HARPERS NEW MISCELLANY. 

 X., XI. 



Journal of Researches 



INTO THE NATURAL HISTORY AND GEOLOGY OF THE 

 COUNTRIES VISITED DURING THE VOYAGE OF H. 

 M. S. BEAGLE ROUND THE WORLD. 



BY CHARLES DARWIN, M.A., F.R.S. 



2 vols. 12mo, Muslin, extra gilt, $1 00. 



This is another most valuable contribution to the cause of popular educa- 

 tion, issued in Harper's New Miscellany; a series that bids fair to surpass 

 even their Family Library in the sterling excellence and popularity of the 

 works which it renders accessible to all classes of the community. The 

 work contains, in a condensed and popularized form, the results of the Brit- 

 ish Exploring- Expedition, which Mr. Darwin accompanied at the special 

 instance of the lords of the Admiralty. The voyage consumed several 

 years, and was performed at a very heavy expense on the part of the Brit- 

 ish government. Yet here we have its most important results, divested of 

 all scientific technicalities, and presented in a form at once attractive and 

 accurate. The work is entitled to secure a very wide circulation. It con- 

 tains an immense amount of information concerning the natural history of 

 the whole world, and is superior, in point of interest, and value, to any simi- 

 lar work ever published. Neiv Yerk True Sun. 



A work very neatly issued, and has the interest of a leading subject well 

 developed, the unfailing secret of producing a book of character. In the 

 present state of the world, when new countries are opening every day to 

 the great conqueror, Commerce, such publications are of unusual import- 

 ance. Perhaps no information, just now, can be of more consequence to us 

 than that which puts us in possession of the movements of English discov- 

 ery. News. 



This is a most valuable and a most interesting work ; one which com- 

 bines true scientific worth with the graces of style suited to render it pop- 

 ular, better than almost any similar work which has recently come under 

 our notice. The voyage of the Beagle was, in truth, a scientific exploring 

 expedition ; and Mr. Darwin accompanied it at the special request of the 

 lords of the Admiralty. Its results have been published in several very 

 elaborate, extensive, and costly volumes in England ; but as these were en- 

 tirely beyond the reach of the great mass of the reading public, Mr. Dar- 

 win prepared these volumes, in which all the important results of the ex- 

 pedition are fully, clearly, and distinctly presented, interwoven with a most 

 entertaining narrative of personal incident and adventure. N. Y. Courier. 



This is a work of remarkable interest and value. The author, in circum- 

 navigating the world, under commission of the British government, for sci- 

 entific and exploring purposes, visited nearly every country on the globe, 

 and preserved in this brief, simple, but beautiful narrative all the singular 

 facts of a scientific, social, or geographical nature which are of general in- 

 terest. The amount of information condensed in these volumes is incred- 

 ible ; and the skill with which the useful and interesting is selected from 

 that which is unimportant or well known is admirable. We admire the 

 style, the straightforward sincerity of the writer, the apparent candor, and 

 the erudite research which he uniformly exhibits. Without one quarter 

 of the bulk or pretension of our famous exploring expedition, the present 

 work is hardly inferior to it in value and interest. This series is gaining n 

 fine character, of which we hope the publishers will be jealous, New York 

 Evangelist, 



