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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

consciousness in what a remote corner of the world you are then standing, come so strongly before the mind. Everything tends to this effect; the stillness of the night is interrupted only by the heavy breathing of the seamen beneath the tents, and sometimes by the cry of a night-bird. The occasional barking of a dog, heard in the distance, reminds one that it is the land of the savage. January 29th. Early in the morning we arrived at the point where the Beagle Channel divides into two arms; and

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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

his tribe some English: an old man spontaneously announced 'Jemmy Button's wife.' Jemmy had lost all his property. He told us that York Minster had built a large canoe, and with his wife Fuegia,* had several months since gone to his own * Captain Sulivan, who, since his voyage in the Beagle, has been employed on the survey of the Falkland islands, heard from a sealer in (1842 ?), [page] 229 FAREWELL VISIT TO WOOLLYA. CHAP. X

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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

mass, from the summit to the water's edge, is generally in full view. I remember having seen a mountain, first from the Beagle Channel, where the whole sweep from the summit to the base was full in view, and then from Ponsonby Sound across several successive ridges; and it was curious to observe in the latter case, as each fresh ridge afforded fresh means of judging of the distance, how the mountain rose in height. Before reaching Port Famine, two men were seen running along the shore and hailing

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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

that the clamour first raised, and the barking of the dogs, was quite ludicrous in contrast with the profound silence which in a minute or two afterwards prevailed. The next morning not a single Fuegian was in the neighbourhood. When the Beagle was here in the month of February, I started one morning at four o'clock to ascend Mount Tarn, which is 2600 feet high, and is the most elevated point in this immediate district. We went in a boat to the foot of the mountain (but unluckily not to the best

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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

to believe that the land was once joined, and thus allowed animals so delicate and helpless as the tucutuco and Reithrodon to pass over. The correspondence of the cliffs is far from proving any junction; because such cliffs generally are formed by the intersection of sloping deposits, which, before the elevation of the land, had been accumulated near the then existing shores. It is, however, a remarkable coincidence, that in the two large islands cut off by the Beagle Channel from the rest of

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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

; olives seldom ripen even partially, and oranges * With respect to Tierra del Fuego, the results are deduced from the observations by Capt. King (Geographical Journal, 1830), and those taken on board the Beagle. For the Falkland Islands, I am indebted to Capt. Sulivan for the mean of the mean temperature (reduced from careful observation at midnight, 8 A.M., noon, and 8 P.M.) of the three hottest mouths, viz. December, January, and February. The temperature of Dublin is taken from Barton. Ag eros

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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

,748 Humboldt. Bolivia, lat. 16 to 18 S. . . 17,000 Pentland. Central Chile, lat. 33 S. . . 14,500 to 15,000 Gillies, and the Author. Chiloe, lat. 41 to 43 S. . . 6,000 Officers of the Beagle, and the Author. Tierra del Fuego, 54 S. . . 3,500 to 4,000 King. As the height of the plane of perpetual snow seems chiefly to * See the German Translation of this Journal: and for the other facts Mr. Brown's Appendix to Flinders's Voyage. [page] 245 DESCENT OF GLACIERS. 1834

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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

height. Some of the icebergs were loaded with blocks of no inconsiderable size, of granite and other rocks, different from the clay-slate of the surrounding mountains. The glacier furthest from the Pole, surveyed during the voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, is in lat. 46 50 , in the Gulf of Penas. It is 15 miles long, and in one part 7 broad, and descends to the sea-coast. But even a few miles northward of this glacier, in the Laguna de San Rafael, some Spanish missionaries* encountered

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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 XII. Valparaiso Excursion to the foot of the Andes Structure of the land Ascend the Bell of Quillota Shattered masses of greenstone Immense valleys Mines State of miners Santiago Hot-baths of Cauquenes Gold-mines Grinding-mills Perforated stones Habits of the Puma El Turco and Tapacolo Humming-birds. CENTRAL CHILE. July 23rd. The Beagle anchored late at night in the bay of Valparaiso, the chief seaport of Chile. When morning came, everything appeared delightful. After Tierra del Fuego

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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

roofs, the view reminded me of St. Cruz in Teneriffe. In a north-easterly direction there are some fine glimpses of the Andes: but these mountains appear much grander when viewed from the neighbouring hills; the great distance at which they are situated, can then more readily be perceived. The volcano of Aconcagua is particularly magnificent. This huge and irregularly conical mass has an elevation greater than that of Chimborazo; for, from measurements made by the officers in the Beagle, its

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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 XIII. Chiloe General aspect Boat excursion Native Indians Castro Tame fox Ascend San Pedro Chonos Archipelago Peninsula of Tres Montes Granitic range Boat-wrecked sailors Low's Harbour Wild potato Formation of peat Myopotamus, otter and mice Cheucau and Barking-bird Opetiorhynchus Singular character of Ornithology Petrels. CHILOE AND CHONOS ISLANDS. November 10th. THE Beagle sailed from Valparaiso to the south, for the purpose of surveying the southern part of Chile, the island of

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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

under the command of Mr. (now Captain) Sulivan, to survey the eastern or inland coast of Chiloe; and with orders to meet the Beagle at the southern extremity of the island; to which point she would proceed by the outside, so as thus to circumnavigate the whole. I accompanied this expedition, but instead of going in the boats the first day, I hired horses to take me to Chacao, at the northern extremity of the island. The road followed the coast; every now and then crossing promontories covered

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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

difficult it must be to buy the smallest article, when such trouble is taken to recover so small a debt! In the evening we reached the island of San Pedro, where we found the Beagle at anchor. In doubling the point, two of the officers landed to take a round of angles with the theodolite. A fox (Canis fulvipes), of a kind said to be peculiar to the island, and very rare in it, and which is a new species, was sitting on the rocks. He was so intently absorbed in watching the work of the officers, that I

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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

, proceeded on their survey, but I remained on board the Beagle, which the next day left San Pedro for the southward. On the 13th we ran into an opening in the southern part of Guayatecas, or the Chonos Archipelago; and it was fortunate we did so, for on the following day a storm, worthy of Tierra del Fuego, raged with great fury. White massive clouds were piled up against a dark blue sky, and across them black ragged sheets of vapour were rapidly driven. The successive mountain ranges appeared

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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

by an earthquake Recent subsidence Elevated shells on San Lorenzo, their decomposition Plain with embedded shells and fragments of pottery Antiquity of the Indian Race. NORTHERN CHILE AND PERU. April 27th. I SET out on a journey to Coquimbo, and thence through Guasco to Copiap , where Captain Fitz Roy kindly offered to pick me up in the Beagle. The distance in a straight line along the shore northward is only 420 miles; but my mode of travelling made it a very long journey. I bought four horses

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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

advantage of having fresh water within a mile and a half. On the beach there were large piles of merchandise, and the little place had an air of activity. In the evening I gave my adios, with a hearty good-will, to my companion Mariano Gonzales, with whom I had ridden so many leagues in Chile. The next morning the Beagle sailed for Iquique. July 12th. We anchored in the port of Iquique, in lat. 20 12 , on the coast of Peru. The town contains about a thousand inhabitants, and stands on a little plain

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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

commonest bush is one of the Euphorbiace : an acacia and a great odd-looking cactus are the only trees which afford any shade. After the season of heavy rains, the islands are said to appear for a short time partially green. The volcanic island of Fernando Noronha, placed in many respects under nearly similar conditions, is the only other country where I have seen a vegetation at all like this of the Galapagos islands. The Beagle sailed round Chatham Island, and anchored in several bays. One night I

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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

large cacti, seemed to my fancy like some antediluvian animals. The few dull-coloured birds cared no more for me, than they did for the great tortoises. 23rd. The Beagle proceeded to Charles Island. This archipelago has long been frequented, first by the Bucaniers, and latterly by whalers, but it is only within the last six years, that a small colony has been established here. The inhabitants are between two and three hundred in number: they are nearly all people of colour, who have been

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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

decision was made, the law was issued verbally on the spot. This Tahitian parliament lasted for several hours; and when it was over Captain Fitz Roy invited Queen Pomarre to pay the Beagle a visit. November 25th. In the evening four boats were sent for her majesty; the ship was dressed with flags, and the yards manned on her coming on board. She was accompanied by most of the chiefs. The behaviour of all was very proper: they begged for nothing, and seemed much pleased with Captain Fitz Roy's

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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

, most useless in one hemisphere, into active citizens of another, and thus giving birth to a new and splendid country a grand centre of civilization it has succeeded to a degree perhaps unparalleled in history. 30th. The Beagle sailed for Hobart Town in Van Diemen's Land. On the 5th of February, after a six days' passage, of which the first part was fine, and the latter very cold and squally, we entered the mouth of Storm Bay: the weather justified this awful name. The bay should rather be called an

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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

the interior of New South Wales, uncontaminated by contact with the whites, swarms with children, those of Flinders' Island had during eight years, an accession of only fourteen in number! The Beagle staid here ten days, and in this time I made several pleasant little excursions, chiefly with the object of examining the geological structure of the immediate neighbourhood. The main points of interest consist, first in some highly fossiliferous strata, belonging to the Devonian or Carboniferous

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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

yards in width, separated perfectly calm air from a strong blast. I so much enjoyed my rambles among the rocks and mountains of St. Helena, that I felt almost sorry on the morning of the 14th to descend to the town. Before noon I was on board, and the Beagle made sail. On the 19th of July we reached Ascension. Those who have beheld a volcanic island, situated under an arid climate, will at once be able to picture to themselves the appearance of Ascension. They will imagine smooth conical hills

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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

left the Beagle, having lived on board the good little vessel nearly five years. Our Voyage having come to an end, I will take a short retrospect of the advantages and disadvantages, the pains and pleasures, of our circumnavigation of the world. If a person asked my advice, before undertaking a long voyage, my answer would depend upon his possessing a decided taste for some branch of knowledge, which could by this means be advanced. No doubt it is a high satisfaction to behold various

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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

, 142 Banks's Hill, 210 Barking-bird, 288 Basaltic platform of Santa Cruz, 180 Bathurst, Australia, 442 Bats, vampire, 22 Bay of Islands, New Zealand, 417 Beads', hill of, 149 Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego, 217 Beech-trees, 235, 281 Beetles alive in sea, 159 , dung-feeders, 490 at St. Julian, 170 in brackish water, 22 on a fungus, 32 Behring's Straits, fossils of, 132 Bell of Quillota, 255 Benchuca, 330 Berkeley Sound, 188 , Rev. J., on Conferv , 14 , on Cyttaria, 236 Bibron, M., 381, 385 Bien

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F2056.2 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. 2. Text Image PDF

, en zal gevolgelijk in staat zijn om levende jonge waterslakken naar een eiland van den oceaan of naar een ver afgelegen punt op het vaste land over te brengen. Sir CHARLES LYELL meldt mij dat er eens een duikerkever, Dyticuè) gevangen is met eene ronde kaphoornslak, Ancylus, die er op vastzat; en een waterkever van de zelfde familie, een Colymbele i kwam eens vliegende aan boord van the Beagle toen dat schip vijf en veertig mijlen van het naaste land verwijderd was, en wie weet hoe ver hij nog

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F380 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1860. The origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. New York: D. Appleton. New edition, revised and augmented. Text Image PDF

'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 islands. This is strikingly shown, as remarked by Alph. de Candolle, in large groups of terrestrial plants, which have only a very few aquatic members; for these latter seem immediately to acquire, as

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F672 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1860. Über die Entstehung der Arten im Thier- und Pflanzen-Reich durch natürliche Züchtung, oder, Erhaltung der vervollkommneten Rassen im Kampfe um's Daseyn. Translated by H. G. Bronn. Stuttgart: Schweizerbart. Text Image PDF

) Meilen weit fliegen und sich dann Nieder in einem Sumpfe oder Bache niederlassen, vielleicht auf einer ozeanischen Insel, wenn ein Sturm denselben eri'asst und übers Meer hin verschlagen hatte. Auch hat mich Sir Ch. Lyell benachrichtigt, dass man einen Wasserkäfer (I)yti-cus) mit einer ihm fest ansitzenden Süsswasser - Napfschnecke (Ancylus) gefangen hat: und ein andrer Wasserkäfer aus der Sippe Colymbetes kam einst an Bord des Beagle geflogen, als dieser 45 Englische Meilen vom nächsten Lande

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A17 Review: Carpenter, W. B. 1860. [Review of Origin and On the tendency to form varieties]. Darwin on the Origin of species. National Review, 10: 188-214. Text PDF

This is a problem which Mr. Darwin has been for some years essaying to resolve. His attention was first directed to the inquiry by some facts which struck him in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent, during that voyage on board H.M.S. Beagle of which he has given us so admirable a Journal. These facts seemed to him to throw some light on the origin of species that mystery of mysteries, as

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A30 Review: [Owen, Richard]. 1860. [Review of Origin & other works]. Edinburgh Review, 111: 487-532. Text Image PDF

him to discern in the common stock of facts, of coincidences, correlations and analogies in Natural History, deeper and truer conclusions than his fellow-labourers had been able to reach. These expectations, we must confess, received a check on perusing the first sentence in the book. '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

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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

these we gathered and brought home many. During my stay at Bahia Blanca, while waiting for the Beagle, the place was in a constant state of excitement, from rumours of wars and victories, between the troops of Rosas and the wild Indians. One day an account came that a small party forming one of the postas on the line to Buenos Ayres, had been found all murdered. The next day three hundred men arrived from the Colorado, under the command of Commandant Miranda. A large portion of these men were

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A2036 Review: Anon. 1860. [Review of Origin]. The Birmingham Journal (7 January): 7. Text PDF

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 7 Science has had a very valuable and remarkable contribution from a very able and accomplished philosopher, Mr. Charles Darwin, in his volume on The Origin of Species by the Process of Natural Selection – a book which is sure to excite as much attention and as much abuse as The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation did some years ago. Mr. Darwin's name, as a naturalist, is well known, from his voyage in the Beagle, and his various and

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A23 Periodical contribution: Fawcett, Henry. 1860. A popular exposition of Mr Darwin on the Origin of Species. Macmillan's Magazine (3 December): 81-92. Text Image PDF

those other causes which, according to his explanation, have made the geological record so extremely imperfect. The efficiency of denudation in completely removing every trace of a stratum, impressed itself upon Mr. Darwin's mind when, in the Beagle, he examined the western coast of South America. This coast along many hundred miles of its length is, by subteranneous agency, gradually rising with a uniform velocity of about three feet in a century. Suppose this upheaval has been continuous, the

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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

aigu, et retira sa tête sous sa carapace. Ces énormes reptiles, encadrés de lave noire, de broussailles nues, de grands cactus, m'apparaissaient comme des animaux antédiluviens. Quelques rares oiseaux à plumage terne, ne s'inquiétaient pas plus d'eux que de moi. Le 23, le Beagle fit voile pour l'île Charles. L'archipel Galapagos a été longtemps fréquenté, d'abord par les boucaniers, et plus tard par les pêcheurs de baleines. Mais il n'y a guère plus de six ans qu'une petite colonie s'y est

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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

. Quels dégâts ne doit donc pas faire dans un pays l'introduction de toute nouvelle bête de proie, avant que les instincts des animaux indigènes se soient adaptés à la ruse ou à la force du nouveau venu. Archipel des Galapagos : Oiseaux : Pyrocephalus nanus (en haut), Tenagra Darwin (ailes déployées), Sylvicola aureola (au-dessous à droite), Coctarnis assimilis (sur la pierre). — Reptile : Leiocephalus Grayi. — Dessin de Rouyer d'après l'atlas du voy. de l'Aventure et du Beagle. La classe des

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F3539 Periodical contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1882. [Letter to M. T. Masters, 13 April 1860]. [Funeral of Darwin]. Gardeners' Chronicle 17 (29 April): 564. Text

years' travel in the Beagle) can have got through such an amount of mental, ay, and physical labour, is one of the marvels that pertain to this great and good man. He has gone to his rest, and the lesson of his life is one of encouragement. It may be long ere such a genius again arises; but his method of working, as we have seen, was not mysterious— in its degree, it may be followed by all of us. We may follow in our halting fashion his method — we may strive to imitate his candour, his modesty

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CUL-DAR205.3.291 Printed: 1860.02.01 Corrected proofs of: [Journal of researches] 'stereotyped reprint' Postscript signed 'Feb. 1st 1860', pp. vi-vii Text Image

the 'Volcanic Islands visited during the Voyage of the Beagle;' and on the 'Geology of South America.' The sixth volume of the 'Geological Transactions' contains two papers of mine on the Erratic Boulders and Volcanic Phenomena of South America. Messrs. Waterhouse, Walker, Newman, and White, have published several able papers on the Insects which were collected, and I trust that many others will hereafter follow. The plants from the southern parts of America will be given by Dr. J. Hooker, in his

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A512 Review: [Church, W. R.] 1860. [Review of] On the origin of species. Guardian (London) (8 February): 134-135. Text Image PDF

justified in turning from the unread volume with a smile of incredulity. But the case is widely different when this theory is put forward by Mr. Darwin, a man confessedly in the foremost ranks of natural philosophy, a Fellow of the Royal, Geological, and Linn an Societies, honoured among his scientific peers (as was publicly shown not long ago in the assignment to him of the medal of the Geological Society), and already favourably known to the outer world by his celebrated Journal of the Beagle. A new

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A58 Review: [Bowen, Francis]. 1860. [Review of] On the Origin of Species, by Means of Natural Selection. Charles Darwin. Littell's Living Age. 66, Issue 848, 1 (April): 474-506. Text Image PDF

This theory, moreover, is entitled to all the advantage which it can derive from the high scientific reputation of its author. Mr. Darwin is one of the most eminent naturalists in England. The researches which he made in South America and the South Pacific, when he accompanied the Beagle in her surveying expedition round the world, and his speculations respecting the formation of coral reefs and atolls, somewhat daring and fanciful, but extremely ingenious and well-compacted, are large

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A509 Review: [Dixon, Edmund Saul]. 1860. [Review of Origin]. Natural selection. All the Year Round 3: 63 (7 July): 293-299. Text Image PDF

his Voyage with the Beagle he has delighted his readers with the simplicity and the clearness with which he has explained geological changes. For more than twenty years he has been patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on the origin of living things as we now behold them existing; regardless of expense and labour, he has long searched for the truth respecting this question. He believes he has found it, and he enunciates his creed in a

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CUL-DAR185.114a Photo: [1861] [photograph CDV of Darwin [Elliott & Fry 1874a.14 in the iconography by John van Wyhe] and biographical clipping] `[source unidentified]' Text Image

the autumn of that year, Captain FitzRoy, R.N., offered to give up part of his own cabin to any one who would volunteer to accompany H.M.S. Beagle as naturalist. Mr. Darwin offered his services, and sailed in the Beagle, for the survey of South America and the circumnavigation of the globe, on December 27, 1831, and returned to England October 2, 1836. Mr. Darwin published an account of the voyage under the title of ''Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various

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F381 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1861. On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray. 3d ed. Seventh thousand. Text Image PDF

BY THE SAME AUTHOR. A NATURALIST'S VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD; or A JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES into the NATURAL HISTORY and GEOLOGY of the COUNTRIES visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the Command of Capt. FITZ-ROY, R.N. Tenth Thousand. Post 8vo. 9s. ON THE STRUCTURE AND DISTRIBUTION OF CORAL REEFS. GEOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS ON VOLCANIC ISLANDS. GEOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS ON SOUTH AMERICA. A MONOGRAPH OF THE CIRRIPEDIA. 2 Vols. 8vo. ——————————————————————————— LONDON: PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND

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A1021 Book contribution: Griffin, Charles. 1861. Darwin, Charles. A dictionary of contemporary biography. London: Griffin, pp. 122-3. Text Image PDF

DARWIN, CHARLES, MA. Cantab., F.R.S., an eminent naturalist and author. When a very young man he accompanied Captain Fitzroy in his voyage round the world, in H.M.S. Beagle, during the years 1831—1836. His journal first appeared in 1839, as part of the general narrative of the voyage, and was subsequently re-published in a modified form under the title of Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the various Countries visited by H.M.S. 'Beagle.' In 1842, his work On the

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F381 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1861. On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray. 3d ed. Seventh thousand. 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 organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts, as will be seen in the latter chapters of this volume, seemed 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

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F381 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1861. On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray. 3d ed. Seventh thousand. Text Image PDF

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 islands. This is strikingly shown, as remarked by Alph. de Candolle, in large

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F655 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1862. De l'origine des espèces ou des lois du progrès chez les êtres organisés. Translated and with preface and notes by Mlle Clémence-Auguste Royer. Paris: Guillaumin et Cie. Text Image PDF

DE L'ORIGINE DES ESP CES OU DES LOIS DU PROGR S CHEZ LES TRES ORGANIS S. INTRODUCTION J' tais en qualit de naturaliste, bord du vaisseau de Sa Majest Britannique the Beagle, lorsque, pour la premi re fois, je fus vivement frapp de certains faits dans la distribution des tres organis s qui peuplent l'Am rique du Sud, et des rapports g ologiques qui existent entre les habitants pass s et pr sents de ce continent. Ces faits, ainsi qu'on le verra dans les derniers chapitres de cet ouvrage

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F800 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1862. On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects, and on the good effects of intercrossing. London: John Murray. 1st ed., 1st issue. Text Image PDF

BY THE SAME AUTHOR. THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION; or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Seventh Thousand. MURRAY. A NATURALIST'S VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD; or, a Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Capt. Fitz-Roy, R.N. Tenth Thousand. MURRAY. ON THE STRUCTURE AND DISTRIBUTION OF CORAL REEFS. SMITH, ELDER, Co. GEOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS ON VOLCANIC

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F655 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1862. De l'origine des espèces ou des lois du progrès chez les êtres organisés. Translated and with preface and notes by Mlle Clémence-Auguste Royer. Paris: Guillaumin et Cie. Text Image PDF

nature, qu'il conna t, non pas sous une seule de ses faces, mais sous plusieurs; et sa carri re d'observation est d j assez longue pour que le plus grand nombre de ces critiques ne puissent lui opposer une gale connaissance directe des grandes lois de la vie qu'il a vues l' uvre sous les zones terrestresles plus loign es. En 1839, il prit part, en qualit de naturaliste, au voyage de circumnavigation du Beagle. Dans cette m morable exp dition, il put recueillir d'innombrables faits sous toutes les

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F830 Book contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1862. [Recollections of Professor Henslow]. In Jenyns, L., Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S., F.C.P.S., late Rector of Hitcham and Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge. London: John Van Voorst, pp. 51-55. Text Image PDF

accompany him in his walks. He talked on all subjects, including his deep sense of religion, and was entirely open. I owe more than I can express to this excellent man. His kindness was steady: when Captain Fitzroy offered to give up part of his own cabin to any naturalist who would join the expedition in H.M.S. Beagle, Professor Henslow recommended me, as one who knew very little, but who, he thought, would work. I was strongly attached to natural history, and this attachment I owed, in large

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F655 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1862. De l'origine des espèces ou des lois du progrès chez les êtres organisés. Translated and with preface and notes by Mlle Clémence-Auguste Royer. Paris: Guillaumin et Cie. Text Image PDF

anique ou toute autre terre loign e o le vent laurait pouss travers la mer. Je tiens de sir Ch. Lyell quun Dytique a t pris emportant un Ancyle (coquille deau douce analogue aux patelles) qui adh rait fortement son corps; et jai vu moi-m me un Colymbetes, cest- -dire un col opt re aquatique de la m me famille, voler une fois bord du Beagle lorsque nous tions une distance de [page] 54

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Carroll2 Correspondence: FitzRoy Robert, Delamarche A. F. 1862.04.15 FitzRoy, Robert. 1862. [Letter, career resume and photo to A. Delamarche]. Text Image

Meteorological Department 2, Parliament Street, London, S.W. 15. April 1862 The undersigned was born in 1805 — entered the Navy in 1818 — and commanded a ship in 1820. This was the Beagle, in which seven years were actively employed in a detailed exploration and survey of Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego, the Falkland and Galapagos islands: from thence continuing a chronometric chain [e2