RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1837]. Red notebook, pp. 140e-141e (excised pages). CUL-DAR5.B86. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Text prepared and edited by John van Wyhe 6.2025. 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. The volume CUL-DAR5 contains Edinburgh lecture notes, 1825-7; class cards; zoological walk to Portobello; geological notes, Shrewsbury & with Sedgwick; alluvium; Salisbury Craigs; for glacier papers, 1839-42.
Herbert, Sandra ed. 1980. The red notebook of Charles Darwin. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series 7 (24 April): 1-164. Text PDF
Darwin cited from this in Journal of researches. F10.3
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Did I make any observations on springs at S. Cruz.??? —
Form of land shows subsidence in T. del Fuego, and connection of quadrupeds. — although recent elevation, there may have been great subsidence previously. Mem. pebbles of Porphyry. — Falklands. — off East Coast. — Capt. Cook found soundings. (end of 2d voyage outside coast of T. del Fuego. off. Christmas sound. —
[(Think some 60 fathoms, none thicker than thumb] Sea weed said at Kerguelen Isd. to grow on shoals like Fucus giganteus! 24 fathoms deep 24
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under 50. Kerguelen Land, = the way it stands gales = very strong. Stones as bigger than a man's head. — [Kerguelen 40 by 20 leagues. dimensions:]
Bynoe informs me that in Obstruction Sound, in the narrow parts which break through the N & South lines the tides form eddies with its extreme force. Yet, no outlet at head. Important in forming transverse valleys
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