RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. [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

 

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Keeling Isld

Gryllus (a moth Deiopera, Chrysopa

Blatta, a small hemipterous insect (not completed)


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