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F2113 Book contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1896. [Recollections of Darwin]. In E. R. Lankester. 'Charles Robert Darwin'. In C. D. Warner ed. Library of the world's best literature ancient and modern. New York: R. S. Peale & J. A. Hill, vol. 2, pp. 4385-4393. Text PDF

might lie down alone in a quiet room. Then after an hour or so he would return with a smile, like a boy released from punishment, and launch again with a merry laugh into talk. Never was there an invalid who bore his maladies so cheerfully, or who made so light of a terrible burden. Although he was frequently seasick during the voyage of the Beagle, he did not attribute his condition in later life in any way to that experience, but to inherited weakness. During the hours passed in his study he

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F2113 Book contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1896. [Recollections of Darwin]. In E. R. Lankester. 'Charles Robert Darwin'. In C. D. Warner ed. Library of the world's best literature ancient and modern. New York: R. S. Peale & J. A. Hill, vol. 2, pp. 4385-4393. Text PDF

individual, are evidence of deep sympathy between the natures of Darwin and his first teacher. Of Fitzroy, the captain of H.M.S. Beagle—with whom he quarreled for a day because Fitzroy defended slavery—Darwin says that he was in many ways the noblest character he ever knew. His love and admiration for Lyell were unbounded. Lyell was the man who taught him the method—the application of the causes at present discoverable in nature to the past history of the earth—by which he was led to the solution

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F2113 Book contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1896. [Recollections of Darwin]. In E. R. Lankester. 'Charles Robert Darwin'. In C. D. Warner ed. Library of the world's best literature ancient and modern. New York: R. S. Peale & J. A. Hill, vol. 2, pp. 4385-4393. Text PDF

into high spirits. From the same cause I have been able to invite here very few scientific acquaintances. During the voyage of the Beagle I had been deeply impressed by discovering in the Pampean formation great fossil animals, covered with armor like that on the existing armadillos; secondly, by the manner in which closely allied animals replace one another in proceeding southwards over the Continent; and thirdly, by the South-American character of most of the productions of the Galapagos

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A711 Periodical contribution: Bøving-Petersen, J.O. 1897. Skabelse og Udvikling. Studentersamfundets Smaaskrifter. Copenhagen: Schubothe. Text Image

Skæbnen vil det ikke saa; og sikkertmed Rette skriver Darwin i sin Selvbiografi: Rejsen med Beagle har været den vigtigste *) Angaaende Spencers Filosofi henvises til Høffdings Den nyere Filosofis Historie og Den engelske Filosofii vor Tid . [page] 3

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F2169 Periodical contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1899. [Recollections of Darwin by Hooker, Meldola & Tylor]. Unveiling the Darwin statue at the museum. Jackson's Oxford Journal (17 June): 8. Text

time—Mr., afterwards Sir Charles, Lyell. It was through the father of Sir C. Lyell, the translator of the Vita Nuova of Dante, and a friend of my father, that I first heard of Mr. Darwin. The Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries visited during the Voyage of the Beagle was then passing through the press, and the proof sheets were being submitted to Sir C. Lyell for his information and criticisms. These were passed on to Sir Charles's father, himself a

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F310 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1902. Observations géologiques sur les iles volcaniques: explorées par l'expédition du "Beagle" et notes sure la géologie de l'Australie et du Cap de Bonne-Espérance. Trans. by A. F. Renard. Paris: C. Reinwald. Text Image PDF

Darwin, C. R. 1902. Observations géologiques sur les iles volcaniques: explorées par l'expédition du Beagle et notes sure la géologie de l'Australie et du Cap de Bonne-Espérance. Trans. by A. F. Renard. Paris: C. Reinwald. [spine] DARWIN ILES VOLCANIQUES SCHLEICHER FR S DITEURS [front cover

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F310 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1902. Observations géologiques sur les iles volcaniques: explorées par l'expédition du "Beagle" et notes sure la géologie de l'Australie et du Cap de Bonne-Espérance. Trans. by A. F. Renard. Paris: C. Reinwald. Text Image PDF

OBSERVATIONS G OLOGIQUES SUR LES ILES VOLCANIQUES EXPLOR ES PAR L'EXP DITION DU BEAGLE ET NOTES SUR LA G OLOGIE DE L'AUSTRALIE ET DU CAP DE BONNE-ESP RANCE PAR Charles DARWIN TRADUIT DE L'ANGLAIS SUR LA TROISI ME DITION PAR A.-F. RENARD PROFESSEUR A L'UNIVERSIT DE GAND Avec 14 figures et 1 planche. PARIS LIBRAIRIE C. REINWALD SCHLEICHER FR RES, DITEURS 15, RUE DES SAINTS-P RES, 15 1902 Tous droits r serv s. a [page break

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F310 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1902. Observations géologiques sur les iles volcaniques: explorées par l'expédition du "Beagle" et notes sure la géologie de l'Australie et du Cap de Bonne-Espérance. Trans. by A. F. Renard. Paris: C. Reinwald. Text Image PDF

du voyage, lorsque le Beagle fit escale San Thiago dans l'archipel du Cap-Vert, aux Rochers de Saint-Paul et Fernando Noronha; mais surtout durant la croisi re de retour; c'est alors que Darwin tudia les les Galapagos, qu'il traversa l'archipel des les Pomotou et visita Tahiti. Apr s avoir touch la Baie des Iles dans la Nouvelle-Z lande, ainsi qu' Sydney, Hobart-Town et King George's Sound en Australie, le Beagle, traversant l'Oc an Indien, fit voile vers le petit groupe des les Keeling ou

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F310 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1902. Observations géologiques sur les iles volcaniques: explorées par l'expédition du "Beagle" et notes sure la géologie de l'Australie et du Cap de Bonne-Espérance. Trans. by A. F. Renard. Paris: C. Reinwald. Text Image PDF

AVANT-PROPOS DU TRADUCTEUR L' uvre de Darwin comprend, outre ses travaux biologiques, trois ouvrages consacr s sp cialement la g ologie. Ils ont paru sous le titre g n ral de G ologie du Voyage du Beagle (1) et forment comme une trilogie embrassant l' tude des constructions coralliennes, des les volcaniques et de la g ologie de l'Am rique m ridio (1) La mise en uvre des observations et des mat riaux g ologiques amass s par Darwin pendant l'Exp dition du Beagle (d cembre 1831 octobre 1836) s'

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F310 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1902. Observations géologiques sur les iles volcaniques: explorées par l'expédition du "Beagle" et notes sure la géologie de l'Australie et du Cap de Bonne-Espérance. Trans. by A. F. Renard. Paris: C. Reinwald. Text Image PDF

Le voyage pendant lequel Darwin eut l'occasion d' tudier tant de centres volcaniques int ressants, lui r servait au d but une am re d ception. Durant la derni re ann e de son s jour Cambridge il avait lu le Personal Narrative de Humboldt et en avait extrait de longs passages relatifs T n riffe. Il avait recueilli un ensemble de renseignements en vue d'une exploration de cette le, lorsqu'on lui proposa d'accompagner le capitaine Fitzroy bord du Beagle. Son ami Henslow lui avait conseill , en le

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F310 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1902. Observations géologiques sur les iles volcaniques: explorées par l'expédition du "Beagle" et notes sure la géologie de l'Australie et du Cap de Bonne-Espérance. Trans. by A. F. Renard. Paris: C. Reinwald. Text Image PDF

les lettres crites ses parents bord du Beagle! Apr s avoir fait allusion au plaisir qu'il prouve rassembler et tudier les animaux marins, il s' crie: Mais la g ologie l'emporte sur le reste! Dans une lettre Henslow, il dit: La g ologie m'entra ne; mais, comme l'intelligent animal plac entre deux bottes de foin, je ne sais laquelle donner la pr f rence: tudierai-je les roches cristallines anciennes ou les couches moins coh rentes et plus fossilif res? Et, lorsque son long voyage va se terminer

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F310 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1902. Observations géologiques sur les iles volcaniques: explorées par l'expédition du "Beagle" et notes sure la géologie de l'Australie et du Cap de Bonne-Espérance. Trans. by A. F. Renard. Paris: C. Reinwald. Text Image PDF

laves, soit d'un tuf color en brun, et ces derniers crat res sont remarquables divers gards. Le groupe entier a t lev par les officiers du Beagle. J'ai visit moi-m me quatre des principales les et j'ai re u des chantillons provenant de toutes les autres. Je ne d crirai sous la mention des diff rentes les que celle qui me para t digne d'attention. ILE CHATHAM. Crate s de tuf d'une esp ce [page] 12

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F310 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1902. Observations géologiques sur les iles volcaniques: explorées par l'expédition du "Beagle" et notes sure la géologie de l'Australie et du Cap de Bonne-Espérance. Trans. by A. F. Renard. Paris: C. Reinwald. Text Image PDF

n'a pas encore t d crite et diff re de Bilamellata et de Cookiana parce qu'elle poss de quatre plis spiraux internes dont deux sont plac s sur la face interne de la paroi ext rieure, et deux sur la paroi interne de la coquille; elle a t rapport e de Tahiti par le Beagle. 2. H lix polyodon, G. Sowerby. Testa orbiculato-subdepress , anfractibus sex, rotundatis, striatis; apertur semilunari, labio interno, plicis tribus spiralibus, posticis gradatim majoribus, externo [page] 19

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F310 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1902. Observations géologiques sur les iles volcaniques: explorées par l'expédition du "Beagle" et notes sure la géologie de l'Australie et du Cap de Bonne-Espérance. Trans. by A. F. Renard. Paris: C. Reinwald. Text Image PDF

d'hommes de science, toutefois, savent quelles tudes avaient pr par l'Auteur ces conceptions g niales sur l'histoire de la terre. Pour retrouver la marche de ces tudes, de cette longue et difficile pr paration, il faut remonter aux travaux de Darwin sur la G ologie du Beagle. C'est l qu'on peut appr cier, dans leur expression technique, ces connaissances sp ciales sur la nature des roches et sur la structure du globe qui servirent de base ces g n ralisations. Quand on a lu et m dit ces m moires

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F310 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1902. Observations géologiques sur les iles volcaniques: explorées par l'expédition du "Beagle" et notes sure la géologie de l'Australie et du Cap de Bonne-Espérance. Trans. by A. F. Renard. Paris: C. Reinwald. Text Image PDF

superficiels avec moules de branches. Leur origine due des particules de coquilles et de coraux amoncel es par le vent. Leur extension. Cap de Bonne-Esp rance. Contact du granite et du phyllade argileux. Formation de gr s. Durant la seconde partie de son voyage, le Beagle toucha la Nouvelle-Z lande, en Australie, la Terre Van Diemen, et au cap de Bonne-Esp rance. D sireux de consacrer la troisi me partie de ces Observations G ologiques l'Am rique m ridionale seule, je d crirai bri vement ici tous les

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F310 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1902. Observations géologiques sur les iles volcaniques: explorées par l'expédition du "Beagle" et notes sure la géologie de l'Australie et du Cap de Bonne-Espérance. Trans. by A. F. Renard. Paris: C. Reinwald. Text Image PDF

particulier, pour ses Observations sur les les volcaniques. Les savants qui avaient organis cette c l bre croisi re s' taient assign la mission d'aller explorer, un demi-si cle d'intervalle, les les de l'Atlantique tudi es lors du voyage du Beagle. Le Challenger aborda donc aux principaux points illustr s par les premi res re [page] V

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F310 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1902. Observations géologiques sur les iles volcaniques: explorées par l'expédition du "Beagle" et notes sure la géologie de l'Australie et du Cap de Bonne-Espérance. Trans. by A. F. Renard. Paris: C. Reinwald. Text Image PDF

rarement quelques mesures au goniom tre, parvenait discerner la nature des agr gats min ralogiques les plus complexes et les plus vari s. Ce coup d' il qui savait embrasser de si vastes horizons, p n tre ici profond ment tous les d tails lithologiques. Avec quelle s ret et quelle exactitude la structure et la composition des roches (1) Les m moires que j'ai publi s sur la lithologie des les explor es par Darwin lors du voyage du Beagle et par les naturalistes du Challenger, ont paru dans la

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F310 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1902. Observations géologiques sur les iles volcaniques: explorées par l'expédition du "Beagle" et notes sure la géologie de l'Australie et du Cap de Bonne-Espérance. Trans. by A. F. Renard. Paris: C. Reinwald. Text Image PDF

les roches d'origine incontestablement volcanique. On doit dire ce sujet que les circonstances m mes dans lesquelles se fit la croisi re du Beagle furent tr s favorables Darwin dans ses tudes sur les roches ruptives. Apr s avoir observ des types nettement caract ris s de la s rie r cente, il alla tudier dans l'Am rique du Sud de remarquables gisements de masses ign es anciennes tr s cristallines et, dans le voyage de retour, il put revoir les roches volcaniques r centes, raviver ainsi ses premi

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F310 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1902. Observations géologiques sur les iles volcaniques: explorées par l'expédition du "Beagle" et notes sure la géologie de l'Australie et du Cap de Bonne-Espérance. Trans. by A. F. Renard. Paris: C. Reinwald. Text Image PDF

esp ces il a d velopp l'id e et mis la th orie de la permanence des bassins oc aniques, que d'autres auteurs ont adopt e apr s lui et ont tendue plus loin, pensons-nous, que Darwin n'avait cru devoir le faire. Sa prudence sur ce point et sur les questions sp culatives du m me genre tait bien connue de tous ceux qui avaient l'habitude de les discuter avec lui. Quelques ann es avant le voyage du Beagle, M. Poulett Scrope avait signal les analogies remarquables qui existent entre certaines roches

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F310 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1902. Observations géologiques sur les iles volcaniques: explorées par l'expédition du "Beagle" et notes sure la géologie de l'Australie et du Cap de Bonne-Espérance. Trans. by A. F. Renard. Paris: C. Reinwald. Text Image PDF

pr s parall le la ligne du rivage, dont elle est loign e de 2 ou 3 milles vers l'int rieur. J'ai gravi quelques-unes de ces collines et, gr ce l'amabilit de M. Kent, chirurgien-adjoint du Beagle, j'ai obtenu des sp cimens provenant de celles des autres collines que j'ai pu apercevoir l'aide d'une longue-vue. Quoiqu'il ne m'ait t possible d' tudier, l'aide de ces divers l ments, qu'une partie de la cha ne, 5 6 milles seulement, je n'h site pas affirmer, d'apr s l'uniformit de structure de ces

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A417 Periodical contribution: Holst, Helge. 1902. Arternes Oprindelse I - Charles Darwin. Vor Jord (25). Text Image

enAgerhønsejagt gik i hans Tanker forudfor al Videnskab. Naturforskeren Hens-low havde imidlertid opdaget den ungeMands sjældne Evner, og da Lederenaf en geografisk Ekspedition, som afden engelske Regering udsendtes tilSydamerika og Stillehavet, ønskede atmedtage en Naturforsker, anbefaledeHenslow den 22-aarige Darwin til denneStilling. I 1831 forlod Darwin med Ski-ket Beagle (Sporhunden) England, somhan ikke skulde gense før efter omtr. 5Aars Forløb. Denne Rejse blev den eneste,han foretog

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F3373 Periodical contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1902. [Letters to George Grey, John Lort Stokes and Edgar Leopold Layard, 1846, 1847 & 1855 (Layard)]. Letters to Sir George Grey. New Zealand Herald, (6 September): 1. Text PDF

expressed my strong opinion of the many high qualities shown in your work, of which, the amusement it afforded, was but a small part. Your account of the aborigines I have always thought one of the most able ever written. On November 13, 1847, Darwin writes to Sir George:— Ever since the voyage of the Beagle (it will be remembered that Darwin was the naturalist on the scientific voyage of H.M.S. Beagle), I have felt the deepest interest with respect to all our colonies in the southern hemisphere

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F1548.1 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 1 Text Image PDF

1838. October 5th: Began Coral paper. November 11th: Engaged to be married to his cousin, Emma Wedgwood. December 31st: Entered 12 Upper Gower Street. 1839. January 29th: Married at Maer. February and March: Some work on Corals and on Species Theory. March (part) and April: Working at Coral paper. Papers on a Rock seen on an Iceberg, and on the Parallel Roads of Glen Roy. Published Journal and Remarks, being volume iii. of the Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of H.M.S. Adventure and Beagle

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Letter 8. TO JOSIAH WEDGWOOD. [Shrewsbury, October 5th, 1836.] My dear Uncle The Beagle arrived at Falmouth on Sunday evening, and I reached home late last night. My head is quite confused with so much delight, but I cannot allow my sisters to tell you first how happy I am to see all my dear friends again. I am obliged to return in three or four days to London, where the Beagle will be paid off, and then I shall pay Shrewsbury a longer visit. I am most anxious once again to see Maer, and all

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F1548.1 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 1 Text Image PDF

by every smatterer and wandering collector. I look at a strong tendency to generalise as an entire evil. What you say of Mr. Brown is humiliating; I had suspected it, but would not allow myself to believe in such heresy. Fitz-Roy gave him a rap in his preface,1 and made him very indignant, but it seems a much harder one would not have been wasted. My cryptogamic collection was sent 1. In the preface to the Surveying Voyages of the Adventure and the Beagle, 1826-30, forming Volume I of the work

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F1548.1 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 1 Text Image PDF

Letter 278. TO OTTO ZACHARIAS. 1877. When I was on board the Beagle I believed in the permanence of species, but, as far as I can remember, vague doubts occasionally flitted across my mind. On my return home in the autumn of 1836 I immediately began to prepare my journal for publication, and then saw how many facts indicated the common descent of species,1 so that in July, 1837, I opened a notebook to record any facts which might bear on the question; but I did not become convinced that

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F1548.2 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 2 Text Image PDF

in my Journal of Researches during the Voyage of the Beagle, where I have stated this circumstance.1 On the hypothesis of the crust of the earth resting on fluid matter, would the influence of the moon (as indexed by the tides) affect the periods of the shocks, when the force which causes them is just balanced by the resistance of the solid crust? The fact you mention of the coincidence between the earthquakes of Calabria and Scotland appears most curious. Your paper will possess a high degree

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F1548.1 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 1 Text Image PDF

, Cambridge. 1828. Began residence at Cambridge. 1831. January: Passed his examination for B.A., and kept the two following terms. August: Geological tour with Sedgwick. September 11th: Went to Plymouth to see the Beagle. October 2nd: Took leave of my home. [page xviii

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F1548.1 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 1 Text Image PDF

. July: Opened first note-book on Transmutation of Species. March 13th to November: Occupied with his Journal. October and November: Preparing the scheme for the Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle. Working at Geology of South America. November 1st: Read the paper on Earthworms before the Geological Society. 1838. Worked at the Geology of South America and Zoology of Voyage. Some little species theory. March 7th: Read paper on the Connexion of certain Volcanic Phenomena and on the Formation of

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F1548.1 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 1 Text Image PDF

found here, and general appearance of landscape, connects the Chonos Islands and T. del Fuego. I saw the Alerce1 on mountains of Chiloe (on the mainland it grows to an enormous size, and I always believed Alerce and Araucaria imbricata to be identical), but I am ashamed to say I absolutely forget all about its appearance. I saw some Juniper- 1. Alerse is the local name of a South American timber, described in Capt. King's Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, page 281, and rather doubtfully

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F1548.1 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 1 Text Image PDF

ascribed to Megatherium.) in confirmation of this in the same formation I found 1. ...him [Satan] there they [Ithuriel and Zephon] found, Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve (Paradise Lost, Book IV., line 800). Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only a single volume, I always chose Milton (Autobiography, page 69). 2. Werner's Nomenclature of Colours, Edinburgh, 1821. [page 13

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pretty well convinced if they are not plants they are not zoophytes. The gemmule of a Halimeda contained several articulations united, ready to burst their envelope, and become attached to some basis. I believe in zoophytes universally the gemmule produces a single polypus, which afterwards or at the same time grows with its cell or single articulation. The Beagle left the Sts. of Magellan in the middle of winter; she found her road out by a wild unfrequented channel; well might Sir J

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locality, etc., etc., [of] these springs. Will you tell me how the Arachnidae which I have sent home, for instance those from Rio, appear to be preserved. I have doubts whether it is worth while collecting them. We sail the day after to-morrow: our plans are at last limited and definite; I am delighted to say we have bid an eternal adieu to T. del Fuego. The Beagle will not [page 20

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; in case I should lose my notes, these might be useful. I do not send home any insects because they must be troublesome to you, and now so little more of the voyage remains unfinished I can well take charge of them. In two or three days I set out for Coquimbo by land; the Beagle calls for me in the beginning of June. So that I have six weeks more to enjoy geologising over these curious mountains of Chili. There is at present a bloody revolution in Peru. The Commodore has gone there, and in the

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Letter 7. TO J.S. HENSLOW. Lima, July 12th, 1835. This is the last letter which I shall ever write to you from the shores of America, and for this reason I send it. In a few days time the Beagle will sail for the Galapagos Islands. I look forward with joy and interest to this, both as being somewhat nearer to England and for the sake of having a good look at an active volcano. Although we have seen lava in abundance, I have never yet beheld the crater. I sent by H.M.S. Conway two large boxes

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said to be the commencement of my real life, the whole of my pleasure was derived from what passed in my mind, while admiring views by myself, travelling across the wild deserts or glorious forests or pacing the deck of the poor little Beagle at night. Excuse this much egotism, I give it you because I think you will humanize me, and soon teach me there is greater happiness than building theories and accumulating facts in silence and solitude. My own dearest 1. Mr. Darwin was married on January

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afforded but an unsafe foundation for speculation. It was not possible that this determination should have been effected before the return of the Beagle to England; and thus the date3 which Darwin (writing in 1837) assigns to the dawn of the new light which was rising in his mind, becomes intelligible. This seems to us inconsistent with Darwin's own statement that it was especially the character of the species on Galapagos Archipelago which had impressed him.4 This must refer to the zoological

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going to write will be absolutely superfluous,1 but I have derived such infinitely great advantage from my new simple microscope, in comparison with the one which I used on board the Beagle, and which was recommended to me by R. Brown,2 that I cannot forego the mere chance of advantage of urging this on you. The leading point of difference consists simply in having the stage for saucers very large and fixed. Mine will hold a saucer three inches in inside diameter. I have never seen such a

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should be remembered that the shape of his nose nearly determined Fitz-Roy to reject Darwin as naturalist to H.M.S. Beagle (Life and Letters, I., page 60). 2. The newspaper sent was the Manchester Examiner for September 9th, 1861, containing a report of Mr. Fawcett's address given before [page 195

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connection the present letter is of interest. The Copley Medal was given to him in 1864.] I had not heard a word about the Copley Medal. Please give Falconer my cordial thanks for his interest about me. I enclose the list of everything published by me except a few unimportant papers. Ask Falconer not to mention that I sent the list, as some one might say I had been canvassing, which is an odious imputation. The origin of the Voyage in the Beagle was that Fitz-Roy generously offered to give up half his

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seems to me well worth further development. I do not think I have anywhere noticed the use of the eyebrows, but have long known that they protected the eyes from sweat. During the voyage of the Beagle one of the men ascended a lofty hill during a very hot day. He had small eyebrows, and his eyes became fearfully inflamed from the sweat running into them. The Portuguese inhabitants were familiar with this evil. I think you allude to the transverse furrows on the forehead as a protection against

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volcanic mountain, being the proofs and measures of the stretching and consequent elevation which all such mountains must have undergone. I believe he thus unintentionally explains most of his cases of lava-streams being inclined at a greater angle than that at which they could have flowed. But excuse this lengthy note, and once more let me thank you for the pleasure and encouragement you have given me- 1. Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle

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forget whether in a former letter you made a strong point of upward movement being always interrupted by long periods of rest. After writing to you, out of curiosity I glanced at the early chapters in my Geology of South America, and the areas of elevation on the E. and W. coasts are so vast, and proofs of many successive periods of rest so striking, that the evidence becomes to my mind striking. With regard to the astronomical causes of change: in ancient days in the Beagle when I reflected on

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F1548.2 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 2 Text Image PDF

gratified me deeply. I quite forget what I said about my geological works, but the papers referred to in your letter are the right ones. I enclose a list with those which are certainly not worth translating marked with a red line; but whether those which are 1. On page 123 of the Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, 1844, Darwin quotes several instances of greenstone and basaltic dikes intersecting granitic and allied metamorphic rocks. He

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F1548.2 Book: Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 2 Text Image PDF

also denies that they were transported by floating ice. (Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, Volume III., 1839: Journal and Remarks: Addenda, page 617.) [page 149

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Physician in Ordinary and received a baronetcy; he was elected into the Royal Society in 1832. (Dict. Nat. Biog. 1857; article by Dr. Norman Moore.) 2. In the Voyage of the Beagle a description is given of the falling of great masses of ice from the icy cliffs of the glaciers with a crash that reverberates like the broadside of a man-of-war, through the lonely channels which intersect the coast-line of Tierra del Fuego. Loc. cit., page 246.) [page 185

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Beagle in the S. Temperate regions, I concluded that shells, the smaller corals, etc., etc., decayed and were dissolved when not protected by the deposition of sediment; and sediment could not accumulate in the open ocean. Certainly shells, etc., were in several cases completely rotten, and crumbled into mud between my fingers; but you will know well whether this is in any degree common. I have expressly said that a bank at the proper depth would give rise to an atoll, which could not be

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on his observations during the Beagle expedition, had appeared in Chapter XIII. of South America (1846) and in the Manual of Scientific Enquiry (1849), but are perhaps nowhere so clearly expressed as in this correspondence. His most important contribution to the question was in establishing the fact that foliation is often a part of the same process as cleavage, and is in nowise necessarily connected with planes of stratification. Herein he was opposed to Lyell and the other geologists of the

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History and Geology of the Countries visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. Edition II. London, 1845. 3. Anniversary Address of the President (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. Volume III., page xxii, 1847). 4. Sir Charles James Fox Bunbury, Bart. (1809-85), was born at Messina in 1809, and in 1829 entered Trinity College, Cambridge. At the end of 1837 he went with Sir George Napier to the Cape of Good Hope, and during a residence there of twelve months Bunbury devoted himself to botanical field-work

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the living for nearly thirty years. The remainder of his life he spent at Bath. He was an excellent field-naturalist and a minute and careful observer. Among his writings may be mentioned the Fishes in Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle, 1842, a Manual of British Vertebrate Animals, 1836, a Memoir of Professor Henslow,1862, to which Darwin contributed recollections of his old master, Observations in Natural History, 1846 and Observations in Meteorology, 1858, besides numerous papers in scientific