F3275    Book:     Gregorio, Mario A. -Di, ed. 1990. Charles Darwin's marginalia, vol. 1. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio, with the assistance of N.W. Gill. New York; London: Garland.   Text   Image   PDF

EATON, John Matthews A treatise on the art of breeding and managing tame, domesticated, foreign and fancy pigeons London; the Author; 1858; [CUL, bound with:] MOORE, J. Columbarinus, or the pigeon-house, being an introduction to a natural history of tame pigeons London; J. Wilford; 1735 [pre-B] beh, br, cs NB p60 Pouter; carr p44 Carrier Frontespiece Tumbler 100 Barb; Jacobin; Fantail; Turbit SB 78 Qä) 86£d Fashion goes in extremes with Fanciers- Q« 120* in Beards Qaj 145 Blue Tumbler bred

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NB / Nothing Ap. 1857 7 19-22m 9 30-34m 10 wb describes the Blue Rock by the name of Stock dove 12 32ae 14 8-19m, 22-24m 15 2-3m, 22-23m 17 20-22m, 28-30m, 34-35m 18 l-5m, 14-16m 19 13-15m, 36-38m *14 l-3m, 7-9m *15 23-26m\w education *16 37-38m/wb Seems to consider all the Horsemen Dragoons crossed breeds Can this be so considering how true? *17 17-20m, 31-34m *18 10-19m 20 3-8m 22 20-22m, 34-36m 23 l-4m/lu with I long , 28u four I length , 31u the I Roman , 34u table 24 8-12m, 13-15m, 30-32m 31

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female more beautiful gorget than male 75 » do 120 more than 20 males to 1 female - male very gorgeous.- ss 49 Males Shafts of feathers expanded in male 7 5-32w Humming birds very num. confined ranges 35- 8 30-36m 9 20-28m, 31-32m 14 37-45m 15 xot Bates Butterflies when underside displayed this is beautiful 2- 2m\m , 24-29m/24u*/25u pierce I bases '/28u Bourcier\bird 17 21-25m 18 l-10m/5u beards , 14-19m, 19-23m, 30u blue ear- tufts , 33u bearded , 43-46m/44u undertail- coverts , 49-50m/50u from

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somniferum self-fertile p66 On Causes of Variation Range of Viola lutea tricolor 11 Adonis aestivalis self-fertilised prot- androus Look over, some references for Good for crossing Book p4 What he considers evidence of specific form ! p27 causes of variability Reversion 17 on the form of Anagallis blue red arvensis cd not cross them ! 22 Range of differences of - 3 18-21m/w no - Cytisus adami 4 12m, 21-23m/22u Blosse\Nachweis /13-27w It comes to this that without direct evidence of descent from 1

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Mongrels intermediate 22«; bantams 17-20w naked feet very small 20w do. 22«; feathered feet 24-28w Feet very short Belly almost touches ground- wb Feet wonderfully feathered 18 22-22« einen]Schwanz 19-22w Hens from isthmus of Panama 19 5-20«; Philippine Hen with excessively short legs, wings scrape ground 22« Hamburgische , 13-21w Belly legs like Velvet very sharp Beak, tuft of feathers over ears Legs feet blue with yellow soles. 13u/wx, 24m, 25u paduanische , 26-29w/wb is as big again as foregoing

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of rocks etc) 4 Ww is this emitted from the Trap Rocks near Edinburgh 6 18w Is found in the oldest primitive rocks 10 22-27w Owes its deliquesance to the Lime Magnesia Blue Red colours are owing to the Iron 11 17w Rock salt has never been found in Scotland 17 7w Sub Sulphate of Alumina 23 7-8w Easily distinguished from Marble by yielding to the Nail wb Easily mistaken for Satin Spar but can be distinguished by its softness 28 10-llw melts like Ice Before the blowpipe 36u rare/w very 29 wt All

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Chalk 20-23«; The base of pudding of stone in quartz; the concretions flint 23«; from Calcedon in Asia Minor 16x, 18u\18-21w where blue is called Sapphirine by the Jewellers wb x The dendritic variety is called Mocha Stone from a place in India or from a German word signifying moss, this appearance is owing to Iron Manganese 203 lx/wt x is mentioned by Pliny as a different mineral 4u\w owing to Nickel 27w from its colour 204 14u/14-16w The green colour is owing to Green earth 25w origin of name

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Ring Dover 54 3-12w Blue Rock Pigeons 9-22m, 32-33m/w doubtful 55 9-34w (not CD) 56 8m, 10-15m/12w (a) wb (a) Will occupy old trees when house destroyed 61 30-34m 62 23c/we 86 23-20w some she pigeons prefer stranger to own husbands 158 5m/wt/l-13w This seems to imply like coloured Pigeons prefer each other. 159 wb same coloured Pigeons pair most readily 160 22m 161 wt (a) difference is reciprocal cross of Pouter common Pigeon 22-22W Hybrids bigger 12-19m/15w (a) 22- 24w male gives form the female

A588    Book:     Armstrong, Patrick. 1991. Under the blue vault of heaven: A study of Charles Darwin's sojourn in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Nedlands: Indian Ocean Centre for Peace Studies.   Text   PDF

Under the Blue Vault of Heaven: A Study of Charles Darwin's Sojourn in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands by Patrick Armstrong Indian Ocean Centre for Peace Studies and Geography Dept, University of Western Australia [page break

A588    Book:     Armstrong, Patrick. 1991. Under the blue vault of heaven: A study of Charles Darwin's sojourn in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Nedlands: Indian Ocean Centre for Peace Studies.   Text   PDF

therefore to argue that no action need be taken to preserve and protect the few which remain. Despite the changes the lagoon still dazzles the eye with its magnificent sweeps or irridescent blue, turquoise and green, causing us to wonder, as did Darwin, what processes brought it into being in this vast sea – this monument under the blue vault of heaven . This book gives us a rare insight and a fitting record of Darwin's progress toward an answer. Carolyn Stuart Canberra, ACTDecember 1989 Administrator

A588    Book:     Armstrong, Patrick. 1991. Under the blue vault of heaven: A study of Charles Darwin's sojourn in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Nedlands: Indian Ocean Centre for Peace Studies.   Text   PDF

and 5.) Although the weather was fine that April morning – the log shows the symbol b or bc for blue sky or blue sky with passing clouds - the winds were light an variable in direction (force 1 or 2) and progress was slow. At 10.30am the ship altered course of WNW and trimmed her sails. An hour later all scuddy sails were taken in, and sails were again trimmed. At noon the position was noted as 12 15 S, 96 58 E by dead reckoning and 12 8 S, 97 01 E from instrumental observations, and the nearest

A588    Book:     Armstrong, Patrick. 1991. Under the blue vault of heaven: A study of Charles Darwin's sojourn in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Nedlands: Indian Ocean Centre for Peace Studies.   Text   PDF

Armstrong, Patrick. 1991. Under the blue vault of heaven: A study of Charles Darwin's sojourn in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Nedlands: Indian Ocean Centre for Peace Studies. [back cover] Charles Darwin spent 12 days at the Cocos (keeling) Islands in the Indian Ocean during the Voyage of HMS Beagle in 1836. He explored many parts of the archipelago, and collected a large number of geological, plant and animal specimens. He paid particular attention to the form of the islands, and the

A588    Book:     Armstrong, Patrick. 1991. Under the blue vault of heaven: A study of Charles Darwin's sojourn in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Nedlands: Indian Ocean Centre for Peace Studies.   Text   PDF

surrounding colour. The shallow, clear, and still water of the lagoon, resting in its greater part on white sand, is, when illuminated by a vertical sun, of the most vivid green. This brilliant expanse, several miles in width, is on all sides divided, either by a line of snow-white breakers from the dark heaving waters of the ocean, or from the blue vault of heaven by the strips of land, crowned by the level tops of the cocoa-nut trees. As a white could here and there affords a pleasing contrast with the

A588    Book:     Armstrong, Patrick. 1991. Under the blue vault of heaven: A study of Charles Darwin's sojourn in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Nedlands: Indian Ocean Centre for Peace Studies.   Text   PDF

; trunks of the sago palm; and various kinds of seeds unknown to the Malays who settled on the islands. These are all supposed to have been driven by the NW monsoon to the coast of New Holland, and thence to the islands by the SE trade-wind. Large masses of Java teak and Yellow wood have also been found, besides immense trees of red and white cedar, and the blue gum-wood of New Holland, in a perfectly sound condition. All the hardy seeds, such as creepers, retain their germinating power, but the

A588    Book:     Armstrong, Patrick. 1991. Under the blue vault of heaven: A study of Charles Darwin's sojourn in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Nedlands: Indian Ocean Centre for Peace Studies.   Text   PDF

brilliant blue of the lagoon, and the contrast between the green palms and the white sand, just as did the nineteenth century voyagers. In walking along the coral reefs, thrashing through the dense thickets of coconut palms, and watching the fish amongst the coral of the lagoon with photocopies of Darwin's [page] 1

A2826    Book:     Ghiselin, M. T. 1991. The triumph of the Darwinian method. 2d ed.   Text

. To be sure, the parallel changes depend, if they are to occur at all, upon selection. It is also true, as Darwin points out, that selection alone could produce many similarities independently in closely related lineages. *  Origin, pp. 146-147. But there is no contradiction. Darwin's search for laws of variation, and his attempt to reduce such laws to embryology, were manifestly guided by theoretical insight. For instance, it was a well-known empirical rule that white cats with blue eyes are

F3705    Book:     Armstrong, Patrick. 1992. Darwin's desolate islands: A naturalist in the Falklands, 1833 and 1834. Chippenham: Picton Publishing.   Text

Armstrong, Patrick. 1992. Darwin's desolate islands: A naturalist in the Falklands, 1833 and 1834. Chippenham: Picton Publishing. [page i] By the same Author The Changing Landscape Discovering Ecology Discovering Geology Charles Darwin in Western Australia Under the Blue Vault of Heaven: a Study of Charles Darwin's Sojourn in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands [page ii

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little ship had been at 52 20 S, with Cape Pembroke 103 miles away, just a little east of north. As the Beagle felt her way into Berkeley Sound for the first time, the weather was fine but cold. Patches of blue sky showed through the clouds. There had been squalls and showers within the last few hours, and adjustments to the sails had been made as requisite . At 1.30pm, sails were shortened, and the Beagle came to, with her bow in 10 fathoms, in Uranie Bay, on the south side of the Sound (Fig 2

A589    Book:     Armstrong, Patrick. 1992. Darwin's desolate islands: A naturalist in the Falklands, 1833 and 1834. Chippenham: Picton Publishing.   Text   PDF

, however extensive the footnoting and referencing, editors can only to a modest extent show relationships to the broad sweep of Darwin's work. Other workers have concentrated on a particular incident in Darwin's life such as the conversion to an evolutionary outlook,9 or the bolt from the blue (Wallace's letter of 1858), bringing a wide range of archive and published materials to bear on a particular problem. Few previous enquirers have taken the archives to the field , and made exhaustive use of

A589    Book:     Armstrong, Patrick. 1992. Darwin's desolate islands: A naturalist in the Falklands, 1833 and 1834. Chippenham: Picton Publishing.   Text   PDF

parallel to the planes of stratification. The included organic remains are found in seams or beds between the Sandstone strata. in some case[s] the casts form the whole mass, in others they are imbedded in Sandstone, very often in a matrix of hard blue compact rock. The shells all belong to terebratula its subgenera; there are also different species of Entrochitus [some del] vestiges of some other remains the nature of which I could not ascertain. The beds of sandstone vary in thickness from two or

A591    Pamphlet:     Armstrong, Patrick. 1992. Charles Darwin's last island: Terceira, Azores, 1836. Geowest no. 27.   Text   Image

all dressed in a plain jacket trowsers [sic], without shoes or stockings; their heads are barely covered by a little blue cloth cap with two ears a border of red; this they lift in the most courteous manner to each passing stranger.2 But as well as the fine detail, Darwin saw the the whole picture, and the way in which a human community impacted on a landscape. See, for example his economical account of S o Miguel, quoted on page 22, or his description of the settled landscape north of Angra

A591    Pamphlet:     Armstrong, Patrick. 1992. Charles Darwin's last island: Terceira, Azores, 1836. Geowest no. 27.   Text   Image

many current field guides. But many books published in the earlier decades of this century, and before, use it for the pied wagtail Motacilla abla (for which the names white, and Yarrell's wagtail have also been sometimes used in the past, although some authors attempted to use the names for different races). The name yellow water wagtail is known from The ornithology of Francis Willurghby (1678) for the yellow wagtail, M. flava;4 the name blue-headed wagtail is also used for some races of this

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. On 4 April the Adventure sailed, Lieutenant Chaffers in command, and two days later the Beagle followed. At 8.30am on the 6th, with a force 4 south-west breeze, in fine weather but with a number of clouds breaking up the blue, late autumn sky, the ship was unmoored, weighed anchor and made sail to 1st reef of Top sails, jib and fore top-mast stay-sail . Some adjustments were made to the sails at 10.00am in the face of a patch of squally, rainy weather. Darwin notes in his diary that the ship

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insects , Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Historical Series), 14 (1): 1 143, 24 September 1987. 8 P H Armstrong, 1985, Charles Darwin in Western Australia: a young scientist's perception of an environment, University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands. , 1991, Under the blue vault of heaven: Charles Darwin's sojourn in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Indian Ocean Centre for Peace Studies, Nedlands. 9 See F J Sulloway, 1982 (Introduction, note 2). 10 D Lowenthal, 1961, Geography

F1956    Periodical contribution:     Herbert, Sandra. 1995. From Charles Darwin's portfolio: An early essay on South American geology and species. Earth Sciences History 14, no. 1: 23-36.   Text   Image   PDF

: In Sicily Blue clay with do without shells Lyell. Vol. III. P. 64. Crystals of selenite some shells base of Etna. P 77.39 ___________________________ Compare the certain recent Elevations of Patagonia with Mr. Lyell map. of under water parts of Europe. for extent size. 40 _____________ The gravel over R. Negro plain is one of the re-depositions after some elevations: therefore much posterior to Shingle bed gr oyster: formation. Tosca plain coeval with it. Yet St. Fe limestone with similar

F1956    Periodical contribution:     Herbert, Sandra. 1995. From Charles Darwin's portfolio: An early essay on South American geology and species. Earth Sciences History 14, no. 1: 23-36.   Text   Image   PDF

voyage. See Correspondence1:561.) There had been some uncertainty over the physical appearance of the Pampas cat. See Cuvier, Animal Kingdom 2:486-487 + plates. 39.  Lyell, Principles 3:63-64 contains a description of the formations of Val di Noto, a district which intervenes between Etna and the southern promontory of Sicily. The lowest formation in the district is said to comprise Blue clay and gypsum, c. without shells. (See diagram, p. 64) Pp. 76-77 suggest a connection between the

A783    Periodical contribution:     Smith, K. G. V. 1996. Supplementary notes on Darwin's insects. Archives of natural history 23 (2): 279-286.   Text   Image   PDF

d'Histoire naturelle) on his death, though the [identified?] Anthicidae supposedly went to Eugene Louis Bouvier (1856 1944). One can only assume that the Darwin specimen, unrecognized as such (and probably unidentified even to family) came to be in Canada by a exchange of material with the Paris Museum. Two Parry specimens of Hypaulax ampliata Bates (F.) (Tenebrionidae), bearing typical Voyage of the Beagle blue labels and like the above without data, were reported on in my previous account (Smith

A347    Periodical contribution:     Keynes, Milo. 1998. The Portland Vase: Sir William Hamilton, Josiah Wedgwood and the Darwins. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 52 (2) (July): 237-259.   Text   Image

had already made many purchases of Wedgwood's jasper ware.20,21 The Portland Vase (figures 3,4 and 5) The Portland Vase, of height 248 mm and diameter 177 mm, formed of cobalt-blue glass that looks black unless seen by transmitted light, has a decoration carved by gem engravers out of a second layer of opaque milky-white glass fused on the blue. It is a masterpiece of cameo-cutting thought to have been made early in the reign (27 bc-ad 14) of the first Roman emperor, Augustus, probably in Rome

A345    Periodical contribution:     Herbert, Sandra. 1999. An 1830s view from outside Switzerland: Charles Darwin on the "Beryl Blue" glaciers of Tierra del Fuego. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 92: 339-346.   Text   Image   PDF

amidst the gloom. On 29 January 1833 Darwin first saw them as one of the small surveying boats entered the north arm of Beagle Channel. (Fig. 1) Darwin wrote in his small pocket field notebook on first sighting: many glaciers beryl blue most beautiful contrasted with snow (Barlow 1945: 175). The name for the color: beryl blue would seem to have been drawn from Werner's Nomenclature of Colours by Patrick Syme (1821), a book Darwin carried with him aboard the Beagle. Syme's chart represented a

F1821    Periodical contribution:     Banks, M. R. and D. Leaman eds. 1999. Charles Darwin's Field Notes on the geology of Hobart Town - A modern appraisal. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 133(1): 29-50.   Text   Image   PDF

Strata of 3 varieties and their intermediate variations a white cherty rock with grains of quartz. 7E (3457) a blue, slightly Calcareous, siliceous Clay [inserted above not laminated] Slate [erasure] (3458) a brown rather softer do [ditto?] (3459) These two latter in places are softer and thinly laminated all three are composed of impressions of Betepora other 7F Coralline (Mem. Limestone of Argyl) some few 7G Terebratulae. I saw impressions of one Univalve a large 7H Bivalve Commentary 7A: The

A345    Periodical contribution:     Herbert, Sandra. 1999. An 1830s view from outside Switzerland: Charles Darwin on the "Beryl Blue" glaciers of Tierra del Fuego. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 92: 339-346.   Text   Image   PDF

transported matter has been due to the ordinary moving power of water, often assisted by ice, and cooperating with the alternate upheaval and depression of land. Darwin's presentation of material related to the glaciers of Tierra del Fuego took two forms in the main body of text of his Journal of Researches. In Chapter 11, he recounted much of the material drawn from his Diary. (The color of the glaciers was now described as beryl-like blue, rather than beryl blue - a minor change.) He compared

F1821    Periodical contribution:     Banks, M. R. and D. Leaman eds. 1999. Charles Darwin's Field Notes on the geology of Hobart Town - A modern appraisal. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 133(1): 29-50.   Text   Image   PDF

as pleasant as some (Comment 10A) but, compared to his excursions in South America and over the Blue Mountains from Sydney, they were probably pleasant and little. It can now be shown that on Monday, 8 February, Darwin took the ferry across the river, and then walked around the shoreline as far as Howrah, inland to Knopwood Hill and back to the ferry over Mornington Hill (Comments 2D to 4A), not, as thought earlier, up Flagstaff Hill. Syms Covington, who noted that he had accompanied Darwin

F1821    Periodical contribution:     Banks, M. R. and D. Leaman eds. 1999. Charles Darwin's Field Notes on the geology of Hobart Town - A modern appraisal. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 133(1): 29-50.   Text   Image   PDF

. Earthquakes? ------------------------- Beyond these white beds we find ordinary Sandstones with current cleavage then 3B again appears The greenstone 3C ------------------------- Ascending the hills, some hundred ft behind the coast, we met with common Greenstone but the commonest rock is a Greenstone [above this (3453)] Syenite On the 3D summit there were gently inclined Strata of altered rocks Siliceous white, 3E blue Siliceo-porcelain rocks 3F (3449: 3450) 3451 Greenstone (?) poss. belonging

A2112    Book:     Armstrong, Patrick. 2004. Darwin's other islands. London: Continuum.   Text

-zagged around in a 'baffling' wind in the channel between Tenerife and Gran Canaria, he wrote: [I]n the morning a most glorious view broke upon us. The sun was rising behind the Grand Canary defined with clearest outline its rugged form. Teneriffe, grey as yet from the morning mist, lay to the West: some clouds having floated past, the snowy peak was seen in all its grandeur. As the sun rose, it illumined this massive pyramid . . . relieved against the blue sky . . .14 The young naturalist's

A2112    Book:     Armstrong, Patrick. 2004. Darwin's other islands. London: Continuum.   Text

(the log shows the symbols 'b' and 'be', for 'blue sky' and 'blue sky with passing clouds'), the winds were fickle; progress was slow, and sails had to be trimmed from time to time. At 2.00 p.m. a signal gun was fired for a pilot, and at 3.00 p.m. a ship's boat was sent ahead. An hour later, the log records, the 'pilot came on board'. Darwin recorded that 'Mr Liesk, an English resident, came off in his boat'. The latter assisted in bringing the ship to a safe anchorage in just under five

A2112    Book:     Armstrong, Patrick. 2004. Darwin's other islands. London: Continuum.   Text

not exist. He wrote: On the 3d of January we were occupied in looking for the 'Eight Stones'; but nothing was seen to indicate either rocks, or shoals or even shallow water. The sun was shining brightly on a deep blue sea, of one uniform colour: no soundings could be obtained; and had there been a shoal or a rock within seven miles of us at any hour of that day, it could not have passed unnoticed. So many vessels have searched, in vain, for this alleged group of rocks, that their existence can

A2112    Book:     Armstrong, Patrick. 2004. Darwin's other islands. London: Continuum.   Text

explore the islands of the Pacific. He was certainly looking forward to this part of the voyage. On New Year's Day 1835, after many months of poor, gloomy weather around the southern tip of South America, he wrote: The new year is ushered in with the Ceremonies proper to it in these regions: - she lays out no false hopes; a heavy NW gale with steady rain bespeaks the rising year. Thank God we shall not here see the end of it; but rather in the Pacific, where a blue sky does tell one, there is a

A2112    Book:     Armstrong, Patrick. 2004. Darwin's other islands. London: Continuum.   Text

party started from the inn very early, crossing the Nepean River in a small ferry-boat, and began the ascent of the Blue Mountains, the road always bordered by the 'scrubby wood of small trees of the never-failing Eucalyptus family'. At lunch-time he recorded: 'we baited our horses at a little Inn called the Weatherboard'. While the horses were resting, Darwin followed a little valley with its tiny rill to the north and came upon a stupendous vista, which he wrote about lyrically and at

A2112    Book:     Armstrong, Patrick. 2004. Darwin's other islands. London: Continuum.   Text

The Mystique and Myth of the Galapagos - and the Reality He describes the suite of volcanic forms and his exploration of them very lucidly: To the South of the Cove [Targus Cove] I found a most beautiful Crater, elliptic in form, less than a mile in its longer axis about 500 feet deep. Its bottom was occupied by a lake, out of which a tiny Crater formed an Island ... The ... lake looked blue clear. I hurried down the cindery side, choked with dust, to my disgust on tasting the water found it

A2112    Book:     Armstrong, Patrick. 2004. Darwin's other islands. London: Continuum.   Text

guiding his ship in the face of a brisk west-sou'west force 5 breeze, as she tacked up the long inlet of Berkeley Sound. Good progress had been made on the previous couple of days. The weather was fine but cold; patches of blue sky could be glimpsed through the clouds, although there had been squalls and showers in the previous few hours and adjustments had been made to the sails 'as requisite'. At 1.30 p.m. the sails were shortened and the Beagle came to on the south side of Berkeley Sound

A2112    Book:     Armstrong, Patrick. 2004. Darwin's other islands. London: Continuum.   Text

morning of 21 November 1834, there was a force 4 breeze; it was slightly squally, the sails had to be frequently trimmed and adjusted, and white clouds pulled across a blue sky.1 'The island wore a pleasing aspect', wrote Darwin, 'with the sun shining brightly on the patches of cleared ground dusky green woods.' Later that evening, however, he recalled: 'we were convinced that it was Chiloe, by torrents of rain a gale of wind'. The next day or two saw many of the crew repairing sails and

A2112    Book:     Armstrong, Patrick. 2004. Darwin's other islands. London: Continuum.   Text

which he had stayed in the summer of 1831 with Professor Sedgwick, just before he embarked. Very early on the morning of 18 January they covered the few miles to Govett's Leap, a view that Darwin considered 'similar . . . perhaps even more stupendous' than that at Wentworth Falls. Early in the day 'the gulf was filled with a thin blue haze . . . which added to the apparent depth'. In his geological notes Darwin wrote: 'The Geologist is immediately astonished at the enormous amount of matter

A2112    Book:     Armstrong, Patrick. 2004. Darwin's other islands. London: Continuum.   Text

blue, but the upper side of the legs clouded with dull red. In the 'Voyage par un Officier du Roi' to the Isle of France [Mauritius] 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.16 In this account

A2112    Book:     Armstrong, Patrick. 2004. Darwin's other islands. London: Continuum.   Text

... crater degradation'. The black lavas 'with crystals of glassy feldspar' he thought were similar to some on St James Island (Santiago) in the Galapagos. Here is his account of the costume of some of the country people: 'The men boys are all dressed in a plain jacket trowsers [sic], without shoes or stockings; their heads are barely covered by a little blue cap with two ears a border of red; this they lift in the most courteous manner to each passing stranger.'7 He compared the way of life of the

A161    Periodical contribution:     Steinheimer, F. D. 2004. Charles Darwin's bird collection and ornithological knowledge during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, 1831-1836. Journal of Ornithology 145(4): 300-320, 4 figures (appendix [pp. 1-40]).   Text   Image   PDF

Nesomimus). TURDIDAE: thrush, Turdus (for Turdus). EMBERIZIDAE: Fringilla [in errore] (for Ammodramus, Zonotrichia, Phrygilus, Diuca, Poospiza, Embernagra, Geospiza, Camarhynchus, Thraupis); sparrow [sensu American sparrows] (for Zonotrichia); blue sparrow (for Phrygilus alaudinus); Emberiza (for Melanodera, Sicalis); Icterus [in errore] (for Geospiza); grosbeak [in errore] (for ? Camarhynchus); Sylvia [in errore], wren [in errore] (for Certhidea); [Darwin's names not traced for Aimophila

A27b    Book:     Freeman, R. B. 2007. Charles Darwin: A companion. 2d online edition, compiled by Sue Asscher.   Text

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. The present plaque with different wording was put up 1961. Garden part of Foster Court car park in 1978. Upper House, Barlaston, Staffordshire. 1847 Built as home of Francis Wedgwood. Ur-hund, see Polly. [page] 28

A27b    Book:     Freeman, R. B. 2007. Charles Darwin: A companion. 2d online edition, compiled by Sue Asscher.   Text

. Wallace placed next to it 1915 Nov. 1. 1904, 1961 London, 110 Gower St, G.L.C., blue plaque erected 1904 Dec. 13 CHARLES DARWIN / NATURALIST / LIVED HERE / 1838-1842, first date was wrong, should be 1839. Present plaque, on Biological Sciences Building (1982 changed to Darwin Building), University College London, erected 1961 perpetuates error. 1981 Darwin, Inyo Co., Calif, bronze plaque erected 1981 Oct. 10 in memory of the naming circa 1875, and of Erasmus Darwin French. Downe Church, Kent

A578    Periodical contribution:     Herbert, Sandra, Gibson, Sally, Norman, David, Giest, Dennis, Estes, Greg, Grant, Thalia and Miles, Andrew. 2009. Into the field again: re-examining Charles Darwin's 1835 geological work on Isla Santiago (James Island) in the Galápagos Archipelago. Earth Sciences History 28, no. 1: 1-31.   Text   Image   PDF

increase in the silica content of the magma. This increase in silica is often shown by the colour of fine-grained rocks, which changes from black (basalt) to blue/grey (trachybasalt or trachyandesite) to pale-green (trachyte). (Images courtesy of D. Simons.) 21 [page] 2

A578    Periodical contribution:     Herbert, Sandra, Gibson, Sally, Norman, David, Giest, Dennis, Estes, Greg, Grant, Thalia and Miles, Andrew. 2009. Into the field again: re-examining Charles Darwin's 1835 geological work on Isla Santiago (James Island) in the Galápagos Archipelago. Earth Sciences History 28, no. 1: 1-31.   Text   Image   PDF

we collected from the top of the bluff, immediately below the summit ridge. 07DSG42 contains phenocrysts of alkali and plagioclase, yellow fayalitic olivine (Fo20), clinopyroxene together with both a brown and also blue-green amphibole. The petrography and mineral chemistry of 07DSG42 are very nearly identical to CD3268 (Table 2). 8 Note that in both his field notes and Volcanic Islands Darwin referred to the 'Mineralogical composition of the rocks'. He is more precise about the compositions of

A669    Periodical contribution:     Wyhe, John van. 2009. Darwin vs. God. BBC History Magazine 10, No. 1 (January): 26-31.   Text   PDF

were confronted with one of the leading men of science of the day publishing a work that purported to establish that, contrary to An engraving of the Blue and Yellow Tanager, taken from Darwin's Zoology of the Voyage of the HMS Beagle (Part 3 Birds, 1838) long-held belief, new species were not somehow created in each new geological age to fit the new conditions. Instead, they were the lineal descendants of earlier species. These had gradually changed as the environment changed around them. Thus