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back in the River Thames), Charles Darwin seems remarkably free from prejudice, willing to give credit where credit is due, to black or white, rich or poor. His enlightened views were probably in the minority amongst the officers of the Beagle. He had, in fact, a rather ambivalent attitude to Australia as a whole. In his letter to his friend and teacher, Professor Henslow, from Sydney he wrote: You see we are now arrived in Australia: the new Continent really is a wonderful place. Ancient Rome

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. P. King's Australia.53 The Ship's Naturalist of the Beagle is very cautious about the origin of these ferruginous sandstones. Even in the published version54 he simply states: The origin of these superficial beds, though sufficiently obscure, seem to be due to alluvial action on detritus abounding with iron. A modern geomorphologist would attribute much of the sandy material to Quaternary, perhaps largely Holocene, beach and dune deposits, with some slight admixture of lagoonal and estuarine

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Chapter 6 THE EFFECT OF THE VISIT ON CHARLES DARWIN'S DEVELOPMENT: (ii) Strange Beings of an Isolated Continent TO SOME EXTENT Darwin's experiences in Western Australia simply extended and complemented his journeys in New South Wales and Tasmania. The strangeness, to him, of the plants and animals he encountered as he wandered through the bush is readily conveyed to the readers of the Voyage of the Beagle by the perceptive young English naturalist: The extreme uniformity of the vegetation is

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quartz and feldspar, but elsewhere richer in dark mafic minerals. The long axes of the islands run east west, and the granite is richly penetrated by veins. An outcrop of dolerite on Mistaken Island (which is mentioned by name in a later version of these notes, see p. 42) and also on the nearby peninsula perhaps explains Charles' mention of greenstone: it is in place well-rotted. If the Beagle were anchored a few hundred metres off the main settlement, the nearest point on the peninsula would have

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ambitious for affection, yet not great enough for respect; I leave your shore without sorrow or regret. (Voyage) Whatever one feels about Charles' lack of affection for Australia in general and Western Australia in particular, one cannot but admire the remarkable prescience of some of his remarks! Although therefore, Charles Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle account of this small corner of Western Australia was brief, by comparing it with the observations of Captain FitzRoy, and supplementing it

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Chapter 5 THE EFFECT OF THE VISIT ON CHARLES DARWIN'S DEVELOPMENT (i) The Evolution of a Model of a Changing World BEFORED WE CONSIDER IN DETAIL the manner in which the eight days at King George's Sound may have contributed to the development of Darwin's ideas, it may be helpful to consider how his 'world view' was changing during the voyage, particularly its last few months. When Darwin embarked on the Beagle, his philosophical views were those typical of a well-educated young Englishman

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Philosophical Society MSS, reproduced in L. G. Wilson, Charles Lyell: the Years to 1841. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1972.) Clearly the book had made an immense impression on Herschel, particularly the sections dealing with the 'succession of species', and Herschel appears to be almost a transmutationist.83 (iii) Darwin, of course, also had with him a copy of the Principles, and had been reading it in the weeks, possibly even the days before H.M.S. Beagle berthed in Cape Town

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their inhabitants. Some other cause must intervene. (Essay of 1844, p. 174) In order to trace the influence of Western Australia on Darwin's ideas a little further, we must now introduce a new actor in the drama: Joseph Hooker. Hooker's background was remarkably similar to that of Darwin: at the age of twenty-two, the same age that Charles had embarked on the Beagle, after a medical training, he had sailed with Captain Ross, as naturalist on the Erebus, and voyaged to the Antarctic. He had very

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/863. 70. Compare the quotations from the coral paper (p. 55) and the letter (p. 54). 71. C. Darwin, 1837: Observations of proofs of recent elevation on the coast of Chili, made during the survey of His Majesty's Ship Beagle, commanded by Captain FitzRoy, RN., Proc. Geol. Soc. London, 2, pp. 446-9. 72. Proceedings of the Geological Society, see footnote 68. 73. See page 49. Darwin's work on Bald Head may thus be seen to stand between his work on the terraces of Coquimbo and his 'Observations on

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take the trouble to catch the fish with which the bay abounds: indeed I cannot make out what they intend doing. (Journal) On the whole, however, for someone of his era (Queen Victoria had not even come to the throne by the time H.M.S. Beagle was moored safely [page] 3

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summary of his description of the site of The Voyage of the Beagle, Darwin refers to 'the place mentioned by so many navigators'. 58. CULM/DAR 38.1/875-78. 59. CULM/DAR 38.1/879. 60. V. Semeniuk and T.D. Meagher, Calcrete in Quaternary coastal dunes in southwestern Australia: a capillary rise phenomenon associated with plants. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, Vol. 51(1), pp. 47-67 (1981). 61. Semeniuk and Meagher, 1981, see footnote 60. 62. In his sister's letter of 12 February 1836, although she

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Tasmania veins, 22, 42, 43, 69 Voyage of the Beagle, The, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 27, 36, 40, 57, 59, 61, 62, 65, 74, 75, 76 Wales, 4, 16, 68 Waterhouse, George, 12, 59, 74 Wedgwood, Josiah, 4 Zoonomia, 71 [page 81

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Porter, D. M. 1987. Darwin's notes on Beagle plants. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series 14, No. 2: 145-233. [title page] Bulletin of theBritish Museum (Natural History) Darwin notes on Beagle plants Duncan M. Porter (Editor) Historical series Vol 14 No 2 26 November 1987 [page 144

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Figure 8 Figs 8 9 The store-box of British beetles at Down House, and the specimen of Euchirus longimanus L. (Scarabaeidae), not connected with the Beagle voyage: 7, left hand 8, right hand, sides (photograph by Philip Titheradge, courtesy of Down House and the Royal College of Surgeons of England). [page] 37 DARWIN'S INSECT

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[names listed] [Various Beagle localities] Collected by Charles Darwin on his late voyage of the Beagle; described by Revd W. Hope. For the continuation of this entry see Folio 839 [on page 839 the names of a further 175 beetles are listed] [Various Beagle localities] Type specimens of species described by Messrs Waterhouse, Westwood Newman in the Annals of Nat. History, Entomologist collected principally by C. Darwin Esq. in the voyage of the Beagle 1885.100. 1 Forficula sp. Rio de Janeiro

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Figure 9 Stokes referred to is John Lort Stokes (1812 43, Naval Officer, Admiral, 1877) who served on all three voyages of the Beagle (Darwin was only on the second) and was the author of Discoveries in Australia published in 1846. It was in an appendix to this work that Adam Smith described new Coleoptera and E. Doubleday new Lepidoptera from Australia. A.C. Pont has located a specimen [page] 38 K. G. V. SMIT

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: Stanford University Press. Stafleu, F. A. Cowan, R. S. 1976. Taxonomic Literature. Volume 1. 2nd ed. Utrecht: Bohn, Scheltema Holkema. Stearn, W. T. 1983. The Natural History Museum at South Kensington. London: Heinemann. Sulloway, F. J. 1982. Darwin's conversion: the Beagle voyage and its aftermath. Journal of the History of Biology 15: 325 396. 1983. Further remarks on Darwin's spelling habits and the dating of Beagle voyage manuscripts. Journal of the History of Biology 16: 361 390. Syme, P. 1821

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Fig. 16 Chalcidoid Hymenoptera depicted on Plate P in the first volume of the Entomologist (see Walker, 1840 42). This illustrated Darwin's Beagle captures described by Walker in his Monographia Chalciditum (1839): 1, Eucharis volusus Walker (see Insect Notes, 3561, King George's Sound, Australia); 2, Thoracantha furcata Fabricius (see 3858, Bahia, Brazil); 3, Eucharis iello Walker (see 3524, Hobart, Tasmania); 4, Eucharis zalates Walker (see 3561, King George's Sound, Australia); 5

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been used instead of alcohol. In the BM accession books, there are several entries for insects from the Haslar Hospital (e.g. 1855 58, 60, 61, 63) in some of which lists of species are given but none appear to have any connection with the Beagle voyage. In Francis Walker's List of Diptera (1849) there is a list of donors which includes 38 entries under Haslar Hospital, but again, none appear to be connected with the Beagle. Lloyd Coulter (1963, Medicine and the Navy 1200 1900, Vol. 5, 1815 1900

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Synopsis The insects collected by Charles Darwin, both on the Beagle voyage and in the United Kingdom, are discussed and their present location indicated. Comments are made on these specimens within the framework of Darwin's entomological notes preserved in London (Insect Notes) and in Cambridge (Insects in Spirits of Wine) published here for the first time. These comments include identification of the insects with published descriptions to date and also present new information on unrecorded

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9. Charles Cardale Babington (1808 95). Botanist. FRS 1851. Succeeded Henslow as Professor of Botany at Cambridge, 1861. He, like Darwin, was an original member of the Entomological Society of London and a keen entomologist in his early days. His collection and notebooks, including records of C.D.'s British captures are in the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology. He described C.D.'s Beagle Dytiscidae (1842) and there is a letter from him to C.D. in the Cambridge University Library which

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Aires 10 pp. 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 (11) 9: 99 107. Burkhardt, F. Smith, F. (Eds). 1985. The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. Vol. 1. 1821 1836. Cambridge (University Press), 702 pp. Butler, A. G. 1868. Catalogue of the diurnal Lepidoptera of the family Satyridae in the collection of the British Museum. London (British Museum), 211

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PowerofMovementThepowerofmovementinplants.London 1880. Variation The variation of animals and plants underdomestication.2 vols. London 1868. BIFC, 167,176 C120, 121,210 DIFC, 87, 99, 100 E15 M142 QEIFC, 18 VI Geological observations on volcanic islands, visited during the voyage of H.M.S. 'Beagle', together with some brief notices on the geology of Australia and the Cape of Good Hope. Being the second part of the voyage of the 'Beagle', under the command of Capt. FitzRoy, R.N., during the years 1832 to 1836. London

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The page is crossed in pencil and 'Copied' is noted opposite the next entry. The Beagle was at sea on 23 March 1832, between the island of Fernando Noronha and Bahia, Brazil. The ginger on which this mold was growing presumably had come aboard the ship at an earlier stop, probably in the Cape Verde Islands. Later in the Zoological Diary, there is another entry for a fungus not included in the Plant Notes (page 190): 1833 ['May' marked out] June Maldonado [Uruguay] ... ... ... ['Lycoperdium

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Coralline and Other Algae When publishing on Darwin's coralline algae collected on the voyage of the Beagle, the Irish botanist William Henry Harvey (1811 66, Curator of the Herbarium, Trinity College, Dublin) quoted several extracts from Darwin's notes on them. These extracts differ from the field notes on the same collections given in the Zoological Diary. Harvey (1847: vii viii) acknowledged Darwin, 'for the liberal donation to our Herbarium of all those [i.e., coralline algae] which he