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F1592.1 Book: Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 1. Text Image PDF

Natural Selection fifty years ago, and that it should have struck no one that it was a great principle of universal application in nature! We are going to have a discussion on Mimicry, as producing Abnormal Sexual Characters, at the Entomological to-night. I have a butterfly (Diadenia) of which the female is metallic blue, the male dusky brown, contrary to the rule in all Other species of the genus, and in almost all insects; but the explanation is easy it mimics a metallic Eupl a, and so gets a

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F1592.2 Book: Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

, the ceremony, the having perhaps to get a blue or yellow or scarlet gown! and at all events new black clothes and a new topper! such as I have not worn this twenty years. Luckily I had a good excuse in having committed the same offence before. Some ten years back I declined the offer of a degree from Cambridge, so that settled it. P.S. Having already degrees two LL.D. (Dublin) and D.C.L. (Oxford) I might have quoted Shakespeare: To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, etc. But I didn't! A. R. W

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A2094b Book: Hooker, J. D. 1918. [Recollections of Darwin]. In L. Huxley ed., Life and letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker. London: John Murray, vol. 2. Text

homage of his friends and admirers. The marks of a hale, serene, and dignified old age were upon him in the softly lightened colour of his face, encircled by a complete halo silver hair and fringing beard; in the enhanced prominence and luminous quality of his eyes, which shone very blue from under the veritable penthouse of his eyebrows. As he sat there, still firm and upright, it was hard to believe that he as ninety-two years old. Indeed the two figures which most strongly caught the

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A283 Pamphlet: Darwin, Francis. 1920. The story of a childhood. Edinburgh: Privately printed. Text Image

off three steps. B. pensively laid his head on the bannister, and said he could do it, but didn't want to. Yesterday he brought all his walking-sticks down and made little bool [blue] and red and yellow marks on them. He now calls his walking-sticks Jackson No. 1, 2, and 3, Dada, Southampton, Ravensbourne, and James. He has three chairs in the nursery called the dogcart, the wagonette, and the van, and each one has its special whip. No. 133. October 13, 1880. We had an amusing scene with B

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A283 Pamphlet: Darwin, Francis. 1920. The story of a childhood. Edinburgh: Privately printed. Text Image

a great blue lump on his forehead; but he soon cheered up and said skating was jolly. No. 296. January 29, 1886, Cambridge. Last night Ellen, B., and I went to Hamlet. He liked it very much, and was impressed by the ghost but not frightened, and laughed delightfully at anything comic. No. 299. February 19, 1886. Poor B. is not quite well; I think his inside is to blame. He is very sweet when he is ill. Yesterday, when I was sitting with him, he kissed my hand and stroked my face, saying, Dear

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A283 Pamphlet: Darwin, Francis. 1920. The story of a childhood. Edinburgh: Privately printed. Text Image

and corruption for the only time: when we were getting into the cab Nanna wanted to put a shawl on him, and he rebelled, so I smoothed it over with sweet-stuff. He was thinking all the time of the trombone he wanted to buy with his new half-crown, and next morning he went out and returned with it in triumph. The little duck got me a blue and white spill-jar, which Nanna suggested. He took great delight in giving it to me, and kept asking, Didn't I give you a nice present? No. 150. February 1

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A283 Pamphlet: Darwin, Francis. 1920. The story of a childhood. Edinburgh: Privately printed. Text Image

have to work hard cutting ancient Britons for him out of blue paper, and then they fight pirates and get wounded, and have to be doctored with imaginary black - currant jelly. Yesterday I thought his ancient Britions were in the drawing-room, but he said they were upstairs. I went to look, though he assured that it was no use looking there. I said that he had been quite right, to which he answered, in an insinuating voice, Were you a little bit wrong? No. 158. April 12, 1881. I walked with Sir

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A283 Pamphlet: Darwin, Francis. 1920. The story of a childhood. Edinburgh: Privately printed. Text Image

answered yes in a patient little voice, but I saw he was going to cry, so I said I would stay with him. So we went off quite happy to get water to put in his pond. No. 162. April 24, 1881. I had been away for a night, and when I came back B. gave me such a nice Well, Dad, and jumped up to be kissed. His amusement now is to cut out an indefinitely shaped bit of paper, and colour it red on one side and blue on the other. The papers have pin-holes pricked in them through which he looks at a candle. He

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A283 Pamphlet: Darwin, Francis. 1920. The story of a childhood. Edinburgh: Privately printed. Text Image

wears an enormous straw hat and a blue jersey. We play cricket, and he bowls round-hand with great go and straightness. He is distracted about Goths, Vandals, Lombards, etc., and always asking me ethnological questions which I cannot answer. No. 254. October 22, 1884. B. has invented a new kind of chess with only pawns. No. 255. October 29, 1884. B. has been much excited by a collection of coins which the gardener [page] 6

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A874 Book: Huxley, Leonard. 1921. Charles Darwin. London: Watts. Text Image PDF

Chopin and Darwin and Monckton Milnes and John Stuart Blackie. I think the blue eyes used to flash more over the recital of so renowned a list than they twinkled at the conclusion, which was so unexpected by the hearer. Be that as it may, the list includes more men than one who profoundly modified the world into which they were born. In music, indeed, the revolutionaries were not yet; but Tennyson, with his exquisitely polished lute, gave his countrymen not only new beauties of word and song

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A874 Book: Huxley, Leonard. 1921. Charles Darwin. London: Watts. Text Image PDF

, philosopher, and lover of natural history. Erasmus's mother, we suspect, was a bit of a blue-stocking such a wife that talketh Latine, as her husband prayed to be delivered from; but her gifts stood her son in better stead than her husband. His literary and philosophic fame became so well established that three years after the Origin of Species appeared an ordinary well-read person could be struck with the coincidence that the great Dr. Darwin's subject had been taken up by some one of the same

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A874 Book: Huxley, Leonard. 1921. Charles Darwin. London: Watts. Text Image PDF

children. I can but hope that we in return did not spill ourselves too riotously outside our appointed quarters into the corner of the house sacred to quiet and study. At breakfast-time each morning Darwin would come in to greet us tall, white-bearded, impressive, his kind blue eyes beaming on us from under the penthouse of his brows the incarnation of Socratic benevolence; and he would pat the curliest-headed youngster on the head and playfully bid him make himself at home and take large [page

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A260 Book: Fenton, Carroll Lane. [1924]. Darwin and the theory of evolution. Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius. Text Image

LITTLE BLUE BOOK NO.568 Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius Darwin and the Theory of Evolution Carroll Lane Fenton HALDEMAN-JULIUS COMPANY GIRARD, KANSAS [page 2

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A260 Book: Fenton, Carroll Lane. [1924]. Darwin and the theory of evolution. Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius. Text Image

Fenton, Carroll Lane. [1924]. Darwin and the theory of evolution. Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius. [front cover] LITTLE BLUE BOOK NO. 568 Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius Darwin and the Theory of Evolution Carroll Lane Fenton [page 1

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A555 Book: Shipley, A. E. [1924]. Charles Darwin (1809-1882). In Cambridge Cameos. London: Jonathan Cape, pp. 118-147. Text Image PDF

up after Christmas. Among those of his contemporaries at Christ's, who had joined the previous October, was A. T. Holroyd, who, a few years later, in 1836, journeyed up the Nile and crossed the desert to Khartoum. He penetrated up the Blue Nile to Sennaar, and again across the desert to the White Nile and Kordofan. Later he explored the Syrian desert, and Holroyd's tracks were common on maps of the period. He afterwards went to New Zealand and Australia, where he practised at the Sydney bar. He

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A489 Book: [Duff, Ursula Grant ed.] 1924. The life-work of Lord Avebury (Sir John Lubbock) 1834-1913. London: Watts & Co. [Darwin recollections only] Text Image

. To many temperaments the beauties of Nature make only an aesthetic appeal; the true image of the blue of heaven reflected in the petals of the Speedwell stirs emotions of intense pleasure, the shape of a leaf excites admiration by the curve of its lines; but more to know does never meddle with their thoughts. To a keen appreciation of beauty in Nature he added an over- [page] 17

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F2753 Book contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1924. [Correspondence with Francis Galton]. In Karl Pearson ed. The life, letters and labours of Francis Galton. vol. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 156-202. Text PDF

, what shall I do?—When may I expect them to arrive? My rats have died sadly, but owing to causes foreign to the effects of the operation. My last living pair, after being united nearly 3 months, were killed last week for the purpose of injection. Dr Klein kindly did it for me. One animal was injected with blue and the other with red, and vascular union is proved; but the connection was small, however Dr Klein thinks that with a more protracted connection the union would have been more complete

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A875 Book: Bradford, Gamaliel. 1926. Darwin. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin. Text Image PDF

it is not necessary to travel all over the world to make sure that the sky is everywhere blue,39 and no doubt there are repetitions that are vain and superfluous. But many difficult and delicate researches have to be gone over again and again that the minutest detail may be complete; and the process may involve months of tedious delay. Darwin's unfailing care, both to repeat and to avoid repetition, is well indicated in his son's comment: 'Although he would patiently go on repeating

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A875 Book: Bradford, Gamaliel. 1926. Darwin. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin. Text Image PDF

eyes of a man who could survey all nature.'2 And Bryce agrees: 'The feature which struck one most was the projecting brow with its bushy eyebrows, and deep beneath it the large gray-blue eyes with their clear and steady look. It was an alert look, as of one accustomed to observing keenly, yet it was also calm and reflective. There was a pleasant smile which came and passed readily, but the chief impression made by the face was that of tranquil, patient thoughtfulness, as of one whose mind had

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A179 Book: Ward, Henshaw. 1927. Charles Darwin: The man and his warfare. London: John Murray. Text Image

interference from a subject of immediate importance the coral islands. He had been working for months at the British Museum and the Admiralty office, searching through all available charts, sailing-directions, and narratives of voyages, gathering data from which he could construct a map of the coral islands and reefs of the world. Each atoll was colored dark blue, the barrier-reefs pale blue, the fringing-reefs red, and the active volcanos vermilion. If volcanos are a sign of a rising area of

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A179 Book: Ward, Henshaw. 1927. Charles Darwin: The man and his warfare. London: John Murray. Text Image

; and these separate feathers, if there had been the least vibratory movement, would have appeared as if blended together; but they were seen distinct against the blue sky. His interest was not centered on the mechanics of flight, for he concludes: However this may be, it is truly wonderful and beautiful to see so great a bird, hour after hour, without any apparent exertion, wheeling and gliding over mountain and river. If a man could understand the operation of one bird's wing-feathers, he would

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A179 Book: Ward, Henshaw. 1927. Charles Darwin: The man and his warfare. London: John Murray. Text Image

By half past three we had two large vans full of goods well and carefully packed. By six o'clock we had them all here. There is nothing left but some few dozen drawers of shells, which must be carried by hand . The little garden is worth its weight in gold. During January, 1839, Darwin was scribbling numerous unscientific letters to Maer. Jan. 7. I wish the awful day was over. I am not very tranquil when I think of the procession: it is very awesome . Mr. Stewart wanted me to have a blue coat

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A179 Book: Ward, Henshaw. 1927. Charles Darwin: The man and his warfare. London: John Murray. Text Image

Master William Erasmus was all that a first baby should be. He was known to his parents as Hoddy Doddy and was thus described by his mother: He has very dark blue eyes and a pretty, small mouth; his nose I will not boast of, but it is very harmless as long as he is a baby. During his infancy his father was very unwell: He has certainly been worse for the last six weeks, and has been pretty constantly in a state of languor that is very distressing, and his being obliged to be idle is very

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A179 Book: Ward, Henshaw. 1927. Charles Darwin: The man and his warfare. London: John Murray. Text Image

legs. But he conquered. On July 24 he reached the summit of the pass and beheld the blue and rainless skies of Tibet. He had accomplished what Hodgson thought a great feat, and what his other friends had considered a visionary undertaking. I found what I so many years have only dreamed of, the remarkable change in vegetation that only occurs at the boundary of the mountains and plains, that prevalence of species and paucity of specimens which marks that curious zone. Here at the border of Tibet

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A179 Book: Ward, Henshaw. 1927. Charles Darwin: The man and his warfare. London: John Murray. Text Image

I wish you wouldn't be apologetic. I always look upon any criticism as a compliment, not but what the old Adam in T. H. H. will arise and fight vigorously against all impugnment, and irrespective of all odds in the way of authority, but that is the way of the beast. Why I value your and Tyndall's and Darwin's friendship so much is, among other things, that you all pitch into me when necessary. You may depend upon it, however blue I may look when in the wrong, it's wrath with myself and nobody

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A179 Book: Ward, Henshaw. 1927. Charles Darwin: The man and his warfare. London: John Murray. Text Image

things the same day. A hasty and sentimental reader might wonder whether the two things were losing his heart to an opera-singer and to Emma in one day; but there is no evidence that his heart was yet lost to either one. In fact he was greatly attracted at this time by Fanny Owen, who could look perfectly charming while she shot one of Charles's guns that kicked her shoulder black and blue. There is no record of any similar admiration for Emma. All we learn is that he saw her whenever the

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A179 Book: Ward, Henshaw. 1927. Charles Darwin: The man and his warfare. London: John Murray. Text Image

, pulling the string of boats by means of a canvas harness across each man's chest. Officers and Mr. Darwin willingly took their share of the work with the men, and stood watch-duty at night. The current of blue water from the melting snow of the Andes had a temperature of forty-five degrees colder than the glacier-chilled water of Beagle Channel. Small wonder that the party shunned their usual ablutions. The stream was from three to four hundred yards broad, seventeen feet deep in the middle, and

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A179 Book: Ward, Henshaw. 1927. Charles Darwin: The man and his warfare. London: John Murray. Text Image

of the ages of rock-making lay legibly before him, telling the wonder-story of the uniformity of natural law. When we reached the crest and looked backwards a glorious view was presented. The atmosphere resplendently clear; the sky and intense blue; the profound vallevs: the wild broken forms; the heaps of ruins, piled up [page] 16

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A258 Book: Osborn, Henry Fairfield. 1928. Charles Darwin. In ibid., Impressions of great naturalists. New York, London: Charles Scribner. Text Image

a few words with Charles Darwin in Huxley's laboratory. From the large number of students working there at the time, Huxley singled me out, perhaps because I was the only American, perhaps because of my early pal ontological writing. I realized that I must make the most of the rare opportunity, and for a few moments I gazed steadily into Darwin's face and especially into his benevolent blue eyes, which were almost concealed below the overhanging brows, eyes that seemed to have a vision of the

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A258 Book: Osborn, Henry Fairfield. 1928. Charles Darwin. In ibid., Impressions of great naturalists. New York, London: Charles Scribner. Text Image

shake it again) and said, without intending, in an almost reverential tone, I am very glad to meet you. He stands much taller than Huxley, has a very ruddy face, with benevolent blue eyes and overhanging eyebrows. His beard is quite long and perfectly white and his hair falls partly over a low forehead. His features are not good. My general [page] 5

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A337 Book: Winstanley, D. A. ed. 1932. Henry Gunning: Reminiscences of Cambridge. Cambridge: University Press, pp. 32-41. Text Image

that they should put into their pockets and wrap about their persons as much of their clothes and linen as they conveniently could, and that the rest should be left at the Golden Cross, Charing Cross. Tunstal's whole wardrobe was disposed about his person; but Bullen was under the necessity of leaving a considerable part of his behind, particularly a coat which he had scarcely worn. In walking towards the George and Blue Boar, Tunstal laughed at his friend for his reluctance at leaving his best

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A337 Book: Winstanley, D. A. ed. 1932. Henry Gunning: Reminiscences of Cambridge. Cambridge: University Press, pp. 32-41. Text Image

-Ham, well known to sportsmen; and at no great distance from this you arrived at Foulmire Mere, which produced a great variety of wildfowl. The heavy coach changed horses at the Swan, and would set you down, between seven and eight o'clock, at the Blue Boar. If you started from the other corner of Parker's Piece, you came to Cherryliinton Fen; from thence to Taversham, [page] 36 Reminiscences of Cambridg

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A346 Periodical contribution: Blackman, F. F. 1932. Obituary notice of Francis Darwin. (With portrait). 1848-1925. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 110: i-xxi. Text Image

thought to those less comfortably placed, and brightened many lives by his unfailing kindness and sympathetic encouragement. He was a man who inspired affection: his kindly blue eyes, his short calls in the middle of a morning's work in the laboratory, with apologies for dropping in with nothing particular to say, his sense of humour—humour which, as he said in speaking of Francis Galton, is so priceless an antiseptic to sentimentality —his exceptionally lovable personality, are memories which do

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A189 Periodical contribution: Richardson, Constance. 1933. Petrology of the Galapagos Islands. In Lawrence John Chubb, Geology of Galapagos, Cocos, and Easter Islands. Bernice B. Bishop Museum-Bulletin 110: 45-67. Text Image PDF

, and are not therefore appreciably alkaline. The rare hornblende phenocrysts are of two distinct varieties. The most abundant has extinction angle Z C = 15 , and shows very strong dispersion and unusual pleochroism with X = brownish-yellow, Y = violet, Z = deep blue-green, Z Y X; and has the following approximate refractive indices = 1.664, = 1.685. = 1.688. It appears to be allied to hustingsite, but the pleochroism is songwhat different. There are only a few fragments of the other hornblende

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F1566 Book: Barlow, Nora ed. 1933. Charles Darwin's diary of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. Cambridge: University Press. Text Image PDF

blue stamped cloth. Lettering on back of vol. i: Voyages | of the | Adventure | and | Beagle. | Vol. i. | King. [ Colburn | London. Vol. ii contains Captain FitzRoy's account of the second voyage, 1831-1836, with extracts from the reports of his subordinates. Pp. xiv half-title, title, sub-title to vol. ii, contents, + [ii] directions to the binder; + 694 text, index, + [2] addenda. Illustrations: frontispiece, 24 engraved plates; 2 loose maps of Tierra del Fuego and Chiloe folded into the pocket

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F1566 Book: Barlow, Nora ed. 1933. Charles Darwin's diary of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. Cambridge: University Press. Text Image PDF

, inserted at end of some copies. Illustrations as in first issue; two folding maps as before. In some copies Keeling Islands inserted at p. 538. Binding of some copies, blue stamped cloth as before; lettering on back of some copies: Researches | in | Geology | and Natural History | Darwin. | Colburn | London | 1840. First edition, third issue. This issue, published by Colburn in 1840, appears to be very scarce. The title-page and text are identical with that of the second issue except for the

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A484 Book contribution: Bowen, Elizabeth. 1934. The mulberry tree [Downe House]. In Greene, Graham ed., The old school: essays by divers hands. London: Jonathan Cape, pp. 45-59. Text Image

very white window-frames, a glass veranda on to which the drawing-room debouched and a modern addition, one side, in the form of a kind of chalet, from whose balcony I played Jezebel with a friend's teddy bear. The survival of such childish inanimate pets was encouraged by fashion; several dormitory beds with their glacial white quilts were encumbered all day and shared nightly with rubbed threadbare teddy bears, monkeys or in one case a blue plush elephant. Possibly this seemed a good way to

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A484 Book contribution: Bowen, Elizabeth. 1934. The mulberry tree [Downe House]. In Greene, Graham ed., The old school: essays by divers hands. London: Jonathan Cape, pp. 45-59. Text Image

gold cord for some days, then she was asked to wear this inside her djibbah. A good deal of innocent fetishism came to surround these animals; the mistress of the blue elephant used to walk the passages saying: 'You must kiss my elephant.' Photos of relatives, sometimes quite distant but chosen for their good appearance, the drawings of Dulac, Medici prints and portraits of Napoleon, Charles I, Rupert Brooke, Sir Roger Casement or Mozart lent advertising touches of personality to each

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A557 Book: Darwin, Bernard. 1941. Pack clouds away. London: Collins. Text Image

not only a game in itself but a social rite. I have been assured by Mr. Edward Blackwell, a most truthful man, that to putt on the ladies' links at St. Andrews necessitated the going home and changing from knickerbockers into a blue suit. It was not until several years later that the first ladies' championship took place, at St. Anne's in 1893, and it is one of the regrets of my golfing life that I never saw Lady Margaret Scott play. Neither, I imagine, did that learned Scottish judge, or he

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A557 Book: Darwin, Bernard. 1941. Pack clouds away. London: Collins. Text Image

, while my Uncle George was of the rival body, the Ambarum. Perhaps these made the deeper impression as rarities. At any rate I remember Sir Edmund Gosse, who talked enchantingly. He gave the impression of a cat purring happily when it is stroked, and the stroking in his case consisted in other people sitting and listening, a delighted and silent audience. Yorke Powell came from Oxford, another admirable talker, with an oddly nautical aspect produced, as I now suppose, by blue clothes of a peculiar

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A557 Book: Darwin, Bernard. 1941. Pack clouds away. London: Collins. Text Image

first play of one small girl, at which I assisted, and for days afterwards she would say with a sudden gulp of pleasure, And then the little girl------ It was beyond articulate speech, but in her heart the Cockyollybird was singing, all red and blue and gold. No chapter on children, however desultory and incomplete, could lack a reference to those props and stays of existence, those best friends of childhood, servants. The green baize door at the end of the passage, dividing one region of the house

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A326 Periodical contribution: Bryant, G. E. 1942. New species of Chrysomelidae, Halticinae (Coleopt.), collected by Charles Darwin during the voyage of the 'Beagle', 1832-1836. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Ser. 11) 9: 99-107. Text Image PDF

produced ; very convex, impunctate, a strong transverse sinuate groove across the base of the prothorax. Elytra dull blue-black, slightly broader than the base of the prothorax, very convex, parallel-sided, and rounded at the apex, very finely punctured. Legs black, posterior femora strongly incrassate. Underside with the presternum rufous, the remainder deep blue-black. Brazil : Rio de Janeiro and Bahia (ft. Darwin), 2 specimens ; (Bowring Coll.), 4 specimens. Allied to 8. angustata Jac, from

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