F1577    Periodical contribution:     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.   Text   Image   PDF

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

F1577    Periodical contribution:     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.   Text   Image   PDF

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

F1640    Periodical contribution:     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.   Text   Image   PDF

,) 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

F1577    Periodical contribution:     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.   Text   Image   PDF

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

A73    Periodical contribution:     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)   Text   Image   PDF

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

F1577    Periodical contribution:     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.   Text   Image   PDF

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

F1577    Periodical contribution:     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.   Text   Image   PDF

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

A73    Periodical contribution:     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)   Text   Image   PDF

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

F1577    Periodical contribution:     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.   Text   Image   PDF

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

F1577    Periodical contribution:     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.   Text   Image   PDF

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

F1577    Periodical contribution:     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.   Text   Image   PDF

terror to all small vessels. Quotation from Beagle Diary, 1933, p. 141. Darwin had great faith in Lowe's observations. [page] 249 DARWIN'S ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTE

F1577    Periodical contribution:     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.   Text   Image   PDF

. This appears to be one of those admirable provisions of Infinite Wisdom by which each created thing is adapted to the place for which it is intended. In picking up insects, or seeds which lie on hard iron-like lava, the superiority of such beaks over delicate ones, cannot, I think, be doubted … Voyage of the Beagle, Vol. II: 503, 1839. 2 Opposite this passage in margin is written analogous [or analogues] to Mr. Blyth's case. [page] 262 DARWIN'S ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTE

F1640    Periodical contribution:     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.   Text   Image   PDF

Yet some of those most degraded of human beings, four natives of Terra del Fuego,1 were carried to England in the Beagle; were placed under the care of a schoolmaster, in whose house they lived, (one excepted) and there learned to speak English, to use common tools, to plant, and to sow. They were taught the simpler religious truths and duties; and the younger two were beginning to make progress in reading and writing when the time arrived for their return to their own country. I landed them

F2476    Periodical contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1930. An early letter from Darwin to Owen. Nature. A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science vol. 125, no. 3163 (14 June): 910-11.   Text   PDF

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 910 THE letter printed below was bought at Sotheby's in March of this year for the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, by some friends of that institution. It was written rather more than two months after Darwin's return in the Beagle. The fossil vertebrates referred to in the letter were sent to the Royal College of Surgeons. Darwin wrote to Owen, who was five years his senior, as a young man addressing a more experienced and older colleague: later

F1577    Periodical contribution:     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.   Text   Image   PDF

the sea cliffs, not one had been seen. From these facts, from not seeing the Condor, in other parts of the coast, where there are not precipices, it would appear that the presence of this bird is here partly determined by the occurrence of such mural precipices. End of first major deletion. It is of interest to note that the lines of enquiry Darwin followed up later in the Journal of Researches and in the Zoology of the Beagle and in his evolutionary work often found their germinal suggestion in

CUL-DAR38.812-836    Note:    1836.01.00   Geological diary: New South Wales   Text   Image

accompanied the Beagle) has made correct very beautiful pictures. In both cases, the Stranger follows an insignificant rill of water, flowing down a slight depression, till he suddenly without any preparation arrives on the brink of an immense precipice. He sees beneath his feet, at a depth perhaps of 1500 ft: an ocean of forest land. This depressed bay or grand valley appears on all sides to be surrounded 1 Conrad Martens (1801-1878), Draughtsman of 2nd voyage of Beagle after the departure of Augustus

CUL-DAR41.53-56    Note:    [1836.04.00]   Sulivans outside deep soundings (and other lists of soundings, with   Text   Image

must be. At Anchorage most impalpable sand or mud generally sand in the hollows. excepting Capt FitzRoy soundings his in the deeper water chiefly only the filiaceous madrepore. 1 Peter Benson Stewart, mate on the Beagle. Darwin also spelled his name as Stuart in the Beagle diary. 54

CUL-DAR41.40-57    Note:    [1836.04.00]   [Notes on the geology and corals of Keeling Islands]   Text   Image

would be very little Breccia [illeg] 1 This diagram is discussed in Stoddart, David R., 1995. Darwin and the seeing eye: iconography and meaning in the Beagle years. Earth Sciences History, v. 14, p. 3-22. 2 Note this slip. Section of Island] pencil. diagrams and text] pencil. The period of time ... slope extends outside] pencil. [8

F1583e    Periodical contribution:     Herbert, S. ed. 1980. The red notebook of Charles Darwin. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series 7 (24 April): 1-164.   Text   Image   PDF

Rhea Darwinii [Pterocnemia pennata], Plate 47 from John Gould, The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. Part III: Birds. 5 numbers. (London, 1838-1841). Drawing by John Gould, lithograph by Elizabeth Coxen Gould. [page] 111 NOTE

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Plate 11 from Richard Owen, The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. Part I: Fossil Mammalia. 4 numbers. (London, 1838-1840). The plate contains figures of the bones of the right forefoot of Darwin's specimen of Macrauchenia patachonica. Drawing and lithograph by George Scharf. [page] 114 SANDRA HERBER

F1583e    Periodical contribution:     Herbert, S. ed. 1980. The red notebook of Charles Darwin. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series 7 (24 April): 1-164.   Text   Image   PDF

places named in the text. The first part of the notebook yields a perfect progression of place names corresponding to points visited by the Beagle from late May to the end of September 1836. The Beagle arrived at the Cape of Good Hope on 31 May 1836 and departed 18 June; page 15 of the Red Notebook contains the entry 'off Cape of Good Hope 70 fathoms 20 miles from the shore', and page 32 mentions the names of two prominent English residents of Cape Town, Sir John Herschel and Dr Andrew Smith. Page

F1583e    Periodical contribution:     Herbert, S. ed. 1980. The red notebook of Charles Darwin. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series 7 (24 April): 1-164.   Text   Image   PDF

geology as a science in the nineteenth century and on the career of Charles Darwin, F.R.S. (1809-1882). This entry in the notebook is in light brown ink. 4 Lyell, Principles of Geology. This entry is in light brown ink, and written over the immediately preceding series of dates. The dates pertain to the departure of H.M.S. Beagle from England. The Beagle sailed from England Tuesday 27 December 1831. The ship encountered heavy seas, caused by gales elsewhere, on Thursday 29 December 1831. For Darwin's

F1583e    Periodical contribution:     Herbert, S. ed. 1980. The red notebook of Charles Darwin. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series 7 (24 April): 1-164.   Text   Image   PDF

are still some field notes, but there are also reading notes (which are in fact sometimes notes on earlier reading notes hence their telegraphic brevity), and, most importantly, also notes on 'theories', 'conjectures', and 'hypotheses'. After June 1837, when the Red Notebook was presumably filled, Darwin began new notebooks where the presence of theoretical inquiries became even more marked. Indeed, if one takes all of Darwin's notebooks from the Beagle and immediately post-Beagle periods

F1583e    Periodical contribution:     Herbert, S. ed. 1980. The red notebook of Charles Darwin. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series 7 (24 April): 1-164.   Text   Image   PDF

'grand discussion' of South American geology with the publication of the third part of the geology of the voyage of the Beagle.23 Entries in the Red Notebook were also directed to the furtherance of another publishing project: the Journal of Researches, Darwin's narrative of the 1831-1836 voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle.24 While the 'Diary'25 Darwin kept during the voyage furnished the basic narrative for his Journal, he included two additional kinds of material in the published work. They included

F1583e    Periodical contribution:     Herbert, S. ed. 1980. The red notebook of Charles Darwin. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series 7 (24 April): 1-164.   Text   Image   PDF

Fitzroy, Robert, ed. 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. Vol. 1: Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830, under the Command of Captain P. Parker King, R.N., F.R.S. Vol. 2: Proceedings of the Second Expedition, 1831-36, under the Command of Captain Robert Fitz-Roy, R.N. [+ appendix]. Vol. 3