrels; for instance, early in the voyage at Bahia, in Brazil, he defended and praised slavery, which I abominated, and told me that he had just visited a great slave-owner, who had called up many of his slaves
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F1461    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF
Darwin's commonplace book and papers, 286. DUNNS. Darwin, Dr. Robert Waring, 1; his family, 3, letter to, in answer to objections to accept the appointment on the 'Beagle,' 117; letter to, from Bahia, 128. 'Darwinismus,' 42. Daubeny, Professor, 241; 'On the final causes of the sexuality of plants,' 237. Davidson, Mr., letter to, 278. Dawes, Mr., 23. De Candolle, Professor A., sending him the 'Origin of Species,' 209. Descent of Man,' work on the, 269; publication of the, 46, 271. , Reviews of the, in
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MLS-FM4.6900    Miscellaneous:    1892.10   Reminiscences of Mr Darwin on the Beagle. Manuscript in the Mitchell Library, Sydney, FM4/6900/.   Text
following event is still fresh as ever in the memory of the writer. - It was necessary to erect a beacon as a guide to vessels making for Bahia Blanca South of the Entrance to the River Plata - the Beagle anchored some distance from that bar bound Bay on the open coast line about a mile from the shore. Three Boats crews were sent away and effected a landing through the surf; a day's provision had been supplied to them supposing they would return in the evening. A gale from South East however
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F310    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1902. Observations géologiques sur les iles volcaniques: explorées par l'expédition du "Beagle" et notes sure la géologie de l'Australie et du Cap de Bonne-Espérance. Trans. by A. F. Renard. Paris: C. Reinwald.   Text   Image   PDF
arborescentes sur des roches de l'Ascension 40 Ascidies (Extinction des) 173 Atlantique. Nouveau foyer volcanique dans l'oc an Atlantique 113 Augite fondue 136 Australie 159 Bahia au Br sil (Dikes ) 151 Bailly (M.). Sur les montagnes de l' le Maurice 36 Bald Head 176 Bank's Cove 127 131 Barn (Le), Sainte-H l ne 92 Basalte colonnaire 12 (Poids sp cifique du) 147 Basaltiques (Montagnes) c ti res l' le Maurice 36 Sainte-H l ne 98 San Thiago 21 Beaumont (M. lie de). Sur des cirques d' boulement dans la lave
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F310    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1902. Observations géologiques sur les iles volcaniques: explorées par l'expédition du "Beagle" et notes sure la géologie de l'Australie et du Cap de Bonne-Espérance. Trans. by A. F. Renard. Paris: C. Reinwald.   Text   Image   PDF
dikes sont dus des fissures sillonnant des roches granitiques et m tamorphiques imparfaitement refroidies, dont les l ments les plus fusibles consistant surtout en hornblende ont t en quelque sorte sollicit s monter dans ces fissures? A Bahia, au Br sil, j'ai vu dans une contr e de gneiss et de greenstone primitif, de nombreux dikes constitu s par une roche augite de couleur fonc e (car un cristal que j'ai d tach appartenait incontestablement ce min ral), ou par une roche amphibolique form e
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F1548.1    Book:     Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 1   Text   Image   PDF
the dried plants nearly contain all which were then (Bahia Blanca) flowering. All the specimens will be packed in casks. I think there will be three (before sending this letter I will specify dates, etc., etc.). I am afraid you will groan or rather the floor of the lecture room will when the casks arrive. Without you I should be utterly undone. The small cask contains fish: will you open it to see how the spirit has stood the evaporation of the Tropics. On board the ship everything goes on as well
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F1548.2    Book:     Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 2   Text   Image   PDF
plants in, i. 419; Miocene beds in, i. 54; relation to Madeira and Canaries, i. 427; Watson on the, i. 407; Orchids from, ii. 24; mentioned, i. 419. Babies, habit of clutching objects, ii. 44. Babington, Prof. Charles C., at the British Association (Manchester, 1861), i. 195; British Flora, i. 99; Darwin sends seeds of Atriplex to, ii. 245. Baden-Powell, Prof., i. 174-5. Baer, ii. 27. Bagehot, W., article in Fortnightly Review on Physics and Politics, i. 298; ii. 46, 47. Bahia Blanca
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A237.2    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF
to the required extent would inevitably have destroyed much of the overwhelming luxuriances and variety of plant, insect, and bird life that characterize those regions. This has so impressed myself, Bates, and others familiar with the tropics as to render the idea wholly inconceivable; and the only reason why Darwin did not feel this appears to be that he really knew nothing personally of the tropics beyond a few days at Bahia and Rio, and could have had no conception of its wonderfully rich and
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A237.2    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF
of, in connection with the Glen Tilt case, ii. 259 Atlantic Monthly, The, paper on The Birth of the Solar System, in, i. 427 Australia, birds of, i. 396 398; mammals of, i. 420 Avondale, Ohio, residence of Mr. Dury, ii. 143 Azores, Mr. C. H. Watson's botanical studies in the, ii. 100 B Backhouse Mr., alpine gardens of, ii. 50 Bad Times, by A. R. Wallace, Herbert Spencer on, ii. 31; criticisms on, ii. 104, 105 Bagshot, ii. 60 Bahia, Darwin at, ii. 20 [page] 42
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A318    Pamphlet:     Weismann, August. 1909. Charles Darwin und sein Lebenswerk: Festrede gehalten zu Freiburg i. Br. am 12. Februar 1909. Jena: Gustav Fischer.   Text   Image   PDF
— 12 — Wahrheit erfüllen es, so daß seine Lektüre mir immer großen Genuß gebracht hat. Das scheinen auch andere gefunden zu haben, denn schon im Jahre 1884 waren 16000 Exemplare der englischen Auflage davon verkauft worden. Ich kann natürlich hier keine auch noch so kurze Beschreibung' der Reise geben; ich will nur sagen, daß die Aufgabe des „TSeagle (Spürhund) sich hauptsächlich auf die Küstenlinien Südamerikas bezog, wo er zuerst die Ostküste von Bahia bis zum Feuerland und den unwirtlichen
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F1512    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1909. Charles Darwin Selvbiografi. Translated by Frits Heide. Copenhagen: Gyldendal.   Text   Image   PDF
maatte kræve. Vi havde adskillige smaa Stridigheder; Saaledes traf det sig, mens vi tidlig paa vor Rejse kom til Bahia i Brasilien, at han forsvarede og lovpriste Slaveriet, som jeg nu hadede, og for- talte mig, at han lige havde besøgt en stor Slaveejer, som hidkaldte mange af sine Slaver og spurgte dem, om de befandt sig godt, eller de hellere vilde være frie, og alle havde svaret Nej. Jeg spurgte ham da, maaske nok lidt ironisk, om han troede, at det Svar, en Slave gav sin Herre, betød
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A162    Book:     Seward, A. C. ed. 1909. Darwin and modern science. Essays in commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The origin of species. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
of the same kind, and avoid them all. Thus there developed a process of selection which resulted in the survival of the Ithomiine-like individuals, and in so great an increase of resemblance between the four species, that they are difficult to distinguish one from another even in a collection. The advantage for the four species, living side by side as they do e.g. in Bahia, lies in the fact that only one individual from the mimicry-ring ( inedible association ) need be tasted by a young bird
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A162    Book:     Seward, A. C. ed. 1909. Darwin and modern science. Essays in commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The origin of species. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
had been incessantly attending to the effects on the shores of South America of the intermittent elevation of the land, together with denudation and the deposition of sediment1. On arriving at the Cape of Good Hope in July, 1836, Darwin was greatly gratified by hearing that Sedgwick had spoken to his father in high terms of praise concerning the work done by him in South America. Referring to the news from home, when he reached Bahia once more, on the return voyage (August, 1836), he says: The
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A579    Periodical contribution:     Judd, J. W. 1911. Charles Darwin's earliest doubts concerning the immutability of species. Nature. A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science 88, no. 1292 (2 November): 8-12.   Text
progress, the Beagle was delayed at her anchorage, and Darwin found an opportunity of which he took splendid advantage. Near Punta Alta, on the shores of the Bay of Bahia Blanco, there is a cliff about 20 feet high extending for the distance of a mile; the beds exposed in this cliff consist of false-bedded gravel, sand, and marl, in which were many shells which Darwin recognised as belonging to existing species. But in the midst of these sands and gravels could be seen a lenticular bed of red mud
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A259    Periodical contribution:     Darwin, Francis. 1912. FitzRoy and Darwin, 1831-36. Nature. A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science 88 (12 February): 547-8.   Text   Image
. 6. March 4, 1832. Bahia. (Official letter to the hydrographer, extract from.) Mr. Darwin has found abundant occupation already, both at sea and on shore; he has obtained numbers of curious though small inhabitants of the ocean, by means of a Net made of Bunting, which might be called a floating or surface Trawl, as well as by searching the shores and the Land. In Geology he has met with far much more interesting employment in Porto Praya than he had at all anticipated. From the manner in which
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A259    Periodical contribution:     Darwin, Francis. 1912. FitzRoy and Darwin, 1831-36. Nature. A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science 88 (12 February): 547-8.   Text   Image
Barn-pool 11 and made a real start on December 27. Darwin12 had been living at Plymouth from October 24, and in a very low state of spirits, convinced that he had heart disease, but determined not to consult a doctor, lest he should be declared unfit for the voyage. It is to his credit that he was able to conceal his depressions from his leader, FitzRoy. No. 5. March 5, 1832. Bahia. Darwin is a very sensible, hard-working man and a very pleasant messmate. I never saw a 'shore-going fellow' come
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A702    Periodical contribution:     Champion, George C. 1918. Notes on various South American Coleoptera collected by Charles Darwin during the voyage of the Beagle, with descriptions of new genera and species. Entomologists' Monthly Magazine 54: 43-55.   Text   Image   PDF
enlarged ninth antennal joint in P. cribricollis might, perhaps, be counted as belonging to the club. BYRRHIDAE. MORYCHASTES Fairm. Morychastes australis Blanch. Hab. TIERRA DEL FUEGO, Orange Bay, Perrier Isl.; STRAITS OF MAGELLAN, Port Famine. Two examples found by Darwin agree with Enderlein's figure of M. australis, that of Blanchard being unsatisfactory. They are labelled Bahia, possibly in error, the handwriting being different from that attached to the specimens mounted at an earlier date
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A179    Book:     Ward, Henshaw. 1927. Charles Darwin: The man and his warfare. London: John Murray.   Text   Image
with the brightest vermilion, so as to color the soles of its feet and parts of the stomach, a good idea of its appearance will be gained. It is a fit toad to preach in the ear of Eve. He heard how Indians fight: One dying Indian seized with his teeth the thumb of his adversary, and allowed his own eye to be But I have no space for a catalogue of what Darwin heard and saw. On September 8 he hired a Gaucho to guide him from the head of Bahia Blanca to Buenos Ayres, four hundred miles across the
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A179    Book:     Ward, Henshaw. 1927. Charles Darwin: The man and his warfare. London: John Murray.   Text   Image
have imagined that a little soft fish could have destroyed the great and savage shark? Darwin has entered upon a long vista of sights in the struggle for existence that are quite beyond the invention of the human mind. On March 18 the Beagle left Bahia, headed south to take soundings in the Abrolhos islets, which were reached in ten days. On April 3, when seventy-five miles east of Rio de Janeiro, they passed close by the cove where two British frigates were recovering the treasure from the
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Plata, Port Belgrano, near the head of the Bahia Blanca. It was probably during this monotonous period that Darwin and Fitz-Roy quarreled. Darwin had reported to his father that the Captain continues steadily very kind and does everything in his power to assist me ; Darwin always paid tribute to the energy and skill and kindness of the Captain. But there was a violent dif- * The official report of the voyage of the Beagle appeared in four volumes: volumes I, II, and the Supplement to II were by
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to the harbor in Bahia Blanca, where he was to rendezvous with the Beagle. At this time he was relishing an armadillo roasted in its shell, and was digging for fossil armadillos in a perfect catacomb of extinct races. It was curious to see very curious indeed how armadillos had been created so different in size, so similar in pattern. At just what moment, by what means, had this recent species been called into being ? All manner of ancient monsters were exhumed. There was an extinct kind of
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Fitz-Roy's character was noble and that Darwin's personality was enjoyed by all the officers. Fitz-Roy's temper was a most unfortunate one. He was very kind to me, but was a man very difficult to live with on the intimate terms which necessarily followed from our messing by ourselves in the same cabin. We had several quarrels: for instance, early in the voyage, at Bahia, in Brazil, he defended and praised slavery, which I abominated, and told me that he had just visited a great slave-owner, who
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sense. He was very kind to me, but was a man very difficult to live with on the intimate terms which necessarily followed from our messing by ourselves' in the same cabin. We had several quarrels, for when out of temper he was utterly unreasonable. For instance, early in the voyage at Bahia in Brazil he defended and praised the slavery which I abominated, and told me that he had just visited a great slave owner, who had called up many of his slaves and asked them whether they were happy, and
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captain's temper? He was also somewhat suspicious and occasionally in very low spirits, on one occasion bordering on insanity. He seemed to me often to fail in sound judgment or common-sense. He was very kind to me, but was a man very difficult to live with on the intimate terms which necessarily followed from our messing by ourselves in the same cabin. We had several quarrels, for when out of temper, he was utterly unreasonable. For instance, early in the voyage at Bahia, in Brazil, he defended
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