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A668    Book:     Atkins, Hedley. 1976. Down: the home of the Darwins; the story of a house and the people who lived there. London: Royal College of Surgeons [Phillimore].   Text   PDF
there were many large ladies in Downe my grannie said it was due to the lime-water. Mrs. Darwin held a library every Sunday for the village children. We were allowed two books if we were ten years and over. Those under ten were only allowed one book. We had to behave ourselves. My mother always knew if we had misbehaved, we could not go to the library for two or three weeks, as a punishment. She was very kind, Mrs. Darwin, and she crotcheted white jackets with pink borders one year, and blue
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A1    Book:     Freeman, R. B. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. Dawson: Folkestone. 2d ed.   Text   Image   PDF
1. [206]. Inserted advertisements May 1842 in some copies. Binding: blue or purple cloth. Price: 15s. C, L, LNH; T, 1235(16). [83 272. 1844 London, Smith Elder and Co. Geological observations on the volcanic islands visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, together with some brief notices of the geology of Australia and the Cape of Good Hope. Being the second part of the geology of the voyage of the Beagle, under the command of Capt. Fitzroy, R.N. during the years 1832 to 1836. 8vo, 225 mm
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A1    Book:     Freeman, R. B. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. Dawson: Folkestone. 2d ed.   Text   Image   PDF
[p. 280] advertises the, now completed, Geology and Zoology. All three parts were published in blue or purple cloth, the latter fading to brown. The blue bindings, which are probably earlier, usually, perhaps always, have the price in gilt on the spine, and this is sometimes present on the purple cloth. In 1851, the three parts were reissued in one volume. The old pagination was retained although the title and half-title leaves of the parts were discarded and replaced by a new general title
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A1    Book:     Freeman, R. B. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. Dawson: Folkestone. 2d ed.   Text   Image   PDF
. From stereos of No. 277. 279. 1890 London, Ward Lock. 8vo, xx + 549 pp. Contains all three parts. Introduction by John W. Judd. Minerva Library No. 18. Binding: variant a. grey green cloth of the series, 178 mm; variant b. peacock blue cloth of the series, 185 mm. L; T, 1174(10). [90 280. 1890 London, Walter Scott, Newcastle-on-Tyne printed. Coral reefs only. 8vo, xxiv + 278 pp. Introduction by Joseph W. Williams. Also contains No. 1647. T, 1173(9). [91 281. [?1890] Glasgow, Grand Colosseum
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A1    Book:     Freeman, R. B. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. Dawson: Folkestone. 2d ed.   Text   Image   PDF
More Letters This collection contains almost entirely new matter although some extracts and a few whole letters are also found in Life and letters. It also contains a brief autobiographical piece (pp. 1-5) which is sometimes found in modern editions and translations of his main autobiography. There is only the one original printing, but Murray sold some sets of sheets to Watts, and it occurs in the original blue of Murray's case as well as in the brown of Watts'. There is no indication on the
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A1    Book:     Freeman, R. B. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. Dawson: Folkestone. 2d ed.   Text   Image   PDF
letters. 8vo, 213 mm, 2 vols, 15 portraits, 4 plates. Privately printed, 250 copies. Not in commerce. Binding: blue buckram. C, L; T, 786(2). [361 1553. 1915 London, John Murray. Litchfield, Henrietta E. editor. Emma Darwin, A century of family letters, 1702-1896. 8vo, 216 mm, i-ix, i-iv, xi-xxxi + 289, xxv + 326 pp, 15 portraits, 4 plates. First published edition, with text altered from that on No. 1552. The second pagination in Vol. I is a postscript of Erasmus Darwin, eldest son of Horace, killed
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A1    Book:     Freeman, R. B. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. Dawson: Folkestone. 2d ed.   Text   Image   PDF
Darwin-Wallace correspondence Vol. 1, pp. 127-320. Binding: blue cloth. Price £1. 5s. C, L; T, DLC. 8 letters printed in full in 'Some letters from Charles Darwin to Alfred Russel Wallace', Christ's Coll.Mag., Vol. 23, pp. 214-31, 1909. 1593. 1916 New York, Harper Brothers. As No. 1592, but viii + 507 pp, one portrait, one facsimile of holograph. Darwin-Wallace correspondence pp. 105-262. T. 1594. 1945 London, Pilot Press. Barlow, [Lady] Nora editor. Charles Darwin and the voyage of the Beagle
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A1    Book:     Freeman, R. B. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. Dawson: Folkestone. 2d ed.   Text   Image   PDF
, xviii + 592 pp, 2 tinted plates (one folding), 11 text woodcuts. Extracts from 2 letters by Darwin pp. 141- 142. Issued late in 1880. Binding: blue cloth. Price £1 5s. C, L; T, 698(22). [314 Letter on Vivisection This letter by Darwin was written to Professor Frithiof Holmgren, Professor of Physiology at Uppsala, on April 14, 1881, and it appeared in The Times on the 18th and later in Nature and the British Medical Journal. [NB This work has been corrected, supplemented and vastly updated in the
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A1    Book:     Freeman, R. B. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. Dawson: Folkestone. 2d ed.   Text   Image   PDF
contain either advertisements of later date, or none at all. The binding is dark blue, blind-stamped, cloth which is liable to fade; each volume bears its author's name on the spine and the publisher's imprint reads COLBURN/LONDON/. Some later copies omit the authors' names and the imprint reads LONDON/ COLBURN/. The top board of each volume contains a pocket for the two loose maps; these pockets should have dark blue ribbons for extracting the maps, but they are often absent today. Seven of the maps
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A1    Book:     Freeman, R. B. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. Dawson: Folkestone. 2d ed.   Text   Image   PDF
Cardwell, the Chairman, coming to the door to receive him. He states that he had not personally carried out any physiological experiments, but had been a signatory to a memorandum sponsored by the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Emma Darwin, in a letter to her son Leonard, written on that day, describes his evidence as 'a sort of confession of faith about the claims of physiology and the duty of humanity'. His verbal evidence is contained verbatim in the main blue book and
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A1    Book:     Freeman, R. B. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. Dawson: Folkestone. 2d ed.   Text   Image   PDF
, mostly relating to the voyage and to the book. ENGLISH 10. 1839 London, Henry Colburn. As Volume III of Fitzroy (Robert) editor. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle etc. 8vo, 233 mm, 3 vols and appendix to Vol. II, 44 plates, 4 charts and maps inserted, 8 charts and maps loose in pockets in top boards, 6 text woodcuts. Binding: blue cloth, variant a. spine imprint COLBURN/LONDON, authors' names on spines; variant b. spine imprint LONDON/ COLBURN, and names
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A1    Book:     Freeman, R. B. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. Dawson: Folkestone. 2d ed.   Text   Image   PDF
. Same sheets as Vol. III of No. 10 but preliminaries pp [i-iv] cancelled and pp [v-vi] discarded. Binding: variant a. dark blue cloth as variant a. of No. 10 but different spine titling; variant b. brownish purple cloth. Price: 18s. CD, L; T, 1004(1), 1005(13). [5 12. 1840 London, Henry Colburn. As No. 11 but with cancel title leaf. Charts usually inserted at p. xiv and p. 538. Binding: as No. 11 variant a. T, 1006(7). [6 13. 1845 London, John Murray. Journal of researches into the natural
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A1    Book:     Freeman, R. B. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. Dawson: Folkestone. 2d ed.   Text   Image   PDF
Library No. 1. [33 63. 1890 London, Thomas Nelson. As No. 48. Binding: red or blue cloth. C,L; T, 1039(5). [34 [NB This work has been corrected, supplemented and vastly updated in the Freeman bibliographical database in Darwin Online.][page] 43 - PART 1 . BOOKS AND PAMPHLET
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A1    Book:     Freeman, R. B. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. Dawson: Folkestone. 2d ed.   Text   Image   PDF
. 8vo, xiii + 381 pp. Sir John Lubbock's Hundred Books No. 2. No list of titles on verso of title leaf, see No. 70. Bindings: red cloth uncut, spine number in gilt roman II; blue cloth cut. L; T. [39 part 70. 1891 London, George Routledge. As No. 69, but 5 titles on verso of title leaf. Bindings: as No. 69, but spine number of red binding gilt arabic 2. T. [39 part 71. 1892 London, Ward Lock Bowden. As No. 67 but called eleventh edition. T. [40 72. 1892 London, George Routledge. As No. 70. Sir John
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A1    Book:     Freeman, R. B. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. Dawson: Folkestone. 2d ed.   Text   Image   PDF
. As No. 76. Minerva Library, New Series No. 11. Binding: red or blue cloth of the series. T. [54 96. [c.1900] New York, D. Appleton, xii + 512 pp. Selected Works, Westminster Edition. 1,000 copies. 1009(2). 97. 1901 London, John Murray. New edition. [iii]-xvi, [15]-16-521 pp, 16 plates. June. Binding: leaf green cloth. C, L; T, 1058(6). [55 98. 1901 New York, P. F. Collier. As No. 94. Library of Universal Literature, Part 1 Science Vol. 4. T, 1059(8). 99. 1902 London, John Murray. As No. 97, but i
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A1    Book:     Freeman, R. B. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. Dawson: Folkestone. 2d ed.   Text   Image   PDF
and 'these may be sometimes/found by removing earth and birds' dung'. In the good text the lines differ from those of the bad because the whole has been reset. This edition was issued in blue cloth with foul-anchors on both boards; in some copies, but not all, the anchor on the top board is gilt. Darwin's articles from the first, third and fourth editions also occur [NB This work has been corrected, supplemented and vastly updated in the Freeman bibliographical database in Darwin Online.][page] 65
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A1    Book:     Freeman, R. B. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. Dawson: Folkestone. 2d ed.   Text   Image   PDF
, no illustrations. Text transposed on p. 178 line 2, p. 180 line 2, and p. 190 line 4. With a 20 pp cancel, pp. 171-190. Binding: blue cloth, with a pocket in bottom board to hold the cancel section. Price 10s. 6d. CD. Note: copies may have been issued without the cancellans, and without the pocket in bottom board; such a copy, in leather, is in LUC. [96 part 326. 1849 London, John Murray. [First edition, second issue.] All as No. 325, but cancelland discarded and replaced by cancellans
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A1    Book:     Freeman, R. B. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. Dawson: Folkestone. 2d ed.   Text   Image   PDF
339. 1851,1854 London, The Ray Society. [Vol. I] A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with figures of all the species. The Lepadidæ; or, pedunculated drripedes. [Vol. II] ... The Balanidæ, (or sessile drripedes); the Verrucidæ,etc, etc., etc. 8vo, 215 mm, 2 vols, xii + 400 pp. + p. 3* [folding]; viii + 684 pp. + p. 3*, 40 pls (3 partly coloured), 24 text woodcuts (1-7, 1-11; [I-III[3]). Vol. [I] 4 errata on p. xii. Society's Publications No. 21 for 1851 and No. 25 for 1853. Binding: blue
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A1    Book:     Freeman, R. B. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. Dawson: Folkestone. 2d ed.   Text   Image   PDF
Zoology was signed with numbers and the Botany with letters. The Darwin-Wallace paper occurs in the complete part in blue wrappers, or in the Zoology part in pink wrappers; the Botany parts were in green. The Linnean Society has all the forms in its reference files, although it does not hold the offprint. [NB This work has been corrected, supplemented and vastly updated in the Freeman bibliographical database in Darwin Online.][page] 70 - THE WORKS OF CHARLES DARWI
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A1    Book:     Freeman, R. B. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. Dawson: Folkestone. 2d ed.   Text   Image   PDF
Gray, Boston, U.S. dated Down, September 5th 1857, pp. 50-53. Dated August 30 1858. Binding: blue printed wrappers of the part. Price 35. LLS. Note: This is Part 9 as issued to Fellows of the Society who took both the zoological and the botanical parts of the Journal. The signatures of the Part are 1-48B-E8. [106 part [NB This work has been corrected, supplemented and vastly updated in the Freeman bibliographical database in Darwin Online.][page] 71 - PART 1 . BOOKS AND PAMPHLET
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A1    Book:     Freeman, R. B. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. Dawson: Folkestone. 2d ed.   Text   Image   PDF
. 1882 New York, D. Appleton. As No. 406.606(1). 410. 1883 London, John Murray, Thirty-seventh thousand. See No. 427. 411. 1883 New York, D. Appleton. As No. 409.607(8). 412. 1884 London, John Murray. As No. 408, but twenty-sixth thousand. LNH; T. [127 413. 1884 New York, D. Appleton. As No. 411. 608(2). 414. 1884 New York, J. Fitzgerald. 2 parts, 1-130, 131-253 pp, also paginated 441-693. Humboldt Library, Library of Popular Science Nos 58-59. Binding: blue paper wrappers. July August. T, 609 part
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A1    Book:     Freeman, R. B. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. Dawson: Folkestone. 2d ed.   Text   Image   PDF
. The date [1895] from publisher's records. Binding: red or blue cloth of the series. T, 632(2). [139 446. 1895 London, John Murray. As No. 442, but forty-seventh thousand. T, 633(3). [140 447. [?1895] Chicago, W. B. Conkey. 2 vols in one. Homewood Series No. 132. ViU. 448. 1896 New York, D. Appleton. 2 vols. As No. 428. 635(15). 449. [1896] Chicago, Weeks. 503 pp. 634(1). 450. [?1896] New York, Thomas Y. Crowell. xix + 501 pp. Standard Library Edition. 636(3). 451. 1897 London, John Murray. As No
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A1    Book:     Freeman, R. B. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. Dawson: Folkestone. 2d ed.   Text   Image   PDF
477. 1901 London, Ward Lock. 389 pp. Minerva Library, New Series No. XVI. Binding: blue or red cloth of the series. T, 656(1). [151 478. 1901 New York, P. F. Collier. 2 vols. As No. 470. Library of Universal Literature, Part 1 Science Vols 1 2. T, 657(8). 479. 1902 London, John Murray. As No. 474, but imprint gives thirteenth to eighteenth thousand on p. [vi]. January. L; T. [152 480. 1902 London, John Murray. As No. 476, but title page gives imprint tenth to thirtieth thousand. February
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A1    Book:     Freeman, R. B. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. Dawson: Folkestone. 2d ed.   Text   Image   PDF
. There is only the one edition which must have remained in print for some time because the blue cloth case is much later than the original purple. Darwin's recollections only are reprinted in Lady Barlow's Darwin and Henslow (1967, pp. 221-224) in full, together with his further notes on his old friend which were printed in his Autobiography. A considerable portion of them is also printed in Romanes' obituary notice (Charles Darwin, pp. 7-10, Macmillan, London 1882) which had previously appeared
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Dec. 1860; variant b. blue cloth. Price 7s. 6d. C, L; T, 470(7). 831. (1967) In No. 1598, pp. 221-224. Darwin's recollections only. RUSSIAN 832. 1959 Moscow, Academy of Sciences U.S.S.R. pp. 162-165. Darwin's recollections only. Translated by S. K. Ait. Notes by S. L. Sobol'. Collected Works Vol. 9. L; DLC. Climbing Plants A detailed description of the three forms in which the first edition of this work are found is given in the Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of natural History
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evidence and appendix. Fol., xxiii + 388 pp. Viscount Cardwell Chairman, Nathaniel Baker Secretary. Darwin's evidence p. 234, paras 4662-4672. Command 1397. Binding: blue printed wrappers of the series. Price 4s.4d. C, L. 1276. 1876 London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office. Digest of evidence taken before the Royal Commission on the practice of subjecting live animals to experiments for scientific purposes: with an alphabetical list of witnesses. Fol., iv +42 pp. Digest of Darwin's evidence p
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A1    Book:     Freeman, R. B. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. Dawson: Folkestone. 2d ed.   Text   Image   PDF
portrait, 14 plates on 7 leaves, one folding map. With an introduction by the editor. Binding: blue cloth. Price 15s. C, L; T, 809(8). [370 1572. 1946 New York, Philosophical Library. 279 pp. As No. 1571. Photolitho reprint. 810(18). 1573 1959 In de Beer, Sir Gavin editor. Darwin's journal. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series. Vol. 2, pp. 1-21. See No. 1588 for an earlier transcription. [374 1574. 1960-1967 In de Beer, Sir Gavin, Rowlands, M. J. and Skramovsky
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the first place and I was wrong, although it is extremely rare. There are two English issues which stand apart from all the rest because, although they appeared within the copyright period, they were not published by the copyright holders. These are the George Routledge editions of The origin of species, dated 1895 and 1899, which were issued as No. 88 of Sir John Lubbock's Hundred Books. The first appeared either in the red cloth used for the uncut issue of the series or in the blue of the cut
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A1    Book:     Freeman, R. B. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. Dawson: Folkestone. 2d ed.   Text   Image   PDF
singleton c1 and so is the last leaf of the appendix Q***¹; these two may have been a conjugate pair. It was issued in the same blind stamped boards with map pocket as the set, but with different spine titling; the cloth is usually blue but sometimes a purple which fades to brown. In some copies the maps have been inserted in the text, the Southern portion of South America facing p. 1 and the Keeling Islands p. 539; in these there is no pocket in the front cover. I have seen a copy with the track
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A1    Book:     Freeman, R. B. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. Dawson: Folkestone. 2d ed.   Text   Image   PDF
pagos Islands: a history of their exploration', (Occ. Pap. Calif. Acad. Sci., No. XXV, 150 pp, 1959). Slevin also gives details of special equipment carried on the ship which is not given elsewhere. This 1890 edition is in a handsome case and has a page-marker of blue silk, one of the very few that I have seen in any Darwin. Nelson had published an illustrated edition in 1888 which was reprinted in 1890 and later; Murray's edition was presumably in competition with it. The Murray edition of 1901
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A27    Book:     Freeman, R. B. 1978. Charles Darwin: A companion. Folkstone: Dawson.   Text   Image   PDF
and not repaired. Site now part of Biological Sciences building of University College London, which bears the London County Council blue plaque to 'Charles Darwin Naturalist', which was originally on the house. Garden now part of Foster Court car park. Staff: Gardener, Williams; Menservants, Edward, Jordan, Parslow. Ur-hund see Polly. Usborne, Alexander Burns Master's Assistant on 2nd voyage of Beagle. 1835 U took command of a small schooner and [page] 28
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A27    Book:     Freeman, R. B. 1978. Charles Darwin: A companion. Folkstone: Dawson.   Text   Image   PDF
voyage of Beagle. Mayor, Mrs 1882 Jan. Headmistress of Greville House School, Paddington, London, where ED was for a year. Mays, J. Aldous 1862 M took shorthand notes of Huxley's six lectures to working men, delivered at the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn St, London. These were used for the six blue pamphlets, issued at 4d each. 1863 they were published as a book, On our knowledge of the causes of organic nature, London; the spine title was On the origin of species. Medicinisch
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F167c    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1979. The Beagle record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
, upper right: Telescopic appearance. June 10 1834. Initialled top right: RF. Drawing. RQMS Sketchbook IV f.47. 213    Mount Sarmiento. n.d. Watercolour development of No. 212. NMM, PR 73-41 (8). 214    Sarmiento. Note on left: The sky most commonly of a grey composed of blue of snow and lake, and no part darker than necessary to relieve the snow. The water is at times of a fine deep blue, and from the steepness of the shore in general no change of colour is observed. June 10. Initialled top
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F167c    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1979. The Beagle record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
glaciers were seen, we remarked the most beautiful light blue or sea green tints in portions of the solid ice, caused by varied transmission, or reflection of light. Blue was the prevailing colour, and the contrast which its extremely delicate hue, with the dazzling white of other ice, afforded to the dark green foliage, the almost black precipices, and the deep, indigo blue water, was very remarkable. Miniature icebergs surrounded us; fragments of the cliff, which from time to time fall into a deep
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F167c    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1979. The Beagle record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
enemies, as a hostage for the security of a man belonging to Jemmy's tribe who was staying among the eastern people. As we steered out of the cove in which our boats had been sheltered, a striking scene opened: beyond a lake-like expanse of deep blue water, mountains rose abruptly to a great height, and on their icy summits the sun's early rays glittered as if on a mirror. Immediately round us were mountainous eminences, and dark cliffy precipices which cast a very deep shadow over the still
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F167c    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1979. The Beagle record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
way also. A tasty blue cloth curtain, however, is drawn at night, closing likewise a small window alongside of it. Facing the door, built in as it were and occupying the whole length of the cabin, is a nest of drawers of 3 tiers, above which is the bed place, particularly well adapted for those who like to lie high, being at least 4! feet from the deck. The dimensions of the cabin is 6 ft long by rather more than 5 ft wide and 6 ft high. The bedplace is not very wide, being of course only
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F167c    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1979. The Beagle record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
exist in the sea - others I believe do not. This bed, which is chiefly characterised by a great Oyster is covered by a very curious bed of Porphyry pebbles, which I have traced for more than 700 miles; but the most curious fact is that the whole of the East coast of South part of S. America has been elevated from the ocean, since a period, during which Muscles have not lost their blue color. At Port St Julian I found some very perfect bones of some large animal, I fancy a Mastodon - the bones of one
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F167c    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1979. The Beagle record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
. Fielding excellent landscape drawer, has joined us. He is a pleasant person, like all birds of that class, full up to the mouth with enthusiasm. We are all beginning to long for 'blue water' I am sure I do, if it is merely to prevent my spending money. My present scheme is not a very great one. I go to Colonia del Sacramiento, then up the coast of the Uruguay to the R. Negro, to the town of Mercedes, from thence back in direct line to M: Video or perhaps to the lime-kilns at Paysandu, 25 leagues up
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F167c    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1979. The Beagle record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
surface of this plain there are shells of the same sort which now exist, the muscles even with their usual blue colour. It is therefore certain, that within no great number of centuries all this country has been beneath the sea. Wretched looking as the country is, it supports very many Guanacoes. By great good luck I shot one; it weighed without its entrails 170 pounds: so that we shall have fresh meat for all hands on Christmas day. Christmas 2 5 th. After dining in the Gun-room, the officers
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F167c    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1979. The Beagle record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
themselves dyes with Indigo of a dark blue color. ^^ ...[page
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F167c    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1979. The Beagle record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
opposite are the sensations, when viewing black mountains half enveloped in clouds, seeing another range through the light blue haze of a fine day: the one for a time may be very sublime, the other is all gayety happy life. The town of Valparaiso is from its local situation a long straggling place; wherever a little valley comes down to the beach the houses are piled up on each other, otherwise it consists of one street running parallel to the coast. We all, on board, have been much struck by the
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F167c    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1979. The Beagle record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
have a very light elegant appearance. Convents, Porticos public buildings vary the uniformity of the houses: the bay is scattered over with large ships; in short the view is one of the finest in the Brazils. But these beauties are as nothing compared to the Vegetation; I believe from what I have seen Humboldt's glorious descriptions are will for ever be unparalleled: but even he with his dark blue skies the rare union of poetry with science which he so strongly displays when writing on tropical
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F167c    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1979. The Beagle record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
is a Serpentine formation. Is it not the only island in the Atlantic which is not Volcanic? We likewise staid a few hours at Fernando Noronha; a tremendous surf was running, so that a boat was swamped, the Captain would not wait. I find my life on board, when we are in blue water most delightful; so very comfortable quiet: it is almost impossible to be idle, that for me is saying a good deal. Nobody could possibly be better fitted out in every respect for collecting than I am: many cooks have
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F167c    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1979. The Beagle record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
1832 rio de Janeiro                                                                                                                       c.d./r.f. on the border of the clear shaded rivulets as yet glittering with drops of dew, they invited the traveller to rest. The ocean, blue from the reflected sky, was seen in glimpses through the forest. Islands crowned with palms varied our horizon. As we passed along, we were amused by watching the humming-birds. I counted four species - the smallest at
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F167c    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1979. The Beagle record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
through a short space of half or three-quarters of a mile, was perfectly lucid, but at a greater distance all colours were blended into a most beautiful haze, of a pale French gray, mingled with a little blue. The condition of the atmosphere between the morning and about noon, when the effect was most evident, had undergone little change, excepting in its dryness. In the interval, the difference between the dew point and temperature had increased from 7^5 to 170. On another occasion I started
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F167c    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1979. The Beagle record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
explained by the arriving of 6 boats heavily armed with carronades containing about 40 marines, all ready for fighting, more than 100 blue jackets. Captain Hamilton came on board informed us that the present government is a military usurpation; that the head of the party had seized upon 400 horses, the property of a British subject; that in short the flotilla of boats went to give weight to his arguments. The revolutions in these countries are quite laughable; some few years ago in Buenos Ay res
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my specimens, only I find I have so repeatedly occasion to refer back, that it would be a serious loss to me. I cannot conclude about my collections, without adding that I implicitly trust in you, keeping an exact account against all the expense of boxes etc etc. At this present minute we are at anchor in the mouth of the river: such a strange scene as it is. Everything is in flames - the sky with lightning, the water with luminous particles, even the very masts are pointed with a blue flame. I
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blue of the ice, contrasted with the white snow, surrounded by dark green forests, were views as beautiful as they were novel to me. An avalanche falling into the water put us for a second in great peril - our boats were hauled up on the beach, but a great wave rushed onwards nearly dashed them to pieces: our predicament, without food surrounded by Savages, would not have been comfortable. We arrived here in the Falkland Islands in the beginning of this month, after such a succession of gales
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128                          1833 tierra del fuego                                c.d. joy; I trust, by this time next year, we shall be under their blue sky clear atmosphere. At this instant we are shortening sail, as by the morning we expect to be in sight of the mouth of the Rio Negro. I send by the Beagle (if I stay behind) a bill for 4o£ : I owe some little money I hope to live on shore at the Rio Negro. I shall get your letters in about a months time; a pleasure which thanks to you all
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flourish, excepting in a very humid climate. The limit of the forest land certainly follows, in a most remarkable manner, that of the damp winds. In the southern part of the continent, where the western gales, charged with moisture from the Pacific, prevail, every island on the broken west coast, from lat. 38° to the extreme point of Tierra del Fuego is densely covered by impenetrable forest. On the eastern side of the Cordillera, over the same extent of latitude, where a blue sky and a fine climate
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. I long to bid adieu to the Atlantic. Already I almost fancy to see, through a long vista of storms, the blue sky of the Tropics. I wrote the other day to Mr Hughes at B. Ayres, I am sorry to hear he has left that place, chiefly from ill health. I have asked the Captain obtained his consent respecting a servant - but he has saved me much expence by keeping him on the books for victuals will write to Admiralty for permission, so that it will not be much more than 30^ per annum. I shall now make
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Corals, the warm glowing weather, the blue sky of the Tropics is enough to make one wild with delight. I am anxious to know, what has become of a large collection (I fancy ill assorted) of Geological specimens made in former voyage from Tierra del Fuego. I hope to see enough of this country to be able to make a rough sketch of it - then of course specimens with localities marked on them, would be to me very valuable. Remember me most kindly to Prof. Sedgwick, perhaps he would enquire at Geol: Soc
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., respecting all of which I have so very many pleasant recollections, that I cannot bear to know nothing. We shall pass the Sts of Magellan in the Autumn I hope to stay some time in the southern parts of Chili. There are two Volcanoes within 60 miles of Conception. I will run the risk of being eat up alive to see two real good burning Volcanoes. Oh the blue skys the Bananas of the Tropics. Life is not worth having in these miserable climates, after one peep within those magic lines. Believe me my
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distinct against the blue sky. The head and neck were moved frequently, and apparently with force, and it appeared as if the extended wings formed the fulcrum on which the movements of the neck, body, and tail, acted. If the bird wished to descend, the wings were for a moment collapsed; and then when again expanded with an altered inclination, the momentum gained by the rapid descent seemed to urge the bird upwards, with the even and steady movement of a paper kite. In the case of any bird soaring
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sold the vessel. Narrative 2 pp. 361-2 Darwin spent the next three and a half months on shore, but for nearly half this time he was in bed with an unidentified illness contracted during one of his trips into the mountains. july 23rd - 31st. Late in the night the Beagle Adventure came to an anchor. When morning came everything appeared delightful; after Chiloe T. del Fuego we felt the climate quite delicious; the sky so clear blue, the air so dry the sun so bright, that all nature seemed
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-sickness blue sea devils far away. We are now on our road from Concepcion. The papers will have told you about the great earthquake of the 20th of February. I suppose it certainly is the worst ever experienced in Chili. It is no use attempting to describe the ruins; it is the most awful spectacle I ever beheld. The town of Concepcion is now nothing more than piles lines of bricks, tiles timbers. It is absolutely true there is not one house left habitable; some little hovels built of sticks reeds
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Arctic navigators as Red snow. Subsequently I found under the microscope, it consists of groups of minute red balls, the diameter of which is igggth of an inch, having several envelopes. The snow was only tinged where crushed by the mules' hoofs where the thaw had been rapid. When we reached the crest looked backwards, a glorious view was presented. The atmosphere so resplendently clear, the sky an intense blue, the profound valleys, the wild broken forms, the heaps of ruins piled up during the
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perhaps at this very second Nancy is making a vain effort to rouse you all from your slumbers on a cold frosty morning. How glad 1 shall be when I can say like the good old Quarter Master who, entering the Channel on a gloomy November morning, exclaimed 'Ah here there are none of those d-------- d blue skies.' I forgot to mention that by a string of extraordinary chances the day before finally leaving the Galapagos, I received your letter of March. I am almost afraid that at Sydney we shall be
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or their children? No. Their life is a miserable scene of anxiety, care, fear, and general penuriousness; they die without a friend and without hope. Narrative 2 pp. 621-3 jan. 18th. Very early in the morning I walked about three miles to see Govett's Leap; a view of a similar, but even perhaps more stupendous character than that of the Weatherboard. So early in the day the gulf was filled with a thin blue haze, which, although destroying the general effect, added to the apparent depth of the
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colors. The shoal, clear still water of the lagoon, resting in its greater part on white sand, is, when illuminated by a vertical sun, of a most vivid green. This brilliant expanse, which is several miles wide, is on all sides divided either from the dark heaving water of the ocean by a line of breakers, or from the blue vault of Heaven by the strip of land, crowned at an equal height by the tops of the Cocoa nut trees. As in the sky here there a white cloud affords a pleasing contrast, so in the
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pretty. Partridges (from France, blue feet beak), Phesants, the Male of which is said to be very beautiful (now out of season), indigenous to Island. Horses, Bullocks, Sheep c are to be seen grazing on hills valleys in interior. In many parts is very picturesque. [from Syms Covington's Diary, Mitchell Library MSS. 2009/108] july 9th-i3th. I obtained lodgings in a cottage within stone's throw of Napoleon's tomb. I confess, this latter fact possessed with me but little inducement. The one step, between
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difference between a wild tame animal: part of the interest in beholding a savage is the same which would lead every one to desire to see the lion in his desert, the tiger tearing his prey in the jungle, the rhinoceros on the wide plain, or the hippopotamus wallowing in the mud of some African river. Amongst the other most remarkable spectacles which we have beheld, may be ranked - the stars of the Southern hemisphere - the water-spout - the glacier leading its blue stream of ice in a bold precipice
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page panorama drawing with the river coloured blue. CUL Sketchbook I (ADD. MS 7984) f.13 verso and f. 14 recto. 192   Cordillera of the Andes from the Santa Cruz River, n.d. Watercolour development of No. 191. Engraved by S. Bull as 'Santa Cruz River, and distant view of the Andes' in Narrative 2, facing p.3 51. NMM, PR 73-41 (11). 193   Banks of Santa Cruz River. Signed: C. Martens, Sydney 1836. Watercolour, variant of No. 191 with column of men hauling boat. Sold by C.M. to C.D. as 'River Santa
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A691    Pamphlet:     [Titheradge, Philip]. 1981. The Charles Darwin memorial at Down House, Downe, Kent. [St. Ives, Cornwall: B. Tempest & Co.]   Text   PDF
On the Wall An octagonal frame, once in Dr Sibson's collection, containing ten Blue and White Jasper Medallions (Wedgwood). These are of figures of putti and classical subjects; the others include Josiah Wedgwood, Thomas Bentley (Wedgwood's partner), Admiral Keppel, William Shakespeare and also a very rare one of an old man. Miss Meteyard in her 'Handbook of Wedgwood Ware' says: 'In the Sibson Collection is the very able portrait of an aged man. On the base of the head, finely written with a
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; Resurrection of Christ. Cagli. (1859) 3. Luini St Catherine buried by Angels. Milan. (1858) 4. Masaccio The Tribute Money. Florence. (1861) 5. Francia The Burial of St Cecilia. Bologna. (1862) 6. Francia The Marriage of St Cecilia. Bologna. (1862) 7. Ghirlandajo The Death of St Francis. S Trinita. Florence. (1860) 9. Raphael The Poets on Mount Parnassus. The Vatican. (1873) Vase made from Derbyshire Spar 'Blue John'. Enlarged photograph of Charles Darwin, formerly belonging to his grandson, W. R. Darwin
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A2955    Pamphlet:     Freeman, R. B. 1982. Darwin and Gower Street: an exhibition in the Flaxman Gallery of the Library, University College London, Monday 19 April 1982. London: UCL.   Text   PDF
the spring of 1941. The London County Council blue plaque was put up on 13 December 1904. It read 'Charles Darwin, Naturalist, lived here, 1838-1842'. [page] 1
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University College Hospital. 22. Manuscript leaf of 'On the origin of species', [1859, before August] Darwin did not keep the manuscript of The origin together and what survives of it is widely scattered. He started work on it in July 1858 and it was accepted for publication by John Murray in April 1859, on sight of the first three chapters. It was all in corrected proof, except the index, by early September, and publication day was 24 November. This single sheet is a fair copy, in brown ink on blue
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that he moved to Down House until early in 1881; it is that room which is today furnished, as nearly as possible, as it was in his lifetime. The room shown here was built as a billiards room in the north comer of the house in 1877; however Darwin moved his study there in the spring of 1881. 86. Charles Darwin, 1890 The blue and white plaster plaques which are used to decorate the show cases are cast from a die which is derived from one mad e by Allan Wyon in 1890. The Darwin Medal of the Royal
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A320    Periodical contribution:     Rosen, Brian. 1982. Darwin, coral reefs, and global geology. BioScience 32 (6): 519-525.   Text   Image   PDF
it mostly reflects how little was known about the marine biology of deeper waters and biological oceanography. Nor is his survey based on what we would now consider to be an accurate knowledge of which organisms contribute to reefs. Darwin evidently regarded corals as the main agents, helped by nullipores (cementing red algae). We would now add at least the blue-green and green algae and possibly fora-minifera, sclerosponges, molluscs, and sea grasses. Subsequent discoveries of deep water coral
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A86    Periodical contribution:     Sulloway, Frank J. 1982. The Beagle collections of Darwin's finches (Geospizinae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology Series 43, no. 2: 49-94.   Text   Image   PDF
, Steadman (in press) has argued that the Geospizinae evolved from Volatinia jacarina, the Blue-black Grassquit. He also contends that the Cocos Island Finch and the Galapagos finches were established by two independent invasions of this species from Central and South America, respectively. 20. For the date of FitzRoy's presentation of specimens, which included 187 skins, see the manuscript catalogue 'Zoological Accessions Aves, 1837-1851-3', pp. 7-15; British Museum (Natural History), Sub
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A587    Book:     Armstrong, Patrick. 1985. Charles Darwin in Western Australia: A young scientist's perception of an environment. Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press.   Text
full account of which is given in the section immediately following. Suffice it to say here that the organism mentioned is almost certainly the blue-green alga Trichodesmium, which occurs quite frequently in cool tropical and warm temperate Indian Ocean waters. Strands a few metres wide but several kilometers in length have been noted in the waters off south-western Australia. From this point Captain FitzRoy took a course almost due north-west to the Cocos Islands, and Charles Darwin lost sight of
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full account of which is given in the section immediately following. Suffice it to say here that the organism mentioned is almost certainly the blue-green alga Trichodesmium, which occurs quite frequently in cool tropical and warm temperate Indian Ocean waters. Strands a few metres wide but several kilometers in length have been noted in the waters off south-western Australia. From this point Captain FitzRoy took a course almost due north-west to the Cocos Islands, and Charles Darwin lost sight of
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component; there were blue skies and light clouds (although on 19 February a southerly wind reached Force 7, the barometer fell to 29.85 inches, and the weather was noted as being overcast, cloudy and misty, with passing showers and squalls). His Narrative reads: On the 17th we sailed out of the picturesque Derwent, an arm of the sea extending inland many miles beyond Hobart Town, and thence worked our way southward around the land of Van Diemen. We then steered westwards, or as much so as
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, and it was late afternoon before the anchor was cast. Neither Darwin nor FitzRoy went ashore that evening. The next day, Monday March 7, at 10.00 a.m. at least, it was fine, the barometer 30.19 inches and rising, the air temperature 63.5 F, and some white clouds were being swept across the blue West Australian sky by a fresh breeze (Force 5). One of the first things that some of the officers of the Beagle did on arriving at the Sound was to undertake navigational observations. The statistical
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briefly referred to again later. At 9.00 a.m. on Tuesday 8 March it was a little warmer and less breezy than on the morning of the previous day. Captain FitzRoly's meteorological log records a moderate (Force 4) breeze from the south-east, blue skies with a few clouds, and an air temperature of 66 F. Charles seems to have spent the day on a fairly thorough geological investigation of the area. His first draft of his account of the geology of the King George's Sound region is headed 'Tuesday'. It
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blue, but the upper side of the legs clouded with dull red. In the 'Voyage par un Officier du Roi' to the Isle of France45 there is an account of a crab which lives on Cocoa Nuts in a small island North of Madagascar: probably it is the same animal, but the account is very imperfect. Mr Liesk informs me that the crabs with swimming plates to posterior claw employ this tool in excavating burrows in the fine sand and mud that he has repeatedly watched the process. In this account of one his
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Everywhere we found the soil sandy very poor; either supported a coarse vegetation of low brushwood wiry grass, or a forest of stunted trees. The scenery resembled the elevated sandstone platform of the Blue Mountains50. The Casuarina (a tree which somewhat resembles a Scotch fir) is, however, in rather greater proportion as the eucalyptus is rather less. In the open parts there are great numbers of grass-trees which in appearance have some affinity with the palm, but instead of a crown of noble
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component; there were blue skies and light clouds (although on 19 February a southerly wind reached Force 7, the barometer fell to 29.85 inches, and the weather was noted as being overcast, cloudy and misty, with passing showers and squalls). His Narrative reads: On the 17th we sailed out of the picturesque Derwent, an arm of the sea extending inland many miles beyond Hobart Town, and thence worked our way southward around the land of Van Diemen. We then steered westwards, or as much so as
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, and it was late afternoon before the anchor was cast. Neither Darwin nor FitzRoy went ashore that evening. The next day, Monday March 7, at 10.00 a.m. at least, it was fine, the barometer 30.19 inches and rising, the air temperature 63.5 F, and some white clouds were being swept across the blue West Australian sky by a fresh breeze (Force 5). One of the first things that some of the officers of the Beagle did on arriving at the Sound was to undertake navigational observations. The statistical
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briefly referred to again later. At 9.00 a.m. on Tuesday 8 March it was a little warmer and less breezy than on the morning of the previous day. Captain FitzRoly's meteorological log records a moderate (Force 4) breeze from the south-east, blue skies with a few clouds, and an air temperature of 66 F. Charles seems to have spent the day on a fairly thorough geological investigation of the area. His first draft of his account of the geology of the King George's Sound region is headed 'Tuesday'. It
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blue, but the upper side of the legs clouded with dull red. In the 'Voyage par un Officier du Roi' to the Isle of France45 there is an account of a crab which lives on Cocoa Nuts in a small island North of Madagascar: probably it is the same animal, but the account is very imperfect. Mr Liesk informs me that the crabs with swimming plates to posterior claw employ this tool in excavating burrows in the fine sand and mud that he has repeatedly watched the process. In this account of one his
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Everywhere we found the soil sandy very poor; either supported a coarse vegetation of low brushwood wiry grass, or a forest of stunted trees. The scenery resembled the elevated sandstone platform of the Blue Mountains50. The Casuarina (a tree which somewhat resembles a Scotch fir) is, however, in rather greater proportion as the eucalyptus is rather less. In the open parts there are great numbers of grass-trees which in appearance have some affinity with the palm, but instead of a crown of noble
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F1817    Book:     Barrett, Paul H., Gautrey, Peter J., Herbert, Sandra, Kohn, David, Smith, Sydney eds. 1987. Charles Darwin's notebooks, 1836-1844: Geology, transmutation of species, metaphysical enquiries. British Museum (Natural History); Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   PDF
their companions—1 a «blue» Gibbon. whose companion had S[. . .] been dead hawk, which . . . frightened at a dog.— ] written on bottom half of page. The instinct . . . same bone] written on top half of page. such an instinct arise??] 'i' in 'instinct over 'a'. birds soon] 'birds' over 2 illeg. letters. A child . . . months old.] Emma Darwin's handwriting. 115 Circumstances. . . his companion.] crossed blue crayon. 'Descent— Affection [. . .]] two words illeg., added blue crayon. Monkeys «Ogleby
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than 131 131] pen. Mem Chiloe . . . cause friction] pencil. Athenaeum . . . particular muscle] pen. Athenaeum . . . N. America] crossed pen. page crossed blue crayon. 132 Sept. 8th.] lines above and below. emu, ] after ' ' partial stroke. Descent of Man Moral Sense] added blue crayon. ‹Paleys . . . given.—] scored left margin blue pencil. Mitchell . . . emu, ] crossed blue crayon. 131−1 No mention of pig's nest in JR or Diary. 131−2 Yarrell: William Yarrell. 131−3 Daubeny 1838:652. 132−1 Paley
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of cock Neck of Bull.— is most common in vegetable feeders, because males always armed in carnivora. Where females, are peacable— (Mem Lucanus Copris c)5.— In birds singing 113 Mem. Quagga ... Mare ringed] added pencil Saw mule . . . Zebra.—] crossed pencil, '5' added brown crayon and crossed pencil. Owen says . .. pouches.—] crossed blue crayon. Hunter's . . . birds singing] crossed pencil, '12' added brown crayon, double scored blue crayon. because males ... in carnivora.] added pencil
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, they must yet continue to put down ears, when kicking. — — good case of expression showing real affinity in face of donkey, horse zebra. when going to kick.— Why does dog put down ears, when pleased.— is it opposite movement to drawing them close on head, when going to fight, in which case expression resembles a ‹W[ . . . ]] 4−5 illeg letters. page crossed blue crayon. Emotion added blue pencil. 1838] added blue crayon. Cats . . . breast] added pencil. donkey, horse zebra.] underlined blue
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( the «old» dog really feels ashamed?) not so puppy, we ‹do› try to teach him strengthen his instincts.— so man ought to follow certain lines of conduct, ‹although› even when tempted not to do so, by other natural appetites.— he probably thinks . . . afterwards think of it.—] scored blue pencil left. conscience. palliates . . . strengthened instinct, even when] scored blue pencil left. being part of our nature,] 'of' over '='. One does not feel it wrong . . . animal.— which shows] scored blue pencil
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148-3 Thomas Andrew Knight. 149-1 See QE1V: 'Repeat the French experiment of Carrot'. 150-1 See Darwin's abstract of Hedges 1820:173-77, 'Mr Hedges, experiments on changes of colour in Hydrangea Hortensis.— He found the light brick earth from Hampstead Heath always turned the red flowers of the H. into blue—the next year if put in garden compost they would turn blue red again— again returned— No cause could be discovered in nature of soil.— Bog-soil will sometimes effect it.—' (DAR 74:61). 150
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[11 v] 32.A Would wheat from ^Egypt ripen in Scotland?— to show acclimatisation.— July 1842 When nettle leaf, put into spirits, poison-drop exudes— does not elm. does it «in» melon— «Loasa» Anchusa «Campanula» c dead-nettle.— Lithospernum. Blue Gloss, it is not possible to see orifice of poison-tube— so put carmine in spirits then experimentise: for gradation in structure Compare flowers of wild tame carrot— Parsley Fennel. Verbena Compare flower of different Cabbages most carefully to see if
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Keeper is obliged to go in with a stick, if he drops it, the bird will fly at him— Knowledge.— Sept. 13th It will be good to give Abercrombie's definition of reason reasoning, 1 take instance of Dray Horse going down hill.— (argue sophism of association. Kenyon,2 then go on to show, that if Cart horse argued from this into a theory of friction gravity. it would be discoverer 139 ‹the Male› . . . hands.—] scored left margin blue crayon. Descent 1838] added blue crayon. 140 going to be whipped
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insufficient to account for the phenomena of thought. (The objects of thought have no reference to place. [We see a particle move one to another, ‹the› (or conceive it) that is all we know of attraction, but we cannot see an atom think: they are as incongruous as blue weight; all that can be said that thought organization run in a parallel series: if blueness weight always went together. as a thing grew blue it «uniquely» grew heavier yet it could not be said that the blueness caused the weight, anymore
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F1830    Periodical contribution:     Smith, K.G.V. 1987. Darwin's insects: Charles Darwin's entomological notes, with an introduction and comments by Kenneth G. V. Smith. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series. vol. 14(1): 1-143.   Text   Image   PDF
. Blue Carabus, under logs of wood in the forest. Island of Lemuy. I notice all the [continued]. 1834 Insects Archipelago of Chiloe 19. [continued] blue ones are males and coppery ones females, yet surely they are different species; do not Carabi, abound in one sex at one period. Emit a powerful acrid fluid, and smell like some of the Heteromerous insects very disagreeable and powerful. COLEOPTERA, Carabidae: Carabus darwinii Hope (1838: 129) (subgenus Ceroglossus), one in the BM (1863 44) Chiloe
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, all would come up white, though planted in same soil with blue. Now this is same bearing with Dr. Smith's fact of races of men 69e tendency to keep to one line1 Dr Smith says very, close species generally frequet slightly different localities, so that they become useful to know what is species.—2 66       are there any?] in rectangle. 67     (1) Gnu . . . further:—] scored pencil. 69 tendency. . . what is species.—] crossed pencil. Dr Smith . . . what is species.—] double scored pencil. In
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authors 97e-98e [not located] '12' added to page brown crayon. N] added blue crayon. Yarrell observed . . . some authors] crossed pencil. Tvf Blyth ... some authors] crossed pencil. [page break
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can be done.' 89-1 Lyell 1840b: 361-2, 'Among the mammalian remains found on the beach [at Cromer] and chiefly in situ in the blue clay . . . Mr. Owen has recognized the following: ... 7. lower jaw left ramus of the beaver, a species larger than the living one and apparently distinct.' 79-1 See Lund 1840:374-89, where the discussion is accompanied by tables showing the ratios of past and present mammalian genera and species. 81-1 Prichard 1840:16. 81-2 Rengger 1830:154. Darwin's abstract
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purposes the pages of 'Zoology' have here been numbered consecutively from 1 to 20. The third page in this series is blank and has no designated page number, and the page numbered 3 is therefore a left hand page. The binding of this notebook is half leather with marbled paper sides. On the front cover is pasted a square of paper, the lower left and upper left corner being torn away, with '35' in blue crayon being crossed out by a double scoring in pencil. Also, on this square is '42' in blue
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purposes the pages of 'Zoology' have here been numbered consecutively from 1 to 20. The third page in this series is blank and has no designated page number, and the page numbered 3 is therefore a left hand page. The binding of this notebook is half leather with marbled paper sides. On the front cover is pasted a square of paper, the lower left and upper left corner being torn away, with '35' in blue crayon being crossed out by a double scoring in pencil. Also, on this square is '42' in blue
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. owing to time when entered brain, try contiguity of parts of Brain.— Mackintosh first clearly insisted on assoc of ideas emotions. rather ideas bodily actions make the emotions.—4 87 dogs dislike perfume)] parenthesis closure blue crayon. 88 page crossed blue crayon. 89 text written parallel to spine. 89−1 Mackintosh 1837:96−97, 'As all devotional feelings have moral qualities for their sole object; as no being can inspire love or reverence otherwise than by those qualities which are naturally
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«in man animals» must be separately considered.— The difference between civilized man savage,— is that former is endeavoring to change that part of the moral sense which experience (education is the experience of others) shows does not tend to 29v female] 'female' over '—'. Perhapsinsist??] addedblue pencil. But my view . . . moral senses:] '++' added left margin. hence our ‹ [. . .] ›] '[. . .]' 3−4letterscrossed,illeg. Gives art . . . generated?] added blue pencil, left margin. 30V The
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interest I do not . . . satisfaction of the mind; which] scored blue pencil right margin. it is easy by] 'by' over 'to'. child may be taught to this conclusion,] scored blue pencil left margin. 47−1 Mackintosh 1837:199, 'But volitions and actions are not themselves the end, or last object in view, of any other desire or aversion. Nothing stands between the moral sentiments and their object. They are, as it were, in contact with the will . . . Conscience may forbid the will to contribute to the
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