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

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. 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

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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

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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

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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

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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. [14v

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breakers. — Here we found great masses. rounded with a curvilinear outline, up to 8 ft in diameter 1 Bartholemew James Sulivan (1810-1890), second Lieutenant on the Beagle. JvW page is lightly crossed out in pencil. seaward of the Breccia] pencil line separates the previous writing from the following. [3v

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

Commonly used symbols and abbreviations code CR The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs (1842) Diary Charles Darwin's Diary of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Edited from the MS by N. Barlow (1933) GSA Geological Observations on South America (1846) JR Journal of Researches (1839) VI Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle (1844) Editorial symbols [ ] Darwin's addition Darwin's cancellation [ ] Editor's remark [ ... ?] Uncertain reading End

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N B In the SW extremity of the Island I saw some quartz siliceous rocks, which perhaps bespeak the existence of some quite distinct formation, in the possession of Capt. Lloyd. [John Augustus Lloyd (1800-54), civil engineer and surveyor. Surveyor-General, Mauritius, 1831-49. Mentioned in the Sydney notebook, p. 72a, Beagle diary, pp. 421-2, Journal of researches, p. 572-3, Volcanic islands, p. 28.] 88

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Beagle, under the Command of Capt. Fitzroy, R.N. during the Years 1832-1836 (London, 1846). 24 Charles Darwin, Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle (London, 1839). Also published as volume 3 of Robert Fitzroy, ed., Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle 1832-1836 (London, 1839). 25 See Nora Barlow, ed., Charles Darwin's Diary of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle (Cambridge, 1933). 26 Compare

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Configuration, and Relative Situation; With an Account of the Character and Manners of the Inhabitants. Being an Accompaniment to the Map of Louisiana. Philadelphia, 1816. Darwin, Charles. Geological Observations on South America. Being the Third Part of the Geology of the Voyage of the Beagle, under the Command of Capt. Fitzroy, R.N. during the Years 1832 to 1836. London, 1846. . Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, together with Some Brief

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del Fuego, and in Argentina from Neuqu n and Rio Negro southwards. It also occurs on various off-lying islands including Chilo . The Chilo race is the distinctive subspecies A. spinicauda fulva, being buff-coloured instead of mainly white below. For further information on Darwin's specimens see 'Darwin's Ornithological Notes'; JR, p. 301; and Gould, The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. Part III: Birds, p. 81. 157 Furnarius, the ovenbird, the genus which gives its name to the family

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brown ink. As a later addition it would appear to be a correction to the two figures immediately following, although only the '60' is actually cancelled. The sense of the passage would be that at 18-20 leagues from shore no bottom was found at 120 fathoms. 27 Probably Robert Fitzroy, F.R.S. (1805-1865), Captain of H.M.S. Beagle during its surveying voyage of 1831-1836, later vice-admiral in the navy and a meteorologist of considerable repute. It was with Fitzroy's assent that Charles Darwin became

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15e Find instances; The whole coast of New Holland shoals much: Dampier remarks on great flats on the NW coast: 21 8 leagues, from Sydney 90 fathoms La Peyrouse.22 South of Mocha; 19 miles. 65 Fathoms Vide facts in Beechey. on NW coast of America23 off Cape of Good Hope 70 fathoms 20 miles from the shore? Beagle Coast of Brazil? where not rivers [in my Coral paper]24 16e leagues Fathoms Parallel of St Catherine [27 30 S.]25 18 70 Paranagua [25 42 S.] 12 40 St Sebastian [23 52 S.] 12 50

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, and Notebook M was opened with this hypothesis in mind. For the period July 1838-July 1839, Darwin was thus pursuing three related but distinguishable lines of inquiry.38 Expressed schematically, his theoretical notebooks, which represent these lines of inquiry, developed from each other during the period from 1836-1839 as indicated in Figure 2. It is of course possible, even probable, that other notebooks from the post-Beagle period await discovery and reconstruction, and that new dimensions to

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. v-vi and 41-139. 34 The three parts of Darwin's geological results from the Beagle voyage as published in book form were as follows: The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs (London, 1842); Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle (London, 1844); and Geological Observations on South America (London, 1846). Although published over five years, Darwin regarded the three parts as forming a single work. 35 Darwin's first public announcement of

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fossil mammals. For Darwin's account of the opening of negotiations with Owen with respect to collections from the Beagle voyage see the letter from Darwin to J. S. Henslow, dated 3 October 1836 in Nora Barlow, ed., Darwin and Henslow: The Growth of an Idea (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1967), pp. 118-119. Owen's completed work on Darwin's specimens is contained in Richard Owen, The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle 1832-1836 Edited and Superintended by Charles Darwin. Part I: Fossil Mammalia

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oiseaux du Paraguay et de la Plata, par le m me auteur, traduite, d'apr s l'original espagnol, et augment e d'un grand nombre de notes, par M. Sonnini. 4 vols. + atlas. Paris, 1809. Ball, John. 'Geology, and physical features of the country west of the Rocky Mountains, c.' American Journal of Science and Arts. vol. 28 (1835), pp. 1-16. Barlow, Nora, ed. Charles Darwin's Diary of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. Cambridge, 1933. ed. Darwin and Henslow: The Growth of an Idea. Letters 1831-1860

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sedimentary rocks in Alps, 100e; orbicular structure of, 153; in relation to breccia between primary and secondary formations, 110 Gravel as origin of white beds in Patagonia, 114e Greenstone cones, origin of, 88e-89 Greywacke generally absent in Tierra del Fuego, 99e Guanuaxuato, geology of, 170e-171e, 175e Habitation in perpetual snow, subterranean lakes, near volcanos, and in lakes of brine, 128 Hippopotamus bones, preservation of in shark's belly, 8e-9 H.M.S. Beagle, dates relating to voyage, inside

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The Red Notebook is one of a series of notebooks kept by Charles Darwin during and immediately following his service as naturalist to the 1831-1836 surveying voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. It forms part of the collection of Darwin manuscripts at Down House in Kent, Darwin's former home, and, since 1929, a museum in his honour. The notebook came to Down House by arrangement with the Darwin family following Sir George Buckston Browne's purchase of the house for use as a museum.1 It is a well-made but

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professional opinions for support. Indeed in his formal presentation of his Beagle material Darwin took pains to emphasize that professional judgement must be relied on. Speaking of the Gal pagos mockingbirds in particular he wrote: I may observe, that [if] some naturalists may be inclined to attribute these differences to local varieties then the experience of all the best ornithologists must be given up, and whole genera must be blended into species.20 The significance of a March 1837 date for

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London address, notebooks '2' (the Red Notebook) and '5' ('St Helena Model') are partly of post-voyage date, and the others are field notebooks from the voyage. None of the twenty-four notebooks at Down House has previously been published in its entirety, but selections from all of them are contained in Nora Barlow, ed., Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle (London, 1945). For information relating to the deposit of the notebooks at Down House see Darwin MSS, Cambridge University Library