A761.16    Beagle Library:     Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 16: Tabular view of classification; index.   Text

Ornithologie Proven ale, 4to. with beautiful lithographic plates. Crustac s de la Mediterran e et de son littoral, 4to. with plates, the three first numbers. Marseilles, 1827 1828. ROXBURGH, an English physician at Bengal. I quote his paper on the Dolphin of the Ganges. RUDOLPHI (C. A.), a German naturalist and anatomist, Professor at Gripewald and now at Berlin. Chiefly quoted for his classical work on the Intestinal Worms. Entozoa seu Vermium Intestinalium Historia Naturalis, 2 vols. 8vo

A919.3    Beagle Library:     Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 3.   Text

body like the preceding genera, a dorsal fin supported by unbranched jointed rays occupying a great part of the back, an anal of a similar appearance, and a forked caudal separated from the other two by small spaces. The snout is pointed, the upper jaw extensile, but shorter when the mouth is shut than the lower one. The stomach is fleshy and pointed, and they have neither air-bladder nor pyloric c ca. They feed on worms, and bury themselves in the sand, from whence the fishermen dig them when

A549.1    Beagle Library:     Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 1   Text   Image

its cheering influence I could appropriate the language of the poet, and exclaim O there great Arbiter of life and death! Nature's immortal, immaterial sun! Whose all-prolific beam late called me forth From darkness, teeming darkness, where I lay The worm's inferior and, in rank, beneath The dust I tread on high to bear my brow, To drink the spirit of the golden day, And triumph in existence; and couldst know No motive but my bliss; and hast ordained A rise in blessing! With the Patriarch's joy

A919.3    Beagle Library:     Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 3.   Text

on the cranium, but no spines. It is abundant in all the bays and inlets of Greenland, but prefers a stony coast clothed with sea-weed. It approaches the shore in spring and departs in winter. It is very voracious, preying on every thing that comes in its way, and pursuing incessantly the smaller fish, not sparing the young of its own species, and devouring crustacea and worms. It is very active and bold, but does not come to the surface unless it be led thither in pursuit of other fish. It

A919.1    Beagle Library:     Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 1.   Text

had made during the preceding year. It inhabits only sandy banks, and its food probably consists principally of roots. It cannot, like the English mole, feed on earth worms, for none exist in those latitudes*. As the teeth of the specimen could not be examined, the genus to which it belongs is uncertain; but from its strong general resemblance to G. Douglasii and G. umbrinus, it is placed with them at present. Some uncertainty also exists as to the form of its cheek-pouches, which have been

A919.2    Beagle Library:     Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 2.   Text   PDF

blackish earth, and some small white worms. DESCRIPTION Of a specimen, killed at Great Bear Lake, May 24, 1826. COLOUR. Top of the head, base of the neck, scapulars, interscapulars, tertiaries, and lower rows of wing coverts, dark liver-brown, bordered with chestnut and pale yellowish-brown. Neck soiled brown, with central dark spots. Posterior part of the back, middle tail coverts, and central pair of tail feathers, blackish-brown, the latter edged with wood-brown. Sides of the rump tipped with

A919.3    Beagle Library:     Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 3.   Text

creeping over the land. All the Batrachoide conceal themselves in the mud or sand, and lie in wait to take their prey by surprise. Those species which have free rays on the head, with summits resembling worms, are said to move them backwards and forwards for the purpose of enticing small fish within their reach, and hence the name of fishing-frogs has been popularly applied to them. The Batrachoide exist in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans. Several inhabit the European seas. Lophius pisca

A919.3    Beagle Library:     Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 3.   Text

, canaliculato, utrinque subfoveato: capite inter aculos profunde foveata. Impressed T. Gymnodus, piceous, somewhat glossy; elytra pale, a little bronzed, wrinkled, wrinkles contorted like worms and confluent; prothorax confluently punctured, channelled, somewhat impressed on each side; head with a large deep impression between the eyes. Length of the body 11 lines. Taken in Nova Scotia by Capt. Hall. DESCRIPTION. Near the preceding species, but perfectly distinct. Body nearly naked, somewhat glossy, of a

A919.1    Beagle Library:     Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 1.   Text

, and is said to pass much of its time in sleeping. When disturbed, it makes a whining or mewing noise. It pairs in the latter end of September, and brings forth two young ones in April or May. Its flesh, which tastes like flabby pork, is relished by the Indians, but is soon nauseated by Europeans. The bones are often deeply tinged with a greenish yellow colour. Like other animals, which feed on coarse vegetable substances, it is much infested by intestinal worms. The quills or spines are dyed

A919.2    Beagle Library:     Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 2.   Text   PDF

internal structure), or our own researches (directed only to external form and habits), are entirely artificial. Sw. ANATIN . SWAINS. GEN. Anas, Dendronessa, Mareca. The Anatin feed on soft substances, such as fresh-water insects and tender aquatic plants, which they procure near the surface, or, aided by the length of their necks, at the bottom, in shallow muddy places; and worms and slugs, which they search for among the grass. By day they resort to small lakes and rivers, and in the night

A919.3    Beagle Library:     Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 3.   Text

fish at the instant of their exclusion from the roe. The G. aculeatus (L.), or the Three-spined Stickleback, the largest species, abounds in every corner of Europe*, and even extends to Greenland, if the Kakilisak of Fabricius, above referred to, be actually this species, and not one of the very similar American ones. This author states, that it inhabits every pool and rivulet of Greenland, and even those into which the tide enters, feeding on worms and aquatic insects. In Europe two species were

A919.3    Beagle Library:     Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 3.   Text

. The kidneys, as long as the cavity of the abdomen, are connected superiorly by a transverse lobe; and the urinary bladder is a long tube whose calibre scarcely exceeds the joint diameters of the ureters. The lining of the abdomen is white. Many small parasitic worms were found attached by a kind of proboscis to the interior of the intestinal canal. DIMENSIONS. Inches. Lines. Length from end of snout to tips of caudal 21 9 Length from end of scales on ditto 18 9 Length from beginning of anal 15 6

A919.3    Beagle Library:     Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 3.   Text

and fat, the spawn occupies but little space, the salmon-louse (Caligus piscinus) adheres to the gills, and tape-worms fill the intestines. As the reproductive organs advance to maturity, the salmon hastens up the river towards the gravelly deposits in the upland streams, which are its proper spawning places, surmounting the natural and artificial barriers that oppose themselves to its progress with surprising agility. Pennant mentions the perpendicular falls of Kennerth and Pont Aberglasslyn

A548    Book:     Cuvier, Georges. 1830. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization . . . with additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed. By Edward Griffith and others. Supplementary volume on the fossils. London: Whittacker.   Text   Image

contain holes made by worms, and even the worms themselves and their eggs, changed into agate. From this he concludes that, if the fluid, charged with siliceous matter, had deposited this matter, it would also have filled the vacant spaces which we have just mentioned. To this again, may be plausibly opposed, that the siliceous matter may have been deposited by an affinity near the molecules of wood, with out being deposited elsewhere; and thus the vacancies would have been preserved. According to M

A6560.1    Beagle Library:     Kotzebue, Otto von. 1830. A new voyage round the world, in the years 1823-1826. 2 vols. London: Henry Colburn.   Text   PDF

 about naked, and, when not employed by the Russians as day-labourers, follow no occupation but the chase. They are not difficult in the choice of their food, but consume the most disgusting things, not excepting all kinds of worms and insects, with good appetite, only avoiding poisonous snakes. For the winter they lay up a provision of acorns and wild rye: the latter grows here very abundantly. When it is ripe, they burn the straw away from it, and thus roast the corn, which is then raked

A505.2    Beagle Library:     Lyell, Charles. 1830. Principles of geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation. 3 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 2.   Text

Humboldt, of many American water-fowl, from one part of the tropics to another in a zone where there is the same temperature throughout the year. Immense flights of ducks leave the valley of the Orinoco, when the increasing depth of its waters and the flooding of its shores prevent them from catching fish, insects, and aquatic worms. They then betake themselves to the Rio Negro and Amazon, having passed from the eighth and third degrees of north latitude, to the first and fourth of south

A548    Book:     Cuvier, Georges. 1830. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization . . . with additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed. By Edward Griffith and others. Supplementary volume on the fossils. London: Whittacker.   Text   Image

FOSSIL INVERTEBRATED ANIMALS. 475 these worms were fully authenticated by zoologists; for, with the assistance of fancy, or preconceived theory, foreign bodies might very easily be taken for them, though, certainly, there would be nothing very extraordinary in the fact of their existence. The entire system of M. Patrin is briefly this:—He thinks that petrifaction is a genuine transmutation of the parts themselves—of the organized body—into siliceous matter: so that a body was by so much the

A548    Book:     Cuvier, Georges. 1830. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization . . . with additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed. By Edward Griffith and others. Supplementary volume on the fossils. London: Whittacker.   Text   Image

FOSSIL INVERTEBRATBD ANIMALS. 495 bable that these petrifactions have a very different origin; at least, this mast be the case with some, which are fonr or five times the length of the earth-worms of our present day. In the possession of M. de France is a stem from Solen-hoffen, which contains small asteriae, and on which a kind of tube is visible, which might be taken for a portion of a fossil worm, but to which bivalve shells appear to be attached in many places, with their two valves

A805    Beagle Library:     Mackintosh, James. 1830. The history of England. London: Lardner (Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia). vol. 1.   Text

was coveted by the other; where it was waged on a greater scale, and attended, if not by more interesting 'incidents, yet by more memorable effects. After the peace of Worms, the empire and the papacy, worn out by a long and fierce struggle, seemed desirous only of repose. It is one of the most melancholy features of barbaric history, that it generally exhibits those high faculties and that commanding energy which are capable of blessing mankind, as almost invariably employed in oppressing and

A901    Beagle Library:     Duncan, John Shute. 1831. Analogies of organized beings. Oxford: S.Collingwood.   Text

respiratory apparatus; bladders in the dew worm and leech; gills in several marine worms, spirillum, serpula, living in calcareous tubes; and in lumbricus marinus. In the aphrodite aculeata, the matted hair is connected with respiratory organs. Amongst insects, numerous larvae respire water by fibrous gills: some, in the perfect state, have respiratory tubes, as the nepa, in the form of bristles, extending backwards: most breathe air through stigmata, small apertures on the sides of their bodies. The

F1840    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 2000. Charles Darwin's zoology notes & specimen lists from H.M.S. Beagle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

. here scarcely seem to be found. Near the Is of Chiloe Lat 42°, Kelp grows with no great vigor but it is very curious to see that here neither the numerous shells Clytias Isopod Crust are quite absent; some few encrusting Flustr , but they are much rarer; some different compound Ascidi . [notes end] 1 Spirorbidae are fan worms, sedentary tube-dwelling polychaetes. 2 Tunicates. 3 Nereididae are freely crawling polychaete worms. 4 Pleurobranchus is an opisthobranch gastropod of order Notaspidea. 5

A901    Beagle Library:     Duncan, John Shute. 1831. Analogies of organized beings. Oxford: S.Collingwood.   Text

analogous to the skeletons of the vertebrata. In a review of the organs of motion, Carus observes, In the lower species of animals, worms and slugs, (mollusca,) we find the body frequently without any solid parts serving as points of support during motion: in others, on the contrary, as testacea, insects, and Crustacea, in addition to muscles, the i Pp. 137, 138. k Pag. 121. [page] 8

A901    Beagle Library:     Duncan, John Shute. 1831. Analogies of organized beings. Oxford: S.Collingwood.   Text

and are probably torpid. Many fish must be in the same condition; for worms and insects, their sole food, are not to be obtained. Some fresh-water fish probably bury themselves in mud: some migrate to the depths of the sea at the approach of winter. That snakes and fishes , after being frozen have still retained so much of life, as, when thawed, to resume their vital functions, is a fact, says Mr. Hunter, so well attested, that we are bound to believe it. Yet, says the writerp in the Encyclop

F1840    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 2000. Charles Darwin's zoology notes & specimen lists from H.M.S. Beagle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

very small streamlet with the sea. [note ends] 553....555 (a) (b) The rat (1159) is also an aboriginal: it is evidently become partly domesticated attached to the houses: There certainly are field mice, (I could not procure one), besides English ones now living far from the houses: The fresh water fish (which are found in inland lakes) the number of common earth worms probably belong to the same class. [note (a)] Earth worms, from salt water being so deadly a poison (hence probably to the eggs

A901    Beagle Library:     Duncan, John Shute. 1831. Analogies of organized beings. Oxford: S.Collingwood.   Text

. Locusts, Mosquitoes, Chigers, Fleas. Social. Bees, c. UnsociaL Lepidoptera. Acari. MOLLUSCA. Hybernant. Worms, Snails, c. Non-hybernant. Taenia, Ascaris, c. Benefit. Oysters, c. Injury. T nia, c. Medusa urens, c. Social. Some Snails more, some less, Aviculari . Unsocial. The>rarer Bivalves. Gordius. Onisci. PLANT . Hybernant. Most. Non-hybernant. Evergreens. Benefit. Oak and Cabbages. Pine and Potatoe. Injury. Nettles and Night Shade. Social. Grasses. Unsocial. Rafflesia, Missletoe. Missletoe