page_title: The Voyage of the Beagle
section_title: Second edition: changing ideas on evolution
hierarchical_section_title: The Voyage of the Beagle / Publication of FitzRoy's narrative and Darwin's book / Second edition: changing ideas on evolution
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: journalofresear01darw (find matches) Title: 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 Year: 1913 (1910s) Authors: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 Subjects: Beagle Expedition (1831-1836) Natural history Geology Voyages around the world Publisher: London&#160;: J. Murray Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ered as a hardship.I heard of one poor wretch who, during hostilities, ran awayto the opposite party&#160;; being met by two men, he was imme-diately seized&#160;; but as they could not agree to whom he shouldbelong, each stood over him with a stone hatchet, and seemeddetermined that the other at least should not take him awayalive. The poor man, almost dead with fright, was only savedby the address of a chiefs wife. We afterwards enjoyed apleasant walk back to the boat, but did not reach the ship tilllate in the evening. December ^otJi.—In the afternoon we stood out of the Bayof Islands, on our course to Sydney. I believe we were allglad to leave New Zealand. It is not a pleasant place. 458 NEW ZEALAND CHAP. XVIII Amongst the natives there is absent that charming simplicitywhich is found at Tahiti&#160;; and the greater part of the Englishare the very refuse of society. Neither is the country itselfattractive. I look back but to one bright spot, and that isWaimate, with its Christian inhabitants. Text Appearing After Image: HIPPAH, NEW ZEALAND. Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: The Voyage of the Beagle is the title most commonly given to the book written by Charles Darwin and published in 1839 as his Journal and Remarks, bringing him considerable fame and respect. This was the third volume of The Narrative of the Voyages of H.M. Ships Adventure and Beagle, the other volumes of which were written or edited by the commanders of the ships. Journal and Remarks covers Darwin's part in the second survey expedition of the ship HMS Beagle. Due to the popularity of Darwin's account, the publisher reissued it later in 1839 as Darwin's Journal of Researches, and the revised second edition published in 1845 used this title. A republication of the book in 1905 introduced the title The Voyage of the "Beagle", by which it is now best known.
  Beagle sailed from Plymouth Sound on 27 December 1831 under the command of Captain Robert FitzRoy. While the expedition was originally planned to last two years, it lasted almost five—Beagle did not return until 2 October 1836. Darwin spent most of this time exploring on land.
context_section_description: The second edition of 1845 incorporated extensive revisions made in the light of interpretation of the field collections and developing ideas on evolution. This edition was commissioned by the publisher John Murray, who actually paid Darwin a fee of £150 for the copyright. The full title was modified to Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world.
  In the first edition, Darwin remarks in regard to the similarity of Galápagos wildlife to that on the South American continent, "The circumstance would be explained, according to the views of some authors, by saying that the creative power had acted according to the same law over a wide area". (This was written in a reference to Charles Lyell's ideas of "centres of creation".) Darwin notes the gradations in size of the beaks of species of finches, suspects that species "are confined to different islands", "But there is not space in this work, to enter into this curious subject."
  Later editions hint at his new ideas on evolution:
  Considering the small size of these islands, we feel the more astonished at the number of their aboriginal beings, and at their confined range... within a period geologically recent the unbroken ocean was here spread out. Hence, both in space and time, we seem to be brought somewhat near to that great fact – that mystery of mysteries – the first appearance of new beings on this earth.
  Speaking of the finches with their gradations in size of beaks, he writes "one might really fancy that from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends."
  In 1890 John Murray published an illustrated edition of the book, at the suggestion of the artist Robert Taylor Pritchett who was already known for accompanying voyages of the RYS Wanderer and Sunbeam, and producing pictures used in books on these cruises. In his foreword to this edition of Journal and Researches, Murray said that most "of the views given in this work are from sketches made on the spot by Mr. Pritchett, with Mr. Darwin's book by his side", and the illustrations had been "chosen and verified with the utmost care and pains".
caption: Illustration from Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology
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