The voyage of the Beagle : journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world / Charles Darwin ; introduction by Steve Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.

Contributor:

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beagle Expedition (1831-1836).

Beagle Expedition.

Natural history.

Geology.

South America--Description and travel.

South America.

Voyages around the world.

Physical Description:

xix, 468 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Modern Library, 2001.

Summary:

In 1831, Charles Darwin embarked on an expedition that, in his own words, "determined my whole career." The Voyage of the Beagle chronicles his five-year journey around the world -- and especially the coastal waters of South America -- as a naturalist on the H.M.S. Beagle. While traveling through these unexplored countries collecting specimens, Darwin began to formulate the theories of evolution and natural selection realized in his master work, The Origin of Species. Travel memoir and scientific primer alike, The Voyage of the Beagle is a lively and accessible introduction to the mind of one of history's most influential thinkers.

Contents:

Porta Praya

Ribeira Grande

Atmospheric Dust with Infusoria

Habits of a Sea-slug and Cuttle-fish

St. Paul's Rocks, nonvolcanic

Singular Incrustations

Insects the first Colonists of Islands

Fernando Noronha

Bahia

Burnished Rocks

Habits of a Diodon

Pelagic Confervae and Infusoria

Causes of discoloured Sea

Rio de Janeiro

Excursion north of Cape Frio

Great Evaporation

Slavery

Botofogo Bay

Terrestrial Planariae

Clouds on the Corcovado

Heavy Rain

Musical Frogs

Phosphorescent Insects

Elater, springing powers of

Blue Haze

Noise made by a Butterfly

Entomology

Ants

Wasp killing a Spider

Parasitical Spider

Artifices of an Epeira

Gregarious Spider

Spider with an unsymmetrical Web

Monte Video

Maldonado

Excursion to R. Polanco

Lazo and Bolas

Partridges

Absence of Trees

Deer

Capybara, or River Hog

Tucutuco

Molothrus, cuckoo-like habits

Tyrant-flycatcher

Mocking-bird

Carrion Hawks

Tubes formed by Lightning

House struck

Rio Negro

Estancias attacked by the Indians

Salt-Lakes

Flamingoes

R. Negro to R. Colorado

Sacred Tree

Patagonian Hare

Indian Families

General Rosas

Proceed to Bahia Blanca

Sand Dunes

Negro Lieutenant

Bahia Blanca

Saline Incrustations

Punta Alta

Zorillo

Geology

Numerous gigantic extinct Quadrupeds

Recent Extinction

Longevity of Species

Large Animals do not require a luxuriant vegetation

Southern Africa

Siberian Fossils

Two Species of Ostrich

Habits of Oven-bird

Armadilloes

Venomous Snake, Toad, Lizard

Hybernation of Animals

Habits of Sea-Pen

Indian Wars and Massacres

Arrowhead, antiquarian Relic

Set out for Buenos Ayres

Rio Sauce

Sierra Ventana

Third Posta

Driving Horses

Bolas

Partridges and Foxes

Features of the Country

Long-legged Plover

Teru-tero

Hail-storm

Natural Enclosures in the Sierra Tapalguen

Flesh of Puma

Meat Diet

Guardia del Monte

Effects of Cattle on the Vegetation

Cardoon

Buenos Ayres

Corral where Cattle are Slaughtered

Excursion to St. Fe

Thistle Beds

Habits of the Bizcacha

Little Owl

Saline Streams

Level Plains

Mastodon

St. Fe

Change in Landscape

Tooth of extinct Horse

Relation of the Fossil and Recent Quadrupeds of North and South America

Effects of a great Drought

Parana

Habits of the Jaguar

Scissorbeak

Kingfisher, Parrot, and Scissor-tail

Revolution

State of Government

Excursion to Colonia del Sacramiento

Value of an Estancia

Cattle, how counted

Singular Breed of Oxen

Perforated Pebbles

Shepherd Dogs

Horses broken-in, Gauchos riding

Character of Inhabitants

Rio Plata

Flocks of Butterflies

Aeronaut Spiders

Phosphorescence of the Sea

Port Desire

Guanaco

Port St. Julian

Geology of Patagonia

Fossil gigantic Animal

Types of Organization constant

Change in the Zoology of America

Causes of Extinction

Santa Cruz

Expedition up the River

Indians

Immense Streams of Basaltic Lava

Fragments not transported by the River

Excavation of the Valley

Condor, Habits of

Cordillera

Erratic Boulders of great size

Indian Relics

Return to the Ship

Falkland Islands

Wild Horses, Cattle, Rabbits

Wolf-like Fox

Fire made of Bones

Manner of Hunting Wild Cattle

Streams of Stones

Scenes of Violence

Penguin

Geese

Eggs of Doris

Compound Animals

Tierra del Fuego, first arrival

Good Success Bay

An Account of the Fuegians on board

Interview with the Savages

Scenery of the Forests

Cape Horn

Wigwam Cove

Miserable Condition of the Savages

Famines

Cannibals

Matricide

Religious Feelings

Great Gale

Beagle Channel

Ponsonby Sound

Build Wigwams and settle the Fuegians

Bifurcation of the Beagle Channel

Glaciers

Second Visit in the Ship to the Settlement

Equality of Condition amongst the Natives

Strait of Magellan

Port Famine

Ascent of Mount Tarn

Forests

Edible Fungus

Zoology

Great Sea-weed

Leave Tierra del Fuego

Climate

Fruit-trees and Productions of the Southern Coasts

Height of Snow-line on the Cordillera

Descent of Glaciers to the Sea

Icebergs formed

Transportal of Boulders

Climate and Productions of the Antarctic Islands

Preservation of Frozen Carcasses

Recapitulation

Valparaiso

Excursion to the Foot of the Andes

Structure of the Land

Ascend the Bell of Quillota

Shattered Masses of Greenstone

Immense Valleys

Mines

State of Miners

Santiago

Hot-baths of Cauquenes

Gold-mines

Grinding-mills

Perforated Stones

Habits of the Puma

El Turco and Tapacolo

Humming-birds

Chiloe

General Aspect

Boat Excursion

Native Indians

Castro

Tame Fox

Ascend San Pedro

Chonos Archipelago

Peninsula of Tres Montes

Granitic Range

Boat-wrecked Sailors

Low's Harbour

Wild Potato

Formation of Peat

Myopotamus, Otter and Mice

Cheucau and Barking-bird

Opetiorhynchus

Singular Character of Ornithology

Petrels

San Carlos, Chiloe

Osorno in eruption, contemporaneously with Aconcagua and Coseguina

Ride to Cucao

Impenetrable Forests

Valdivia Indians

Earthquake

Concepcion

Great Earthquake

Rocks fissured

Appearance of the former Towns

The Sea Black and Boiling

Direction of the Vibrations

Stones twisted round

Great Wave

Permanent Elevation of the Land

Area of Volcanic Phenomena

The connection between the Elevatory and Eruptive Forces

Causes of Earthquakes

Slow Elevation of Mountain-chains

Portilla Pass

Sagacity of Mules

Mountaintorrents

Mines, how discovered

Proofs of the gradual Elevation of the Cordillera

Effect of Snow on Rocks

Geological Structure of the two main Ranges, their distinct Origin and Upheaval

Great Subsidence

Red Snow

Winds

Pinnacles of Snow

Dry and clear Atmosphere

Electricity

Pampas

Zoology of the opposite Sides of the Andes

Locusts

Great Bugs

Mendoza

Uspallata Pass

Silicified Trees buried as they grew

Incas Bridge

Badness of the Passes exaggerated

Cumbre

Casuchas

Coast-road to Coquimbo

Great Loads carried by the Miners

Coquimbo

Step-formed Terraces

Absence of recent Deposits

Contemporaneousness of the Tertiary Formations

Excursion up the Valley

Road to Guasco

Deserts

Valley of Copiapo

Rain and Earthquakes

Hydrophobia

The Despoblado

Indian Ruins

Probable Change of Climate

Riverbed arched by an Earthquake

Cold Gales of Wind

Noises from a Hill

Iquique

Salt Alluvium

Nitrate of Soda

Lima

Unhealthy Country

Ruins of Callao, overthrown by an Earthquake

Recent subsidence

Elevated Shells on San Lorenzo, their decomposition

Plain with embedded Shells and fragments of Pottery

Antiquity of the Indian Race

The whole Group Volcanic

Number of Craters

Leafless Bushes

Colony at Charles Island

James Island

Salt-lake in Crater

Natural History of the Group

Ornithology, curious Finches

Reptiles

Great Tortoises, habits of

Marine Lizard, feeds on Seaweed

Terrestrial Lizard, burrowing habits, herbivorous

Importance of Reptiles in the Archipelago

Fish, Shells, Insects

Botany

American Type of Organization

Differences in the Species or Races on different Islands

Tameness of the Birds

Fear of Man, an acquired Instinct

Pass through the Low Archipelago

Tahiti

Aspect

Vegetation on the Mountains

View of Eimeo

Excursion into the Interior

Profound Ravines

Succession of Waterfalls

Number of wild useful Plants

Temperance of the Inhabitants

Their moral state

Parliament convened

New Zealand

Bay of Islands

Hippahs

Excursion to Waimate

Missionary Establishment

English Weeds now

run wild

Waiomio

Funeral of a New Zealand Woman

Sail for Australia

Sydney

Excursion to Bathurst

Aspect of the Woods

Party of Natives

Gradual Extinction of the Aborigines

Infection generated by associated Men in health

Blue Mountains

View of the grand gulf-like Valleys

Their origin and formation

Bathurst, general civility of the Lower Orders

State of Society

Van Diemen's Land

Hobart Town

Aborigines all banished

Mount Wellington

King George's Sound

Cheerless Aspect of the Country

Bald Head, calcareous casts of branches of Trees

Leave Australia

Keeling Island

Singular appearance

Scanty Flora

Transport of Seeds

Birds and Insects

Ebbing and flowing Springs

Fields of dead Coral

Stone transported in the roots of Trees

Great Crab

Stinging Corals

Coral-eating Fish

Coral Formations

Lagoon Islands, or Atolls

Depth at which reef-building Corals can live

Vast Areas interspersed with low Coral Islands

Subsidence of their foundations

Barrier Reefs

Fringing Reefs

Conversion of Fringing Reefs into Barrier Reefs, and into Atolls

Evidence of changes in Level

Breaches in Barrier Reefs

Maldiva Atolls; their peculiar structure

Dead and submerged Reefs

Areas of subsidence and elevation

Distribution of Volcanoes

Subsidence slow, and vast in amount

Mauritius, beautiful appearance of

Great crateriform ring of Mountains

Hindoos

St. Helena

History of the changes in the Vegetation

Cause of the extinction of Land-shells

Ascension

Variation in the imported Rats

Volcanic Bombs

Beds of Infusoria

Brazil

Splendour of Tropical Scenery

Pernambuco

Singular Reef

Return to England

Retrospect on our Voyage.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : P.F. Collier & Son, 1909.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0375756809

OCLC:

44969461