RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Athenaeum, 1839. CUL-DAR5.B44. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2021. RN1

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.


[B44]

Athenaeum p. 541 1839 – alludes to account of Aurora isld - & I presume surrounded by precipices of ice.

 

[B44v]

Burney V. Volume p. 32 (Athenæum) Club Fact about ice on Antarctic isld worth looking to.

Biblioth des Voyages 1834 vol 2

abstract

In an account of Bellinghausen's Voyage p. 432 that Sandwich Isld is even more sorrowful & sterile that Georges for on the latter "on voit ca et la de la mousse vert, tendis que sur les îles als M. de Traverse el de Sandwich on ne trouve pas meme cette chélive végétation.

 

The sea which batter their shore is covered with immense masses of ice – Celace Penguins & other sea birds are only inhabitants

p 432 speaks of Georgia as "all covered with ice & eternal snow."

p 447 Speaking of New Shetland dogs they are all desert or covered with snow & eternal ice – only penguins & Celacea

[Simonoff, M. Sketch of the voyage to the South Pole, and round the world, performed in 1819, 1820, and 1821, under Captain Bellinghausen.]


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