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had written in his notebook: “In July 
opened first notebook on Transmuta- 
tion of Species. Had been greatly struck 
from about the month of previous 
March on character of South American 
fossils, and species on Galapagos 
Archipelago. These facts (especially 
latter), origin of all my views.” The 
Beagle Zoology contains formal de- 
scriptions of all these specimens — the 
giant fossil mammals by Richard 
Owen, the greatest paleontologist of 
nineteenth-century Britain; Darwin’s 
finches by John Gould, England’s pre- 
mier ornithologist. 
Secondly, the Beagle Zoology con- 
tains much more of Darwin than I and 
most historians realized (most of us, 
after all, never had the opportunity to 
see a copy of the work before this re- 
print, and we acted on hearsay and sup- 
position). I knew that Darwin had been 
an active entrepreneur and had, of 
course, collected all the specimens, but 
I thought that very little of his own 
words or ideas were represented in the 
volumes. Not at all. Darwin wrote the 
geological section of Owen’s mono- 
graph and a geographical introduction 
to Waterhouse’s work. Almost half of 
Waterhouse’s text contains verbatim 
transcriptions of Darwin’s field obser- 
vations on the habits and distribution of 
the animals he collected. John Gould 
described all the birds in the formal 
Latin then favored in taxonomic work 
(long lists of characters, all in the abla- 
tive), but he left for Australia before 
finishing the work. Darwin therefore 
wrote or edited most of the text and 
again provided long commentaries on 
his field observations. 
We learn much about Darwin as a 
person and can only admire his honesty 
and enthusiasm. He revels in the abun- 
dance of giant vertebrate fossils when 
writing that “any line whatever drawn 
across the Pampas would probably 
cross the skeleton of some extinct ani- 
mal.” He faces his own shortcomings 
and inexperience in admitting that he 
had not appreciated the significance of 
his finches when in the Galapagos. (He 
had not even recognized them as close 
relatives or realized that many species 
were confined to individual islands. In 
fact, Gould’s taxonomy — published 
here — first revealed the tale that Dar- 
win would later exploit; he had not 
“seen” evolution in action while he vis- 
ited the Galapagos.) “Unfortunately,” 
Darwin writes, “I did not suspect this 
fact until it was too late to distinguish 
the specimens from the different islands 
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