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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 A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters.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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A179 Book: Ward, Henshaw. 1927. Charles Darwin: The man and his warfare. London: John Murray. Text Image

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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A179 Book: Ward, Henshaw. 1927. Charles Darwin: The man and his warfare. London: John Murray. Text Image

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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A179 Book: Ward, Henshaw. 1927. Charles Darwin: The man and his warfare. London: John Murray. Text Image

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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A536 Periodical contribution: Barlow, N. 1932. Robert FitzRoy and Charles Darwin. Cornhill Magazine (April): 493-510. Text Image

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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F1566 Book: Barlow, Nora ed. 1933. Charles Darwin's diary of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. Cambridge: University Press. Text Image PDF

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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A326 Periodical contribution: Bryant, G. E. 1942. New species of Chrysomelidae, Halticinae (Coleopt.), collected by Charles Darwin during the voyage of the 'Beagle', 1832-1836. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Ser. 11) 9: 99-107. Text Image PDF

before the middle, narrowing very slightly towards the apex, and thence rounded, punctate-striate, the punctures large and round and close. Legs brownish yellow, all the tarsi with the first segment long and about equal to the second and third together. Underside brownish yellow. Brazil: Bahia (G. Darwin, 1885-119), from G. R. Waterhouse. Somewhat allied to G. flavescens Baly, from Brazil, but broader and not so tapering towards the apex, colour darker. [page] 10

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A326 Periodical contribution: Bryant, G. E. 1942. New species of Chrysomelidae, Halticinae (Coleopt.), collected by Charles Darwin during the voyage of the 'Beagle', 1832-1836. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Ser. 11) 9: 99-107. Text Image PDF

produced ; very convex, impunctate, a strong transverse sinuate groove across the base of the prothorax. Elytra dull blue-black, slightly broader than the base of the prothorax, very convex, parallel-sided, and rounded at the apex, very finely punctured. Legs black, posterior femora strongly incrassate. Underside with the presternum rufous, the remainder deep blue-black. Brazil : Rio de Janeiro and Bahia (ft. Darwin), 2 specimens ; (Bowring Coll.), 4 specimens. Allied to 8. angustata Jac, from

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