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A901    Beagle Library:     Duncan, John Shute. 1831. Analogies of organized beings. Oxford: S.Collingwood.   Text
quantity of their blood, e. g. in the saurians, is very small in comparison with that of mammifera and of birdsu. In zoophytes, intestinal worms, c. the circulatory system is not distinguishable from ramifications of the intestinal canal. In the leech and earthworm the vascular system is more developed. In Crustacea, generally, the heart is an elongated aorta stretched along the back, as in vermes. Yet in crabs are traces of a rounded heart. Amongst insects there appear to be differences of u
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A901    Beagle Library:     Duncan, John Shute. 1831. Analogies of organized beings. Oxford: S.Collingwood.   Text
surgeon. Dr. Shaw says, the soft holothuri , which float occasionally on calm seas, have the power of causing great inflammation of the skin of those by whom they are incautiously handled. The medus , which abound in all seas, possess generally a stinging quality, which has obtained for them the name of sea-nettles. Even mollusca are not exempt from parasitic mollusca. The cuttle-fish has its internal worms, the fasciol loliginis; the earthworm, its ascaris lumbrici. From the Crustacea we may
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A909    Beagle Library:     Herschel, John Frederick William. 1831. A preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green and John Taylor.   Text
subterfuge or stratagem; his dwelling would be in dens of the earth, in clefts of rocks, or in the hollows of trees; his food worms, and the lower reptiles, or such few and crude productions of the soil as his organs could be brought to assimilate, varied with occasional relics, mangled by more powerful beasts of prey, or contemned by their more pampered choice. Remarkable only for the absence of those powers and qualities which obtain for other animals a degree of security and respect, he would
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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
These were chiefly taken by sweeping on the borders of the forest. Amongst the Carabidous The Trenactipennis, like many of their congeners in England are found amongst upon the foliage. [note ends] 1 See Insect Notes p. 58. 2 Bembidiini tribe of small ground beetles. 3 Buprestidae, jewel beetles. 4 Elateridae, click beetles. 5 Old term for Lampyridae, fireflies and glow worms. 6? Ptinidae, spider beetles. 7 Scaphidiidae, shining fungus beetles. 8 Nitidulidae, sap beetles. 9 Pill beetles. 10
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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
extremity. Can it not be protruded through external orifice? In the other space I could not trace any organ. The animal always crawls on one surface that with the two orifices, always with in one direction with respect to the extremities. Both these facts hold good even with small pieces of the living animal. cut extremities in a few minutes become rounded. Live under stones upon the hills, amongst the pasture. they have burrows, like sinuous chambers beneath the stones, like earth worms but not so
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A827    Beagle Library:     Seoane, Mateo. 1831. Neuman and Baretti's dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages. 5th ed. 2 vols. London: n.p. Volume 1: Spanish and English.   Text
, to see far off. vr. To have an interview or meeting to transact some business. AVIT R, va. (Na t.) To bit the cable. AVIT NES, sm. pl. (Na t.) V. Abitones. AVITUALL R, va. (Mil.) To victual, to supply with victuals or provisions. AVIVADAM NTE, ad. In a lively manner, briskly. AVIVAD R, RA, s. 1. One that enlivens or inspirits. 2. A plane, with which timber work is fluted. 3. (Mur.) Paper full of pin-holes, which is laid over the eggs of silk-worms, that the young worms or larv may creep through
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A901    Beagle Library:     Duncan, John Shute. 1831. Analogies of organized beings. Oxford: S.Collingwood.   Text
. Variable with respect to nerves. Some more, some fewer ganglia. Sections of Abdomen, c. Plus. Hymenoptera, Neuroptera, c. Minus. Pediculus, Acarus. By day. Chaffers, Moths. By night. Butterflies, Bees. More complex. Snail, Leach. Less. T nia. Ganglia. In all diminish, in some disappear. Nerves radiate from a collar. Nerves appear as separate globules. Vertebral-shaped cartilages of Cephalopoda. Jelly like fibres. By day. Snails, Worms. By night. Nautili, and others which expand in sunshine. More
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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
feelers, dilated; edges simple, larger, covering mouth; may be considered as a folding membrane, with division near mouth: sides dirty flesh colour: beneath darker: membrane from operculum spotted with purple. Branchi protruding, flesh colour: emitted purple liquor when taken: the folds of mantle seem to be used to aid respiration, or to cause water to flow over Branchi . |9| 1 Identified by S.F. Harmer in 1901 as Gephyrea, a now obsolete term covering nonsegmented coelomate worms in the phyla
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A827    Beagle Library:     Seoane, Mateo. 1831. Neuman and Baretti's dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages. 5th ed. 2 vols. London: n.p. Volume 1: Spanish and English.   Text
spawning. 4. Rustling of silk worms when they are feeding on mulberry leaves. FREZAD R, sm. (Ant.) Eater, dissipator. FREZ R, vn. 1. To eject excrements; applied to animals. 2. To nibble the leaves of mulberry trees; applied to silk-worms. 3. To rub in order to spawn; applied to fishes. 4. To turn up the ground, as hogs. 5. To eject the larv of young bees from hives. 6. To approach. FRI FR A, a. (Gal.) Applied to dead fowls paid as tribute. A' frias, Heavily, coldly. FRIABILID D, sf. Friability
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A827    Beagle Library:     Seoane, Mateo. 1831. Neuman and Baretti's dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages. 5th ed. 2 vols. London: n.p. Volume 1: Spanish and English.   Text
. Place or spot where maggots or vermin are bred. 2. (Met.) Remorse, a sting which pricks one's conscience. GUSANI NTO, TA, a. Troubled with maggots or vermin; full of worms; worm-eaten. GUSAN LLO, sm. 1. A small worm or maggot. 2. A kind of embroidery. 3. Bit of a gimlet or augur. GUS NO, sm. 1. Maggot, worm. 2. An humble meek person. 3. Distemper among sheep. Gusano de seda, Silk-worm. Gusano marino, Sea-worm. Gusano de santanton, Gray grub. GUSARAPI NTO, TA, a. Wormy, full of worms; corrupted
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A827    Beagle Library:     Seoane, Mateo. 1831. Neuman and Baretti's dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages. 5th ed. 2 vols. London: n.p. Volume 1: Spanish and English.   Text
ROS LLO, LLA, a. Clear red. ROSM RO, sm. Morse, waltron, sea-horse. Trichechus rosmarus L. R SO, SA, a. Red, rosy. V. Roxo. A' roso y velloso, Without distinction; totally. ROSOL A, sf. A sort of stuff made of wool and silk. ROS LI, sm. Rosolio, sundew; a pleasant sweet spirituous liquor, composed of brandy, sugar, cinnamon, anise, c. ROS NES, sm. Worms, troubled with worms in the body. ROSQU TE, sm. Middle-sized screw. ROSQU LLA, sf. 1. A small screw. 2. Paste made in a spiral shape. 3. Vine
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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
: the veil was inserted about ½ an inch beneath the cone at top. top perforated: liquid on it yellowish brown: bag of jelly resembling impudicus. the specimen is only in fragment s 4. [note opposite] (b) No. 245. A Leiodes5 (550 not spirits) flew on it as I was carrying it. |44| 1 The glow worms and fireflies observed by CD were later identified by George Waterhouse as mostly Lampyris occidentalis, but none of the specimens have survived. See Insect Notes pp. 51 and 57. 2 The first studies of the
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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
of ctenophores. 5 The example given by CD does indeed appear to be true parasitism, and it is now recognised that there are worms of several classes that are endoparasites of molluscs and other marine invertebrates. 6 See p. 63. [CD P. 96 continues] Crustace Schizopod1366 Crust: Schizopod (a) Sept: 6th. Lat 39: Long 61 W: new genus allied to Mysis: 8 pair of locomotive organs; the exterior branch of all these simply natatory; of the internals the 1st is short, rudimentary, 2 longer, with
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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
Collections p. 224). 3 See Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint Pierre. Voyage `l'Isle de France . . . par un officier du Roi. Amsterdam, 1773. Copy assumed to have been in Beagle Library. [For the next four pages CD reverts to some observations on terrestrial planarian worms that he had made two months earlier in Hobart. These notes are crossed through vertically like previous ones on this topic, indicating their eventual publication. CD P. 363 commences] [page] 312 HOBART TOWN FEBRUARY 183
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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
216 P Fungus. colour pale dirty yellow [Agaricus salebrosus, see Plant Notes, p. 219] 217 R Coluber (called the Corall snake} 218 R Steltion [?] [Ecphymotis torquatus (193) TB] 219 R Gecko (Hemidactyles) [Hemidactylus (34) H. Mabonia TB] 220 Acari from young or larva of an Orthopterous insect 221 X Acari buried in skin of a Rana [note opposite] These appear to be able at least as well to move in water, as on a solid. 222 C Salt water Crab; Julus; Lepisma; Worms. Wood lice. Acari * 223 S
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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
Fish, Anal Ventral fins black, pectoral orange: 3 orange stripes on the side [note opposite] All these fish caught by hook in the Kelp 521 Worms on scales of fish (517) 522 X Sipunculus Holuthuria H [note opposite] Holuthuria salmon-colour, tentacula round the [page] 337 Specimens in Spirits of Win
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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
: small white Entom. creeping numerous. Small white Ento: with long antenn very numerous at night Lat 51°53 Long. 68°11 * 802 C X Crust. Isopod. I believe certainly was on the body of a large dog fish. color above mottled greenish grey tile red: edge dark brown [note opposite] Same Locality as last. * 803 R Gecko. same as (769). P. Desire [Gymnodactylus n.s. (769) TB] 804 X Salt from Salina near Thirsty Hill. Port St Julian [note opposite] A great mass as white as snow adh red to a root. 805 X Worms
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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
worms from Stomach of Diomedra escula. Sts of Magellan 818 F Fish above coppery yellow. with 5 or 6 transverse brown bands: hook line, P. Famine 819 F Dog-fish yellowish brown clouded with cochineal red . P. Famine 820 C Crab. Macr: do * 821 P Esculent parasitical balls on the Beeches: do 822 C Crustace Cape Negro * 823 P X Orchis. Petals all white, 2 central anterior ones spotted with purple [note opposite] The Orchis inhabits the darkest forests: Lichen on rocks common pale green (Lichen colour
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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
1835 Jany Chiloe 1157 X Barking bird: Interesting to dissect throat of this genus [note opposite] Following 6 Specimens collected at East Coast of Chiloe by Mr Sulivans party. [see Beagle Diary p. 280) 1158 Bat 1159 X Worms from the stomach of a Porpoise. [note opposite] In the stomach there were the beaks of Cuttle Fish. 1160 X Vaginulus I believe same as (1096) [note opposite] Estero de Guildad, N of Caylen 1161 F Fish under stones on sea beach Chauques Isd1162 X Ascidia called Peure
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A827    Beagle Library:     Seoane, Mateo. 1831. Neuman and Baretti's dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages. 5th ed. 2 vols. London: n.p. Volume 1: Spanish and English.   Text
, RA, s. Spinner, spinster. HILAND RA, sf. Spinster, woman who spins. HILANDER A, sf. Place where hemp is spun. HILAND RO, sm. Spinner; spinning room, a rope-walk. HIL NZA, sf. Thread, line, mode of spinning. HIL R, va. 1. To spin, to draw silk, cotton, wool, c. into thread. 2. To argue, to discuss. Hilar delgado, To handle a subject in too subtle and nice a manner. 3. To form the pod; applied to silk worms. HILAR CHA, sf. Filament. V. Hilacha. HIL ZA, sf. 1. Any thing spun or drawn out into thread
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A827    Beagle Library:     Seoane, Mateo. 1831. Neuman and Baretti's dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages. 5th ed. 2 vols. London: n.p. Volume 1: Spanish and English.   Text
, Aspen-tree, trembling poplar-tree. Populus tremula L. A'lamo negro, Black poplartree. Populus nigra L. ALAMP RSE, vr. To long, to show an anxious desire, especially in regard to eating and drinking. ALAM D, sm. A bolt for fastening a door. ALANCEAD R, sm. One who throws, casts, or darts. ALANCE R, va. To dart, to wound with a dart or spear. ALAND L, AL NIA, V. Alhandal, Alhania. ALANDRE RSE, vr. To become dry, stiff, and blanched; used of silk worms. AL NO, NA, s. Mastiff of a large kind. AL NO, a
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A827    Beagle Library:     Seoane, Mateo. 1831. Neuman and Baretti's dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages. 5th ed. 2 vols. London: n.p. Volume 1: Spanish and English.   Text
; gold colour. AMAR LLO, sm. Jaundice; a disease incident to silk worms when young, chiefly occasioned by southerly winds. AMARIPOS DO, DA, a. Butterfly-like. AM RO, sm. (Bot.) Bitterwort. Teucrium marum L. AM RRA, sf. 1. A cable. 2. (Manej.) Martingale. Am rra, (Na t.) A word of command, corresponding to the English belay, lash, or fasten. Amarras fixas, Moorings. Amarras de popa, Stern-fasts. Amarras de proa, Head-fasts. Amarras de traves, Breast-fasts. Tener buenas amarras, (Met.) To have
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A827    Beagle Library:     Seoane, Mateo. 1831. Neuman and Baretti's dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages. 5th ed. 2 vols. London: n.p. Volume 1: Spanish and English.   Text
disembogue, to flow out at the mouth of a river. 2. (Met.) To break out into a violent passion. Desembocar de la calle, To go from one street to another. DESEMBOLS R, va. 1. To empty a purse, to take out what was in it. 2. To disburse, to expend. DESEMB LSO, sm. Disbursement. DESEMBORRACH R, va. To grow sober. DESEMBOSC RSE, vr. To get out of the woods, to get clear of an ambuscade. DESEMBOXAD RA, sf. (Mure.) Woman who takes the pods of silk-worms from the southern wood. DESEMBOX R, va. To remove the
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A827    Beagle Library:     Seoane, Mateo. 1831. Neuman and Baretti's dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages. 5th ed. 2 vols. London: n.p. Volume 1: Spanish and English.   Text
(EN), ad. V. A' la deshilada. DESLAZAMI NTO, sm. Disjunction, dissolution. DESLAZ R, va. To unlace, to untie a knot. DESLE L, a. Disloyal; perfidious. DESLEALM NTE, ad. Perfidiously, disloyally. DESLEALT D, sf. Disloyalty, want of fidelity. DESLECH R, va. (Mur.) To remove the leaves and dirt from silk-worms. DESL CHO, sm. (Mur.) Act of cleansing silkworms. DESLECHUGAD R, sm. Vine-dresser, pruner. DESLECHUG R Y DESLECHUGUILL R, va. (Agr.) To cut and prune the branches of vines. DESLEID RA, sf
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A827    Beagle Library:     Seoane, Mateo. 1831. Neuman and Baretti's dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages. 5th ed. 2 vols. London: n.p. Volume 1: Spanish and English.   Text
weavers for trimming their yarn. EMPEST R, va. V. Apestar. EMP TRO, sm. (Bot.) Crow-berry. Empetrum nigrum L. EMP YNE, sm. 1. Groin, the part next the thigh. 2. Instep, the upper part of the foot where it joins the leg. 3. Hoof of a beast. 4. Tetter, ring-worm; a kind of dry scurf on the skin. 5. Flower of the cotton plant. EMPEYN SO, SA, a. Full of tetters or ring-worms. EMPEZ R, va. To begin, to commence. EMPIC R, va. To hang, to suspend by the neck. vr. To be too much attached to any thing
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A827    Beagle Library:     Seoane, Mateo. 1831. Neuman and Baretti's dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages. 5th ed. 2 vols. London: n.p. Volume 1: Spanish and English.   Text
, to rarefy. ENRAS DO, DA, a. Smoothed. Puertas enrasadas, Plain doors, without any carved work or ornaments. ENRAS R, va. To smooth, to plane, to make even. vn. To be bald, or without hair. ENRASTR R, va. (Murc.) To string the silk-cods in order to extract the seed and wind the silk. ENRAY R, va. To fix spokes in a wheel. ENRAYGON R, va. To fix bass-weed in the walls of silk-worm sheds for the worms to begin to spin. ENREDAD RA, sf. Small bind-weed, bell-bind. Convolvulus arvensis L. It is also
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A827    Beagle Library:     Seoane, Mateo. 1831. Neuman and Baretti's dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages. 5th ed. 2 vols. London: n.p. Volume 1: Spanish and English.   Text
, consisting of filaments. FILAMI NTO, sm. Spinning part of a manufactory. FIL NDRIAS, sf. pl. Worms bred in the intestines of birds and fowls. FILANTROP A, sf. Philanthropy, love of mankind; good-nature. FIL NTROPOS, sm. (Bot.) Cleavers, common goose-grass. Galium aparine L. FIL R, a. Threaden, made of thread. Triangulo filar, A mathematical instrument serving as a sector, for various uses. va. V. Hilar. FILAR TE, sm. (Na t.) Netting, put on the waist or sides of a ship. FIL STICA, sf. (Na t
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A827    Beagle Library:     Seoane, Mateo. 1831. Neuman and Baretti's dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages. 5th ed. 2 vols. London: n.p. Volume 1: Spanish and English.   Text
purpose. 3. Interest; usury. Dar logro, To put out money at usurious interest. LOM L MA, sf. Top of a hill. LOMB RDA, sf. 1. Kind of gun, first brought from Lombardy. 2. (Bot.) Red cabbage. Brassica capitata rubra L. LOMBARD DA, sf. Shot from a Lombardy gun. LOMBARDE R, va. To discharge Lombardy guns. LOMBARDER A, sf. Park of Lombardy guns. LOMBARD RO, sm. Soldier appointed to Lombardy guns. LOMBRIGU RA, sf. Hole made by worms. LOMBR Z, sf. Worm bred in the human body, or in the earth. LOMBRIZ
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A827    Beagle Library:     Seoane, Mateo. 1831. Neuman and Baretti's dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages. 5th ed. 2 vols. London: n.p. Volume 1: Spanish and English.   Text
.) Interposed. OBY CTO, sm. V. Objecion R plica. O'CA, sf. 1. (Orn.) Goose. (Anas anser L.) 2. (Bot.) A sweet edible root of Peru. 3. Kind of game called royal goose. OC L, sm. 1. Pod or cone of silk formed by two silk-worms together. 2. A coarse sort of silk. a. Applied to very delicate sweet pears and other fruits. OCALE R, vn. To make pods; applied to silkworms. OCASI N, sf. 1. Occasion, opportunity; season, juncture. 2. Cause, motive. 3. Danger, risk. Ponerse on ocasion, To expose one's self to
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A827    Beagle Library:     Seoane, Mateo. 1831. Neuman and Baretti's dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages. 5th ed. 2 vols. London: n.p. Volume 1: Spanish and English.   Text
examination; revision, a new trial. Revista de inspeccion, Inspection of troops. REVIST R, va. To revise a suit at law, to try a cause a second time; to review troops. REVIVID RO, sm. Place for rearing silk-worms. REVIVIFICAR, va. To revivificate, to vivify. REV TE, sm. Invitation to play in some games. REVIV R, vn. To revive, to return to the primitive state of life; to acquire new life; to resuscitate. REVOC BLE, a. Revocable, that may be recalled or repealed. REVOCACI N, sf. Revocation, the act
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A827    Beagle Library:     Seoane, Mateo. 1831. Neuman and Baretti's dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages. 5th ed. 2 vols. London: n.p. Volume 1: Spanish and English.   Text
thing after another. SUBINTR NTE, pa. Applied to fevers, one paroxysm of which has not subsided when another begins. SUBINTR R, va. To enter successively one after another. SUB R, vn. 1. To mount, to ascend. 2. To increase, to swell as rivers, c. 3. To enter leaves, as silk-worms on commencing their cods. 4. To rise in dignity, fortune, c. 5. (M s.) To raise the voice gradually. va. 1. To climb, to ascend. 2. To raise, to lift up to go up 3. To set up, to erect. 4. To amount tr 5. To enhance, to
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A827    Beagle Library:     Seoane, Mateo. 1831. Neuman and Baretti's dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages. 5th ed. 2 vols. London: n.p. Volume 1: Spanish and English.   Text
. VERMICULACI N, sf. Vermiculation. VERMICUL R, a. Vermiculous, full of grubs. VERMICUL R, va. To vermiculate, to ornament parts of an edifice with worm-like figures. VERMIF RME, a. Vermiform. VERM FUGO, a. (Med.) Vermifuge, anthelmintic. VERMIN SO, SA, a. Full of grubs. VERM PARO, RA, a. Vermiparous, producing worms. VERM VORO, RA, a. Vermivorous. VERN L, a. Vernal, belonging to the spring. V RO, RA, a. True, real. De veras, In truth. V RO, sm. (Blas.) Cup or bell-formed vase on a shield. VER NICA
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A827    Beagle Library:     Seoane, Mateo. 1831. Neuman and Baretti's dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages. 5th ed. 2 vols. London: n.p. Volume 1: Spanish and English.   Text
decoration representing one or two folding doors. BOFETONC LLO, sm. A slight box or slap on the face. BOF RDO, sm. (Ant.) A short lance or spear. B GA, sf. 1. (Ict.) Ox-eyed cackerel. Sparus boops L. 2. Act of rowing. 3. (Na t.) Rower, one who rows; in this sense when it signifies a man, it is a masculine substantive. 4. (Extr.) Small two-edged knife in the shape of a poniard. 5. White branch about which silk-worms work their cones. Boga arrancada, (Na t.) All hands rowing together with all
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A827    Beagle Library:     Seoane, Mateo. 1831. Neuman and Baretti's dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages. 5th ed. 2 vols. London: n.p. Volume 1: Spanish and English.   Text
. Small limbed; applied to horses and mules. CA LLA CA TA, sf. Small cane or reed. CA IV TE, sm. Small knife, or penknife. CA ZA, sf. Kind of coarse linen. CA IZ L, sm. V. Ca averal. CA ZO, sm. 1. Hurdle, a frame made of canes or reeds, for rearing silk-worms. 2. Hurdle, used by hatters for shearing hats. C O, sm. 1. Tube, pipe, or eylinder, made of wood, glass, or metal. 2. Common sewer. 3. Spring; spout through which spring water runs. 4. Cellar or other place for cooling water. 5. (Ant.) Mine. 6
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A832    Beagle Library:     Turner, Sharon. 1832. The sacred history of the world, as displayed in the Creation and subsequent events to the Deluge, attempted to be philosophically considered in a series of letters to a son. Volume 1. 2nd ed. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman.   Text
addition of worms and insects.49 Some also use a kind of soft and fat earth.50 A larger number seek their sustenance from worms and insects without the vegetable mixture.51 Several live on Crabs and Shell 49 The Salmo Wartmannus, in the Alpine Lakes of Switzerland, 17 inches long, a very fertile animal, feeds on worms, insects, herbs, and a sort of sponge. T. L. 855 . The Latus Cyprinus which is habits in great shoals the lakes and still rivers of Northern Europe, about a pound weight, very
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CUL-DAR236    Note:    1832--1836   Geological specimen notebook 1-4 [all transcribed in one file]   Text
3768 Curious concentric. ordinary structure.— 3755 rather more than 1/2 an inch thick. bored by worms.— 3758 emits very strong small like burnt horn — [written in margin] The Blackest kind under blowpipe instantly becomes always white, is easily destroyed dissolved by borax. stains glass pale purple. I could not any how discover this with [sulp] of Phosphorus with more difficulty . do. paler coloured. = The greater part dissolved by mureatic acid. — leaving what appears flocculent. consists of
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A832    Beagle Library:     Turner, Sharon. 1832. The sacred history of the world, as displayed in the Creation and subsequent events to the Deluge, attempted to be philosophically considered in a series of letters to a son. Volume 1. 2nd ed. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman.   Text
of nature are unimpeded. Man, by interfering, may alter the provided equilibrium; and when he does so, he suffers from his injudicious interposition, or too covetous anxiety. That Animals have organs of sense corresponding with those of Man, we all familiarly know. They see, hear, taste, smell, and feel, as well as we do, and some much more acutely. Both the Dog and 18 Thus farmers destroy Moles, because the hillocks they make, break the level surface; but they have found worms so much increase
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A832    Beagle Library:     Turner, Sharon. 1832. The sacred history of the world, as displayed in the Creation and subsequent events to the Deluge, attempted to be philosophically considered in a series of letters to a son. Volume 1. 2nd ed. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman.   Text
among which are the Rhinoceros and the Elephant, live on vegetables.13 The Force are carnivorous.14 The Glires, or Mice kind, generally subsist on vegetable food, tho some add fish, and others birds and worms.15 The Pecora use herbs and grasses. So the Bellu tho the Swine tribe will eat any thing.16 The Cetaceous Fishes seek the insects and produce of the ocean. But the power which some Quadrupeds show, of living without food, would lead us to inquire, if in a state of nature the appetites of
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A832    Beagle Library:     Turner, Sharon. 1832. The sacred history of the world, as displayed in the Creation and subsequent events to the Deluge, attempted to be philosophically considered in a series of letters to a son. Volume 1. 2nd ed. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman.   Text
which inhabit more immediately the land. But their respective forms and habits lead us to minuter divisions than these. Besides the Fish, Birds, and Quadrupeds, we also find Insects frequenting the air, and Reptiles and Worms the earth, and others, the amphibious class, which are alternately both on land and in water. Linn us made an artificial classification, which has since been [page] 23
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LETTER XVII. ON THE FORMATION OF INSECTS THEIR CLASSES AND IMPORTANCE THEIR METAMORPHOSES THEIR ACTIONS AND HABITS THEIR SENSES, QUALITIES, MIND, AND FEELINGS. LETTER XVII. THE INSECTS and WORMS were the 'creeping things' which were ordered to appear among the Creations of the Sixth Day. As they have recently become objects of much attention, and have been described in their most striking characteristics, with great knowlege and discrimination, by very able Naturalists, our countrymen and
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UMZC-Histories4.945    Note:    1832--1901   Harmer, S. F. 1901. List of specimens [of marine invertebrates] collected on the Beagle which were kept or discarded, with extracts from Darwin's manuscripts referring to specimens kept in the museum.   Text   Image
1306. Gorgonia. V.326. Galapagos Is, 1835 Gorgonia (purple)} 484. Acetabulum. Nov. Dec. 1832. Monte Video Renilla (much macerated) 1272. Fine orange Holothuria-formed animal: 1/2 smooth 1/2 with long Papillae: former half most brilliant Galapagos. Chatham Id, Sept, 1835} Veretillidae ? Cavernularia NEMATODA etc) 805. worms from the branchial of a Lota (Gadus) — Fairweather Banks Jan. 1834} sev. 637. Gordius. muddy pool. Maldonado, May, 1833 1 Gordius CHAETOGNATHA) 1480 (= 159). Animal
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] ECHINODERMATA) 78. (see above, Miscellaneous) 1 Asterid. 78. [do] 2 Ophiurids 59. [do] 1 Ophiurid 456. Ophiura (n) Bahia Blanca, Oct 1832 (The label was loose, but almost certainly belonged to this) 1 Ophiurid 981. Nereïdous animals ophiura. Kelp Roots, Port Famine, 1834. (The worms were thrown away) 1 Ophiurid 1437. Ophiura, curious spines. Keeling Is, April, 1835 really 1836 1 Ophiurid 59. (see above, Miscellaneous) 1 Holothurians 69.Fistularia. V.8(b) St Jago, Jan 1832 1 Holothurians 89
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death! Nature's immortal, immaterial Sun! Whose all-prolific beam late called me forth From darkness, teeming darkness where I lay, The worms inferior: 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. Night 4. [page] 13
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considerably altered by other. The Crustaceous animals have been separated from his insects; and the Testaceous ones from his worms. The Mollusc and Infusoria have also received a more distinct consideration, and a different arrangement. All these form together another vast and multifarious evolution and portraiture of the Divine Mind, to the contemplation of its intelligent creatures. But altho very diversified in external figures, and in their habits, yet they are all linked together by very
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mollusc , worms and insects that they find. These latter animals appear to be as specially provided for such as use them, as slugs and caterpillars are for birds, and grass for cattle; for, at particular seasohs, the ocean is made to swarm with them, for no other visible purpose than that the Fish may derive nutrition from them.11 The mollusc , which supply so many of the natives of the sea with their subsistence, are therefore endowed with a power of multiplica 11 Mr. Thompson has brought to
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Indian Seas, penetrates the bottoms of Ships. The Teredula, on the Belgic shores, lodges itself in timber; while the Hians, on the American islands, perforates calcareous rocks and corals. Ib. 173, 4 . The animal of this genus is an Ascidia; its shell bivalve divaricate; hinges recurved, united by a cartilage. 32 Its animal is an Ascidia; its shell bivalve, generally gaping at one end. T. L. 174. 33 The shell is 5 inches broad, and 21/2 long; and is often corroded by worms. Ib. 176. 34 Ib. The
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This surprising quantity of Birds makes it necessary that the Insect world, on which all the smaller feed, should be a thousand times more numerous. The two millions of Starlings usually resident in the United States of America have been computed to consume of the grub-worms, caterpillars and other larv , on which they subsist, in the four months of their breeding and nurturing their young, sixteen thousand two hundred millions.21 But if a single kind of Birds have this supply, all the other
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Worms, their feelers, put forth into the water, seem scarcely different from roots seeking their food in the earth. Some of these may be turned inside out like a glove, without any disturbance of their ordinary functions.' Smith, ib. p. 3. H 2 [page] 10
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Eels for obtaining food.11 But when they move with the semblance of following a conductor, in a marshalled form, we cannot avoid inferring in them the same degree of reasoned intention and judgment which we ascribe to animals who exhibit such habits.12 A distinct action of judging mind appears in the Fish that directs the projeetile blow on the insects 11 During the night, they wander along the meadows, in search of snails and worms .. Dr. Plot mentions this fact in his History of
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its head, immediately above the nose. which are thicker, and round at the end. It lurks behind sand-hills or heaps of stones, and throwing these appendages over its head, which resemble worms, the little fish are induced to approach them as they float, either for play or food, till they come within his reach, when he springs and seizes them. Turt. Linn. 908 . Pliny mentions this fish, which the Greeks called Batrachos, and the Latins, Rana. [page] 29
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