F1583    Book:     Stauffer, R. C. ed. 1975. Charles Darwin's Natural Selection; being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

. pendula, B. glutinosa, B. pubescens all varieties, 118 n6 Bevan, Edward Doomed bee, its sting used, never returns to hive, 380 n. 2 Biberg, Isaac J. Thorn bush protects young trees from cattle, 193 n 1 Blackwell, John Birds' nests can deviate from species' norm, 505; Yellow bunting nests on bare ground, 504 Deformed mandibles in birds, 206 n 1 Variable number of eyes in spiders, 112 Wild birds do not sing as well as when captured, 518 n 5 Blaine, Delabere P. Beagle x spaniel mongrel hunts hares

F1583    Book:     Stauffer, R. C. ed. 1975. Charles Darwin's Natural Selection; being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

proportional length of the intestines to vary considerably. He found the same variability in the number 1 Zoology of Voyage of Beagle: Birds p. 66, 67 2 Sir J. Richardson Swainson, Fauna Boreali-Americana. p. 27 3 Fulica Americana, in Richardson's Fauna Bor. Americ. p. 404 4 Ib. Birds. p. 58, 60, 80, 90 5 Ib. p. 469 6 [Here Darwin left an unfilled blank space for the citation.] See Histoire des anomalies, I, p. 660.] 7 [Here Darwin later added: 'Owen Ourang Outang'.] 8 [See Br. Ass. Rep. for 1841 (1842

F1583    Book:     Stauffer, R. C. ed. 1975. Charles Darwin's Natural Selection; being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

slightly different variety, tending to haunt a somewhat different station, breeding/44/at a somewhat different season, from like varieties preferring to pair with each other. 1 Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle, Pl. 36 to 44. [page] 258 ON NATURAL SELECTIO

F1583    Book:     Stauffer, R. C. ed. 1975. Charles Darwin's Natural Selection; being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

protected homes. In ostriches which inhabit continents great islands, as we see that they/21A/ can escape danger by their fleetness, in close quarters by their dangerous kicks, quite as well as any small quadruped, disuse together with the increasing weight of their bodies may well have rendered them incapable of flight. The fact of so many birds with imperfect wings inhabiting oceanic islands, naturally leads us to/ 1 Micropterus brachypterus Eyton.. Zoology of Voyage of Beagle. [Part III] p. 136. 2

F1583    Book:     Stauffer, R. C. ed. 1975. Charles Darwin's Natural Selection; being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

Berberis dulcis a bush very unlike the common barberry I found its twigs covered with Aphides on which Coccinellae were preying; its flowers were visited by Bees, visits indispensable, I believe, to its fertilisation, its fruit 1 Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle p. 113. 2 Picus varius. see Mr. T. Macculloch in the Boston Journal of Nat. History vol 4. p. 406. 3 [CD. MSS., vol. 48, note slip no. 8: 'Hearne's Travels p. 370 The black bear catches fresh water insects by swimming with mouth open

F1583    Book:     Stauffer, R. C. ed. 1975. Charles Darwin's Natural Selection; being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

-places, have often been justly advanced as surprising instincts. With respect to the two main points which concern us: we have, firstly, in different birds, a perfect series from those which occasionally or regularly 1 LeRoy Lettres Philosoph. 1802. p 228. 2 Youatt on the Dog p. 31. Daniel (see Blaine Encyclop. of Rural Sports p. 863) asserts that a cross of the Beagle generations back, will give to a spaniel a tendency to hunt hares over feathers. See p. 793 for account of cross of Setter Pointer

CUL-DAR10.2.(1-77)    Draft:    1857   'Natural selection' chapter 6 (On natural selection)   Text   Image

* Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle Pl. 36 to 44. (4

CUL-DAR11.1.(1-127)    Draft:    1857   'Natural selection' chapter 7 (Laws of variation; varieties and species compared)   Text   Image

(Ch. 7 Disuse) marked varieties, we frequently meet with structure analogous to that produced resulting from disuse under domestication. Thus the great logger-headed Duck*(*Micropterus brachypterus Eyton. Zoology of Voyage of Beagle. p. 136.) of Tierra del Fuego, which so much surprised the old voyagers, which I have often watched, cannot use its wings more than a fat Aylesbury duck, is under any extremity incapable of flight. Feeding, as it chiefly does in the great beds of floating kelp

A244    Periodical contribution:     Owen, Richard. 1857. On the Scelidothere (Scelidotherium leptocephalum, Owen). [Read 18 December 1856] Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 147: 101-110.   Text   Image   PDF

Punta Alta, Northern Patagonia, which were described by me in the chapters of the Appendix to the 'Natural History of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle,' treating of the Fossil mammalia* collected during that voyage. The subsequent acquisition by the British Museum of the collection of Fossil Mammalia brought from the pleistocene beds, Buenos Ayres, by M. BRAVARD, has given further evidence of the generic distinction of the Scelidothere from the other Gravigrades of the Bruta phyllophaga , and has

F3555    Book contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 2005. Draft of Origin of species, Sect. VI, folio 214. Sotheby's The library of Irwin Silver: New York April 26, 2005. (N08094, Lot 29). New York: Sotheby's, frontispiece and pp. 45-7.   Text   Image   PDF

progress only by the shortest slowest steps, can never take a leap. The present page is one of a handful of scattered leaves that survive from the manuscript that Darwin rushed to complete in the second half of 1858. (Just five different leaves have appeared at auction in the last three decades.) Although Darwin had assimilated the researches and observations from his five years as naturalist aboard the survey ship H.M.S. Beagle into the essential formulation of his theory of natural selection

Christies-9178-Lot77    Draft:    [1858]   Draft of Origin, Sect. VI, folio 229   Text   Image

Beagle voyage, and his final text as published in 1859. In that year, writing to Alfred Russell Wallace--who had introduced his own theory of evolution at about the same time--Darwin referred to his extracts (written in 1839), now just twenty years ago! which were never for an instant intended for publication ; this echoed another note on the contents page of a draft sent to Hooker, prior to publication, stating that this was sketched in 1839 copied out in full as was written read by you in 1844. A

F373    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1859. On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray. 1st ed., 1st issue.   Text   Image   PDF

ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. ————— INTRODUCTION. WHEN on board H.M.S. 'Beagle,' as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species—that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers. On my return home, it occurred to me, in 1837, that something

F3407    Book contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1932. [Letters to John Murray, 1859]. In Paston, George (pseud for Emily Morse Symonds), At John Murray's- records of a literary circle. 1843-1892. London, pp. 168-70.   Text   PDF

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 168 DARWIN'S ORIGIN OF SPECIES JOHN MURRAY, as an amateur geologist, was keenly interested in the scientific speculations of his day. Like his father, he published the works of Mrs. Somerville, Sir Roderick Murchison and Sir Charles Lyell. In 1845 he bought the copyright of Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle (first published by Colburn) for £150. When, early in 1859, Lyell asked him to consider an important new work by Darwin he readily agreed to

PC-Virginia-Francis-F373    Printed:    1859   On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray. [Francis Darwin's copy]  London   Text   Image   PDF

informs me that a Dyticus has been caught with an Ancylus (a fresh-water shell like a limpet) firmly adhering to it; and a water-beetle of the same family, a Colymbetes, once flew on board the 'Beagle,' when forty-five miles distant from the nearest land: how much farther it might have flown with a favouring gale no one can tell. With respect to plants, it has long been known what enormous ranges many fresh-water and even marsh-species have, both over continents and to the most remote oceanic

A507    Review:     Anon. 1859. Charles Darwin on the origin of species. Chambers's Journal 11: 388-391.   Text   Image   PDF

, as naturalist of the Beagle in her voyage round the world; he has since lived much in retirement, on account of the state of his health, but devoting himself all the time to experimental inquiries regarding this very subject. The result is a pile of observations calculated to form a large work, but of which he has been pleased to send forth an introductory sketch or summary in the volume before us.* Mr Darwin's theory is, that there is a real variability in organisms, acting through the medium of

F20    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1860. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world, under the command of Capt. Fitz Roy R.N. London: John Murray. Tenth thousand. Final text.   Text   Image   PDF

Darwin, C. R. 1860. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world, under the command of Capt. Fitz Roy R.N. London: John Murray. Tenth thousand. Final text. [spine] NATURALIST'S VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD DARWIN. LONDON JOHN MURRAY. [front cover

F20    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1860. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world, under the command of Capt. Fitz Roy R.N. London: John Murray. Tenth thousand. Final text.   Text   Image   PDF

CHAPTER V. Bahia Blanca Geology Numerous gigantic extinct Quadrupeds Recent Extinction Longevity of Species Large Animals do not require a luxuriant vegetation Southern Africa Siberian Fossils Two Species of Ostrich Habits of Oven-bird Armadilloes Venomous Snake, Toad, Lizard Hybernation of Animals Habits of Sea-Pen Indians Wars and Massacres Arrow-head, antiquarian Relic. BAHIA BLANCA. THE Beagle arrived here on the 24th of August, and a week afterwards sailed for the Plata. With Captain Fitz

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passage. By the evening of the 7th we were on board the Beagle after an absence of twenty days, during which time we had gone three hundred miles in the open boats. On the 11th, Captain Fitz Roy paid a visit by himself to the Fuegians and found them going on well; and that they had lost very few more things. On the last day of February in the succeeding year (1834), the Beagle anchored in a beautiful little cove at the eastern entrance of the Beagle Channel. Captain Fitz Roy determined on the bold

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still night, after having been so long involved in the din of the warring elements! January 15th, 1833. The Beagle anchored in Goeree Roads. Captain Fitz Roy having resolved to settle the Fuegians, according to their wishes, in Ponsonby Sound, four boats were equipped to carry them there through the Beagle Channel. This channel, which was discovered by Captain Fitz Roy during the last voyage, is a most remarkable feature in the geography of this, or indeed of any other country: it may be

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of the Indians beyond the boundaries of the plain, on which the fortress stands. The part of the harbour where the Beagle intended to anchor being distant twenty-five miles, I obtained from the Commandant a guide and horses, to take me to see whether she had arrived. Leaving the plain of green turf, which extended along the course of a little brook, we soon entered on a wide level waste consisting either of sand, saline marshes, or bare mud. Some parts were clothed by low thickets, and others

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. Before sunrise we commenced our descent. We shot down the stream with great rapidity, generally at the rate of ten knots an hour. In this one day we effected what had cost us five-and-a-half hard days' labour in ascending. On the 8th, we reached the Beagle after our twenty-one days' expedition. Every one, excepting myself, had cause to be dissatisfied; but to me the ascent afforded a most interesting section of the great tertiary formation of Patagonia. On March 1st, 1833, and again on March

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, crossed the mountains from the eastern coast of Tierra del Fuego, and made inroads on the natives of this part of the country. It was most curious to watch him when thus talking, and see his eyes gleaming and his whole face assume a new and wild expression. As we proceeded along the Beagle Channel, the scenery assumed a peculiar and very magnificent character; but the effect was much lessened from the lowness of the point of view in a boat, and from looking along the valley, and thus losing all

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pot in which it has been boiled, or have burst forth from smaller orifices on the flanks; in their descent they have spread over miles of the sea-coast. On both of these islands, eruptions are known to have taken place; and in Albemarle, we saw a small jet of smoke curling from the summit of one of the great craters. In the evening we anchored in Bank's Cove, in Albemarle Island. The next morning I went out walking. To the south of the broken tuff-crater, in which the Beagle was anchored

F2056.1    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1860. Het ontstaan der soorten van dieren en planten door middel van de natuurkeus, of het bewaard blijven van bevoorregte rassen in de strijd des levens. With a preface and an epilogue by the translator Tiberius Cornelius Winkler. 1st ed. Haarlem: A. C. Kruseman, 2 vols. vol. 1.   Text   Image   PDF

INLEIDING. Toen ik aan boord van het schip the Beagle als natuurkundige eene reis rondom de aarde maakte, werd ik vooral getroffen door sommige bijzonderheden en feiten, betreffende de verspreiding der dieren en planten van Zuid-Amerika, en de geologische betrekkingen van de tegenwoordige tot de verledene bewoners van dat gedeelte der aarde. Die feiten, meende ik, verspreidden eeniglicht over het ontstaan der soorten — dat grootste aller geheimen, zooals het door zekeren wijsgeer is genoemd

F180    Periodical contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1860. Voyages d'un naturaliste: l'Archipel Galapagos et les attolls de coraux. Translated by Mademoiselle A. de Montgolfier (Galapagos) & Madame S. W. Belloc (Attolls) Le tour du monde: 139-159.   Text   Image   PDF

régions inférieures sont-elles très-stériles, tandis qu'à une hauteur de trois à quatre cents mètres l'air est humide et la végétation passablement abondante, surtout dans les parties sous le vent qui, les premières, reçoivent et condensent l'humidité de l'atmosphère. L'île Chatam, dans l'archipel Galapagos. — Dessin de E. de Bérard d'après un croquis inédit de Ph. King, midshippman à bord du Beagle. Le 17 septembre, au matin, nous abordâmes dans l'île Chatam. Son profil se dessine arrondi et peu