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Rio de la Plata

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Lucky in geology

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  • … Reports of finding the remains of large extinct animals and sending barrels of specimens home.  …

Books on the Beagle

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The Beagle was a sort of floating library.  Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.

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  • … vols. Paris, 1828. (Inscription in vol. 2: ‘Charles Darwin Rio Plata Aug 7 th . 1832’). Darwin …
  • … †. Miers, John.  Travels in Chile and La Plata . . .  2 vols. London, 1826. (DAR 31.2: 319; …
  • … Benito.  An account . . . of the United Provinces of Rio de la Plata.  London, 1825. (DAR 33: 269v …

Darwin’s reading notebooks

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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…

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  • … imperfection of Record (Read) Aug. St. Hilaire Voyage Rio de Janeiro & Minas Geraes …
  • … politique et civile du   Paraguay et de la rivière de La Plata . [Edited by C. A. Wolckenaer and …
  • … (Auguste de). 1830.  Voyage dans les provinces de Rio de Janeiro et de   Minas Geraes . 2 vols. …
  • … 119: 17a ——. 1847–8.  Voyage aux sources du Rio de S. Francisco   et dans la province de …
  • … 1853.  A narrative of travels on   the Amazon and Rio Negro, with an account of the native   …
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