ZOOLOGICAL NOTES

... suddenly making a powerful spring on one side, it waits till its pursuers have passed by. The flesh is eaten, and Mr. Charles Darwin gives in his Journal an amusing account of an epicurean sur- prise he encountered on the Ihlo Tapalguen. i1 At supper ...

Published: Monday 25 August 1851
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3635 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. Sib,—l observe the Journal of Tuesday the 13th that Mr Adam, late of Macduff, has been

... witness to, the essentially volcanic island Ascension, and which is thus described and elucidated that pleasing natura list Charles Darwin :— the basaltic masses which are daily washed by the tide, most curious calcareous incrustations have been deposited ...

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... actamulating for ages, he the guano commerce. The ordinary depth of the bed of this matter is about sixty feet; Litt Mr Charles Darwin, the eminent traveller, naturalist, and philosopher, tells that the aceunialation is in some eases 600 feet, and in a ...

Published: Monday 13 September 1852
Newspaper: North British Daily Mail
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 3415 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Spirit of the Press

... washed away, but accumulating for ages, the guano commerce. The ordinary depth of the bed of this matter about 60 feet; but Charles Darwin, the eminent traveller, naturalist, and philosopher, tells us that the accumulation in some cases 600 feet, and in few ...

Published: Thursday 16 September 1852
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4126 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE LORES ISLAND- AND THEIR GUANO

... accumulating for ages, is the guano commerce. The ordinary depths of tht bed of this matter is about sixty feet; but Mr Charles Darwin, the eminent traveller, naturalist, and philosopher, tells us that the accumulation is in some cases COO feet and few ...

Published: Thursday 16 September 1852
Newspaper: Stirling Observer
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1637 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE LOBOS ISLANDS AND THEIR GUANO

... accumulating for ages, is the guano commerce. The ordinary depth of the bed of this matter is about sixty feet; but Mr Charles Darwin, the eminent traveller, naturalist, and philosopher, tells us that the accumulation is in some cases COO feet, and in ...

Published: Friday 17 September 1852
Newspaper: Elgin Courier
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1694 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LONDON. BATORDAT EVENING, DEC 10

... for his essay on the distribution of heat evrr the surface of tbe earth and one of tbe Royal medals was awarded to Mr. Charles Darwin, for his works natural history, ixml was elected President for the ensuing year ; and in the evening the Society dinedtt ...

Published: Tuesday 13 December 1853
Newspaper: Scottish Guardian (Glasgow)
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2407 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DESTITUTION IN TIIK WEST HIOHLABDB

... 015 0 I A. M.. H>s: A ncnd,s» 10 | A Friend, W Uuch Barton, Esq. .1. ,t l; E. 0., Rev. W. W. Jackson Miss M. Stapleton Charles Darwin, E?q. Miss Daily ...

Published: Saturday 12 May 1855
Newspaper: Glasgow Constitutional
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1100 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ESTITUTION IN THE WEST HIGHLANDS Throngh the active be: whose Contributions for the month are here- with ..

... Friend, os @1s A Friend, W 5 010 3 Per Lemdon and Weetuiuster Bank 4 Hugh parton, Ic, 1 i) Rev W Jackson Miss M St ten Charles Darwin, _ Miss Baily 3 Pee J.B. Mactarlan, Messrs Oliver & Mr 16 shandwica Place A Street Mr Gilbert P. Fini P. lay, Northumber ...

Published: Monday 14 May 1855
Newspaper: North British Daily Mail
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1494 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... there wasa the da; Nobles of Sweden, who is to read a statistical paper on but detectives from were on the grow currency; Charles Darwin, Esq., the naturalist of the sur- were on snd ti four ooh veying voyage of the Beagle, &e.; M. Polgiot, of not a the Mint ...

Published: Wednesday 12 September 1855
Newspaper: North British Daily Mail
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3704 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

11.1 THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION IN GLASGOW

... Thomson, Dr Roscoe. Section C. Geology.—President—Sir B. I. Murchison, F.R.S. Vice Presidents—Sir C. Lyell, F.R.S. ; Charles Darwin, F.R.S.; Rev. Professor Sedgwick ; Hugh Miller, Eq.; A. C. Ramsay, Esq. Secretaries—Professor Nicol, F.O.S. ; James Bryce ...

Published: Friday 14 September 1855
Newspaper: Scottish Press
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3359 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SCIENTIFIC CONGRESSES—THE GLASGOW

... observatory at Cairo; Count Trolich, member of the Chamber of Nobles, Sweden, who is to read a paper on the Currency; Charles Darwin, Esq., the naturalist of the surveying voyage of the Beagle; William Newmarch, Esq., one of the Secretaries of the Statistical ...

Published: Friday 14 September 1855
Newspaper: Montrose Review
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 781 | Page: 6 | Tags: none