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). that being of unusual energy its effects remain apparent, while all traces of separate lesser ones are soon obliterated. With respect to the ancient crystalline rocks. We find the formation varying much in its mineralogical nature. The most abundant is mica slate which varys in its color, often being very ferruginous which contains very many distinct crystals of feldspar (2553). So that in many places it ought 1 Philip Gidley King (1817-1904), Midshipman on the Beagle. 344 vers
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) Valdivia gneiss auriferous Few Less earthquakes. Cudico Padre.1 at least 8. volcanoes. (3. Principal one. Antuco, Villarica Osorno ) Variation 18 1 Darwin wrote in the Beagle diary for 12 February 1835: On account of the tired horse I determined to stop close by at the Mission of Cudico; to the Friar of which I had a letter of introduction. — Cudico is an intermediate district between the forest the Llanos
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Chiloe: I found at the Castle of Niebla a great bed of the sandstone, traversed by an irregular one of softer sam sort. the whole mass divided into very regular layers which dipped at angle 45 . a sort of cleavage, viz: [sketch] 1 Darwin wrote in the Beagle diary for 18 February 1835: I crossed over to the Fort called Niebla, which is on the opposite side of the bay to the Corral where we are at anchor. — The Fort is in a most ruinous state; the carriages of guns are so rotten that Mr Wickham
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(a) In the subsequent visit of the Beagle Mr Kent procured for me from the cliffs of sandstone at Tom . (to the North of Lirguen) some shells other organic remains. They are of species, which I do not know: in which respect they agree with those found at the Rapel, nearly to the age of which every reason would incline it would one to attribute. They occur chiefly in very large, hard, grey calcareous sandstone concretions. Are associated with silicified wood, which has become perforated. There
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were packed together in filled by black vegetable earth. I am assured they are likewise found on the highest hills. In the subsequent visit of the Beagle to this point Mr Kent was kind enough to make some observations, on this subject. Behind Concepcion, on a hill called the Sentinella, at an elevation of 164 ft. (Barom:) there were 1 Darwin refers to Caldcleugh's forthcoming 'An account of the great earthquake experienced in Chile on the 20th of February, 1835; with a map' read 26 November 1835
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No 3 in the sides of a dry ditch a short distance from Mr. Walford's house — in this stratum Choros Limpets are the most numerous — in the others not so common— [sketch] [Beagle diary, p. 303: 6th I crossed the Bay to Lirguen to see the best coal-mine of Concepción: as all the rest which I have seen, it is rather Lignite than Coal occurs in a very modern formation. — The mine is not worked, for the coal when placed in a heap has the singular property of spontaneously igniting, it is certain
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(a) Specimen from the Beagle from Papudo showed me a brown siliceous granite. 55
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[Notes to 764 (18)r] (a) Section1 [small sketches] 1 Sketch of a section of Cr ter Beagle (Beagle Crater) with an islet in the middle. Angle measurements and calculations are drawn below it. 765 (19
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) Abingdon Isd5 Consists chiefly of smally cellular reddish Brown Lava, abounding with very large numerous Cryst of glassy Feldspar. — (3288) (Also Sandstone Crater. — 6 There is other variety however, more compact almost composed of less fractured Cryst glassy Feldspar angular vesicular (3289) (cavities. — In the former the appearance = singularly that of imbedded fragments Indefatigable Island7 very little Bare Lava Barrington8 Tampoco [neither]. — Culpepper9 Wenams10 1 Beagle surveyor Edward Main
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of crater is a deep lake of very salt water, is little, if at all elevated above the sea.) — In the middle are Three Islands3 , in one of which a small Crater is very evident: — In the whole circumference escarpement the rock is Volcanic Sandstone [const] (3249), generally of brown yellow color not very compact or hard. — some of the lower strata are 1 Caleta Tagus (Tagus Cove), Isla Isabela (Albemarle Island). 0°15.671'S, 91°22.279'W 2 Cr ter Beagle (Beagle Crater), Isla Isabela (Albemarle
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Crater full of Salt Water. 1 Whale Hill is now known as Volc n Darwin (Darwin Volcano), Isla Isabela (Albemarle Island). 2 Sketch of Cr ter Beagle (Beagle Crater) (1) and Caleta Tagus (Tagus Cove/Banks Cove) (2) with the word Capt Fitz Roy written above what is now known as Darwin Lake. [The following pages are single unfolded sheets measuring 20.5 x 25.5 cm. They were written after Darwin left the Gal pagos Islands.] 746 (1
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of the sea. — In its middle there 1 Captain Philip Pipon of HMS Tagus sailed through Gal pagos in 1814. 2 Isla Tortuga. 3 Caleta Tagus (Tagus Cove), Isla Isabela (Albemarle Island). 4 Cr ter Beagle (Beagle Crater), Isla Isabela (Albemarle Island). 761 (15
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Galapagos Isd From the Weather Journal kept on the board the Beagle, I find the mean temperature of the water of the Archipelago the Sea to be 68° (67°.9). The number of observations in number were 99, taken every day with some exceptions every day at 8 AM, noon 8 PM; from the 16th of September when we first made to Chatham Isd to the 20th of October, when we finally left the the number Archipelago. — During this time the Beagle was either at anchor in different harbors or moving from Island
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active Volcano is more covered with bare Lava than any other we have seen; belongs to this group is only separated by a narrow arm of the sea: — In Albermale Isd in 2d mound 1 The word yet suggests that he wrote this page before seeing Volc n Wolf (Wolf Volcano) further to the north. He would have seen Volc n Wolf (Wolf Volcano) from the Beagle after leaving Tagus Cove on October 2. 744 (19) vers
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cakes, which sound, when a person walks over them, like plates of Iron.1 1 Darwin apparently borrowed this imagery from James Colnett's book A Voyage to the South Atlantic and Round Cape horn… London: W. Bennett, 1798, a copy of which was on board the Beagle. See also Darwin's Galapagos notebook, p. 33b. 756 (10
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. — At Banks Cove the Beagle was anchored within a Crater larger even than one described, but in a much more demolished state. Within the outer ring there is one ( I believe another) very perfect, not very small Crater with a salt lake1 at its bottom elevated a few feet above the sea. — The whole are composed of Volcanic Sandstone: of the same nature, but where I examined, much compacter harder having more the appearance of a true subaqueous deposit. — The highest part is about 700 ft; the 1 Darwin
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general location of Darwin's camp site is 0°10.036'S, 90°49.468'W 2 The fact that Darwin used the present tense indicates that he wrote these pages about Santiago (James) on land rather than waiting until he was back on board the Beagle. 3 Cerro Cowan, Isla Santiago (James Island). 0°10.656'S, 90°49.798'W 716 (1) vers
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with a few highly eroded craters that look like rounded hills. When the Beagle first entered the archipelago on 15 September Darwin would have seen both San Crist bal (Chatham Island) and Isla Espa ola (Hood Island) from afar. San Crist bal (Chatham Island) has raw lava fields and large numbers of craters and Darwin may have been visualizing San Crist bal (Chatham Island) when he wrote this sentence. 2 Actually the southwestern end of San Crist bal (Chatham Island). 3 Cerro Tijeretas, San Crist
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Paper Chaffers1 Mr Dring2 Capt King Bathurst Mica Slate Trappean Rocks Mr Blaxland3 Van Diemens Land 1 Edward Main Chaffer, Master on the Beagle. 2 John Edward Dring acting Purser on the Beagle. 3 Probably Gregory Blaxland (1778-1853) or John Blaxland (1769-1845), wealthy landowners and merchants in Australia. [page 4b
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Anon. 1836. [Return of the Beagle and Darwin's observations]. Nautical Magazine 5: 755.
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Anon. 1836. [Return of the Beagle and Darwin's observations]. Nautical Magazine 5: 755. [page] 755 His Majesty's Sloop Beagle, Captain Fitzroy, has arrived and is now lying paid off at Woolwich. The Beagle sailed from England in 1831, for the purpose of surveying the coasts of South America; on which service she has been employed since that time, and on her way home has performed the circuit of the globe. She has successively visited the Galapagos, Tahiti, Tongataboo, New Zealand, Sydney, King
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Chancellor and van Wyhe eds. 'Sydney'. Beagle field notebook. EH1.3 [English Heritage 88202323] Transcribed and edited by Gordon Chancellor, John van Wyhe and Kees Rookmaaker. (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/) [front cover] Sydney Mauritius LT[V] 15 [inside front cover
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Singularly uniform tint, in bushes the vertical leaves singular effect: pretty birds, magnificent parrots: baited at the Weatherboard;1 walked mile ½ to see Cascade: most magnificent. astounding unique view, small valley not lead to expect such scene: rill of water, 1 'In the middle of the day we baited our horses at a little Inn, called the Weather-board.' Beagle diary, p. 309. [page 9a
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called Clwyd from the wooded plain, could not see the bottom;Reached Black Heath, comfortable as Welsh Inn, old Soldier 15 beds, in a barren mountain 70 60 miles from Sydney:1 Waggon with Wool. Bullocks 1 'The Blackheath is a very comfortable inn, kept by an old Soldier; it reminded me of the small inns in North Wales.' Beagle diary, p. 401. [page 12a
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Mr Browne1 men, very sensitive Scotchman, bad account of men, not reformation, or punishment, not happy but do not quarrel, excepting when drunk, quite impossible to reform. In Vale of Clwyd Granite 2500 ft country improves, trees park like scattered, then covering of pasture, green 1 Andrew Brown(e), farmer and superintendent of Wallerawang. See Nicholas and Nicholas 1989, pp. 44-5 and Beagle diary, p. 401. Darwin carried a letter of introduction from the owner, James Walker. [page 18a
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FitzRoy, R. 1836. Sketch of the Surveying Voyages of his Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 1825-1836. Commanded by Captains P. P. King, P. Stokes, and R. Fitz-Roy, Royal Navy. Journal of the Geological Society of London 6: 311-343. (Communicated by John Barrow)
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FitzRoy, R. 1836. Sketch of the Surveying Voyages of his Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 1825-1836. Commanded by Captains P. P. King, P. Stokes, and R. Fitz-Roy, Royal Navy. Journal of the Geological Society of London 6: 311-343. (Communicated by John Barrow) [page] 311 XVII. Sketch of the Surveying Voyages of his Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 1825 1836. Commanded by Captains P. P. King, P. Stokes, and R. Fitz-Roy, Royal Navy. Communicated by Sir John Barrow, Bart. THE best
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2 Lb of common Soap Tobacco Textual notes to the Sydney notebook [IFC] 1.3.] Down House number, not transcribed. 88202323] English Heritage number, not transcribed. 14] added by Nora Barlow, pencil, not transcribed. [37a] R. Macquarie just flowing] added heavy pencil. [IBC] Blackheath...No 1] written perpendicular to the spine in left margin. Wolgan Capita] written upside down from other entries on page. [3b] Capt King...Land] written upside down from other entries on page. [The Beagle field
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[List of reptiles and amphibians from the Beagle] 'Reptiles in spirits of wine'
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of p. 19 (verso) is by Darwin, as are the corrections of Covington's text. Syms Covington was Darwin's amanuensis and servant on the voyage of the Beagle; he continued to work for Darwin until 1839 This information has been supplied by Dr D.M. Porter, Cambridge (an American botanist) who visited the Zoology Library on 16 April 1981. Similar lists on the birds, fishes and insects are at Cambridge. 405052-1001 [1. John Edward Gray (1800-75), keeper of Zoology at the British Museum from 1840
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Barlow, Nora ed. 1963. Darwin's ornithological notes. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (7): 201-278. With introduction, notes and appendix by the editor.
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marginal sequence; this is wholly in keeping with the belief that they were written during the last year of the voyage with his rough notes before him. He added three specimens to his list after leaving the Galapagos. The last four chapters of the Voyage of the Beagle are birdless, except for the interest in the species that visited or inhabited the islands at which they called. IV. Fourthly, the first edition of The Voyage of the Beagle, 1839 (B. 1839). The ornithological passages occur in 13
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of the reproduction of the condor went through changes in the two editions of the Beagle, and again in the Zoology of the Beagle. The above passage, with its evidence of the prolonged juvenile state of the young bird, is given in Beagle, 1839, p. 220, but is much shortened in Beagle, 1845. In Zool. of Beagle, 1841, Darwin quotes M. Alcide d'Orbigny as contradicting the statement that the young birds cannot fly for the first whole year. Voyage dans l'Amerique Méridionale par A. d'Orbigny, 1835-47
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plants are not Bromelias; they bear a fruit like a pineapple; have strong recurved leaves armed with strong hooks; these spring from a woody stalk. It is called some name like Pophos? Bromelia is mentioned in Beagle '39, but omitted in Beagle '45. The identity of the plant does not seem to have been determined. 3 From on opening the stomach eleven lines back, MS. 58, one faint vertical, and a few wavy horizontal erasures have been made. Also two crosses in margin. Yet the substance of the
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FitzRoy, R. 1836. Sketch of the Surveying Voyages of his Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 1825-1836. Commanded by Captains P. P. King, P. Stokes, and R. Fitz-Roy, Royal Navy. Journal of the Geological Society of London 6: 311-343. (Communicated by John Barrow)
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the Beagle was examining the Galapagos* islands, traversing the Pacific Ocean, and returning to England by the way of the Cape of Good Hope. Traced copies of the charts of coasts adjacent to Buenos Ayres, of the whole coast of Chile, and of the greater part of the shores of Peru, were given to the respective governments of those countries before our vessels left their territories, and long before the original documents could reach England. Four years having elapsed since the Beagle left
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Barlow, Nora ed. 1963. Darwin's ornithological notes. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (7): 201-278. With introduction, notes and appendix by the editor.
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three and a half years, which I believe made him a confirmed believer in descent with modification. In his wanderings he had become physically and mentally aware of the biological barriers of sea, sterile plain and the Cordillera Range, and the part they played in geographical isolation; the succession of forms was there before his eyes, but he had not yet found his working model of Natural Selection. VI. Sixthly and finally follows the Zoology of the Beagle, Vol. II, 4to, published with the
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FitzRoy, R. 1836. Sketch of the Surveying Voyages of his Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 1825-1836. Commanded by Captains P. P. King, P. Stokes, and R. Fitz-Roy, Royal Navy. Journal of the Geological Society of London 6: 311-343. (Communicated by John Barrow)
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While the officers of the Beagle were employed in their usual duties afloat, Mr. Charles Darwin, a zealous volunteer, examined the shores. He will make known the results of his five years' voluntary seclusion and disinterested exertions in the cause of science. Geology has been his principal pursuit. Beginning with the right or southern bank of the wide river Plata, every mile of the coast thence to Cape Horn was closely surveyed and laid down on a large scale. Each harbour and anchorage was
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Barlow, Nora ed. 1963. Darwin's ornithological notes. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (7): 201-278. With introduction, notes and appendix by the editor.
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throughout the Notes, emphasizing his sense of their ambiguous taxonomic position. Their numbers in his specimen list are: 711, 712, 1224 and 1273, the last collected at Maldonado in May-June, 1833. This summary of his knowledge of Tinochorus Eschscholtzii over the whole South American continent must therefore have been written after Sept. 7th, 1835, when the Beagle left Lima. In Zoology of Beagle, 1841, Darwin writes: In the Appendix Mr. Eyton has given an anatomical description of this bird, which
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Barlow, Nora ed. 1963. Darwin's ornithological notes. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (7): 201-278. With introduction, notes and appendix by the editor.
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all mention of the beak resembling an organ of touch was left out of both Beagle '39 and Beagle '45. Owen's answer was not [page] 223 DARWIN'S ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTE
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, and adds: 'it would not be safe to deny altogether, a sensitive faculty in the beak of Rhyncops.' No mention of the sense of touch in Rhyncops' beak is made in Beagle '39 because Owen's answer did not arrive in time. 4 so much produced remains in Beagle '39. In Beagle '45 it is altered to so much projecting . 5 René-Primevère Lesson, Manuel d'Ornithologie, 2 tomes, Paris, 1828. [page] 224 DARWIN'S ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTE
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Barlow, Nora ed. 1963. Darwin's ornithological notes. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (7): 201-278. With introduction, notes and appendix by the editor.
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would not approach Vessel Beak of Cuttlefish The reference number is to specimen number 1624, Procellaria, the Great Nelly or Breakbones, Quebrantahuesos of the Spaniards. See Beagle '39, p. 354, Beagle '45, p. 289. Beneath the note is added Callao . [page] 231 DARWIN'S ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTE
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suggested alterations are written over these words: This is perhaps and This is more surprising . In Beagle '39, p. 476 the sentence runs: It is surprising that the change has not been greater. In B. '45, p. 399, It is surprising that they have not become wilder. 3 Faint marginal addition: Formerly birds tamer . 4 Note (B) on p. 78a: ς Was not the Furnarius tamer at the time of Pernetty, than at present? V. Account. See A. J. Pernety, Journal historique d'un voyage fait aux Iles Malouines, 1763-4
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FitzRoy, R. 1836. Sketch of the Surveying Voyages of his Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 1825-1836. Commanded by Captains P. P. King, P. Stokes, and R. Fitz-Roy, Royal Navy. Journal of the Geological Society of London 6: 311-343. (Communicated by John Barrow)
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Remarks on the Beagle's Chronometric Measurements. Before attaching and value to the results shown in the accompanying paper, many questions will probably be asked. Some of those questions I will endeavour to anticipate by the following short detail. The chronometers, twenty-two in number,* were taken on board a month before the Beagle finally sailed from Plymouth. Their boxes were placed in sawdust, divided and retained by partitions secured upon two wide shelves. All were in one small cabin
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FitzRoy, R. and Darwin, C. R. 1836. A letter, containing remarks on the moral state of Tahiti, New Zealand &c. South African Christian Recorder 2 (4) (September): 221-238.
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hours on board the Beagle. Their behaviour was extremely correct, and their manners were inoffensive. Judging from former accounts, and what we witnessed, I should think that they are improving yearly; and that the conduct of the missionaries, and their families, has an influence over them exceeding that of a very differently disposed people by whom, unfortunately, they are often visited. Thursday, 26th. —At daylight this morning some of our party went to the school at Papiete. As we had heard
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Darwin, C. R. 1832-1836. 'Shells in Spirits of wine'. (Beagle specimen list) CUL-DAR29.1.D1-D8 Transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker. (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/) 1 1832. Janr Shells in Spirits of wine 1. Lat; 22. North. Jan. 7 10sh chiefly. Pteropodous animals. viz Cleoclera. Atlanta peronii. Agaelea. Orthocerae. (?) or Cresis. Rang. 16. Patellae. C. Verd Isd 23. Patella. Archa. Quail Island. do 48. Lymnea Physa. St Martin. do 57. Bulla. V. 7.(c) do 59. Containing Crustaceae
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Geological diary: Falkland Islands ‘My observations on the geology of the Falkland Islands.’
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1 My observations on the geology of the Falkland Islands were made during two visits to the Eastern Isle in the Beagle, in the months of March 1833 1834. At the latter of these periods I crossed from Berkle Berkeley's Sound, to Choiseul bay returned by a longer circuit. From a series of specimens which, Mr Kent, when in the Adventure, had the kindness to collect for me at the Western island. I feel assured that the structure geology of the whole group is of a very uniform nature. The Falkland
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Geological diary: Falkland Islands ‘My observations on the geology of the Falkland Islands.’
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any great remote disturbance in a fluid. There 1 Presumably a reference to Bartholemew James Sulivan (1810-1890), second Lieutenant on the Beagle. Sulivan tiles] pencil in margin. 192v [blank] 19
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FitzRoy, R. 1836. Sketch of the Surveying Voyages of his Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 1825-1836. Commanded by Captains P. P. King, P. Stokes, and R. Fitz-Roy, Royal Navy. Journal of the Geological Society of London 6: 311-343. (Communicated by John Barrow)
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where met the eye; the effects of the upheaval of the land. I. Santa Maria. Besides suffering from the effects of the earthquake, and three invading waves which, coming from the west round both points of the island, united to overflow the low ground near the village, Santa Maria was upheaved nine feet. It appeared that the southern extreme of the island had been raised eight feet, the middle nine, and the northern end upwards of ten feet. The Beagle visited this island twice, at the end of
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Barlow, Nora ed. 1963. Darwin's ornithological notes. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (7): 201-278. With introduction, notes and appendix by the editor.
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Nature, 7th September, 1935, and in Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle, 1945, p. 246. Dr. Himmelfarb has questioned the early dating of the Ornithological Notes in her Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution (1959), Note 25, p. 384. Those who are interested should examine her arguments in the light of this transcript. The passage referred to above on the fauna of archipelagoes (see p. 74 MS.), which in my belief was written in the year 1836, shows how far his ideas had reached. These
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Barlow, Nora ed. 1963. Darwin's ornithological notes. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (7): 201-278. With introduction, notes and appendix by the editor.
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°) to Concepcion (37°) G1 MS. 8(a) It is exceedingly common both in La Plata Chili: {in the former country [it is del.] being known by the name of Callandria [corrected to Calandria] in 1 A capital G appears in the margin both at the beginning and end of the large square bracket, the significance of which I cannot explain. The substance occurs both in Beagle '39 and Beagle '45. Possibly it was for inclusion in Z. of B., '41. [page] 216 DARWIN'S ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTE
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Barlow, Nora ed. 1963. Darwin's ornithological notes. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (7): 201-278. With introduction, notes and appendix by the editor.
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the open plains of la Plata; [where it is called Carrancha, but inserted later] it is not unfrequent. in the most desert parts of Patagonia: [beginning of square bracket in text, ending p. 235, labelled H.] {In the Traversia between the rivers Negro Colorado, numbers constantly attend on the line of road, to devour the [carcases of the added later] exhausted animals, which may perish from fatigue thirst. On the west coast. it is abundant, even as far as Lima: although 1 See Beagle '39, p. 63
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Barlow, Nora ed. 1963. Darwin's ornithological notes. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (7): 201-278. With introduction, notes and appendix by the editor.
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, hour after hour, without any apparent exertion wheeling and gliding over mountain and river.2 1 See History of Chili by the Abbé Don J. Ignatius Molina, 1809, Vol. I, p. 220. 2 The remainder of MS. 49 and all of MS. 49 (a), have rough drafts for the above inserted passage on p. 49XXX, which remains with very slight alterations in Beagle '39, p. 223, and in Beagle '45, p. 186. I give the deleted rough drafts here; the last phrase, on the bird taking advantage of all air-currents, sounding so
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). The sexes were distinguished by S. Covington by 1 Note B on the verso of 61, is not given an exact place of insertion on the recto. For reference to Trochilus, see Beagle, 1839, MS. 330-332, and Beagle, 1845, MS. 271-272, where Note B is left out, and the whole reduced. [page] 254 DARWIN'S ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTE
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of specific differences in the different geographical regions; the species were sharply defined in the changing habitats of the vast continent. Darwin expands his criticism of Molina in both Beagle '39 and '45 in almost the same words in a footnote which ends: Was he at a loss how to classify them? and did he think that silence was the more prudent course? It is one more instance of the frequency of omission by authors, on those very subjects where it would be least expected. It will be noted
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