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A27    Book:     Freeman, R. B. 1978. Charles Darwin: A companion. Folkstone: Dawson.   Text   Image   PDF
.5 May 10 Rio de Janeiro; Apr.16 23 Salvador; Jun.4 Jul.5 Rio de Janeiro; Jul.26 31 Monte Video; Aug.3 19 Monte Video; Sep.7 28 Blanco Bay; Oct.6 17 Blanco Bay; Oct.25 30 Monte Video; Nov.2 10 Buenos Aires; Nov.14 27 Monte Video; Dec.18 19 Good Success Bay; Dec.24 30 San Martin Cove. 1833 Jan.15 Feb.8 Tierra del Fuego waters; Mar.1 Apr.6 Berkeley Sound; Apr.26 Jul.24 Monte Video Maldonado; Aug.25 Sep.6 Blanco Bay; Aug. 16 23 Monte Video Maldonado; Oct.4 Dec.5 Monte Video Maldonado; Oct.24 [1834
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A27    Book:     Freeman, R. B. 1978. Charles Darwin: A companion. Folkstone: Dawson.   Text   Image   PDF
to man by the house bugs Triatoma infestans Conorhinus magistus. The infective agent, Trypanosoma cruzi, was first described by Carlos Chagas, Nova tripanozomiaze humana, Ueber eine neue Trypanosomiasis des Menschen, Mem.Inst. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 1:159 218, 1909. Often suggested that CD had the disease from being bitten by T.infestans, the benchuca bug, at Luxan, Mendoza Province, Argentine, 1835 Mar.26. Others say that his symptoms were not those typical of the disease. see CD
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A27    Book:     Freeman, R. B. 1978. Charles Darwin: A companion. Folkstone: Dawson.   Text   Image   PDF
London, 17 Spring Gardens. Sep.9 left by Packet with Fitz-Roy for Plymouth. Sep.11 arrived Plymouth to see Beagle. Sep.19 Cambridge. Sep.22 Shrewsbury. Oct.2 London, 17 Spring Gardens. Oct. 21 Shrewsbury. Oct.24 Plymouth. Dec.10 sailed but put back. Dec.21 sailed but put back. Dec.27 sailed. 1832 Jan.6 Feb.8 Cape Verde Is, Feb.16 17 St Paul's Rocks, Feb.20 Fernando de Noronha, Feb.28 Mar.18 Bahia Blanca, Mar.19 Abrolhos archipelago, Apr.5 Jul.5 Rio de Janeiro, Jul.26 Aug.19 Monte Video, Sep.6
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A27    Book:     Freeman, R. B. 1978. Charles Darwin: A companion. Folkstone: Dawson.   Text   Image   PDF
boasted liberty, Colonial Slavery' LLi 248. 1833 CD at Rio de Janeiro, 'On such faz ndas as these, I have no doubt the slaves pass happy and contented lives' J. Researches 1845 24. 'This man had been trained to a degradation lower than the slavery of the most helpless animal' ibid. 'I thank God, I shall never again visit a slave country', followed by two pages of description of its horrors ibid. 499. 1845 CD to Lyell, 'this odious deadly [page] 26
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A27    Book:     Freeman, R. B. 1978. Charles Darwin: A companion. Folkstone: Dawson.   Text   Image   PDF
should come and visit me' Atkins 85. 1877 1879 CD corresponded with, mostly on behaviour FUL 88 90. 1880 G arranged a Civil List pension for Wallace. 1881 Jan. G wrote personally to CD about Wallace pension. DNB EB. Glasgow 1827 May CD visited on a spring tour Journal. 1838 Jun. CD visited at end of geological trip to Glen Roy. 1855 CD ED went to British Association meeting. Glass, Dr Director of Botanic Garden, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1881 G wrote to CD about graft hybrids of sugar cane. 1882
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F167c    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1979. The Beagle record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
47 1832 RIO DE JANEIRO C. D. Mole, palace and cathedral at Rio de Janeiro is in these countries: to Earl's enquiries about the number of young men whom he left in health prosperity, the most frequent answer is 'He is dead gone'. The deaths are generally to be attributed to drinking: few seem able to resist the temptation, when exhausted by business in this hot climate, of strongly exciting themselves by drinking spirits. Diary pp. 47-8 Darwin made plans for an expedition on horseback to an
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F167c    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1979. The Beagle record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
47 1832 rio de Janeiro C. D. The Sugar Loaf, Rio de Janeiro situated close to a retired lake, or rather loch as it is connected with the sea but landlocked by lofty hills. I suppose we shall be here for 5 weeks: then to Monte Video which will be my direction for a very long time. With your nice letters I received a most kind and affectionate one from Henslow. It is not impossible I shall have occasion to draw for some money. Most certainly this is the most expensive place we shall perhaps ever
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F167c    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1979. The Beagle record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
Narrative 2, facing P- 57-   35 The Beagle's quarter-deck and poop cabin, drawn by P. G. King in 1890. Courtesy of Sir Geoffrey Keynes.                                                                   39 Mole, palace and cathedral in Rio de Janeiro. By A. Earle, engraved by T. Hain in Narrative 1, facing p. 106.                                                             47 The Sugar Loaf, Rio de Janeiro. C.M. No. 46.                                               50 Botofogo Bay, Rio de Janeiro. C.M
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F167c    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1979. The Beagle record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
. June 9 1833. Watercolour. RQMS Sketchbook II f.9 verso. 30  St Jago, one of the Verds, bearing E by N distant 6 miles. 9 June 1833. Watercolour. RDK. 31  Fernando de Noronha, coast of Brasil. n.d. Drawing. RQMS l.d. 15. 32  On the coast near Rio Janeiro. July / 1833. Watercolour. RQMS Sketchbook II f.27. 33  Sugar Loaf and Corcovado. n.d. Watercolour. RQMS Sketchbook II f.28. 34  Entrance to the Harbour of Rio Janeiro. July / 1833. Watercolour. RQMS l.d.6. 35  The Gavea, Rio Janeiro. July / - 33
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F167c    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1979. The Beagle record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
cannot prevent their cackling. In your letter of 5 Sept. you speak of the Mer. dist. between Rio de Janeiro and Monte Video, also to the Straits of Magellan. From Rio Southwards, Capt. Foster, Capt. King and your humble servant have always agreed to an 'affigraffy' - the later results only confirm the former. The difference was between England, or rather Madeira, and Rio de Janeiro. I am not sorry to see that Mr Henderson's calculations, as well as those of the lamented Mr Fallows, confirm the
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F167c    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1979. The Beagle record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
409      conrad martens's 'beagle' pictures 43  Botofogo Bay, Rio de Janeiro, n.d. Watercolour development of No. 42. MLib, SSV*/Spec. Coll/Martens/21. 44  Corcovado. July ij 1833. Drawing. CUL Sketchbook III (ADD. MS 7983) f.4. 45  Unidentified church in Rio de Janeiro. July ij 1833. Drawing. RQMS Sketchbook IV f.6. 46  Sugar loaf. At Rio Janeiro, n.d. Drawing. CUL Sketchbook III (ADD. MS 7983) f.5. 47  Islands off Rio Harbour. [Ilha Redonda and llba Rasa, with Pedra de Gavea behind.] July 18
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F167c    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1979. The Beagle record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
for Bahia once more, in order to investigate a discrepancy between her observations and the French chart. It turned out that although the relative positions of Bahia and the Abrolhos Islands were shown correctly on the chart, there was an error of four miles in longitude between the Islands and Rio de Janeiro. On this passage one of our seamen died of a fever, contracted when absent from the Beagle with several of her officers, on an excursion to the interior part of the extensive harbour of Rio
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F167c    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1979. The Beagle record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
57 1832 rio de Janeiro c. d. c+r* r-'i  f . The Corcovado, Rio de Janeiro hammock really suffered more than you could well imagine from such a cause. At Santa Cruz, whilst looking amongst the clouds for the Peak repeating to myself Humboldt's sublime descriptions, it was announced we must perform 12 days strict quarantine. We had made a short passage, so 'Up Jib' away for St Jag°- You will say all this sounds very bad, so it was: but from that to the present time it has been nearly one scene
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F167c    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1979. The Beagle record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
credit. I will finish this letter full of I, I, I, when at Rio. Rio de Janeiro, April 5th. I this morning received your letter of Deer 31 Catherine's of Feb 4th. We lay to during last night as the Captain was determined we should see the harbor of Rio be ourselves seen in broad daylight. The view is magnificent will improve on acquaintance, it is at present rather too novel to behold mountains as rugged as those of Wales clothed in an evergreen vegetation the tops ornamented by the light form
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F167c    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1979. The Beagle record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
52 1832 Rio de Janeiro c. d. 'aneiro Darwin returned to the cottage on Botofogo Bay that he shared with the artist Augustus Earle. c.d. to miss caroline Darwin Botofogo Bay. April 25 th My dear Caroline, I had sealed up the first letter all ready to be sent off during my absence: but no good opportunity occurred so it this will go together. I take the opportunity of Maccormick returning to England, being invalided, i.e. being disagreeable to the Captain Wickham. He is no loss. Derbyshire is
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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. observations on the comparative importance of the different orders, may be interesting to the English entomologist. The large and brilliantly-coloured Lepidoptera bespeak the zone they inhabit, far more plainly than any other race of animals. I allude only to the butterflies; for the moths, contrary to what might have been expected from the
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F167c    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1979. The Beagle record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
novels are on every­body^] table, which solely means the Jerseys, Londonderrys c. You shall hear from me again from Rio, how I wish I could do the same from you. Remember me most affectionately to every body, to my Father, Susan Catherine, Erasmus. The latter must not forget to write to me. I would write to each of you, only it is in reality useless. April 26th                                                  Good bye good night to all of you, Rio de Janeiro
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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. c.d. to miss catherine Darwin May-June. Botofogo Bay, Rio de Janeiro My dear Catherine, I have now altogether received three letters; yours Carolines together, which latter I have answered also sent my Journal by the Tyne, which was returning to England. Susans ( one from Mr Owen) I received May 3d. The Beagle has not yet returned; so I am living quietly here throughly enjoying so rare an opportunity of seeing the country collecting in every branch of Nat. History
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F167c    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1979. The Beagle record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
47        1832 RIO DE JANEIRO        C. D. as a merchant-ship would probably be obliged to do, from her being unable to beat out against an adverse wind, and, like that frigate, may be the first to prove the existence of an unsuspected danger. Those who never run any risk; who sail only when the wind is fair; who heave to when approaching land, though perhaps a day's sail distant; and who even delay the performance of urgent duties until they can be done easily and quite safely; are, doubtless
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F167c    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1979. The Beagle record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
horizon. But the subject of malaria has been so fully discussed by medical men, that even this short digression is unnecessary. Narrative 2 pp. 76-7 Darwin remained in Rio, and occupied himself in writing his first letter to his mentor in Cambridge, and another to his sister. c.d. to professor henslow Rio de Janeiro. May 18th 1832 My dear Henslow. I have delayed writing to you till this period as I was determined to have a fair trial of the voyage. I have so many things to write about, that my
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F167c    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1979. The Beagle record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
Bicknell, Mr, trader in Tahiti, 316, 323-9 Bindloes Isd (Marchena), Galapagos, 305 Bio-Bio R., Chile, 256 Biscatche, 87, 153, 233, 270-1 Blackwood, Capt., 2, 590 Blonde, H.M.S., 232, 286, 292 Botanic Garden, Rio de Janeiro, 54, 63 Botofogo Bay, Rio de Janeiro, xi, 46, 49, 52, 58, 62, 140 Bread-fruit tree, 513-14 Brisbane, Mr, resident in Falkland Isds, 190 British Museum, 5, 140, 215 Browne, Mr, manager of Walerawang ranch, 545, 545 Buenos Aires, Argentina, 70, 86-8, 94, 135, 154-5, 161 Busby, Mr
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F167c    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1979. The Beagle record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
8          INTRODUCTION Patagonians than those of FitzRoy, P. P. King and Martens. As it turned out, his share in the pictorial record of the voyage was restricted to a lively sketch of the ceremony of 'Crossing the Line', and some attractive pictures of Bahia, Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo. Efforts to trace the present whereabouts of the original watercolours having failed, only one or two of the engravings made of them can be reproduced here. Of Earle's personality there is little evidence
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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. of the forest the pleasure I experience is unspeakable. The number of undescribed animals I have taken is very great - some to Naturalists, I am sure, very interesting. I attempt class after class of animals, so that before very long I shall have notion of all - so that if I gain no other end I shall never want an object of employment amusement for the rest of my life. (Sullivan only gives me 5 minutes more.) I am now writing in my own snug corner - am as comfor
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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. here is very civil to me. He sent to me to say he had 800 men under his command, that I might have a boat for an hour or week as I choose. One of our officers lives at Falmouth, he gives the following direction for letters. There are two packets sail every month, one for Rio the other touching at Rio proceeds to M Video. This one sails the Friday
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F167c    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1979. The Beagle record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
. 46-7 There was no reason to suspect the existence of much current near Cape Frio, when the Thetis was lost, except on such general grounds as those just mentioned, because no pilot, as far as I know, was aware of such a fact. With strong southerly winds, ships of large size do not often leave Rio de Janeiro - coasting vessels never - therefore few persons could have experienced its effect when sailing from the port; and when approaching Rio in similar weather, vessels sail before a fair wind
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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. could cast so black a shade on the ground. Both of them bear to the ever green vegetation of these climates, the same kind of relation which laurels and hollies in England do to the lighter green of the deciduous trees. It may be observed, that the houses within the tropics are surrounded by the most beautiful forms of vegetation, because many of
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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 to montevideo                                                                                                                        c.d. evening the wind freshened a thick fog came on. These are very frequent in the neighbourhead of the Plata, we are only now about 50 miles from the mouth. The night was dirty squally: we were surrounded by Penguins Seals which made such odd noises that in the middle watch Mr Chaffers went below to report to Mr Wickham that he heard cattle
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F167c    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1979. The Beagle record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
67 1832 rio de Janeiro to montevideo c.d. f/AS.Bea / fyiSt'J 1 t u/MfW J siyfufb J. +. 'fcf't l'J£ilj /ifAM J . siytuJA Cam/sas.i. 6'. SJty * *n* r /. sljfts f/ /n/ i/'tn'H . T (imKrafm. sJtfStf/'/. ! . j*ih 'ut Aa/eA. W. /in rt trut si //. 6,1.nptaayt. /t. Va ' // 'AjA aaf/an/ .fo/rsxutft. ('/ /*? IXf/i // Jart rruut So* '6 AtMc imu/e ytr/ fiaoenj, s/are jfidrt. It /}?. M Mfyfait. Jeffer . SJ. j^urM/v 4/e // S/«s JtvA j/y/sjif. Jfi. //am raff nrffysys. JfMS.Bmji /.     A'ifVyi JrWJiHfitr J V
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1832 rio de Janeiro                                                                                                                       c.d./r.f. accommodating the changes to the colour of the ground which it passed over - yellowish green, dark brown red were the prevailing colours: this fact appears to be new, as far as I can find out. Geology the invertebrate animals will be my chief object of pursuit through the whole voyage. We then sailed for Bahia, touched at the rock of St Paul. This
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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
1832 rio de Janeiro to montevideo                                                                                                                       c.d. going to draw 25/^, which will make altogether since leaving England, 8o£ - out of this at least Twenty has not been wasted, in as much as it has been spent about my collection. For the next two months even with my ingenuity, I do not think I shall be able to spend a penny. I have just received intelligence we sail tomorrow for Buenos
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F167c    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1979. The Beagle record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
65                                                                                                                        1832 rio de Janeiro                                                                                          c. d. not before seen; some species of most elegant tree ferns; a grass like the Papyrus; the Bamboo, the circumference of the stems were 12 inches. I was rather disappointed in them, can hardly believe they were good specimens. On arriving at the estate, there was a
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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 to montevideo c.d. the same tint as a half washed chimney sweeper. With my pistols in my belt geological hammer in hand, shall I not look like a grand barbarian? Before leaving Rio we heard the news of Ld Greys minority, are all most anxious to see how it will end. It is not very likely that we shall receive letters before our return from the South: this will be a sad disappointment to me, as I then expect [an] answer to my Bahia letter: for this gives to a correspondence
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F167c    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1979. The Beagle record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
93        1832 montevideo c.d. r.f. to captain beaufort, official No. 6 His Majesty's Surveying Sloop 'Beagle', Monte Video, 16th August 1832 Sir, On the 5 th of July the Beagle sailed from Rio de Janeiro, and on the 26th she anchored off Monte Video. Continual strong southerly winds prevented her making a shorter passage - without carrying sail in a manner that would cause the motion of the Vessel to affect the Chronometers materially. Being informed that some valuable manuscript Charts
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F167c    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1979. The Beagle record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
FitzRoy described as follows: 'Knowing well that no one actively engaged in the surveying duties on which we were going to be employed, would have time - even if he had ability - to make much use of the pencil, I engaged an artist, Mr Augustus Earle, to go out in a private capacity; though not without the sanction of the Admiralty, who authorized him also [i.e. in addition to Darwin] to be victualled.' Already when the Beagle reached Rio de Janeiro in May 1832, Earle's health was troubling him again
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F167c    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1979. The Beagle record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
King sailed into the harbour at Rio de Janeiro with H.M.S. Adventure and Beagle to report that the captain of the Beagle, exhausted and depressed by the trials of surveying the stormy and desolate coast of Tierra del Fuego, had shot himself. Overruling Captain King's request that the first lieutenant of the Beagle should take over the command, the Admiral gave it instead to FitzRoy. At the age of 23, FitzRoy thus became captain of a ten-gun brig engaged on 'an accurate survey' of the southern
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F167c    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1979. The Beagle record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
pass them over; but, in my own exculpation, I must beg to be permitted to remind him that the Beagle was employed by Government, to obtain practical information likely to be useful to shipping; and that I might neglect my duty by omitting to mention such matters, when speaking of places which are seldom visited, and hitherto but slightly known. Narrative 2 pp. 64-5 After two days of surveying in the Abrolhos, the beagle resumed her course southwards. Fifty miles east of Rio de Janeiro, she
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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. would not be a Tory, if it was merely on account of their cold hearts about that scandal to Christian Nations, Slavery. I am very good friends with all the officers; as for the Doctor he has gone back to England - as he chose to make himself disagreeable to the Captain to Wickham. He was a philosopher of rather an antient date; at St Jago by his
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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. obscured. The flash was almost co-instantaneous in the two rings, but it was first just perceptible in the anterior one. The shining matter was fluid and very adhesive: little spots, where the skin had been torn, continued bright with a slight scintillation, whilst the uninjured parts were obscured. When the insect was decapitated the rings
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F167c    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1979. The Beagle record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
as egregious an Ass in not finding him out at an earlier period. Mr Bynoe, now acting in his stead, is the very reverse, and esteemed by all. Wherever we go, we find uproar, confusion and rainy weather. Revolution is actually the fashion in South America. Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro and Monte Video have each their civil wars, and upsetting of constitutions. We have had enough to do to keep quiet and out of harm's way. Our landing here the other day was a most unpleasant job - it was
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F167c    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1979. The Beagle record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
47                                                                                                                        1832 rio de Janeiro                                                                                          c. d. studded with men of war, the flags of which bespeak every nation. We came in first rate style alongside the Admiral's ship, we to their astonishment took in every inch of canvass then immediately set it again: A sounding ship doing such a perfect manoeuvre with
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F167c    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1979. The Beagle record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
hints. In addition, the use they will be of as Track Charts upon which I may lay down all I can, and still preserve a clean copy besides, makes them very desirable in my eyes. I have not yet received the Instruments from Worthington Allan, of which you kindly gave me notice; but I have written to the Consul at Rio de Janeiro to ask if he has received, or heard of, them. I fear the Station Pointer I asked for a long time ago, 'letter 1has been overlooked; I do not think it would be denied. I am vexed
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F167c    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1979. The Beagle record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
time, by all on board. I remember hearing a curious instance of this in the case of the purser of the Adventure, the ship which sailed with the Beagle during the first voyage. The Purser was in a store in Rio de Janeiro, purchasing rum for the ship's company, and a little gentleman in plain clothes walked in. The Purser said to him, 'Now Sir, be so kind as to taste this rum, and give me your opinion of it.' The gentleman did as he was asked, and soon left the store. The store-keeper then asked the
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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. of doing during a few days in which I resided at a Fazenda, that is one of the most interior cleared estates. Their habits of life were quite patriarchal. Forest flowers birds I saw in great perfection the pleasure of beholding them is infinite. I advise you to get a French engraving, Le Foret du Bresil: it is most true clever. This letter will be
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A879    Periodical contribution:     Porter, Duncan M. 1980. Charles Darwin's plant collections from the voyage of the Beagle. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 9: 515-525.   Text   PDF
plants. In a letter to Henslow from Rio de Janeiro early in the voyage (18 May 1832), he writes: 'Geology the invertebrate animals will be my chief object of pursuit through the whole voyage.'7 Indeed, in his autobiography8 Darwin stresses [page] 51
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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
here. 420. 421. Colymbetes. small puddles. Loc go. Do. [Rio de Janeiro] COLEOPTERA, Dytiscidae: Colymbetes calidus Babington (1842: 9), two in the BM, Rio [now in Copelatus]. C. elegans Babington (1842: 11), one in the BM (1863 44), Rio [now = Copelatus posticatus F.]. 422. 423. Diptera. Rio Mac e. Do. [Rio de Janeiro] Tabanidae: Chrysops varians Wiedemann. One in Dublin with printed label 422 (det. J. E. Chainey). 424. 425. 426. Blattae under bark of rotten tree at Loc go. Do. [Rio de Janeiro
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F1827    Periodical contribution:     Porter, D.M. 1987. Darwin's notes on Beagle plants. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series. vol. 14(2): 145-233.   Text   Image   PDF
below: 'Rio C. Darwin 629.' (two specimens); 'Rio de Janeiro 629. C. Darwin'; 'Rio C. Darwin 595.' [annotated: 'Amphiroa exilis Harv. 1847: 95 Type Det. H. W. Johansen Sept. 1967']; '595 Darwin Rio Janeiro' 'Rio Janeiro Darwin 595.' The packets read: 'Rio C. Darwin 595.' [annotated: 'A. exilis' in pencil]; '(43) 629. Rio Janeiro Near A. Ephedra' [annotated: 'A. exilis in pencil]; 'Rio C. Darwin 629' [annotated: 'Amp. exilis' in pencil]. The sheet at BM bears two specimens and a packet: 'Rio C
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F1827    Periodical contribution:     Porter, D.M. 1987. Darwin's notes on Beagle plants. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series. vol. 14(2): 145-233.   Text   Image   PDF
Darwin repeated this last comment in a letter to Henslow of 15 August 1832 from Montevideo, Uruguay. 463. Lichens. Mosses c on trees chiefly oranges, old trees. May. Rio de Janeiro. [Above this is a line across the page with 'Rio de Janeiro' under it on the upper right added by Darwin.] No lichens or mosses with this number were found, but two fungi bearing this number were cited by Berkeley (1842): 'Schizophyllum commune, Fr., Darw. No. 463. On orange-trees. Rio Janeiro. May.' (p. 444
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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
. Do. [Rio de Janeiro] No specimen found. 442. Females of this insect and Larva Do. [Rio de Janeiro] No specimens found. 443. Do. luminous vide P 42 Do. [Rio de Janeiro] No specimens found. The page reference is to the Zoological Diary entry, see 440. 444. Lopha (?) taken in great numbers on sand walk. [continued] 1832 Insects 4. [continued] at night [Rio de Janeiro] COLEOPTERA, Carabidae, Bembidiini, subtribe Tachyina: one unidentified in the BM (1887 42), Rio, with white printed label 444. 445
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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
Fig. 13 Part of the plate from Babington's paper 'Dytiscidae Darwinianae' depicting new water-beetles from Rio de Janeiro: 3, Hydroporomorpha parallela; 4, Anodochilus maculatus; 5, Desmopachria nitida (see Insect Notes 446) (by courtesy of the Royal Entomological Society of London, from their Transactions, 1842). 447. Hydrobius inhabiting, strongly brackish lagoon, (road to Botanical Garden) R. de Janeiro Lost May. COLEOPTERA, Hydrophilidae. 448. Hydrophilus, together with the last Do. Do
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