Assistant Surgeon
Arthur Mellersh
Midshipman
Philip Gidley King
Midshipman
Alexander Burns Usborne
Master’s Assistant
Charles Musters
Volunteer 1st Class
Jonathan May
Carpenter
Edward H. Hellyer
Clerk.
Acting boatswain: Sergeant of marines and seven privates: Thirty-four seamen and six boys
On the List of supernumeraries were –
Charles Darwin
Naturalist.
Augustus Earle
Draughtsman.
George James Stebbing
Instrument Maker.
Richard Matthews and three Fuegians:
My own steward: and Mr Darwin’s servant.1
NOTES
1. FitzRoy, A Narrative of the Voyage of HMS Beagle, p.20.
Appendix II
A selected list of people with whom Darwin corresponded over the years.
1855
Edward Blyth, Curator of the Museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.
1858
George Robert Waterhouse, keeper, Department of Geology, British Museum; Frederick Smith, entomologist in the Zoological Department of the British Museum; Charles Cardale Babington, botanist and archaeologist of St John’s College, Cambridge; Henry Holland, physician and kinsman of the Darwins.
1859
Andrew Crombie Ramsay, lecturer at the government School of Mines.
1860
Maxwell Tylden Masters, physician and lecturer at St George’s Hospital; Thomas Bridges, a missionary at Keppel Island in the West Falklands; Hugh Falconer, palaeontologist and botanist; Samuel Pickworth Woodward, First Class Assistant in the Department of Geology and Mineralogy, British Museum; William Bernhard Tegetmeier, editor, journalist, lecturer, naturalist, pigeon fancier, and an expert on fowls; William Henry Harvey, botanist and keeper of the Herbarium, Trinity College, Dublin; William Hallowes Miller, Professor of Mineralogy at Cambridge.
1861
Henry Walter Bates, naturalist, who had undertaken a joint expedition to the Amazon with Alfred R. Wallace between 1848 and 1850; Dorothy Fanny Nevill of Sussex, cultivator of tropical plants; Jeffries Wyman, US anatomist and ethnologist.
1862
Edward Cresy, surveyor and civil engineer; George Bentham, botanist and President of the Linnaean Society; Charles Kingsley, author, clergyman, and Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University; Alexander Goodman More, naturalist; Thomas G. Appleton, Boston, essayist, poet and artist; Thomas Rivers, nurseryman and collector of roses.
1863
Thomas Rivers, nurseryman and a founder of the British Pomological Society (pomology being the science of fruit growing); John Scott, Scottish botanist and foreman of the Propagating Department at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh; John Evans, paper manufacturer, archaeologist, geologist, and numismatist (student of coins and medals); Darwin’s son, George Howard Darwin; Francis T. Buckland, naturalist, popular science writer and surgeon.
1864
Daniel Oliver, keeper of the herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Professor of Botany at University College, London; William Erasmus Darwin, Darwin’s eldest son, who was a partner in the Southampton and Hampshire Bank, chairman of the Southampton Water Company, amateur photographer, and amateur botanist.
1865
Thomas Campbell Eyton, Shropshire naturalist; William Bowman, a leading ophthalmic surgeon; William Charles Linnaeus Martin, former Superintendent of the Zoological Society of London and writer on natural history.
1866
Philip Lutley Sclater, lawyer and ornithologist; Johann F. T. Müller, German naturalist; Swiss botanist Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli.
1867
Johann F. T. Müller, German naturalist; Thomas Belt, geologist, naturalist and mining engineer; Julius V. Carus, German comparative anatomist; James P. M. Weale, naturalist, farmer, and writer; William Bowman, ophthalmic surgeon; (Felix) Anton Dohrn, German zoologist; John Scott, Scottish botanist.
1868
John Jenner Weir, naturalist and accountant; Roland Trimen, zoologist and entomologist; John Scott, Scottish botanist; Friedrich Rolle, German geologist and palaeontologist.
1869
Dr Henry Maudsley, doctor, psychologist and psychiatrist; James Crichton-Browne, Scottish physician and psychiatrist; William Ogle, physician and naturalist; Frederico Delpino, Italian botanist; Albrecht C. L. G. Günther, German-born zoologist.
1870
Vladimir O. Kovalevsky, Russian palaeontologist; Patrick Nicol, Scottish-born physician and mental-health practitioner; Bartholomew J. Sulivan, Darwin’s officer/hydrographer and companion on HMS Beagle; William Swale, nurseryman who emigrated to New Zealand; John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, banker, politician, and naturalist.
1871
St George Jackson Mivart, comparative anatomist; W. J. Erasmus Wilson, dermatologist and philanthropist; Joseph Wolf, German-born painter and illustrator; Alexander Agassiz, Swiss-born geologist, oceanographer, and mining engineer; Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer, civil servant and barrister; George Busk, Russian-born naval surgeon and naturalist; Osbert Salvin, ornithologist and entomologist.
Appendix III
A selected list of topics which interested Darwin over the years.
1858
Variations in birds’ nests; ‘humble-bees’, and the bees of New Zealand, and how ‘Esquimaux who have not iron [tools] cut holes in ice for catching fish & Seals, & dig snow-houses &c.’
1860
‘Whether there is much variation in Sweet Peas which might be owing to natural crosses’; whether it was ‘possible that archaeologists may know when our gigantic dray or wagon Horses were first recorded or noticed’; those places ‘where the Bee or Fly Orchis is tolerably common …’; the ‘…exact dates of period [length] of gestation of any breeds of Dog?’.
1861
How the skulls of various types of fowl differed; ‘whether the glacial period affected the whole world contemporaneously …’; how variations in hollyhocks had come about; the means by which orchids are pollinated, and how the ancient Scottish lakes of Lochaber had been formed.
1862
The fertilization of orchids; whether insects change quickly with time; melastomas (tropical shrubs and small trees from South-East Asia), and Drosera (carnivorous plants, otherwise known as sundews).
1863
The cultivation of peaches; the ability of a fish to re-grow its fin after it had been severed; ‘the proportion of men who suffer from Tropical diseases in relation to the colour of their hair & skin’, and the cross-breeding of primroses and cowslips.
1865
The webbed feet of otter hounds, as compared with fox hounds or harriers; the speed at which pigeons fly, and variations to be found in the plumage of birds.
1866
The incidence of squinting (strabismus) in children; the architecture of the honeycombs of bees; the colouration of the wings of butterflies, and the cross-breeding of cucumbers.
1867
Darwin’s current preoccupation was with botany, but other subjects of interest included facial expressions exhibited by various races; why caterpillars are ‘sometimes so beautifully and artistically coloured?’; horned beetles, and why the female birds of certain species are more brightly coloured than the males.
1868
Possible affinities between the languages of Australia and those of Africa; the proportion of males to females to be found in the various species of the animal kingdom; whether butterflies are polygamous; how it can be that ‘a single cell of a plant or the stump of an amputated limb have the “potentiality” of reproducing the whole …’, and the factors which influence the production of tears, not only in humans but also in elephants!
1869
The origin of the inhabitants of New Zealand; ‘the plumage of the chickens of Cuckoo
breeds & Seabright bantams’; the ‘Expression of the Emotions amongst the insane and idiotic’, and which of the mammalian species are polygamous.
1870
Suicide amongst ‘savages’; body language in respect of savages and Cistercian monks; the deaf and dumb; cross-pollination of plants, including those from Africa and Europe; the evolution of language, and finally the number of cobwebs to be found in the hedges at Down House!
1871
‘How far the disintegration of rocks goes on beneath a continuous bed of turf’; ‘The exact [weight] of earth annually cast up by earth worms over a square yard’; ‘The pouting of children of savages, & … the pouting of English children’, and the ears of hedgehogs compared with those of man.
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