Journal of Researches
into the
Natural History and Geology
of the
countries visited during the voyage
round the world of H.M.S.
Beagle
under the command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N.
By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S.
AUTHOR OF "ORIGIN OF SPECIES,"ETC.
A new edition with illustrations by R. T.
Pritchett
of places visited and objects described.
LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET
1913.
TO
CHARLES
LYELL, ESQ., F.R.S.
This second edition is dedicated
with grateful pleasure, as an acknowledgment that the
chief part of whatever scientific merit this journal
and the other works of the author may possess, has been
derived from studying the well-known and admirable
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Title: A Naturalist's Voyage
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Title: The Voyage Of The Beagle
Author: Charles
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PREFATORY NOTICE TO THE ILLUSTRATED EDITION.
This work was described, on its first appearance, by
a writer in the Quarterly Review as "One of the most interesting
narratives of voyaging that it has fallen to our lot to take up, and one
which must always occupy a distinguished place in the history of scientific
navigation.
This prophecy has been amply verified by experience;
the extraordinary minuteness and accuracy of Mr. Darwin's observations,
combined with the charm and simplicity of his descriptions, have ensured
the popularity of this book with all classes of readers-and that popularity
has even increased in recent years. No attempt, however, has hitherto been
made to produce an illustrated edition of this valuable work: numberless
places and objects are mentioned and described, but the difficulty of obtaining
authentic and original representations of them drawn for the purpose has
never been overcome until now.
Most of the views given in this work are from sketches
made on the spot by Mr. Pritchett, with Mr. Darwin's book by his side. Some
few of the others are taken from engravings which Mr. Darwin had himself
selected for their interest as illustrating his voyage, and which have been
kindly lent by his son.
Mr. Pritchett's name is well known in connection with
the voyages of the Sunbeam and Wanderer, and it is believed
that the illustrations, which have been chosen and verified with the utmost
care and pains, will greatly add to the value and interest of the "VOYAGE
OF A NATURALIST."
JOHN MURRAY.
December 1889.
AUTHOR's PREFACE.
I have stated in the preface to the first Edition of
this work, and in the Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle, that it
was in consequence of a wish expressed by Captain Fitz Roy, of having some
scientific person on board, accompanied by an offer from him of giving up
part of his own accommodations, that I volunteered my services, which received,
through the kindness of the hydrographer, Captain Beaufort, the sanction
of the Lords of the Admiralty. As I feel that the opportunities which I
enjoyed of studying the Natural History of the different countries we visited
have been wholly due to Captain Fitz Roy, I hope I may here be permitted
to repeat my expression of gratitude to him; and to add that, during the
five years we were together, I received from him the most cordial friendship
and steady assistance. Both to Captain Fitz Roy and to all the Officers
of the Beagle1 I shall ever feel most thankful for the
undeviating kindness with which I was treated during our long voyage.
This volume contains, in the form of a Journal, a history
of our voyage, and a sketch of those observations in Natural History and
Geology, which I think will possess some interest for the general reader.
I have in this edition largely condensed and corrected some parts, and have
added a little to others, in order to render the volume more fitted for
popular reading; but I trust that naturalists will remember that they must
refer for details to the larger publications which comprise the scientific
results of the Expedition. The Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle
includes an account of the Fossil Mammalia, by Professor Owen; of the Living
Mammalia, by Mr. Waterhouse; of the Birds, by Mr. Gould; of the Fish, by
the Reverend L. Jenyns; and of the Reptiles, by Mr. Bell. I have appended
to the descriptions of each species an account of its habits and range.
These works, which I owe to the high talents and disinterested zeal of the
above distinguished authors, could not have been undertaken had it not been
for the liberality of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury,
who, through the representation of the Right Honourable the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, have been pleased to grant a sum of one thousand pounds towards
defraying part of the expenses of publication.
I have myself published separate volumes on the Structure
and Distribution of Coral Reefs; on the Volcanic Islands visited
during the Voyage of the Beagle; and on the Geology of South America.
The sixth volume of the Geological Transactions contains two papers
of mine on the Erratic Boulders and Volcanic Phenomena of South America.
Messrs. Waterhouse, Walker, Newman, and White, have published several able
papers on the Insects which were collected, and I trust that many others
will hereafter follow. The plants from the southern parts of America will
be given by Dr. J. Hooker, in his great work on the Botany of the Southern
Hemisphere. The Flora of the Galapagos Archipelago is the subject of a separate
memoir by him, in the Linnean Transactions. The Reverend Professor
Henslow has published a list of the plants collected by me at the Keeling
Islands; and the Reverend J. M. Berkeley has described my cryptogamic plants.
I shall have the pleasure of acknowledging the great
assistance which I have received from several other naturalists in the course
of this and my other works; but I must be here allowed to return my most
sincere thanks to the Reverend Professor Henslow, who, when I was an undergraduate
at Cambridge, was one chief means of giving me a taste for Natural History,-who,
during my absence, took charge of the collections I sent home, and by his
correspondence directed my endeavours,-and who, since my return, has constantly
rendered me every assistance which the kindest friend could offer.
DOWN, BROMLEY, KENT,
June 1845.
1. I must take this opportunity
of returning my sincere thanks to Mr. Bynoe, the surgeon of the Beagle,
for his very kind attention to me when I was ill at Valparaiso.
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