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Rio Negro; visit to Tierra del Fuego, Dec. l832-Jan. 

 ^833 ; rencontre with General Rosas ; many extinct 

 animals discovered ; Buenos Ayres, Sept. 1833 ; excur- 

 sion to Santa Fe; Port Desire, Dec. 1833; Port St. 

 Julian, Jan. 1834; Valparaiso, July 1834; expeditions 

 to the Andes, Santiago, &c. ; Chiloe, Nov. 1834 ; the 

 Chonos Archipelago, Dec. 1834 ; Valdivia, Feb. 1835 ; 

 an earthquake experience ; expedition across the Cordillera 

 in March, 1835 > voyage across the Pacific commenced in 

 September ; the Galapagos Archipelago and its interesting 

 animals ; Tahiti, Nov. 1835 ; Darwin's opinion of 

 English products, and of the influence of Christian mis- 

 sionaries ; New Zealand, Dec. 1835 ; Port Jackson, Jan. 

 1836 ; Tasmania, Feb. ; the Keeling Islands, April ; the 

 homeward journey ; Falmouth reached, Oct. 2, 1836 ; 

 Capt. Fitzroy's opinion of Darwin ; Darwin's first impres- 

 sion of savages 22 



CHAPTER III. 



Darwin elected F.G.S. ; Lyell's high opinion of him; secre- 

 tary of the Geological Society, Feb. 1838-41 ; reads 

 numerous papers before the Society ; elected F.R.S., Jan. 

 24, 1839; marries his cousin, Miss Wedgwood, early in 

 1839; "Journal of Researches," published 1839, highly 

 praised in Quarterly Review ; publication of zoology of the 

 Beagle (1839-43) ; extraordinary animals described therein; 

 other results of the voyage ; plants described by Hooker 

 and Berkeley ; work on " Coral Reefs " published 1842 ; 

 Darwin's new theory at once accepted ; subsequent views 

 of Semper, Dana, and Murray ; second and third parts of 

 Geology of Beagle ("Volcanic Islands" and "South 

 America ") ; other geological papers ; Darwin settles at 

 Down House, near Beckenham, 1842 ; appears at Oxford 

 meeting of British Association, 1847 ; contributes 

 chapter on Geology to Herschel's manual of Scientific 

 Enquiry ; publishes great works on recent and fossil 

 cirnpedia, 1851-4 ; receives Royal Medal of Royal 

 Society, 1853, and Wollaston Medal of Geological Society, 

 1859 5' 



CHAPTER IV. 



Confusion in description of species ; labours of Professors Owen 

 and Huxley; Darwin's ideas on the origin of species germi- 

 nated during the voyage of the Beagle ; he collected facts, 



