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A268 Book: Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons. Text Image PDF

CHAPTER III. THE YOUNG NATURALIST. The Beagle—An Offer of Importance—The Young Naturalist—The Voyage—Powers of Observation—Cape Verd Islands—Tours of Investigation—Dust-Showers—Wonderful Phenomena—Geological Studies—St. Paul's Rocks—Fernando de Noronha. IN 1831 the British Government decided to send out a well-equipped vessel to complete the survey of the South American coast, begun by Captain Shaw some years previous. The vessel selected for this work was the Beagle, a six-gun brig, and

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F1461 Book: Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray. Text Image PDF

WRIGHT. Wright, Chauncey, article against Mivart's 'Genesis of Species,' 275, 276. Writing, manner of, 50, 97-99. ZACHARIAS, DR., OTTO, letter to, on the theory of evolution, 166. ZOOLOGY Zoology, lectures on, in Edinburgh, 14. 'Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle,' arrangements for publishing the, 143; Government grant obtained for the, 144; publication of the, 31, 32. THE END. LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS. [page 349

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F1461 Book: Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray. Text Image PDF

world. The Beagle is described* as a well-built little vessel, of 235 tons, rigged as a barque, and carrying six guns. She belonged to the old class of ten-gun brigs, which were nicknamed coffins. from their liability to go down in severe weather. They were very deep-waisted, that is, their bulwarks were high in proportion to their size, so that a heavy sea breaking over them might be highly dangerous. Nevertheless, she had * Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, vol. i. introduction xii. The

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A268 Book: Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons. Text Image PDF

On December 6th, Darwin again set sail in the Beagle, after a most successful trip through the country, and carried aboard collections that well represented the fauna of the locality. Being at sea, he found, did not entirely prevent the collection of shore animals. Thus one evening, when ten miles off shore, near the bay of San Blas, the Beagle was fairly surrounded by a shower of butterflies, which extended as far as the eye could reach. Even with a telescope no spot could be discovered free

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CUL-DAR107.11-18 Draft: 1892 [Reminiscences of Mr Darwin on the Beagle] Darwin on the Beagle] Text Image

1836 he published as is well known his Journal making it the 3rd volume of a series of which the 1st was Capt. King's account of the first expedition of the Adventure Beagle and the 2nd was Capt. Fitzroy's account of the Beagle voyage from 1831 to 1836. Mr Darwins work was received by the literary scientific world with marked attention - critics at once placed it on a level with Humboldts narratives - several editions were produced. the work is now a standard one in all libraries. Mr Darwin has

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A268 Book: Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons. Text Image PDF

CONTENTS CHAPTER I. PAGE THE BOY DARWIN 1 The First Paper—Taste for Natural History—Birthplace-Early School-Days—Religious Nature—Books Which Influenced Him—Associates—Introduction to Scientific Men-Taste for Sport. CHAPTER II. COLLEGE DAYS 12 College Life—Thoughts of Entering the Church—A Poor Mathematician— Beetle Collecting—First Appearance in Print—Associations with Eminent Men—Scientific Reading —Favourite Authors—Interest in Geology. CHAPTER III. THE YOUNG NATURALIST 19 The Beagle—An

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A268 Book: Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons. Text Image PDF

Darwin says: I thank God I shall never again visit a slave-country. To this day, if I hear a scream, it recalls with painful vividness my feelings, when, passing a house near Pernambuco, I heard the most pitiable moans, and could not but suspect some poor slave was being tortured. The Cape Verd Islands were next visited, from there sailing to the Azores, and on the 2d of October the Beagle cast anchor at Falmouth after an absence of nearly five years. [page 123

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F1461 Book: Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray. Text Image PDF

excused for writing so much about himself when he has just passed the examination; so you must excuse [me]. And on the same principle do you write a letter brimful of yourself and plans. THE APPOINTMENT TO THE 'BEAGLE.' In a letter addressed to Captain Fitz-Roy, before the Beagle sailed, my father wrote, What a glorious day the 4th of November will be to me my second life will then commence, and it shall be as a birthday for the rest of my life. Foremost in the chain of circumstances which led to his

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F1461 Book: Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray. Text Image PDF

well-nigh forgotten, I think it far the most fortunate circumstance in my life that the chance afforded by your offer of taking a Naturalist fell on me. I often have the most vivid and delightful pictures of what I saw on beard the Beagle* pass before my eyes. These recollections, and what I learnt on Natural History, I would not exchange for twice ten thousand a year. * According to the Japan Weekly Mail, as quoted in Nature, March 8, 1888, the Beagle is in use as a training ship at Yokosuka, in

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F1835 Book contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1892. Stokes' charges and Darwin's letters. In W. L. Rees and L.Rees. The life and times of Sir George Grey, K.C.B. 2d ed. London: Hutchinson, pp. 591-595. Text Image PDF

Darwin, C. R. 1892. Stokes' charges and Darwin's letters. In Rees, W. L. and L. Rees, The life and times of Sir George Grey, K.C.B. London: Hutschinson. 2d edition, pp. 591-595. [page 591] APPENDIX. (NOTE B.—See pages 68 to 72.) STOKES' CHARGES AND DARWIN'S LETTERS. THE controversy alluded to between Captain Stokes and Sir George Grey, in pages 68 to 72, led to a strange correspondence between Grey and Darwin. The great naturalist had sailed on his memorable voyage in the Beagle a few years

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A268 Book: Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons. Text Image PDF

reason. During his voyage on the Beagle he collected a very large number of interesting species, especially in Coleoptera, and they formed the basis of many memoirs by Walker, Newman, and White, and particularly by G. R. Waterhouse, who named Odontoscelis Darwinii after him. These memoirs were published either in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History^ and in the Transactions of the London Entomological Society, or in various entomological periodicals, and I append a list, which, in this

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A268 Book: Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons. Text Image PDF

Armadillo, 49 Callao, 103 Cape Horn, 70 Ascenium, 121 Cape of Good Hope, 128 Aspalax, 44 Cape Verde Islands, 22 Atavism, 181 Capybara, 43 Atlantic cable. Atoll, 117 Cattle, peculiar breed of, 67 Azara, 45, 65 Chacao, 87 Azores, 122 Chamisso, 114 B Charles Island, 111 Bahia, 28 Chatham, 107 Bahia Blanca, 104 Chile, 37 Baker, Frank, 195, 250 Chiloe, 37 Banda Oriental, 104 Chonos Archipelago, 87 Bastile 170 Cirripedia, 264 Beagle, 5, 19, 263 Cocoa-nut, 115 Beagle Inlet, 80 Colorado River, 4 Conception, 90

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F1461 Book: Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray. Text Image PDF

to me: Your father is as vividly in my mind's eye as if it was only a week ago that I was in the Beagle with him; his genial smile and conversation can never be forgotten by any who saw them and heard them. I was sent on two or three occasions away in a boat with him on some of his scientific excursions, and always * His other nickname was The Flycatcher. I have heard my father tell how he overheard the boatswain of the Beagle showing another boatswain over the ship, and pointing out the officers

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F1461 Book: Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray. Text Image PDF

geology or any other science. Voyage of the 'Beagle': from December 27, 1831, to October 2, 1836. On returning home from my short geological tour in North Wales, I found a letter from Henslow, informing me that Captain Fitz-Roy was willing to give up part of his own cabin to any young man who would volunteer to go with him without pay as naturalist to the Voyage of the Beagle. I have given, as I believe, in my MS. Journal an account of all the circumstances which then occurred; I will here only

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F1461 Book: Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray. Text Image PDF

, 327. Classics, study of, at Dr. Butler's school, 9. Climbing plants, 45, 313-315. 'Climbing Plants,' publication of the, 315. Coal, supposed marine origin of, 158. Coal-plants, letters to Sir Joseph Hooker on, 158, 159. Cobbe, Miss, letter headed Mr. Darwin and vivisection in the Times, 290. Coldstream, Dr., 12. Collections made during the voyage of the 'Beagle,' destination of the, 141. Collier, Hon. John, portrait of C. Darwin, by, 292. Cooper, Miss, 'Journal of a Naturalist,' 249. Copley medal

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A268 Book: Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons. Text Image PDF

CHAPTER V. IN THE LAND OF THE SACRED TREE. The Rio Negro—Trips into the Interior—The Sacred Tree—Superstition of Natives—Salt Lakes—Bahia Blanca—A Tomb of Giants—The Mylodon Darwinii—The Armadillo—Hibernation —Careful Work—War—General Rosas—Brutal Natives—Skilled Equestrians. FROM Maldonado the Beagle sailed south, arriving at the mouth of the Rio Negro in August, 1833. Here Darwin found a newer and more interesting field for work, and applied himself assiduously to the investigation of the

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A268 Book: Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons. Text Image PDF

CHAPTER VII. THE LAND OF GIANTS. The Patagonians— Guanaco Hunting—Singular Burial Customs—A Horse with a Proboscis—Extinction—Up the Santa Cruz—Puma Tracks—Catching the Condor—Falkland Islands—Among the Glaciers—The Fuegians—Giant Sea-Weed and Its Work. PATAGONIA was looked forward to by Darwin with no little pleasure, and on December 22d the Beagle cast anchor in the harbor of Port Desire, near the ruin of an old Spanish settlement. The animal life here was somewhat limited, as was the flora

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A268 Book: Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons. Text Image PDF

CHAPTER VIII. THE FOOT OF THE ANDES. At Valparaiso—Andean Life—An Old School-mate—An Ocean Bottom—In the Mines—Hot Springs—Darwin Excites Suspicion— Volcanoes—Tame Birds—The Myopotamus—Predaceous Gulls —Birds Killed by Them. FROM the barren, desolate shores of Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia the Beagle sailed for Valparaiso, where Darwin was to study the features of life along the base of the Andes. He was enthusiastic over the change, finding in the dry, bracing air and clear blue skies

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A268 Book: Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons. Text Image PDF

CHAPTER X. IN THE RED SNOW COUNTRY. Valparaiso—The Portillo Pass—Land of the Red Snow—Electrical Conditions—A Swarm of Locusts—Experiments with the Reduvius—A Forest of Stone—Valley of the Copiapo—Ruins at Old Callao—Antiquity of Man. THE Beagle reached Valparaiso on March 11th, from which place Darwin started on a trip across the Cordillera Mountains. The party went by the Portillo, a lofty and dangerous pass which led across the Andes to Mendoza. The scenery was grand in the extreme, and

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A268 Book: Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons. Text Image PDF

CHAPTER XL AMONG THE OCEAN VOLCANOES. Galapagos Islands—Number of Craters—Gigantic Tortoises—Land and Marine Lizards—New Marine Forms—Flora—Number of Cryptogamic Plants—Variety of Forms on the Different Islands —Tameness of the Birds, IN the month of September the Beagle crossed the line again, this time on the Pacific side, and cast anchor among the islands of the Galapagos Archipelago, that are simply a group of oceanic craters that have forced their way up through the ocean here, and in the

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A268 Book: Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons. Text Image PDF

material and fact-storing process. The voyage of the Beagle was the preparatory lime, the season during which he stored his mind with truths bearing upon every possible branch of natural science. He was not simply a biologist; his attention was not given to life alone, but to nature in its broadest sense, and that his re- 137 [page] 138 Charles Darwin

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A268 Book: Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons. Text Image PDF

have much to do in shaping our lives, and in this volume we undoubtedly find the germ that excited in his mind the love for travel and exploration which ultimately resulted in the famous voyage which he made around the world in the Beagle. Darwin testifies to the correctness of this, and in later years, in referring to the book, wrote to a German publisher: I believe that this book first gave me a wish to travel in remote countries, which was ultimately fulfilled by the voyage of the Beagle

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A268 Book: Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons. Text Image PDF

of November will be to me! My second life will then commence, and it shall be as a birthday for the rest of my life. After many delays attendant upon fitting a large ship for a long voyage, the Beagle put to sea, and the expedition, which had so material an effect, not only upon Darwin, but upon preconceived ideas of many natural-history questions, began. The Beagle was what we now term a barque, and of two hundred and thirty-five tons burthen. She represented a class facetiously known as

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A268 Book: Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons. Text Image PDF

appearance of the water through which the Beagle was sailing. From a rich opalescent-blue, it had changed to a reddish-brown, so that the entire ocean seemed to reflect a copper-bronze hue, weird and uncanny in its aspect. Some of the water, upon being placed under the microscope, appeared to contain large masses of chopped hay, which proved to be confervæ of a reddish tint. Some of the patches covered several miles in extent, entirely changing the tint of the ocean. Darwin comments on the

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A268 Book: Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons. Text Image PDF

higher plane. The result was that the educated natives were robbed of all their property by their relatives, and when visited some years later were found to have lapsed again into savages. At Beagle Inlet Darwin had an adventure with a glacier. Wishing to examine it the boat was hauled upon the beach, and the masses of ice watched as they fell away. Finally a large berg became detached and fell with a thundering crash, sending an immense wave in upon the beach. Darwin and party rushed for the

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A268 Book: Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons. Text Image PDF

interesting features was a hill the natives called El Bramador, or the roarer, as when persons attempted to climb its sides it emitted an audible warning sound, especially if sand was sent whirling down its sides. From Copiapo Darwin rode to the port where the Beagle was lying, and which at once set sail for Iquique, on the coast of Peru, a small town at the base of a rocky cliff, so barren that even water had to be brought in boats forty miles to supply the inhabitants. Darwin bought a bottle of water

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A268 Book: Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons. Text Image PDF

study subsequently occupied by his pupil. In 1831 Captain Fitz-Roy, R.N., offered to share his cabin with any competent naturalist who would accompany him on his prospecting voyage to South America in H. M. S. Beagle, detailed for surveys in that region. Mr. Darwin, then only twenty-two years of age, offered his services, with the stipulation that he should control the collections made, and was accepted. The Beagle sailed November 27, 1831, from Plymouth, and returned to England on the 2d of

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CUL-DAR107.11-18 Draft: 1892 [Reminiscences of Mr Darwin on the Beagle] Darwin on the Beagle] Text Image

The Beagle's Voyage by P.G. King Castro. It was on this occasion that Mr Darwin remarked upon the great hospitality shown by parsons to visitors from whom they expect no return and with whom they may never again have any intercourse. The following event is still fresh as ever in the memory of the writer. It was necessary to erect a beacon as a guide to vessels making for Bahia Blanca South of the Entrance to the River Plata. The Beagle anchored some distance from that bar bound Bay on the open

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F1461 Book: Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray. Text Image PDF

DARWIN. science, 10; at Edinburgh, 11-15; early medical practice at Shrewsbury, 12; tours in North Wales, 15; shooting at Woodhouse and Maer, 15, 16; at Cambridge, 17-23, 30; visit to North Wales, with Sedgwick, 24, 25; on the voyage of the 'Beagle,' 25-30; residence in Loncon, 31-37; marriage, 32; residence at Down, 37; publications, 38-49; manner of writing, 49; mental qualities, 50-54. Darwin, Reminiscences of, 66-103; personal appearance, 67, 68; mode of walking, 67; disseeting, 67

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the 'Beagle,' 116. , letter to, from Rev. G. Peacock, 115. , letters to: relating to the appointment to the 'Beagle,' 121, 122; from Rio de Janeiro, 134; from Sydney, 138; from Shrewsbury, 139; as to destination of specimens collected during the voyage of the 'Beagle,' 140. , letters to: 1836-1842, 144; sending him the 'Origin,' 209. Herbert, John Maurice, 19; anecdotes from, 105, 106, 108; letters to, 109; on the 'South American Geology,' 154. Hermaphrodite flowers, first idea of cross

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F1461 Book: Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray. Text Image PDF

after the voyage, he turned round to my sisters, and exclaimed, Why, the shape of his head is quite altered. To return to the voyage. On September 11th (1831), I paid a flying visit with Fitz-Roy to the Beagle at Plymouth. Thence to Shrewsbury to wish my father and sisters a long farewell. On October 24th I took up my residence, at Plymouth, and remained there until December 27th, when the Beagle finally left the shores of England for her circumnavigation of the world. We made two earlier

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F1461 Book: Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray. Text Image PDF

Geological work and Teneriffe dreams carried him through the summer, till on returning from Barmouth for the sacred 1st of September, he received the offer of appointment as Naturalist to the Beagle. The following extract from the pocket-book will be a help in reading the letters: Returned to Shrewsbury at end of August. Refused offer of voyage. September. Went to Mear, returned with Uncle Jos. to Shrewsbury, thence to Cambridge. London. 11th. Went with Captain Fitz-Roy in steamer to Ply-mouth

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F1461 Book: Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray. Text Image PDF

CHAPTER VII. LONDON AND CAMBRIDGE. 1836-1842. THE period illustrated in the present chapter includes the years between Darwin's return from the voyage of the Beagle and his settling at Down. It is marked by the gradual appearance of that weakness of health which ultimately forced him to leave London and take up his abode for the rest of his life in a quite country house. There is no evidence of any intention of entering a profession after his return from the voyage, and early in 1840 he wrote

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F1461 Book: Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray. Text Image PDF

house form a pleasant field, scattered with fair-sized oaks and ashes. From this field a strip was cut off and converted into a kitchen garden, in which the experimental plot of ground was situated, and where the greenhouses were ultimately put up. During the whole of 1843 he was occupied with geological work, the result of which was published in the spring of the following year. It was entitled Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands, visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, together

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F1461 Book: Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray. Text Image PDF

, twisting of shoots of, 313. Apparatus, 92-94; purchase of, for the Zoological Station at Naples, 293. Appletons' American reprints of the 'Origin,' 235. 'BEAGLE' Ascension, 30. 'Athen um,' letter to the, 258; article in the, 257; reply to the article, 258. review of the 'Origin' in the, 211, 212; reviews in the, of Lyell's 'Antiquity of Man,' and Huxley's 'Man's place in Nature,' 253, 257; review of the 'Variation of Animals and Plants,' in the, 268; review of the 'Fertilisation of Orchids,' in

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F1461 Book: Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray. Text Image PDF

'BEAGLE.' Beagle, voyage of the, 25-30. , Zoology of the voyage of the, publication of the, 31. Beans, stated to have grown on the wrong side of the pod, 52. Bees, visits of, necessary for the impregnation of the Scarlet Bean, 301. Bees' cells, Sedgwick on, 217. combs, 195. Beetles, collecting at, Cambridge, c., 20, 23, 106, 109, 194. Bell, Professor Thomas, 141. 'Bell-stone,' Shrewsbury, an erratic boulder, 14. Beneficence, Evidence of, 236. Bentham, G., approval of the work on the

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A268 Book: Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons. Text Image PDF

everywhere the movements of seals and penguins, and even distinguish the forms as they were outlined by the mysterious phosphorescent light. Accompanying these displays was an electrical storm, which caused vivid flashes of lightning to play about the ship. The Beagle had now reached the first point of her projected work, which was to survey the coast of South America from the Plata south, an undertaking which it was estimated would take two years to accomplish. Darwin went ashore, and made his

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A268 Book: Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons. Text Image PDF

battery of the earthquakes and volcanoes of the Andes. Darwin was now contemplating the production of the important results of his trip, the zoölogy of the voyage of the Beagle, and, aided by other naturalists, he endeavoured to obtain Government cooperation in the illustration and making of plates. To the petition he secured the names of nearly all the prominent naturalists, including that of the Duke of Somerset, who was then president of the Linnæan Society—also Lord Derby,—and a month later

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A268 Book: Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons. Text Image PDF

the societies, read a paper before the Geological Society on the Erratic Boulders of South America, another on Earthquakes, and still another on the Formation by the Agency of Earth-Worms of Mould. The zoölogy of the Beagle was in progress now, and received a portion of his time as well. Ill-health continued to follow him, and he tells us that scarcely twenty-four hours went over his head without some suffering. Yet this did not deter him from work; on the contrary, it seemed to spur him on to

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TABLE OF CONTENTS. CHAP. PAGE I. The Darwins 1 II. Autobiography 5 III. Religion 55 IV. Reminiscences 66 V. Cambridge Life The Appointment to the Beagle: 1828-1831 104 VI. The Voyage: 1831-1836 124 VII. London and Cambridge: 1836-1842 140 VIII. Life at Down: 1842-1854 150 IX. The Foundations of the Origin of Species: 1831-1844 165 X. The Growth of the Origin of Species: 1843-1858 173 XI. The Writing of the Origin of Species, June 1858, to November 1859 185 XII. The Publication of the Origin of

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On March 7th, 1837, I took lodgings in Great Marlborough Street in London, and remained there for nearly two years, until I was married. During these two years I finished my Journal, read several papers before the Geological Society, began preparing the MS. for my Geological Observations, and arranged for the publication of the Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle. In July I opened my first note-book for facts in relation to the Origin of Species, about which I had long reflects, and never

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F1461 Book: Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray. Text Image PDF

these were exhausted would long remain dubious. A second characteristic was his hearty sympathy with the work of other scientific men. On my return from the voyage of the Beagle, I explained to him my views on coral-reefs, which differed from his, and I was greatly surprised and encouraged by the vivid interest which he showed. His delight in science was ardent, and he felt the keenest interest in the future progress of mankind. He was very kind-hearted, and thoroughly liberal in his religious

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home, but that also I shall have the run of his. My cabin is the drawing one; and in the middle is a large table, on which we two sleep in hammocks. But for the first two months there will be no drawing to be done, so that it will be quite a luxurious room, and a good deal larger than the Captain's cabin. My father used to say that it was the absolute necessity of tidiness in the cramped space on the Beagle that helped to give him his methodical habits of working. On the Beagle, too, he would

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, which did not prevent his becoming fast friends with the younger officers. He wrote about the year 1861 or 1862 to Mr. P. G. King, M.L.C., Sydney, who, as before stated, was a midshipman on board the Beagle: The remembrance of old days, when we used to sit and talk on the booms of the Beagle, will always, to the day of my death, make me glad to hear of your happiness and prosperity. Mr. King describes the pleasure my father seemed to take in pointing out to me as a youngster the delights of the

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corner for my feeble testimony to the marvellous persevering endurance in the cause of science of that great naturalist, my old and lost friend, Mr. Charles Darwin, whose remains are so very justly to be honoured with a resting-place in Westminster Abbey? Perhaps no one can better testify to his early and most trying labours than myself. We worked together for several years at the same table in the poop-cabin of the Beagle during her celebrated voyage, he with his microscope and myself at the

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ever afterwards seriously felt the ill-effects of the Beagle s voyage. In following our hero on his long voyage the reader cannot fail to be impressed with two things: his remarkable powers of observation, and the care and patience with which he made his investigations and consequent deductions; and when it is borne in mind that the investigator was still a very young man fresh from college, the nature of his observations and the comprehensiveness of the ground covered will appear more remarkable

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above the surface, striking an inquisitive observer full in the face. Darwin was perhaps the first also to observe that the octopus is luminous at times. One which he kept in his cabin gleamed with a slight phosphorescence, which we can imagine might be used as a decoy, or perhaps to menace its foes. In February, 1831, the Beagle sighted the famous St. Paul's Rocks, one of the most desolate spots on the globe, consisting of a few rocks five hundred and forty miles from the American coast and

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frequently that one man was required to fight these pirates of the sea while another hauled in the fish. These days were marked by indefatigable energy on the part of the young naturalist. When not investigating or peering among the rocks with hammer or collecting-glass in hand, he was at work in his cabin studying the strange animals he had found, and making notes in his log, as to the colour, habits, and the thousand and one points of interest to the lover of science. From St. Paul's the Beagle bore

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into a sail full of water, having as a consolation the reflection that he was but one of many predecessors. On the last day of February the Beagle made Bahia, where Darwin for the first time found himself in a purely Southern country with a wealth of tropical verdure on every hand. The ocean teemed with animal life, new and striking to his eye, while it was but a step into the tropical forest, where vegetation ran wild and flourished with a rank exuberance that he had never dreamed of. In his

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A268 Book: Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons. Text Image PDF

that in a few moments the captive appeared to be encased in a cocoon, and then helpless was killed by the deadly jaws of the monster. To show the virulence of the poison, Darwin found that half a minute was sufficient to kill a large wasp. On July 5, 1832, the Beagle left Rio, sailing for the Plata. In the mouth of the latter he studied the porpoise, watching its movements across the bow as the vessel rushed along at full speed. Seals and penguins were present in great numbers, and were so