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wild cats. kingfisher Lizard Mac Cormick1 Lava perhaps first stream more melted Concentric Balls before lava red lapilli 1 Robert McCormick (1800-1900), Surgeon on the Beagle 1831-April 1832. [page 41b
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Settle with Fuller1 No jars or paper washing Bull 90 Cooper 10 83:1 3:4 5.4 24 ____ 116.0 48 ____ 68 1 Harry Fuller, Captain's steward on the Beagle. [page 18b
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King1 3 Stokes2 4 5th [March 1832] About 15 feet of mica then larger mass red clay with nearly verticle [streak] of a rock resembling [decompos] gneiss dip N by W hornblende crystal on the top bed of quartz 1 Philip Gidley King (1817-1904), Midshipman on the Beagle, 1831-6. 2 John Lort Stokes (1812-85), Mate and Assistant Surveyor on the Beagle, 1831-6. [page 64b
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938 These 4 specimens from about 6 miles east of entrance into Ponsonby Sound within Beagle Channel. 942 There general rock. These three rocks at East entrance of Ponsonby Sound 941 Dullish purple, consist of an aggregate of numberless most minute crystalline faces. probably Feldspar, fuses into white glass somewhat similar to Slate at C of Good Hope [this entry obviously no earlier than June 1836] ----------------------------- Beagle Channel 944 heavy Grey. homogenious semi-crystalline
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945 These 4 specimens from the Settlement, within Ponsonby Sound: 949: These 3 from near junction of micaceous rocks clay-slate in Beagle Channel 954 These 4 from North arm of Beagle Channel: about ofN- Gordon Island 946 certain evidence of a passage of injection 951 Green glossy slate. irregular granular structure few garnets, gneiss fine grained, abounding with green mica 952 thin layers of quartz, parted by seam of dark coloured mica 953 Black Trappean rock, with acicular crystals of
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Beagle to establish a mission at Tierra del Fuego. This was abandoned in 1833 and Matthews rejoined the Beagle until New Zealand in 1835. [page 47a
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A766
Beagle Library:
De la Beche, Henry Thomas. 1832. A geological manual, 2nd ed., corrected and enlarged. London: Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel Jun. and Richter.
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Darwin's Beagle Library [page] iii A GEOLOGICAL MANUAL. BY HENRY T. DE LA BECHE, F.R.S., F.G.S. MEM. GEOL. SOC. OF FRANCE, c. SECOND EDITION, CORRECTED AND ENLARGED. LONDON: TREUTTEL AND W RTZ, TREUTTEL JUN. AND RICHTER. PARIS AND STRASBURCH: TREUTTEL AND W RTZ. 1832. [page] i
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A769
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Earle, Augustus. 1832. A narrative of a nine months' residence in New Zealand in 1827, together with a journal of a residence in Tristan d'Acunha. London: Longman, Rees, orme, Brown, Green, and Longman.
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A NARRATIVE OF A NINE MONTHS' RESIDENCE IN NEW ZEALAND, IN 1827; TOGETHER WITH A JOURNAL OF A RESIDENCE IN TRISTAN D'ACUNHA, AN ISLAND SITUATED BETWEEN SOUTH AMERICA AND THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. BY AUGUSTUS EARLE, DRAUGHTSMAN TO HIS MAJESTY'S SURVEYING-SHIP THE BEAGLE. LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, LONGMAN, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1832. [page ii
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A769
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Earle, Augustus. 1832. A narrative of a nine months' residence in New Zealand in 1827, together with a journal of a residence in Tristan d'Acunha. London: Longman, Rees, orme, Brown, Green, and Longman.
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and more insatiable desire to visit climes which he had read of, but never seen. An opportunity soon offered, and he unhesitatingly availed himself of it; accepting the situation of draughtsman to his Majesty's ship Beagle, commanded by Captain Fitzroy, and which has lately left these shores on a voyage of discovery not likely to terminate under four years. [page 1
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Mastodon: Get Mr Earl3 to make drawing: 1 Manuel Esquenaga has not been identified. Presumably an error for Esquenazi. 2 Barboza has not been identified, see Miss Barboza on following page. A prominent local family for generations. 3 Augustus Earle (1793-1838), Wandering artist of some distinction; visited all five continents. Draughtsman at start of 2d voyage of Beagle. CD 'Earle's eccentric character'. FitzRoy 'I engaged an artist...at £200 per year'. His original Beagle sketches are not known
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big tree circum 7ft. another 9 ft 7'1 Running water 68.5° do 64.5° good observ beds of fractured quartz decomposing gneiss dipping small angle S by N. 1 Trees measured during an ascent of Corcovado mountain, Rio de Janeiro. See Beagle plants, p. 161. [pages 21a-22a excised] [page 23a
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13th [March 1832]1 Conglomeratic gneiss trap syenite2 in a sandy (full of crystaline) base alternation with ferruginous sand green aluvium3 slate dip N by E 5° 1 '13th' is presumably a mistake for 14th as the Beagle was at sea on 13 March. 2 Coarse-grained intermediate igneous rock. 3 Alluvium: associated with deposits laid down by rivers. [page 69b
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the line in which hole was dug. ship was thus (K) O [sketch map of Punta Alta showing ship, the Beagle] The pumice1 pebbles are most remarkable lying in numbers on the surface. were they left when the Tosca was 1 Solidified frothy lava, generally lighter than water. [page 80b
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Chancellor and van Wyhe eds. Buenos Ayres notebook. EH1.12 [English Heritage 88202332] (11-12.1832, 1-2, 12.1833, ) . (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/) [front cover] Buenos Ayres (city) Beagle Channel ascent of P. Desire creek. [inside front cover
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6th [November 1832] Very busy in collecting informations specimens shopping. Ladies 7 [November 1832] Expected to go off wasted the day dined with Mr Gore1 met the Colonel Vernon:2 great Traveller pleasant evening 1 Philip Yorke Gore (1801-84), Charg d'affaires in Buenos Ayres, 1832-4. 2 Colonel Francis Venables-Vernon-Harcourt (1801-80). See Beagle diary, pp. 115-116. [page 8a
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the prevailing SSW dip appears to hold good but within the serrated ridges are out of all order: In Beagle Channell mountains not very parallel: about 18 miles northern shore. W of Ponsonby Sound. Mica slate few miles W of a big Bay again Green [talcose] schist. dipping to the South (SSE SW by W) cleavage contorted involving beds of quartz: all [page 49a
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Ask Henslow1 open Pill boxes Seeds Mr Stokes Washing clothes Capinchas dung smells very sweet On Friday Gossamer web Conjuror Hammer 1 John Stevens Henslow (1796-1861), Cambridge botanist and mineralogist, Darwin's scientific mentor when at Cambridge, who received and preserved Darwin's Beagle specimens during the voyage. [page 17b
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A791
Beagle Library:
King, Philip Parker. 1832. Description of the Cirrhipedia, Conchifera and Mollusca in a collection formed 1826-30. Zoological Journal 5: 332-349.
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Darwin's Beagle Library [page] 332 ART. XLVII. Description of the Cirrhipeda, Conchifera and Mollusca, in a collection formed by the Officers of H.M.S. Adventure and Beagle employed between the years 1826 and 1830 in surveying the Southern Coasts of South America, including the Straits of Magalhaens and the Coast of Tierra del Fuego. By Captain PHILLIP P. KING, R.N., F.R.S., c. assisted by W. J. BRODERIP, Esq.. F.R.S., c. The testacea, of which the following paper is a descriptive list, were
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Brick in modern Breccia Kingfisher eating lizard Mac C1 Milk cream for [animalcule] Shells action under blowpipe try the old ones Crabs that run leap Milk from goat on 7th [February 1832] examined on 11th composed of small animalcule about .0001 in diameter Dineutes of MacLeay2 1 Robert McCormick (1800-1900), Surgeon on the Beagle 1831 - April 1832. Not, as modern writers have claimed, the default or official naturalist on the Beagle. 2 See Darwin's insects, p. 46: '213. 214. Gyrinus allied to
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possessing cleavage if mica slate was deposited in horizont layer this must have been a piece in middle projecting upward [without] any Rowlett1 about trousers Sea eggs2 50 fathoms off the Straight of Magellan 1 George Rowlett (d. 1834), Purser of the Beagle. 2 Sea urchins. Textual notes to the Rio notebook [FC] a faint word or number in pencil is now illegible. [IFC] 1.10.] Down House number, not transcribed. 88202330] English Heritage number, not transcribed. [IBC] C. Darwin] ink. 1A] added
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January 19th [1833] Entrance of Beagle channel all the mountains ENE of it rounded Slate at the very Southern entrance there is a large bed, intervening, of a greywacke.1 sonorous splintery fine grained siliceous scales of mica (A) ; therefore not covered ferruginous, decomposing red oval balls of Iron by white lichen with large angular cleavage like Trap: lines of cleavage dipping at about 80 to SSW running ESE WNW other lines not so well marked dipping at same 1 'A conglomerate or grit rock
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Porter, Duncan M. 1999. Charles Darwin's Chilean plant collections. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 72: 181-200.
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collections from the voyage of the Beagle. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 9: 515 525. PORTER DM (1982) Charles Darwin's notes on plants of the Beagle voyage. Taxon 31: 503 506. PORTER DM (1984) William Jackson Hooker and Charles Darwin's Beagle plants. Huntia 5: 107 116. PORTER DM (1985) The Beagle collector and his collections. In: Kohn D (ed) The Darwinian heritage: 973 1019. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey. PORTER DM (1986) Charles Darwin's
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A739
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Beechey, Frederick William. 1832. Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait to co-operate with the polar expeditions: performed in His Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28. Philadelphia: Carey and Rea.
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Darwin's Beagle Library [page i] NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC AND BEERING'S STRAIT, TO CO-OPERATE WITH THE POLAR EXPEDITIONS: PERFORMED IN HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP BLOSSOM, UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN Frederick. William. BEECHEY, R. N. F.R.S. c. IN THE YEARS 1825, 26, 27, 28. PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF THE ADMIRALTY. PHILADELPHIA: CAREY LEA CHESNUT STREET. 1832. [page ii
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997-1000 an imperfectly crystalline greenstone — from concretions pure — being more perfectly crystallized: when weathered it resembles most singularly a brecia or conglomerate. Carb of Lime occurs the interstices — This rock occurs in an irregular mass in W side of [illeg] compact slate o in a cone of ch WNW ESE with the Trap dykes described on the East side— Slate occurs below Beagle Channel [illeg] Sound Capt. Fitz Ro
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views. vegetation like Mt Edgecombe.1 Miserable sleeping place big stones putrefying sea weed middle watch. not all pleasure (31st) [January 1833] N shore NW of last sleeping place Ph green phyllade becoming Hornblendic (1). characteristic [torture] cleavage to SSW. like fire wood channell running [E] ½ N W ½ S the slate of course ESE WNW the granite which has 1 Mount Edgecombe, an estate in Cornwall overlooking Plymouth Sound. See Beagle plants, p. 166. [page 60a
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(5th) [February 1833] 5 miles W of big bay The micaceous slate on the (28th) is the I think certainly the most Eastern which comes down to the channell it cleaves to the SSE. there would appear to be roofing slate resting on it. from this place extends W Easter[ly] On the South bank the whole range is evidently roofing slate: the serrated ridges N of Ponsonby Beagle Sound W of Ponsonby Sound [page 73a
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Slaty struct not visible in hand specimen 1833 Jan Feb Tierra del Fuego 958 Hornblende Slate fine grained Black greenstone slate? 959xx Imperfect Gneiss. mica not developed alternating with the last 960 x Granite with vesicular Hornblende crystals [these three bracketted together] 961 Hornblende slate Greenstone, heavy, greenish grey — Slate 962:xx 963.Syenite (?) Southern arm of Beagle Channel 964. Common hard black clay-slate at bifurcation of Beagle Channel 965. Feldspathic greenstone
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other 8 inches. Young specimen out of belly; with it is posterior spine of old specimen. 847. Fish, above greenish black, beneath yellowish white, sides indescent where the dark back shades away. N.B. bought of and cleaned by the Fuegians — Kelp fish – East entrance of Beagle Channel. 848. Fish. Pectorals. Ventrals red orange; anal caudal dorsal blackish; back and sides mottled, reddish and greenish, blackish : on kelp. East entrance of Beagle Channel. 849. Fish. Pectoral. Dorsal and Caudal. Tile
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1832--1901
Harmer, S. F. 1901. List of specimens [of marine invertebrates] collected on the Beagle which were kept or discarded, with extracts from Darwin's manuscripts referring to specimens kept in the museum.
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [1] Reg. Nov. 21, 1901 Beagle Collection, being part of the collection made by C. Darwin Esq. during the voyage of the voyage of H.M.S. 'Beagle.' The specimens were contained in four jars which had been in the Invertebrate store-room for many years, without proper labels. Many were in a state of maceration which made it impossible to keep them, and a list of the numbers of these specimens is given below. Those which were identified by the metal labels
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A806.02
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Martineau, Harriet. 1832. Illustrations of political economy. 3 vols. London. vol. 2
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Darwin's Beagle Library [page 1] ILLUSTRATIONS of POLITICAL ECONOMY. No. IV. DEMERARA. A Tale By HARRIET MARTINEAU 'Till now ye have gone on and filled the time With all licentious measure, making your wills The scope of justice: till now, as many such As slept within the shadow of your power, Have wandered with their traversed arms, and breathed Then sufferance vainly. Now the time is flush When crouching marrow in the bearer strong, Cries of itself—no more.' —Shakspeare. SECOND EDITION
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2578 All the above come from Lirguen [the name is spelt this way in CUL-DAR35.354, in the MS of the Beagle diary for 6 March 1835 and in Darwin (1846), although Nora Barlow gives Linguen in her 1933 Diary transcription, as does Keynes in his 1988 edition. Today it is known as Lirquen.] 2577 Appear to result from decomp ferrug granitic rocks. 2578 Soapy feel. twigs of plants in coal [Darwin has written the specimen number as 2378 by mistake] 2581 stone soft brittle 2582. perfectly friable under
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Owe Mr Rowlett1 one paper dollar Pay for boys bringing to the Inn Chaffers2 one paper dollar The very next door to Mr Griffiths3 a french Dentist Cigars: Dentist Mr Griffiths Calle de Florida Caldcleughs S America4 1 George Rowlett. 2 Edward Main Chaffers, master of the Beagle. 3 Charles Griffith, British Consul at Buenos Ayres, 1834. 4 Caldcleugh 1825. Alexander Caldcleugh (d. 1858), Private Secretary to British Ambassador to Chile, later trader and plant collector living in Santiago. Owner
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Mr Hammond1 owes me 27 paper dollars 3 hooks 10 Williams 16 riding 50 Dr Browne Union Reading Rooms Aperea;2 animal without tail or Conejo3 del Campo Mr Flint,4 owe him 1 dollar + 60 1 Robert Nicholas Hammond (1809-83), temporary mate on the Beagle, who often accompanied Darwin on shore excursions. 2 A guinea-pig, see specimen 1266 in Zoology notes, pp. 164-5; listed as Cavia cobaia in Mammalia, p. 89. 3 Spanish for rabbit. 4 Mr Flint, an American merchant at Buenos Ayres. [page 4a
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Spix. Abrolhos. 120P.1 Will the gradual deposit of river explain the Tosca. John Meggett Messrs. Messrs Brittain Co. Buenos Ayres.2 The Estancia de los Yuquerises Entre Rios Desert of Atacama 25 Leagues from the Port 1 Spix and Martius 1824, 1: 120, discussed the Abrolhos Islets. 2 J. Megget was Clerk on the first voyage of the Beagle and is mentioned by P. P. King in Narrative 1, pp. xiv and 376 and by Darwin in CUL-DAR 32.83-84. and CUL-DAR42.109. [page 11b
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Owe Hamond1 30 (1) [Had me 2] silver dollars Row[l]ett 4 Owe Hammon[d] as balance 21 Dollars. Rowett 4 Black Duck Plus Boro ; Borr 1 Dinner. Covington2 Trousers Drawers shirt. Good Success. Bay. dip to West 1 Robert Nicholas Hamond (1809-83), mate on HMS Druid, loaned to the Beagle in November 1832, and returned to England in May 1833. 2 Syms Covington (1816?-61), 'Fiddler and boy to the poop cabin' on Beagle's second voyage, he became Darwin's personal servant from 22 May 1833 until 25
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A792
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King, Phillip Parker. 1832. Some observations upon the geography of the southern extremity of South America, Tierra del Fuego, and the Strait of Magalhaens; made during the late survey of those coasts in his Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1830. Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London 1: 155-175.
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Darwin's Beagle Library [page] 155 XI. Some Observations upon the Geography of the Southern Extremity of South America, Tierra del Fuego, and the Strait of Magalhaens; made during the late Survey of those coasts in his Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1830. By Captain Phillip Parker King, F.R.S., c., and Commander of the Expedition. Read 25th April and 9th May, 1831. CONSIDERING the vast extent of sea-coast that comprises the southern part of this continent, it
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2114. All the following specimens came from the peninsula of Lacuy. [Lacuy is on the NW coast of Chiloe so these are the first geological specimens Darwin collected from the west coat of South America. For an excellent facsimile of the Beagle map of Chiloe see van Wyhe, Beagle notebooks, p. 27).] 2085. Streaks approaching to Pitchstone, few crysts. of gl[assy].F.— 2086 with brown. parallel few streaks. slightly vesicular cellular . in centre.// 1087 [presumably a mistake for 2087].White glass
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the patches may be concretionary crys.— each patch looks like porphyry from containing minute crys. 1834 Sept: Chili: Aconcagua [some of these specimens may be those numbered and listed under August from p. 32a and p. 75a of the Valparaiso notebook, although they may also relate to those listed on 2:20r. see Chancellor and van Wyhe, Beagle notebooks.] 2285x Coarse pale purp. Porph: with a Breccia Stone tolerably clear?; angular and rounded 2286xx Greenstone = Porphyry: Breccia: imperceptible
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1834 Nov: Archip: of Chiloe.— 2339 2340 Shell Cast. in grey sandstone concretionary layer. mainland in front of Lemuy.— 2341..2347 Various shells from same locality.— as above 2348 Abundant silicified wood. Lemuy. [these specimens are referred to in the Port Desire notebook, p. 84; see Chancellor and van Wyhe, Beagle notebooks, p. 328). Darwin also mentions them in his Beagle diary, entry for 1 December 1834. 2348 is now in the NHM and is listed on 236.3.1r.] 2349 Less perfectly petrified wood
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1835 Galapagos Islds. [3291 collected 25-27 September on Charles Island. 3286-89 and 3292 were collected on smaller islands by Edward Chaffers, Master of the Beagle, 9-19 October] 3286 assuming most curious varifiedforms Black glossy scoriae. Bindloe Isd. 3287x scoriae very vesicular brownishwithout crystals (Trachytic?) Lava 3288xx smally much Cellular Lava. abounding with Large numerous Crys of fractured glassy Feldspar: Abingdon Isd 3289 do. from much heavier compact Feldspar not so much
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of Rio Salado, there occurs beautifully crystallized gypsum. Mr Oakley gave some to Mr Parish Mr Flint an american merchant has a large tooth at B. Ayres:4 (Mr Oakley ?) 1 Ignacio Benito Nuñez (1792-1846). Nuñez 1825. 2 Oakley was the agent of Woodbine Parish (1796-1882), the British consular representative in Buenos Ayres. He is mentioned various times in the Beagle notebooks and the Geological diary, see here. 3 Mr Parry, a British merchant at Montevideo. 4 Latin for 'Viscaches after
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F2114
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Porter, Duncan M. 1999. Charles Darwin's Chilean plant collections. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 72: 181-200.
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de Chile hechas por Darwin en sus libretas de campo, diario, y publicaciones. Palabras clave: Darwin, HMS Beagle, plantas, tipos. INTRODUCTION Throughout the voyage of HMS Beagle (December 1831 through October 1836), when Charles Darwin was in close proximity to the ship, and specimens could be conveniently dried, he seems to have collected plants. Chile was no exception. From the time that he first set foot on what is now Chilean territory on Isla Hermite on Christmas Day 1832 until he left
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Porter, Duncan M. 1999. Charles Darwin's Chilean plant collections. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 72: 181-200.
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. DARWIN C (ed) (1838 43) The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Capt. FitzRoy, R.N. during the years 1832 to 1836. 5 pts. Smith, Elder and Co, London, xlvi + 585 pp. DARWIN C (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. Volume 3. Journal and remarks. Henry Colburn, London, xiv + 615
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Phyllade (Chloritic schist?) 649x R do fine Hornblende slate like (652) penetrated most curiously by veins of quartz which pierced from Mica slate in which the slate is enclosed 650x R :651. Gneiss, small crystallised. half rotten Mica Slate coarse 652 R .653. 654 Phyllade (Daubuisson) [D'Aubuisson de Voisins (1819). Darwin's copy in CUL is inscribed 'C Darwin HMS Beagle'.] greenish decomposing forming with mica slate lower part of the Mount 1:19
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protection of the flesh?- [A 2008 leaflet promoting the then new Darwin display at the Sedgwick Museum includes a photo of a piece of sandstone in the Beagle collection from Brazil with barnacles and lichens still attached.] 1:23
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1833 May June clayey mud.— 1367 Pale coloured impure nn Calc: semi=indurated clay . with no organic remains, immediately upon the Ostrea bed.— 1368x I should think the same (??) with Turritella. The Schooner brought it from near ?? St Josephs Bay Specimens brought by the Schooner [The Adventure was a schooner purchased (and renamed) as a consort for the Beagle by Captain FitzRoy at the Falklands in March 1833.] 1369 Shells c c. from the cliffs in New Bay 1370 do do 1371x Volcanic rock. picked
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1834 S. Cruz 1996. Characteristic specimens of the common Gallstone by a Woods. B [Gallstone Yellow is one of the colours in Patrick Syme's 1821 'Nomenclature of Colours' which was used by Darwin on the Beagle] Porphyry pebbles more or less Porphyritic, generally with small crystals of Quartz: 2001xx doubtless common rocks of Andes. in these Latitudes. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2056 L Yellow. fine grained, much
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1835 Jan: Chiloe: 2513xx Concretion diameter from Tert: form[ation] of Chiloe 2514 (Headland. on which P Tenuy. is.) [see the Beagle diary for 19 January 1835] small fragments all decomposed appear more like feldspath Common brown, rather coarse soft . Sandstone 2515 Soft Brecciola. intermediate in its character, between the more compact softer ferruginous beds 2516x White Compact Aluminous. stone does not efforvesce. 2517 Very white soft very friable under fingers Aluminous? substance. does
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Jan? 1836 Sydney New S. Wales [The Beagle left New Zealand on 30 December 1835 and arrived in Sydney on 12 January 1836] 3424x Grains of quartz. more or less fine cemented by ferruginous matter a white powder, which probably is decomposed Feldspar.— Escarpement 3425x [these two numbers bracketted together] of Blue Mountains. 3426x Grains of quartz which appear crystallized glistening crystals Iron, with pebbles of quartz.— 3427 Decomposed Greenstone, containing a considerable quantity of Iron
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Ferruginous Sandstone: frequently angulo-vesicular, or cellular Are they Calcareous? [These specimens are discussed in CUL-DAR38.867 and appraised by Armstrong (1985, fig. 9, p. 46).] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keeling Isds [The Beagle left King George's Sound on 14 March and arrived at Keeling Island on 1 April.] 3565x Yellowish white vesicular stone, soft consisting of rounded particles fragments of shell
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