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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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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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shells. 2–3 Juan y Santacilla, Jorge and Ulloa, Antonio de. 1806. A voyage to South America...undertaken...by G. Juan and A. de Ulloa, Captains of the Spanish Navy. translated by John Adams. 4th ed. London: John Stockdale. [vol. 1 only, on Beagle, inscribed Robt FitzRoy to Charles Darwin ] CUL-DAR.LIB.330 vol. 1 Text [vol. 2 Text
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Remarks, 1839, p. 282: Mr. Sorrell, the boatswain of the Beagle, who has long been accustomed to these seas, informs me, that at this season he has seen small icebergs, with mud and gravel on them, floating from the shores. and footnote: Mr. Sorrell says, that he once saw an iceberg to the eastward of South Shetland, with a considerable block of rock lying on it. ] (10
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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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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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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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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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CUL-DAR33.166-216
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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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CUL-DAR33.166-216
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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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CUL-DAR41.47
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[Keeling geological specimens numbered 3565-3585, descriptions]
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. shell. Corals sand. — [sketch] a b c This sheet is a totally different kind of paper from CUL-DAR41.40-46, which are all watermarked W FINCHER 1835 ; this paper is watermarked BEN PICARDO 4 and is torn in half in the same manner as CUL-DAR41.46. See: Paper types used by Darwin during the voyage of the Beagle. 47
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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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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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°) 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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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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, 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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the male sex of certain animals; or the shrivelled wings beneath the wing-cases firmly soldered together of some coleopterous beetles. The Frigate is a noble bird, when seen, either soaring in a flock at a stupendous height (at which times it merits the name of the Condor of the ocean)1. 1 There is no discussion of the Frigate Bird in either Beagle '39 or '45, though it is figured and discussed in Zool. of Beagle '41, where the analogies of the vestigial mammae and the marsupial bones with the
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occur over half a mile inland. On stamping on the ground, many will fly out of one hole . Eggs white elongated, size of a Pidgeon. | MS. 80 Struthio Rhea. [The name is lightly erased, and the paragraph is preceded by an unclosed square bracket, possibly connected with end of paragraph mark, MS. 83(b). Beagle, '39 closely follows the Ostrich passages, pp. 105-110. Beagle, '45 is considerably condensed and altered, pp. 89-94.] This bird is well known to abound over the plains of Northern Patagonia
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] on an average than the numbers laid by one female in the season, then there must be as many nests as females, and each cock bird, will [in its turn del.] have its fair share in the labour of incubation; and that during a period when the females could not sit, on account of not having finished laying. [End of amendment (a). See Beagle '39 p. 107, Beagle '45, p. 91-2] | MS. 83 I have before mentioned the great number of Huachos or scattered eggs; so that in one day's hunting, the third part were
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Petise; he still writes that the only specimens which may be considered as certainly belonging to the Petise were those bought from the Indians. A comparison of these notes of varied dates has convinced me that the order of writing them was as follows: firstly, the first entries in C.U.L. Handlist of specimens, Jan.-Feb. 1834, whilst the events were still fresh in his mind. Secondly the first drafts of the Ornithological Notes, probably of several dates, but before April 2nd, 1836, when the Beagle
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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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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. [page] 221 A LETTER, Containing Remarks on the Moral State of TAHITI, NEW ZEALAND, c. ____ BY CAPT. R. FITZROY AND C. DARWIN, ESQ. OF H.M.S. 'Beagle.'1 ____ A VERY short stay at the Cape of Good Hope is sufficient to convince even a passing stranger, that a strong feeling against the Missionaries in South Africa is there
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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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,) taking them as they occur—without alteration—believing that, in their original language, the feelings excited at the time will be shewn better than by an abridgment. Monday, 16th Nov. 1835. At Tahiti.—The Beagle was scarcely secured at her anchorage, before a number of canoes had assembled around her. All could not get alongside—but those whose outriggers obliged them to keep at a distance, contained natives who appeared to be as happy, and as civilly-disposed, as those who patiently waited by
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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. (The Complete Work of Charles 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
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, sometimes more or less: the young shells were crawling about in the interior; every part seemed perfect. the bars or lines of the Branchiae were very much developed in superior part of shell.— Body large in proportion to shell: anterior part of foot much produced.— Eye black dots: general colour, yellowish white. East end of Beagle Channel. March 872. Shells. Hab. as (871). T. del Fuego. Do 879. Terebratula; deepish water; Ponsonby Sound for dissection. I imagine the depth to be between 20 50
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is by a frame. The singularity of this phenomenon, the beauty and utility of its effect has scarcely been Forster, Johann Reinhold. 1778. Observations made during a voyage round the world on physical geography, natural history, and ethnic philosophy. London: G. Robinson. [signed] Text. See the Beagle Library. Kotzebue, Otto von. 1830. A new voyage round the world, in the years 1823-1826. 2 vols. London: Henry Colburn. vol. 1 PDF 13b
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5. Coral Islands [in pencil in margin in third hand:] Wailutake islands of Raiatea Taha (?) included in one reef. In such cases, as in Gambier Island so well described by Captain Beechey where a group of small hilly islands is encircles by one grand reef, or as in Whylootacke (seen by the Beagle) where one single one is so situated, it becomes a question in which of the two classes, they ought to be arranged. [in pencil in margin in third hand: 'in the IId without doubt—'] In the island of New
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collection of facts with a set purpose is blind. The Ornithological Notes show how he was collecting, not blindly, but impartially, every sort of fact bearing on what are species. The following chronological record of drafts of the ornithological passages culminating in the Voyage of the Beagle, will help to place the Ornithological Notes in their true perspective. Some confusion may have arisen from Darwin's dated record of his ornithological work in the early Journal, pp. 8 and 9, edited by Sir Gavin
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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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followed. While the Beagle was at Valdivia, the great earthquake of the 20th of February, 1835, took place. Concepcion, February 20th. At ten in the morning very large flights of sea-fowl were noticed passing over the city of Concepcion, from the sea-coast towards the interior. In the minds of old inhabitants, well acquainted with the climate of Concepcion, some surprise was excited by so unusual and so simultaneous a change in the habits of those birds,* no signs of an approaching storm being
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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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Hope and Cape Horn appear to be ascertained to less than three seconds of time. Those of Valparaiso and Callao agree with the results of the best observations, calculated by Professor Oltmanns. That of Otaheite (or Tahiti) accords with the position assigned by Captain Cook and Mr. Wales. Out longitude of New Zealand agrees exactly with that of M. Duperrey, of the Coquille. From Sydney to King George's Sound the Beagle corroborates the determination of flinders; and from the Mauritius to the
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Itinerary of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle from 27th December, 1831, to 2nd October, 1836. The dates are given of the arrivals and departures from the ports of call; the periods on land when the main collections of specimens were made, can thus be easily compared with the long weeks at sea, when the material was being examined and written up. Left England Dec. 27, 1831 Arrived Chiloe Nov. 21, 1834 Arrived C. Verd Isds. Jan. 18, 1832 Left ditto Feb. 4, 1835 Left ditto Feb. 8, 1832 Arrived
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small flocks, plains of B. Ayres 1423 . in small flocks. inland 1424 cop Shot on board Beagle. on the Plata 1425 cop From an inland marsh. do 1426 Icterus B. Ayres 1427 cop Small flocks, very noisy chattering bird do 1428 cop Woodpecker Hab do 1429 cop Grebe, fresh water do 1430 cop 1431 cop Birds do [page] 226 DARWIN'S ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTE
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. frequents, sand dunes other barren very dry places. Is it same species with common species of La Plata? Habits similar, but appears rather smaller; lies closer; country far more sterile. Bahia. (Blanca, sandy shingle desert plains) Lat: 38°. 1448 cop Sylvia Hab do. 1449 cop. Charadrius. do 1450 cop. Bird. Same as at Maldonado. B. Ayres. 1451 cop. Certhia: B. Ayres: not uncommon at St Fe: one specimen was shot at Maldonado: 1452 cop B. Ayres 1453 Shot on board Beagle in the Plata 1454 cop Duck
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these Condors, I noted the following circumstance, that the hens have bright red eyes, but the cocks yellowish brown. In a specimen, which at S. Cruz, I knew 1 The asterisk again indicates a footnote for the Journal. In Beagle '39, 222, the footnote is taken almost verbatim from note MS. 48(b), which reads as follows: (b) In the case of the Vultur aura, Mr. Owen, in some notes read before the Zoological Society, has demonstrated from the developed form of the olfactory nerves, that this bird must
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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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barometers on board the Beagle, at that time in Valdivia, did not indicate any change. Still, at so great a distance, it does not follow that the mercury should move similarly. In a river near Lirquen, a woman was washing clothes at the time of the great shock. The water rose instantaneously from her feet half way up her legs, and then subsided gradually to its usual level. It became very muddy at the same time. On the sea beach the water swelled up to high-water mark at the time of the shock, without
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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 officers (for the sake of comparison and proof) during the first three years: since then they have been made by Mr. Stokes and Lieut. B. Sulivan, but inspected, compared, and often proved by myself. Each of those officers is a better computer than I am. In the list of resulting meridian distances, I have noticed a few remarkable agreements with the determinations of other persons. The accordance of different measurements made by the Beagle, between any two places, is very satisfactory. Yet
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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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DARWIN'S ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES [C.U.L. HANDLIST, No. 29(ii)] With an Introduction, Notes and Appendix By NORA BARLOW INTRODUCTION IN the Handlist of Darwin Papers at the University Library Cambridge, item 29 has the general title: MS. notes made on board H.M.S. Beagle, 1832-6, and 29 (ii) has the sub-title Birds. In the following transcript of these Ornithological Notes it is possible to assess the part played by ornithology in Darwin's developing thought. The actual dates when these multi
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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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frequent particular (dry) [added] spots, and day after day may be found there. I observed this fact both at Maldonado in Chili. From their squatting habits, they often rise unexpectedly close to a person. When a pair are together, one may be shot, without the other rising. The whole flock always rises together, each bird utters a squeak like a snipe. From their long scapulars, when on the wing, they fly just like snipes. Hence all the Sportsmen of the Beagle called them 'short-billed snipes.' When
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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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error. In the Beagle editions the comments on the song precede the main description. See Molina, History of Chili, 1809. [page] 217 DARWIN'S ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTE
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shore, was immediately seized on by several [of] these birds, who by blows tried to hasten its death. MS. 39 The Beagle was at the Falklands | only during the summer, but the officers of the Adventure, who were there in the winter, mentioned many extraordinary instances of their boldness rapacity the sportsmen, on shooting excursions, had difficulty in preventing them seizing the wounded geese, before their eyes; they actually pounced on a dog which was lying close by fast asleep. It is said
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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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of Chili. 1 Probably intended for broader . The extra r in broad, neighbourhead for neighbourhood, besides the long double s in occasion and occasionally, were amongst the constant early spelling mistakes when writing his Diary during the voyage. In the last of the small pocket books (See Beagle, 1945, p. 252,) Darwin lists the needed purchases in the next town, probably Cape Town, for use in the last lap home. These include 12 of the little Quires from the Captain Inkstand, pencils, Blotting
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