WORKS OF GENERAL INTEREST 



RECENTLY PUBLISHED BY 



SMITH, ELDER AND CO. CORNHILL. 



Now Publishing in Parts, Royal Quarto, 



JBtiDrrlfjeautf)ontnof tfjcTlorSBCromtnissionrvsofJIjfrfHajcsts'sCrnasttvs, 



THE ZOOI.OGV 



OF 



THz: vo-^AGE OF H. ivc. s. bi:agi.e, 



UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN FITZROY, R.N. 

 DURING THB YEARS 1832 TO 183G. 



CHARLES DARWIN, ESQ., M.A., F.G.S. 



NATURALIST TO THE EXPEDITION. 



In order to secure to science the full advantage of the discoveries in Natural 

 History, during the Voyage of the Beagle, the Lords Commissioners of Her 

 Majesty's Treasury have been pleased to make a liberal grant of money to- 

 wards defrayin;^ part of the expenses of this publication. This work, iu 

 consequence, has been undertaken on a scale worthy of the high patronage it 

 has thus received, and will be offered to the public at a much lower price than 

 otherwise would have been possible. 



Figures will be given of many species of animals hitherto unknown or but im- 

 perfectly described, together with an account of their liabits, ranges, and 

 places of habitation. 



The collections were chiefly made in the provinces bordering on the Rio Plata, 

 in Patagonia, the Falkland Islands, Tierra del Fuego, Chile, and the Galapagos 

 Archipelago in the Pacific. 



The following gentlemen, with a disinterested zeal for science, have undertaken 

 different departments of the work ; in those branches with which they are 

 respectively best acquainted. Mr. Owen will describe the Fossil Mammalia; 

 Mr. Waterhouse the Recent Mammalia ; Mr. Gould the Birds ; Mr. 

 Bell the Reptiles; and the Rev. L. Jenyns the fish. 



A description of some of the invertebrate animals procured during the voyage 

 will also be given. 



CONDITIONS OF PUBLICATION. 



It is impossible at present, to dufiiie precisely the limits of this work, or the exact order in 

 which the several subjects will be published ; but it is estimated that it will eitend to 

 Tifcnti/ Numbers, one of which will be .published on the tiist day of every alternate 

 month; and the whole, when completed, will comprise about six hundred pa^es of letter- 

 press, and from two hundred to two hundred and tifty Engravings, in Royal 4to. 



The price of eacii Number will vary according to the quantity of plates and letter-press it may 

 contain, depending upon the subject of which it particularly treats; but it Is estimated 

 that the average Price will nut exceed Ten Shillings. 



The followiny are now readij. 



No. I. Part I. with Seven Plates, Price 8*. 



FOSSIL MAMMALIA, BY RICHARD OWEN, ESQ., F.R.S. 



No. I. Part II. with Ten coloured Plates, Price 10s. 



RECENT MAMMALIA, BY G. R. WATERHOUSE, ESQ. 



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