RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1836]. Shells [molluscs in spirits, including land slugs and snails, and nudibranchs, and insects not in spirits][List of Beagle specimens]. CUL-DAR29.3.31-33. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2021. RN2
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.
A dated and more detailed description of some of the specimens can be found in: Keynes, Richard ed. 2000. Charles Darwin's zoology notes & specimen lists from H.M.S. Beagle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. F1840
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1092 x Peronia Arch. of Chiloe p. 284.
80 x Peronia St. Jago v p. 9 – (same as 106)
996 x Gasterophilus Chiloe p. 264
569a Doris Falkland Isld (same as 571) v. p. 151
71 x Aplysia St Jago p. 71
632 Limas (same as 614) Maldonado La Plata p. 177
1160 x Vaginulus Chiloe same as 1096 v. p. 272
559 x Gasteropod Sigaretus? Falkland Isd p. 149
86 x Doris St. Jago
55 Doris do (same as no 54)
1027 x – Vaginulus Valparaiso v. p. 272
1036 Lima Valparaiso – common under stones
1180 x – Vaginulus Valdivia p. 172. Back of page
1285 x Onchidium. Galapagos Arch. p. 322
14 Aplysia St Jago
92 Doris do (same as 52) length 3.5/10 – indigo-blue
1047 Vaginulus Valparaiso (same as 1027) p. 272
861 x Sigaretus Tierra del Fuego p. 218 (Pleurobranchus)
1106x Nudibranch (?) Chonos. Archipelago. S. of Chiloe v. p. 291 Nov. Genus?} (Thecucera)
87 x Doris St Jago p. 9.
264 o Nudibranch (nov-gen?) Rio de Janeiro p. 46 (Polycera)
1277 x Onchidium Galapagos Arch. p. 321
93 Pleurobranchus. orange St Jago
52 Doris. St Jago (same as 92)
614 x Lima Maldonado same as (632) p. 177
56 Cavolina St Jago length 6/10 – light flesh-coloured – branchiæ dirty-brown feelers white
103 x Doris St. Jago p. 10
856 Gasteropod Tierra del Fuego
583 x Sigaretus (& naked mollusc?) Falkland Isld p. 150 (same as 570)
902 Sigaretus Falkland Isld
584 x Gasteropod Sigaretus Falkland Isd p. 149. Back of page
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229 o Parmacella Rio de Janeiro vide p. 34
330 o Vaginulus Monte Video p. 71 (other spec. 471)
291 x do Rio de Janeiro p. 45
279 Aplysia Rio de Janeiro p. 53
299 o Cavolina (?) – do – p. 55 (Pleurobranchus)
909 Pleurobranchus E. Falkland Isd (Vy Rare genus)
174 Onchidium or Peronia – Abrolhos isld (coast of Brazil
992 Limas, Chiloe, very abundant (I believe same as La Plata spec)
1108 x Doris Chonos archipelago (S. of Chiloe p. 293
256 + Vaginulus Rio de Janeiro p. 44-45 (odd antennæ)
104 Cavolina (&c &c) St. Jago C de Verde islands
198 – same as 229 Parmacella. Rio V. above
207 Aplysia Rio de Janeiro p. 36
54 Doris – (another specimen in 106) St. Jago C. de Verdes. (1.1/2 inch long – dutch orange mottled with chesnut brown – feelers orange; broad membrane extending round body Branchia highly plumose
[The spelling 'Chesnut' is not one of CD's idiosyncrasies, but is the form in use at the beginning of the 19th century, copied from Syme. Keynes (2000), Charles Darwin's zoology notes & specimen lists from H.M.S. Beagle, p. 10.]
30 Aplysia St Jago p. 14.
106 o Onchidium or Peronia St Jago v. p. 9 – also Doris p. 9 – also Doris same with 54
28 31} Aplysia same as 30
1448 Lima: Mauritius summit of La Ponce mountain – nearly transparent slightish tinge of yellow – superior tentacular with a black vein; inferior colourless – upper surface of body mottled with minutest black points in patches – anterior margin of shell black.
79 Doris St Jago
29 Aplysia do. same as 30, 28, & 31
1096 x – Vaginulus – Chiloe v. p. 272
1184 x Vaginulus. Valdivia V. p. back of p. 272
1338 Land Snail. New Zealand – colour blackish: back carinated
53 St Jago. Doris, length 4/10; above coloured with pink in rags; body edged with (orange
85 St Jago Cavolina – I have a description of colours, & will copy its facts 51 x Doris St Jago p. 7
1091 x Doris & Cavolina V. p. 284 Chonos archipelago S. of Chiloe
Sponge. (if this is viz; it may be dryed & reticulated)
571 Doris, Falkland Isd (other specimen 569) V. p. 151
570 x Gasteropod (Sigaretus?) Falkland Isd p. 150
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Rio de Janeiro
456 is nyctophanes ignita Dejean
593} Dadophora Lampynidæ
441} Lampyris occidentalis better call both Lampyris
564 appears to be
441 had better be called Lampyris occidentalis
564 is probably young of do or of 593 which is closely allied species to occidentalis
352 {Elater phophoseus of [illeg] Pynophorus luminosus of Illiger} Bahia
(3152) Gryllus migratorius very closely allied to
3423 Bug [Redwvius uvins] genus (species unknown)
482 Pepsis one of the Fossorial Hymenoptera
Papilio Feronia (noisy butterfly)
872 &c very close but different species Colias edusa
(Waterhouse thinks edusa is migratory?)
359 – 360 (ant) atta of Fabri =
357 – Believes true Formica??
St. Pauls
Dung [Staghylines Juddius] – Feather Moth. Ferrnia & small ti
[11v]
Keeling Isld
Gryllus (a moth Deiopera, Chrysopa
Blatta, a small hemipterous insect (not completed)
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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