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PERSONS ON BOARD CHANGES. 



Alexander Burns Usborne Master's Assistant. 



Charles Musters Volunteer 1st Class. 



Jonathan May Carpenter. 



Edward H. Hellyer Clerk. 



Acting boatswain i sergeant of marines and seven privates : thirty - 

 four seamen and six boys. 



On the List of supernumeraries were — 



Charles Darwin Naturalist. 



Augustus Earle Draughtsman. 



G-eorge James Stebbing Instrument Maker. 



Richard Matthews and three Fuegians : my own steward : and Mr. 

 Damin's servant. 



Some changes occurred in the course of the five years' voy- 

 age, vWiich it may be well to mention in this place. 



In April 1832, Mr. Mac-Cormick and Mr. Derbishire 

 returned to England. Mr. Bynoe was appointed to act as 

 Surgeon. Mr. Mellersh received a Mate's warrant ; and Mr. 

 Johnson joined the Beagle as Midshipman. In May Mr. 

 Musters fell a victim to fever, caught in the harbour of llio 

 de Janeiro: — Mr. Forsyth took his place. 



Mr. Earle suffered so much from continual ill health, that 

 he could not remain on board the Beagle after August 1832 ; 

 but he lived at Monte Video several months previously to his 

 return to England. The disappointment caused by losing his 

 services was diminished by meeting Mr Martens at Monte 

 Video, and engaging him to embark with me as my draughts- 

 man. 



In March 1833, Mr. Hellyer was drowned at the Falkland 

 Islands, in attempting to get a bird he had shot. In September 

 1833, Mr, Kent joined as Assistant Surgeon. In June 1834, 

 Mr. Rowlett died, at sea, of a complaint under which he had 

 laboured for years : and the vacancy caused by his lamented 

 decease was filled by Mr. Dring. 



Mr. Martens left me, at Valparasio, in 1834 ; and Mr. 

 King remained with his father, at Sydney, in Australia, in 

 February 1836. After these changes, and at our return to 

 England in October 1836, the list stood thus — 



