CUL-DAR30.77-99    Note:    1832.08.00--1832.09.00   Zoological diary: Patagonian coast   Text   Image

transverse bands.— fins leaden colour.— beneath obscure: pupil dark blue.— When caught vomited up small fish a Pilumnus.— Mr Earl states these fish are plentiful at Tristan d Acunha, where it is called the Devil 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.— Fish (c) copied 354 354 Above pale Chesnut brown so arranged as to form transverse bands on sides: Sides, head, fins, with a black tinge: beneath

CUL-DAR30.100-116    Note:    1832.09.00--1832.10.00   Zoological diary: Bahia Blanca   Text   Image

(Lamouroux), the latter having the peduncle twisted, branches not jointed, generally short creeping.— This would appear from structure of Coralline to be more closely allied (as Cuvier ranks it) to the Tubularia than to the Sertulariæ.— I never saw anything more beautifully luminous than this Coralline was; when rubbed in the dark every fibre might be traced by the blue light.— What was remarkable was that the light came in flashes, which appeared regularly to proceed up the branches: The coralline

CUL-DAR30.100-116    Note:    1832.09.00--1832.10.00   Zoological diary: Bahia Blanca   Text   Image

in so many distinct springs.— The body weighs from 20 to 25 pounds.— Lizard 454 455 Monte Hermoso.— In its depressed form general appearance partakes of some of the characters of the Geckos.— Colours above singularly mottled, the small scales are coloured brown, white, yellowish red, blue, all dirty, the brown forming symetrical clouds.— Beneath white, with regular spots of brown on the belly.— Habits singular, lives on the beach, on the dry sand some way from the vegetation.— Colour of body

CUL-DAR30.141-149    Note:    1832.12.00--1833.02.00   Zoological diary: Tierra del Fuego   Text   Image

Tierra del Fuego 1833 Fuegian colours blue.— I suppose therefore it nearly pure alumina.— It occurs in the Slate Mountain, I imagine from the decomposition of the beds of Feldspathic rock.— The black I have not obtained: the black is I believe only charcoal oil:— Heteromerous insects 1021...24 (not spirits) copied The habitat of these insects was the most singular I ever observed: it was in the fissures of slate rock in which the genus Capulus was adhæring to the stone alive, therefore of

EH88202334    Note:    1833--1835   Falkland notebook   Text   Image

4th [August 1833] (1) B. About 120 feet high (whitish harder more siliceous Tosca) B A blue white sandstone C blue white with hard plates of sandstone A Tosca Gypsum impressiones of shells black linear cavities [page 90a

EH88202328    Note:    1833   Port Desire notebook   Text   Image

Hills North of B. sound several [orients] (W E (?)) centre of island more confusion Thrush in flocks Experimentize with pods of Kelp. Nitre rapidly drying: Small Hawk iris honey yellow legs bright yellow . skin above blue beak do: male feeding on Carrion! (1926)1 Blue leg Vulture. Male.Super-abundance of inarticulate Corallines: Kelp Corallines 1 Specimen not in spirits 1926 in Zoology notes, p. 399, 'Ornithological notes', p. 233; listed as Milvago leucurus in Birds, pp. 15-18. [page 54

A505.3    Beagle Library:     Lyell, Charles. 1833. Principles of geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation. 3 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 3.   Text

above and are engulphed. Protruded masses of chalk. But whatever opinion we may entertain on this point, we cannot doubt that subterranean a, Gravel and ferruginous sand, rounded and angular pieces of chalk flint, with some quartz pebbles, 3 feet. b, Laminated blue clay, 8 feet. c, Yellow sand, 1 foot 6 inches. d, Dark blue clay with fragments of marine shells, 6 feet. e, Yellow loam and flint gravel, 3 feet. f, Light blue clay, 1 foot. g, Sand and loam, 12 feet. h, Yellow and white sand, loam

EH88202331    Note:    1833--1835   B. Blanca notebook   Text   Image

Little mouse (male) 5 drams 59 gr 5 dram 29.81 (apoth) Gerboise (male) 3 oz (24 apothecary Avecasina female Young T. del Finch less brilliant. head less blue back less green belly more dirty orange 437.5 3 1312.5 24 2336 [page 73a

EH88202334    Note:    1833--1835   Falkland notebook   Text   Image

entirely composed of blue slate, generally very siliceous: he occasionally containing Lime; often pure quartz; often much iron. I here noticed very generally was that extreme sort of contorted cleavage in which every possible curve was present many resembling small [page 61a

A505.3    Beagle Library:     Lyell, Charles. 1833. Principles of geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation. 3 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 3.   Text

resembles the blue marl of the Subapennine hills, and, like it, encloses fossil shells and corals in a beautiful state of preservation. Of these I collected a great abundance from the clay, on the south side of the harbour of Syracuse, and twenty species in the environs of Caltanisetta, all of which, with three exceptions, M. Deshayes was able to identify with recent species*. From similar blue marl, alternating with yellow sand, at Caltagirone, at an elevation of about five hundred feet above the

EH88202328    Note:    1833   Port Desire notebook   Text   Image

pale white, projecting points pale halo edge with alternate spaces of narrow white blue, the latter color being fimbriated. beneath white, excepting mouth: tentac short terminal black eye: beneath which a bifurcate membrane: high up on rocks, near top of high water crawling on confervae nearly dry: Onchidium?1 Two small Turbos same locality. Pushed on to P. Chagua, same squally weather in several places on road, mass of alluvium hardened earth containing round 1 An intertidal slug. [page 98

EH88202329    Note:    1833--1834   Banda Oriental notebook   Text   Image

(Though little) I suppose the Oyster bed does thicken elevate itself, if as I it is, as I imagine: flow from the Andes the above Lava will be higher than Crater hill. Lions scratch ground: killed 2 Guanacoes, Condors eat one Cordilleras in full view. Clouds Climate River, blue narrower. Lava streamlets: The general absence of pebbles in all beds. except this one lowest, shows how entirely the Porphyry pebbles depend on [page 87

EH88202334    Note:    1833--1835   Falkland notebook   Text   Image

Friday 10th. [May 1833] A few miles beyond sleeping place; crossing the Salco the country became more elevated hilly. hills 3- to 500 feet high more stony. the rock generally more or less perfect gneiss; some quartz; also a little blue siliceous slate: our [course] was about NN by N. in this journey we were generally upon high land: but it was impossible to trace any very regular course of hills, after leaving the Sierra Larga: [page 36a

EH88202334    Note:    1833--1835   Falkland notebook   Text   Image

been chiefly north) (NB. before Minas in the gneiss there was some siliceous blue slate) (NB. Examine peat at M. Video) After then much Syenite in abrupt paps or cones: then chiefly quartz: Our view to the East showed a much more level country: we travelling along hills the same as before: The country is precisely the same as formerly the people all look at me rather kindly [page 45a

A505.3    Beagle Library:     Lyell, Charles. 1833. Principles of geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation. 3 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 3.   Text

a series much inferior in thickness, consisting of a calcareous sandstone, conglomerate and schistose limestone, and beneath this again, blue marl. The whole of the above groups contain shells and zoophytes, nearly all of which are referrible to species now inhabiting the contiguous sea. a, Great limestone of Val di Noto. b, Schistose and arenaceous limestone of Florida, c. c, Blue marl with shells. d, White laminated marl. e, Blue clay and gypsum, c. without shells. Great limestone formation (a

A505.3    Beagle Library:     Lyell, Charles. 1833. Principles of geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation. 3 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 3.   Text

are often covered by a thin pellicle only of tertiary strata, which rests horizontally on the chalk and does not always conceal it. a, Siliceous sand without shells. b, Gravel. c, Sand and marl with shells. d, Blue marl with shells. E, Chalk and volcanic tuff. In the valleys of the Adour and Luy, section of all the members of the tertiary series are laid open, but the lowest blue marl, which is sometimes 200 feet thick, is not often penetrated. On the banks of the Luy, however, to the south of

EH88202331    Note:    1833--1835   B. Blanca notebook   Text   Image

in evening like frogs: few Vultures watching for them to be killed: too much appearance danger (like salted meat) dog bark jump up: Pteru-Pteru when playing at cards by firelight cry heads inclined horrible looking men: Game at balls distance 35 yards but about one in 4 or 5 times: could throw them at between 50 60: Carranches do not run like Cuervos1 eggs in cliffs. colour oveiro cry like Spanish G N: at Sauce saw other sort, legs bill blue, feathers light brown. except crown of head eyes

EH88202333    Note:    1833--1835   St. Fe notebook   Text   Image

with the slope which for a distance of nearly 10 miles forms a considerable angle with the Pampas vegetation exactly like R. Negro. Where Porphyry low ranges were nothing but pebbles from them. Further in the plain [large] rounded blocks of Granite: NB. Beside (ejected?) red Porphyry, there were other hills of whitish do did not start till midday, ascended volcanic beds view of Pampas: dark blue, from rising Eastern sun: striking line of glittering water lost in immense distance: very level to

EH88202333    Note:    1833--1835   St. Fe notebook   Text   Image

Soda? other brooks higher up purgative: Greywacke (16) alternates with fine blue laminated clay slate (17), which certainly is more abundant more [page 158a

A505.3    Beagle Library:     Lyell, Charles. 1833. Principles of geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation. 3 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 3.   Text

other bays of the Mediterranean, which are surrounded by bold rocky coasts. The general resemblance of the Albenga strata to the Subapennine beds is very striking, the lowest division consisting of blue marl, which is covered by sand and yellow clay, and the highest by a mass of stratified shingle, sometimes consolidated into a conglomerate. Dr. Sasso has collected about 200 species of shells from these beds, and it appears, by his catalogue, that they agree, for the most part, with the

EH88202333    Note:    1833--1835   St. Fe notebook   Text   Image

see purple blue clay slate apparently conformable right beneath the white rocks dipping about 30° westerly. I am still more strongly inclined to suspect that Falkland case here occurs: following the valley we have the white rocks (such as top of yesterdays mountain, this is just in the N S line seen running up the country but rather lower; there is not here so much of the purple rocks: see purple blue clay slate apparently conformable right beneath the white rocks dipping about 30° westerly. I

A817.1    Beagle Library:     Owen, William Fitz William. 1833. Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar; performed in H.M. Ships Leven and Barracouta. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 1.   Text

natural archway, called by us, The Hole in the Wall. In this arched chasm the surf beat on the rocks with so much violence as to break fifty feet from their base, although but little wind was blowing at the time. The country looked like a large park, varied with hill and dale; exhibiting at times, through a luxuriant valley, the distant prospect of blue mountainous ridges. Upon their second approach to the coast of Natal, the landscape was equally beautiful; clusters of trees, hills, vales

EH88202333    Note:    1833--1835   St. Fe notebook   Text   Image

white clouds. beneath brilliant where we were: hid the equally level Pampas. Entered the [band] clouds the region of bushes stopped at one oclock. In mist whole day. (Los Arenales) 24th [March 1835] Vegetation spring bushes. many flowers like Patagonia: Blue Orange finch long-tailed tit: tufted do. red-tail Furnarius. Guanaco dung in heap: just the same in appearance (Ulloa):1 very many mice: Biscatcha on a peak: very different aspect: more bushy tail. tinge of red in breast: Viviparous

EH88202333    Note:    1833--1835   St. Fe notebook   Text   Image

of S. Stone, with more perfect generally a trace of gryphite1 (100) the most perfect shell an oyster (101). There was a white Limestone with line of little quartz pebbles white or red, like shot: above the Limestone same thickness of same color harder heavier (than those above) Conglomerate, matrix with slight trace of crystal (98). above this I believe Limestone, which [on] the first contains a hardened blue marl (102) with nodules of Limestone: we then have (Bed 2): I doubt whether this

A505.3    Beagle Library:     Lyell, Charles. 1833. Principles of geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation. 3 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 3.   Text

. A diagonal lamination is often observable in the calcareous sandy beds analogous to that represented in the first volume (chap. xiv. diagram No. 6), and to that exhibited in many sections of the English crag, to which we shall afterwards allude. In some parts of the island this sandy calcareous division b, seems to be represented by yellow sand, exactly resembling that so frequently superimposed on the blue shelly marl of the Subapennines in the Italian peninsula. Thus, near Grammichele, on

A904    Beagle Library:     Fitton, William Henry. 1833. Notes on the progress of geology in England. London: Richard Taylor.   Text

, imbedded. 1. Chalk (5). 2. Sand.. 70 The fertile vales intersecting Salisbury Plain and the Downs. 2. Greensand (6).Firestone. 3. Clay. 30 Between the Black Dog and Berkley. 3. Blue Marl (7). 4. Sand and Stone 30 5. Clay 15 Hinton, Norton, Woolverton, Bradford Leigh. Imbedded is a thin stratum of calcareous Grit. The stones flat, smooth, and rounded at the edges. 5. Forest Marble(17 18). 6. Forest Marble 10 A mass of Anomi and high-waved Cockles, with calcareous Cement. The cover of the upper bed of

A747    Beagle Library:     British Association for the Advancement of Science. 1833. Report of the first and second meetings, at York in 1831 and at Oxford in 1832, including its proceedings, recommendations, and transactions. London: John Murray.   Text

2. The solar spectrum and that of artificial flames, whether formed by prisms of transparent solids and fluids, or by grooves in metallic and transparent bodies, or by the diffraction of light passing through a narrow aperture, consist of three spectra of equal length, beginning and terminating at the same points (viz. a Red, a Yellow, and a Blue Spectrum), and having their maximum of illumination at different points of their length, and their minimum at their two extremities. 3. All the seven

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and by myself in the beginning of 1831 in an ore of lead from Wanlock Head, and before Sefstr m had published anything upon the subject. It approaches nearest to chromium in its properties, and lies in a natural arrangement between that metal and molybdenum. It is characterized by giving, in the form of oxide, blue salts with acids, with oxygen forming a peculiar acid, which fuses at a red heat without decomposition, and on cooling is reddish brown and crystalline, and which gives with bases

A505.3    Beagle Library:     Lyell, Charles. 1833. Principles of geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation. 3 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 3.   Text

inclined at an angle of 45 , and even more. a, Pebbles of chalk flint, and of rolled pieces of white chalk. b, Loam overlying a. c, c, Blue and brown clay. [page] 17

A817.1    Beagle Library:     Owen, William Fitz William. 1833. Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar; performed in H.M. Ships Leven and Barracouta. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 1.   Text

as the day made us visible to the natives, they were observed making preparations on the Mafoomo side of the water to pay us a visit. The first who came was Jem of the Water, as he called himself. This fellow was in the native costume, which is literally worse than nothing, consisting only of a straw tube, about a foot long, with a shred of blue dungaree hanging from its upper end. He was ornamented by a necklace of charms, composed of small shells, eagles' talons, brass buttons, coloured beads

A817.1    Beagle Library:     Owen, William Fitz William. 1833. Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar; performed in H.M. Ships Leven and Barracouta. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 1.   Text

seamen, and English Bill, as interpreter, formed the embassy; they took as a present a small quantity of leaf tobacco, some dungaree, or coarse blue cotton, and two bottles of rum. They were also accompanied by one of Makasany's Secretaries, who levied contributions of water-melons, pemba,* and fruits, for the use of the party, at several villages which they passed through. After a most fatiguing march of nearly sixteen * Beer made from millet. [page] 21

A817.1    Beagle Library:     Owen, William Fitz William. 1833. Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar; performed in H.M. Ships Leven and Barracouta. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 1.   Text

mutual interest. The trade of Inhamban consists principally in ivory, and bees'wax, about one hundred thousand pounds of the former being annually conveyed to Mozambique. This article is obtained from the natives for blue dungaree, fishhooks, needles, c.; and so highly do they prize the last of these, that one of our seamen for a single needle procured two fullgrown fowls. The natives about Inhamban are entirely independent of the Portuguese, and, although they are ready to traffic with them, will

A817.2    Beagle Library:     Owen, William Fitz William. 1833. Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar; performed in H.M. Ships Leven and Barracouta. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 2.   Text

, on his last return to Mr. Arlett, had filled his trunk with mud, which, having turned him on his back, and forced open his mouth, he blew down his throat, injecting a large quantity into the stomach. It was this that produced the inflated appearance of Mr. Arlett's countenance, for he was almost in a state of suffocation, and for three days after this adventure, he occasionally vomited quantities of blue sand. When he encountered the elephant, he had a [page] 21

A828    Beagle Library:     Stephens, James Francis. 1833. Description of Chiasognathus Grantii a new lucanideous insect forming the type of an undescribed genus, together with some brief remarks upon its structure and affinities. Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 4: 209-17.   Text

longitudinal wrinkles at the base, the inferior process very glossy and impunctate, colour rich copper, tinted with brilliant shades of a golden hue, the base and its appendage rich blue-green and iridescent; the curvatures bronzed-black; head bright golden-green, varying in tint with the light, the disc very glossy, remotely, but finely, punctate, bluish; the lateral and posterior margins of a variable golden hue, with the spinous processes of [page] 21

A747    Beagle Library:     British Association for the Advancement of Science. 1833. Report of the first and second meetings, at York in 1831 and at Oxford in 1832, including its proceedings, recommendations, and transactions. London: John Murray.   Text

not oh any peculiar secreted matter, but on the general laws for thin plates. Examined with a fine achromatic microscope of Chevalier's construction, blood-vessels, and even the red globules contained in them, were visible in the membrane. By careful dissection in water, it is separable in distinct layers from the choroid. Its colour is frequently different in the same species of animals; it is usually blue in the ox, the pigment in the same animal being of a rich brown; in the cat and fox the

A505.3    Beagle Library:     Lyell, Charles. 1833. Principles of geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation. 3 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 3.   Text

LIST OF PLATES AND WOOD-CUTSIN THE THIRD VOLUME. PLATES. Frontispiece. View of the volcanos around Olot, in Catalonia. See p. 186. This view is taken from a sketch by the author; an attempt is made to represent by colours the different geological formations of which the country is composed. The blue line of mountains in the distance are the Pyrenees, which are to the north of the spectator, and consist of primary and ancient secondary rocks. In front of these are the secondary formations

A505.3    Beagle Library:     Lyell, Charles. 1833. Principles of geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation. 3 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 3.   Text

CHAPTER VI. Newer Pliocene formations Reasons for considering in the first place the more modern periods Geological structure of Sicily Formations of the Val di Noto of newer Pliocene period Divisible into three groups Great limestone Schistose and arenaceous limestone Blue marl with shells Strata subjacent to the above Volcanic rocks of the Val di Noto Dikes Tuffs and Peperinos Volcanic conglomerates Proofs of long intervals between volcanic eruptions Dip and direction of newer Pliocene

A505.3    Beagle Library:     Lyell, Charles. 1833. Principles of geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation. 3 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 3.   Text

the Subapennines, and he classed all the tertiary strata of Italy, from Piedmont to Calabria, as parts of the same system. Certain mineral characters, he observed, were common to the whole, for the strata consist generally of light brown or blue marl, covered by yellow calcareous sand and gravel. There are also, * Above, p. 54. [page] 15

A505.3    Beagle Library:     Lyell, Charles. 1833. Principles of geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation. 3 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 3.   Text

green-sand.' It sometimes consists of loose siliceous sand, containing grains of silicate of iron, but often of firm beds of sandstone and chert. 2. Blue clay or calcareous marl, called provincially Gault. 3. Lower green-sand, a very complex group consisting of grey, yellowish, and greenish sands, ferruginous sand and sandstone, clay, chert, and siliceous limestone. 4. Weald clay, composed for the most part of clay without intermixture of calcareous matter, but sometimes including thin beds of

A817.1    Beagle Library:     Owen, William Fitz William. 1833. Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar; performed in H.M. Ships Leven and Barracouta. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 1.   Text

traction. The only thing that surprised us was to observe that many of the gentlemen enjoyed their delicious Havannah cigars in the ball-room without offending the ladies' nerves. In one of the churches may be seen the figure of St. Patrick decked in his original costume of green coat, yellow brogues, blue stockings, covering a purely Irish calf, a small hat stuck on one side of his head so as to leave fair space for a sprig of shillaleh to take effect upon the other; and his hand embellished

A817.1    Beagle Library:     Owen, William Fitz William. 1833. Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar; performed in H.M. Ships Leven and Barracouta. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 1.   Text

number of wives that each man has is in proportion to his means. This Prince, or as English Bill called him, King, was a young man of short stature, with an intelligent good-humoured countenance. The only articles of clothing he wore were a neat blue jacket, and a red night-cap, decorated with a great profusion of beads and trinkets. From the extent of his domain, and the grain in his fields, he was accounted rich, of which Bill, by the way, took care to inform me, by saying, in his broken

A817.1    Beagle Library:     Owen, William Fitz William. 1833. Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar; performed in H.M. Ships Leven and Barracouta. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 1.   Text

some taste in their costume: they were habited in blue spencers, with long sleeves, fitting tight to the body, and ending just below the bosom, where the skin, for the breadth of an inch, was left exposed; this was succeeded by two pieces of cloth, the one serving as a petticoat, and the other as a gown, which were fastened by the ends being carefully tucked in between the body and the first folds that embraced it. None of them wore trinkets or ornaments of any kind, excepting a very few who

A817.1    Beagle Library:     Owen, William Fitz William. 1833. Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar; performed in H.M. Ships Leven and Barracouta. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 1.   Text

for slaves on the east coast. They are purchased with blue dungaree, coloured cloths, arms, gunpowder, brass and pewter, red coloured beads in imitation of coral, cutlery, and various other articles. The free blacks of the country and banyans carry on the trade inland for the merchants; and the arrival of one of these people among the tribes with his pedlar's stock is the signal for general warfare, when the weak become victims to the strong. Great faith is kept towards these mercantile agents

A817.2    Beagle Library:     Owen, William Fitz William. 1833. Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar; performed in H.M. Ships Leven and Barracouta. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 2.   Text

tooka, was rather shorter and of a darker tinge than his brother, the king, and by no means of so sedate a carriage. He generally dressed in a blue coat, epaulettes, and cocked hat, and his favourite amusement was shooting, during which he was always accompanied by a strong guard, rode on horseback, and was delighted whenever he could get an English officer to join him. His manners were particularly lively and prepossessing, and although not endowed with such extraordinary talents as his

A817.2    Beagle Library:     Owen, William Fitz William. 1833. Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar; performed in H.M. Ships Leven and Barracouta. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 2.   Text

means handsome, but gaudily dressed in white gowns, yellow silk handkerchiefs pinned over their shoulders, broad tinsel sashes round their waists, white open-worked silk stockings, and red kid shoes. Their hair was neatly plaited into a variety of small cords, knotted at the end, and hanging down in front as low as their eyebrows; but, when walking, they wore large French bonnets decorated with artificial flowers. Rafarla had on a plain blue coat with a pair of gold epaulettes, white waistcoat

A817.2    Beagle Library:     Owen, William Fitz William. 1833. Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar; performed in H.M. Ships Leven and Barracouta. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 2.   Text

an English slaver. Umbrellas here seemed to be emblematic of rank, for not a chief approached in his canoe without one held over his head by an attendant. There was nothing remarkable in the appearance of these people; all were perfectly black, but their noses were not so flat, or their lips so large, as amongst the generality of negroes. Their clothing consisted in a single wrapper of blue dungaree or printed cloth round their loins, hanging on one side to their ankles, while in front of their

A817.2    Beagle Library:     Owen, William Fitz William. 1833. Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar; performed in H.M. Ships Leven and Barracouta. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 2.   Text

krall to be slain without distinction. One of his people in his presence happened, upon one occasion, to have something in his countenance, perhaps of the ridiculous, which had a tendency to disturb the serenity of the king's features. Take that man away and kill him, he makes me laugh, said Chaka. Like another Blue-beard, his embraces are a sentence of death. He says he wishes to live for ever, and his affectation of being so many years in acquiring the full maturity of a man seemed to be founded

A828    Beagle Library:     Stephens, James Francis. 1833. Description of Chiasognathus Grantii a new lucanideous insect forming the type of an undescribed genus, together with some brief remarks upon its structure and affinities. Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 4: 209-17.   Text

impunctate posteriorly, and produced into an abbreviated ridge, composed of two lunules; the colour is intense golden-green, with the anterior and posterior margins rich purplish-copper, varying in certain positions of light to blue and violet, especially towards the posterior angles, and the fove on the lateral margin are fine purplish-green; scutellum of this last tint, impunctate, its base clothed with short pale hairs in the centre; elytra very finely granulated throughout, except the humeral

A505.3    Beagle Library:     Lyell, Charles. 1833. Principles of geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation. 3 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 3.   Text

part of the bed of the sea is exposed to the excavating action of currents, while the greater part, remote from continents and islands, probably receives no new deposits whatever, being covered for ages with the clear blue waters uncharged with sediment. Here the relics of organic beings, lying in the ooze of the deep, may decompose like the leaves of the forest in autumn, and leave no wreck behind, but merely supply nourishment, by their decomposition, to succeeding races of marine animals and

A505.3    Beagle Library:     Lyell, Charles. 1833. Principles of geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation. 3 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 3.   Text

the recent predominate almost to the exclusion of the extinct. We shall now consider more particularly the characters of those Subapennine beds which we refer to the older Pliocene period. Subapennine marls. The most important member of the Subapennine formation is a marl which varies in colour from grayish brown to blue. It is very aluminous, and usually contains much calcareous matter and scaled of mica. It often exhibits no lines of division throughout a considerable thickness, but in other