CUL-DAR236    Note:    1832--1836   Geological specimen notebook 1-4 [all transcribed in one file]   Text

others black glossy 3274 base. very cellular melts [into] black enamel with very few crystals.— 3278. with blue irridescent patches of Olivine could not measure F. 3281. jet black. crystalline vesicular lava. abounding with points of olivine. from dark green. 3282. This specimen is important because origin of orange resin black patches can be seen to arise from alteration of minutely portions of scoriaceous rock 3:24

A739    Beagle Library:     Beechey, Frederick William. 1832. Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait to co-operate with the polar expeditions: performed in His Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28. Philadelphia: Carey and Rea.   Text

straight line, from ear to ear, passing over the bridge of the nose. With these exceptions, to which we may add the fashion, with some few, of blue lines, resembling stockings, from the middle of the thigh to the ankle, the effect is becoming, and in a great measure destroys the appearance of nakedness. The patterns which most improve the shape, and which appear to me peculiar to this groupe, are those which extend from the armpits to the hips, and are drawn forward with a curve which seems to

A739    Beagle Library:     Beechey, Frederick William. 1832. Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait to co-operate with the polar expeditions: performed in His Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28. Philadelphia: Carey and Rea.   Text

which the former one had manifested the greatest repugnance, they took pleasure in seeing them, and were very attentive to the manner in which every thing was committed to paper. The daughters were fat good-looking girls; the eldest, about thirteen years of age, was marked upon the chin with a single blue line; but the other, about ten, was without any tattooing. I made a sketch of the eldest girl, very much to the satisfaction of the mother, who was so interested in having her daughter's

A739    Beagle Library:     Beechey, Frederick William. 1832. Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait to co-operate with the polar expeditions: performed in His Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28. Philadelphia: Carey and Rea.   Text

way. I must not, however, permit the party to proceed without introducing to the notice of the reader the costume and equipments of this dragoon of California. As for his person, I do not find it described, but his dress consisted of a round blue cloth jacket with red cuffs and collar; blue velvet breeches, which being unbuttoned at the knees, gave greater display to a pair of white cotton stockings, cased more than half way in a pair of deer-skin boots. A black hat, as broad in the brim as it

A766    Beagle Library:     De la Beche, Henry Thomas. 1832. A geological manual, 2nd ed., corrected and enlarged. London: Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel Jun. and Richter.   Text

some places submerged. He remarks that the following may be considered as their general section. 1. Clay, generally of a blue colour and fine texture. 2. Peat, with various roots and plants; and in large deposits, containing abundance of trees, nuts, horns of deer, bones of oxen, c. 3. Clay of different colours, with fresh-water Limn 4. Peat, as above. 5. Clay, with freshwater Cyclades, c. and blue phosphate of iron. 6. Shaly curled bituminous clay. 7. Sandy coarse laminated clay, filling

A766    Beagle Library:     De la Beche, Henry Thomas. 1832. A geological manual, 2nd ed., corrected and enlarged. London: Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel Jun. and Richter.   Text

valley is described as about 2600 feet above the level of the sea, exhibiting these newer strata brought suddenly into contact with more ancient rocks on one side. The following is stated to be a section of them, in the descending order. 1. Red and green slaty micaceous sandstone, several hundred feet thick (cap of the Horn). 2. Green micaceous gritty sandstone, extensively quarried as whetstone, succeeded by yellowish sandy marls (Ressenberg). 3. A vast shelly series consisting of blue marls

A832    Beagle Library:     Turner, Sharon. 1832. The sacred history of the world, as displayed in the Creation and subsequent events to the Deluge, attempted to be philosophically considered in a series of letters to a son. Volume 1. 2nd ed. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman.   Text

emanates from them, by some inexplicable process, its softest and sweetest brilliance. Our commonest fish are often highly pleasing.3 Several have a golden hue or spots, difficult to account for;4 and many, a silvery gloss, as tho particles of these two metals were diffused among their skin.5 3 'There is not one that exceeds the Mackarel in the brilliancy of its colours, or in the elegance of its shape. The fine deep blue upon the back is crossed by many black streaks, and accompanied by a tinge of

A791    Beagle Library:     King, Philip Parker. 1832. Description of the Cirrhipedia, Conchifera and Mollusca in a collection formed 1826-30. Zoological Journal 5: 332-349.   Text

, generally of a light blue-green colour, variegated with markings of dark slate. Valves slightly beaked with minute concentric stri , the lateral compartments with two marginal ridges, which in some specimens are granulose, in others smooth. The anterior valve has eight, besides two marginal, ridges of the same character; the posterior valve is very small and smooth. Border coriaceous, and set with bristles produced from three rows of tufts or pores. In some of the specimens in my possession the

A832    Beagle Library:     Turner, Sharon. 1832. The sacred history of the world, as displayed in the Creation and subsequent events to the Deluge, attempted to be philosophically considered in a series of letters to a son. Volume 1. 2nd ed. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman.   Text

extraordinary Animals have in our own days first come to light. The Lias formation in England stretches across from the coasts of the German Ocean, in Yorkshire, to those of the Channel in Dorsetshire.18 It consists of thick argillaceous deposits constituting the base on which the whole Oolitic series reposes. The upper portion of the Lias, nearly two-thirds of its total depth, comprises beds of a deep blue Marl, containing only a few irregular and rubbly Limestone beds. In the lower part, the Limestone

CUL-DAR29.1.A1-A49    Note:    1832--1835   [Beagle animal notes] (see also individual entries below)   Text   Image

1832 Diodon Bahia March 10th a Diodon was caught swimming in its unexpanded form near to the shore. Length about an inch: above blackish brown, beneath spotted with yellow. On head four soft projections: the upper ones longer like the feelers of a snail. Eye with pupil dark blue; iris yellow mottled with black. The dorsal caudal and anal fins are so close together, that they act as one. These as well as the Pectorals, which are placed just before the bronchial apertures, are in a continual

CUL-DAR29.1.B1b-B20    Note:    1832--1836   `Fish in Spirits of Wine' [Beagle animal notes]   Text   Image

(3 1832 Fish in Spirits of Wine colour, beneath obscure; pupil dark blue, when caught vomited up small fish and a Pilumniis. Mr Earle states these fish are plentiful at Tristan da Ac nha, where it is called the Devils fish; from the bands being supposed the marks of the Devils fingers. Was tough for eating, but good. This sort was taken in very great numbers. Coast of Patagonia. August. 354 Pinguipes fasciatus, Jen. Exd 354 Fish. Hab. same as last. Above pale chestnut brown so arranged as to

CUL-DAR29.1.B1b-B20    Note:    1832--1836   `Fish in Spirits of Wine' [Beagle animal notes]   Text   Image

roots of Kelp. Berkeley Sound 905. Fish. General colour Gallstone and honey yellow browner on the back. 906. Fish. More brown on back; same general colour as above; with small irregular patches on sides of body, head and branchial covering, of pale silvery blue. 907. Fish d Pectoral. Ventral and Caudal fins mottled with orange; body with brown blade; much more tenacious of life than latter two; all caught in kelp. ____________________________________________ Santa Cruz. May Patagonia 947. Perca

A766    Beagle Library:     De la Beche, Henry Thomas. 1832. A geological manual, 2nd ed., corrected and enlarged. London: Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel Jun. and Richter.   Text

the Blue Mountains, in a valley composed of trap, limestone, and slate. I observed their temperature to be=127 F. The hot and cold springs of La Trinchera, three leagues from * James, Expedition to the Rocky Mountains. Livingstone, Edin. Phil. Journal, vol. vi. These rise through lias, traversing probably red sandstone, carboniferous limestone, c. The thermal springs of the Hotwells, Matlock, and Buxton, appear among carboniferous limestone. Although no active volcanos exist in Jamaica, there are

A766    Beagle Library:     De la Beche, Henry Thomas. 1832. A geological manual, 2nd ed., corrected and enlarged. London: Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel Jun. and Richter.   Text

; 9 feet. 6. Blue and brown clay, striped, full of shells, chiefly Cerithia and Cythere ; 9 feet. 7. Clay striped with brown and red, and containing a few shells of the above species; 6 feet. 8. Rolled flints, mixed with a little sand, occasionally containing shells like those of Bromley; e. g. Ostrea, Cerithium, and Cytherea, disseminated in irregular patches; 12 feet. 9. Alluvium*. Section at Loam-Pit Hill, three miles S. W. of Woolwich (order ascending). Chalk with flints, above which: 1. Green

A766    Beagle Library:     De la Beche, Henry Thomas. 1832. A geological manual, 2nd ed., corrected and enlarged. London: Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel Jun. and Richter.   Text

composed in the Isle of Wight, where there are fine sections of it, of slaty clay and limestone, with beds of iron stone; the lamin of the clay frequently coated with the remains of Cypris faba, Desm.* Mr. Martin defines the clay of the Weald of Sussex (whence the name) as a stiff clay, brown on the surface, and blue and slaty beneath, containing concretional iron-stone . It appears that the iron-stone was once worked, and slags from the ancient furnaces are found in different situations. The

A766    Beagle Library:     De la Beche, Henry Thomas. 1832. A geological manual, 2nd ed., corrected and enlarged. London: Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel Jun. and Richter.   Text

the schist become occasionally light-coloured as they approach the next rock, from which however they are separated by a repetition of the dark-coloured limestone and brown schist e. Brown shale which does not effervesce with acids. f. Variegated beds: greenish-blue and argillo-calcareous rocks; more or less schistose, the calcareous matter being often in very small quantity. g. Brown sandstone; principally siliceous, though some of it does contain calcareous matter. It is sometimes micaceous

A766    Beagle Library:     De la Beche, Henry Thomas. 1832. A geological manual, 2nd ed., corrected and enlarged. London: Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel Jun. and Richter.   Text

of the Sepia family. Red or Variegated Sandstone. This rock is, as its name implies, of different tints, these being red, white, blue, and green; the former, however, greatly predominating. It is principally siliceous and argillaceous, occasionally containing mica, masses of gypsum, and rock-salt. In the Vosges, the upper part of the variegated sandstone often presents, according to M. Elie de Beaumont, thin beds of marly limestone and dolomite, which gradually become more abundant; so that

A766    Beagle Library:     De la Beche, Henry Thomas. 1832. A geological manual, 2nd ed., corrected and enlarged. London: Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel Jun. and Richter.   Text

is accompanied by differences in mineralogical structure, conglomerates being abundant in some situations, while in others they are exceedingly rare. The sandstone possesses different degrees of induration, and is not unfrequently schistose and micaceous, affording flag-stones and coarse materials for roofing. The prevalent colour is red, generally dull, which, as commonly occurs in the red marls and sandstones of all ages, is occasionally intermixed with different tints of greenish blue

A832    Beagle Library:     Turner, Sharon. 1832. The sacred history of the world, as displayed in the Creation and subsequent events to the Deluge, attempted to be philosophically considered in a series of letters to a son. Volume 1. 2nd ed. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman.   Text

same degree of refrangibility.9 Red, yellow, and blue, are the primary colours; white light, their compound. An opposing theory to this has been gradually growing up from the time of Des Cartes, and is now maintained by several men of no small name and powers in science,10 which considers light to be an undulating vibration of an ethereal medium universally diffused, and not, as Newton thought, an emanation of particles direct from the Sun.11 La Place 8 From his experiments, Dr. Herschel 'drew

A832    Beagle Library:     Turner, Sharon. 1832. The sacred history of the world, as displayed in the Creation and subsequent events to the Deluge, attempted to be philosophically considered in a series of letters to a son. Volume 1. 2nd ed. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman.   Text

Mollusques Acephales surpasses all belief. Pfeffer found, by an artificial calculation, 400,000 young Coquilles contained, between the upper part, while new eggs were. developing themselves in the ovary.' Feruss. Bull. Univ. 1827, p. 416. 13 'The sea then appears as if on fire. The drops of water thrown from one part to another, are like flame. The light is not only intense, but of all varieties of colour, red, blue, gold and silver. It is caused by many animals, of very different sizes and

A832    Beagle Library:     Turner, Sharon. 1832. The sacred history of the world, as displayed in the Creation and subsequent events to the Deluge, attempted to be philosophically considered in a series of letters to a son. Volume 1. 2nd ed. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman.   Text

, hardly within the bounds of our reasonable belief.12 10 'Nothing is more common in Pennsyivania than to see large flocks of these Birds, in Spring and Fall, passing at considerable heights in the air, from the South in the former, from the North in the latter season. The Bermudas are said to be 600 miles from the nearest part of the Continent. This may seem an extrordinary fight for so small a Bird; but it is a fact that it is performed. If we suppose the Blue Bird to fly only at the rate of a

CUL-DAR29.1.B1b-B20    Note:    1832--1836   `Fish in Spirits of Wine' [Beagle animal notes]   Text   Image

great numbers in a small ditch. Rio de Janeiro. April Fish out of a salt lagoon in great numbers, precisely the same as (195) those taken in fresh water. Do Do May Fish, same as (195) Fresh water Do Do 269 Prionotus punctatus. 269 Fish, swimming on surface. Rio bay. above and sides olive brown with red spots and marks, beneath silvery white; edges of pectoral fin Prussian blue, emitted a sound like a croak Do Do June 288 Tetragonopterus scabripinnis, Jen. N.S. 288 Fish fresh water, same as (195) Do

UMZC-Histories4.945    Note:    1832--1901   Harmer, S. F. 1901. List of specimens [of marine invertebrates] collected on the Beagle which were kept or discarded, with extracts from Darwin's manuscripts referring to specimens kept in the museum.   Text   Image

beneath with suckers in 4 irregular rows: about mouth, about 15 gamboge yellow bush-like tentacula. 9.a. St Jago 1832. Actinia. short, height 3/4 breadth 3/4 - Tentacula numerous lengthened, pointed wood brown bottom do: sides smooth dark greenish black with on overlapping edges about 10 bright blue spots. 9.c St Jago 1832. Actinia 2 in height globular, bare grey fibrous sides, smoke grey streaks longitudinally, overlapping edges darker. - tentacula greenish grey dappled.   9.d St Jago 1832

A739    Beagle Library:     Beechey, Frederick William. 1832. Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait to co-operate with the polar expeditions: performed in His Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28. Philadelphia: Carey and Rea.   Text

weather, and by swarms of house-flies which infest the island, and are said to have been imported there by H. M. S. Briton. As soon as we had gained the first level, our party rested on some large stones that lay half buried in long grass on one side of a ravine, from which the blue sky was nearly concealed by the overlapping branches of palm-trees. Here, through the medium of our female guides, who, furnished with the spreading leaves of the tee-plant, drove away our troublesome persecutors, we

A739    Beagle Library:     Beechey, Frederick William. 1832. Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait to co-operate with the polar expeditions: performed in His Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28. Philadelphia: Carey and Rea.   Text

some. Their eyes are bright and generally hazel, though in one or two instances they are blue, and some have white speckles on the iris; the eyebrows being thin, and rarely meeting. The nose, somewhat flat, and rather extended at the nostrils, partakes of the Otaheitan form, as do the lips, which are broad, and strongly sulcated. Their ears are moderately large, and the lobes are invariably united to the cheek; they are generally perforated when young, for the reception of flowers, a very

A739    Beagle Library:     Beechey, Frederick William. 1832. Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait to co-operate with the polar expeditions: performed in His Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28. Philadelphia: Carey and Rea.   Text

surprise, familiarly accosted us in the Otahetian manner. The second had a hog and a cock tattooed upon his breast animals almost unknown among the islands of Eastern Polynesia; and the third wore a turban of blue nankeen. Either of these were distinctions sufficient to excite considerable interest, as they convinced us they were not natives of the island before us, but had either been left there, or drifted away from some other island: the latter supposition was the most probable, as they

A739    Beagle Library:     Beechey, Frederick William. 1832. Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait to co-operate with the polar expeditions: performed in His Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28. Philadelphia: Carey and Rea.   Text

more anxious to avoid aquiring a distinction of this kind for ourselves, as a Russian ship had just preceded us, the crew of which, according to the natives, purchased every thing that was offered without regard to price, at whom they laughed heartily, because one of the officers had given a blue jacket in exchange for a pearl which had been ingeniously made out of an oyster shell. Some of us, therefore, had recourse to the European residents, and fortunately obtained what cloth and specie we

A739    Beagle Library:     Beechey, Frederick William. 1832. Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait to co-operate with the polar expeditions: performed in His Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28. Philadelphia: Carey and Rea.   Text

many birds, nearly all of the same kind as those which inhabit the Greenland Sea, sheerwaters, lummes, puffins, parasitic gulls, stormy petrel, dusky albatross, a larus resembling the kittiwake, a small dove-coloured tern, and shags. In latitude 60 47 N. we noticed a change in the colour of the water, and on sounding found fifty-four fathoms, soft blue clay. From that time until we took our final departure from this sea the bottom was always within reach of our common lines. The water shoaled

A739    Beagle Library:     Beechey, Frederick William. 1832. Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait to co-operate with the polar expeditions: performed in His Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28. Philadelphia: Carey and Rea.   Text

labrets, either made of ivory and blue beads, as before described, of ivory alone, or of different kinds of stone, as steatite, porphyry, or greenstone; they readily disengaged these from their lips, and sold them, without minding the inconvenience of the saliva that flowed through the badly cicatriced orifice over the chin; but on the contrary derided us when we betrayed disgust at the spectacle, by thrusting their tongues through the hole, and winking their eyes. One or two had small strings

A739    Beagle Library:     Beechey, Frederick William. 1832. Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait to co-operate with the polar expeditions: performed in His Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28. Philadelphia: Carey and Rea.   Text

from the point, which appears to have been thrown up by the eddy water. The boat landed about two miles to the northward of this point, upon a shingly beach, sufficiently steep to afford very good landing when the water is smooth; behind it there was a plain about a mile wide, extending from the hills to the sea, composed of elastic bog earth, intersected by small streams, on the edges of which the buttercup, poppy, blue-bell, pedicularis, vaccinium, saxifrages, and some cruciform plants* throve

A739    Beagle Library:     Beechey, Frederick William. 1832. Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait to co-operate with the polar expeditions: performed in His Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28. Philadelphia: Carey and Rea.   Text

indicate a nearer resemblance to a class of individuals mentioned by Langsdorff as existing in Oonalashka under the denomination of Schopans. Red and blue beads, buttons, knives, and hatchets were as usual the medium through which every thing they would part with was purchased. The men were more excited than usual by a looking-glass, which, after beholding their own features in it, and admiring alternately the reflection of their head and lip ornaments, they very inconsiderately carried it to one

A739    Beagle Library:     Beechey, Frederick William. 1832. Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait to co-operate with the polar expeditions: performed in His Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28. Philadelphia: Carey and Rea.   Text

white, and smaller than those of England; and several species of finches, buntings, and sparrows, prove very destructive to the grain when sown. The magpie is also an inhabitant here, and a small blue jay frequents the woods. the California quail (tetrao virginianus,) wood pigeons with bronzed imbricated feathers on the back of the neck, plovers (charadrius hiaticula?), snipes, several species of sanderlings (tringa,) razorbills (hematopus,) herons (ardea,) curlew (scolopax linosa and

A739    Beagle Library:     Beechey, Frederick William. 1832. Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait to co-operate with the polar expeditions: performed in His Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28. Philadelphia: Carey and Rea.   Text

many times, always singing their boat songs as they sculled themselves along. Our visitors had paid us the compliment of putting on their best attire, all of which was made of the grasscloth in the manner before described; the colours were various, but mostly blue. [page] 38

A739    Beagle Library:     Beechey, Frederick William. 1832. Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait to co-operate with the polar expeditions: performed in His Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28. Philadelphia: Carey and Rea.   Text

been left there by the sea. This substance, of which all the rocky parts of the island that we examined were composed, is a cellular or granular limestone, bearing a great resemblance to coral, for which it might easily be mistaken. It has a very rugged surface, not unlike silex macliere. LieutenANT Belcher found SANDSTONE of A loose texture, enclosing balls of blue marl, AND in ONE instance interstratified with it in alternate seams with the coral formation. This formation constituted part of a

A766    Beagle Library:     De la Beche, Henry Thomas. 1832. A geological manual, 2nd ed., corrected and enlarged. London: Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel Jun. and Richter.   Text

, between Monmouth and Chepstow; the famous Rheingau; the ravine by which the Potomack traverses the Blue Mountains in the United States; the Gates of Iron, through which the Danube escapes into Wallachia, c. The Falls of Niagara may be adduced as an example of a river discharging the surplus waters of a lake, and now cutting back a gorge to that lake, which may eventually be drained by it. This celebrated cascade is situated between the lakes Ontario and Erie. For some distance above the embouchure of

A766    Beagle Library:     De la Beche, Henry Thomas. 1832. A geological manual, 2nd ed., corrected and enlarged. London: Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel Jun. and Richter.   Text

great fires of Badku, the principal jet rises through a calcareous rock, with a dip of 25 to the S.E., the fissures or cracks being rendered blue by it . Carbonic acid gas is evolved abundantly in coal-pits and vol * Trans. New York Phil. Soc. Journal of Science. Edin. Phil. Journal, vol. vi. * Humboldt, Fragmens Asiatiques. [page] 14

A766    Beagle Library:     De la Beche, Henry Thomas. 1832. A geological manual, 2nd ed., corrected and enlarged. London: Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel Jun. and Richter.   Text

Piedmont, the lithodomous and other shells before noticed, the tooth of (perhaps) a Saurian, and some smaller species of Pecten; but no doubt a more extended search would amply repay the geologist. Near the Fontaine du Temple are some gray marls, resting on the above, which probably constitute the base of the blue or gray marly clay, which next succeeds in the order of superposition. This clay contains a great abundance of marine remains, which have [page] 21

A766    Beagle Library:     De la Beche, Henry Thomas. 1832. A geological manual, 2nd ed., corrected and enlarged. London: Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel Jun. and Richter.   Text

leaves of coaly matter; 10 feet. 11. Striped sand, yellow, fine and iron-shot; 10 feet. At a higher level than No. 11. on the same hill, the line of the London clay commences*. Section of the vertical beds in Alum Bay, Isle of Wight (order ascending). Above, or rather next to, the chalk: 1. Green, red, and yellow sand; 60 feet. 2. Dark blue clay, containing green earth and nodules of dark limestone, in the latter of which Cythere :, Turritell , and other shells are found; 200 feet. 3. A

A766    Beagle Library:     De la Beche, Henry Thomas. 1832. A geological manual, 2nd ed., corrected and enlarged. London: Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel Jun. and Richter.   Text

produced under similar general circumstances, and at about the same epoch. B. Organic Remains in the Supracretaceous Blue Marls of the South of France. The following is a list of the organic remains which, according to M. Marcel de Serres, are discovered in these marls: though long, it will be useful in showing the zoological character of a rock, which seems to preserve the same mineralogical character for a considerable distance *. * The names which follow those of the authors who have named

A832    Beagle Library:     Turner, Sharon. 1832. The sacred history of the world, as displayed in the Creation and subsequent events to the Deluge, attempted to be philosophically considered in a series of letters to a son. Volume 1. 2nd ed. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman.   Text

not very fierce.' T. Linn. 920 . In this milder temper, it is a great contrast to its ferocious relations, the Zyg na or Hammer-shaped Shark, the Blue Shark, and the White one. The Appendiculatus, or Botany Bay Shark, is very fierce; but he is only 19 inches long. Phillips' Bot. Bay. [page] 27

A806.02    Beagle Library:     Martineau, Harriet. 1832. Illustrations of political economy. 3 vols. London. vol. 2   Text

then, and you and I will not part till you sail away over the blue sea yonder. Mr. Mitehelson, we will join you again presently, and conclude the business. You are not going with him, Alfred? He will return sooner without you. But Alfred determined to lose sight of his charge no more till they should have quitted Paradise. Cassius walked so rapidly that Alfred could scarcely keep up with him. On reaching his hut, a part of which had fallen in during the [134] hurricane, he put his spade into

A806.02    Beagle Library:     Martineau, Harriet. 1832. Illustrations of political economy. 3 vols. London. vol. 2   Text

. There could be no richer bower than the foliage around him; no lamps in a pillared hall so beautiful as the fire-flies that began already to flit among the columnar stems which retired in long perspective on every hand; no perfumes more delicious than the fragrance of the pimento, borne through the groves by the whispering night-wind; no canopy so splendid as the deep blue heaven where the constellations appeared magnified as if the powers of the eye had been strengthened, where the milky-way

CUL-DAR30.5-15,15bis,16-17    Note:    1832.01.00--1832.02.00   Zoological diary: St Jago   Text   Image

St Jago 1832 Jan. 28th (a) No. 51 Doris length 1 inch. very narrow cylindrical terminated by a pointed tail — — Membrane round the foot very little extended.— Above white with dark olive brown indentations: 2 narrow lines of orange surrounding back: tail side blue mottled with white. Beneath under side of head a fine blue.— Head above dark mottled with white.— Feelers with lower parts blue.— Branchiæ about 14 tufts in number blue tipped with white:— The animal firmly adheres by its tail to the

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St. Jago 1832 (a) Actinia. Short, height 3/4, breadth 3/4.— Tentacula numerous. lengthened, pointed. wood brown bottom do: sides smooth dark greenish black with on overlapping edges about 10 bright blue spots. (b) Peronia. No 106 in Spirits (No 80) (Blain) .5, long oval flat; membrane contracted by anus, covering body, not broard, edges irregular.— upper surface blackish green covered with paps: beneath pale: Feelers short with black tips:— mouth divided longitudinally: over it a projecting

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) it is clearly impossible: the different height of upheaval prove it is not by subsidence of water. (b)  the fragments are angular the base of clay of bright colours green red and blue (c)  amygdaloid with oblong cavities (d)  Great specific gravity strongly affect the needle. 1 Daubeny 1826. the different height...of water.] added pencil. 2

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1832 February Limacina Atlantic (a) Dic. Class Atlanta, Limacina Cuvier Cuvier.— very small. fine violet. slightly carinate. whorls touching each other.— In one specimen, only small portion of whorl coloured.— 2 others uniformly.— I should think they were full grown if so a new species. Porpita. (b) Porpita. Feb 14th.— 2°30′ N.— prussian blue. width .07. back rounded, slightly tuberculated, convex. slightly striated from centre, where there is a brown mark. Surrounding membrane, narrow, stiff

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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online 22 Bahia 1832 Diodon (132) March 10th a Diodon (132) was caught swimming in its unexpanded form near to the shore.— Length about an inch: above blackish brown, beneath spotted with yellow.— Above On head four soft projections; the upper ones longer like the feelers of a snail.— Eye with pupil dark blue; iris yellow mottled with black.— (a) The dorsal caudal anal fins are so close together that they act as one. the animal propels its body by using

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at a greater were blended into a most beautiful tint.— giving to the landscape an serene appearance.— I have never observed this in England.— the colour was French grey with a very little prussian blue.— the sky in the Zenith was Ultra marine flax flower blue .— The Barometer had fallen .08 since the morning.— But from the same period, the dryness of atmosphere had much increased: the dew point was 64.5 diff 57°: diff 17°.— whilst in the morning the latter was only 7°.5.— [40v

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Rio de Janeiro………. M. Video 1832 July Moon coloured rings At 11 oclock PM of the 14th of July (off St Catherines) the moon was surrounded by beautifully coloured rings.— Around the disk there was a highly luminous circle edged with red.— The diameter of this (including the moon) was 1°.45′.— Then came one of greenish blue also edged with red, this as broard as to make the diameter of whole halo to be 2°.90′. The appearance only lasted a short time disappeared gradually.— The sky was of a pale

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48 1832 May, June Rio de Janeiro 48 for some long time, they existed previous to the formation of the great vallies — As (a) at Bahia (1), the lines of bedding cleavage remain perfectly distinct. — the clay varies much in colour being red. white. grey or blue. 521. 522 — but bright red is by far the prevailing tint. — I cannot attribute these facts to decomposition it would appear more to be owing. to the crystallization having only proceeded so far as to group homogenous particles. without