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Title: A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World
The Voyage Of The Beagle

Author: Charles Darwin

Posting Date: August 6, 2008 [EBook #3704]
Release Date: February, 2003

Language: English

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A NATURALIST'S VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD

By Charles Darwin

FIRST EDITION...MAY 1860.

SECOND EDITION...MAY 1870.

THIRD EDITION...FEBRUARY 1872.

FOURTH EDITION...JULY 1874.

FIFTH EDITION...MARCH 1876.

SIXTH EDITION...JANUARY 1879.

SEVENTH EDITION...MAY 1882.

EIGHTH EDITION...FEBRUARY 1884.

NINTH EDITION...AUGUST 1886.

TENTH EDITION...JANUARY 1888.

ELEVENTH EDITION...JANUARY 1890.

REPRINTED...JUNE 1913.

(FRONTISPIECE. H.M.S. BEAGLE IN STRAITS OF MAGELLAN. MT.
SARMIENTO IN THE DISTANCE.)

JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES

INTO THE

NATURAL HISTORY AND GEOLOGY

OF THE

COUNTRIES VISITED DURING THE VOYAGE
ROUND THE WORLD OF H.M.S. 'BEAGLE'
UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN FITZ ROY, R.N.

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

AUTHOR OF 'ORIGIN OF SPECIES,' ETC.

(PLATE 1. H.M.S. BEAGLE UNDER FULL SAIL, VIEW FROM ASTERN.)

A NEW EDITION
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY R.T. PRITCHETT OF PLACES VISITED AND
OBJECTS DESCRIBED.

LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET
1913.

TO
CHARLES LYELL, ESQ., F.R.S.,

This second edition is dedicated with grateful pleasure, as an
acknowledgment that the chief part of whatever scientific merit
this journal and the other works of the author may possess, has
been derived from studying the well-known and admirable

PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY.

PREFATORY NOTICE TO THE ILLUSTRATED EDITION.

This work was described, on its first appearance, by a writer in
the "Quarterly Review" as "One of the most interesting narratives
of voyaging that it has fallen to our lot to take up, and one which
must always occupy a distinguished place in the history of
scientific navigation."

This prophecy has been amply verified by experience; the
extraordinary minuteness and accuracy of Mr. Darwin's observations,
co