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The document below is a transcription of the part devoted to fishes of the *Zoological Notes compiled by Charles Darwin (CD) during the voyage of the *Beagle. This was originally copied by Syms *Covington in 1838 or thereabouts. CD contributed corrections and additional text to the manuscript of 20 pages, kept in the Darwin Archive at the Library of Cambridge University as DAR 29.1.
I have in the main followed for this transcription the practice established by the editors of CD's *Correspondence (see alsoConventions used in the text). Thus, this transcription was as literal as possible, though in a few cases, Jenyns' Fish (which often cites ‘Fish in Spirits of Wine’ verbatim) and Keynes' (2000) Zoology Notes, were used to select from a range of options. Also, I have attempted to reproduce the form of the original document: as already noted by Porter (1985), the right side of Fish in Spirits of Wine reproduces CD's field notes, while the left side mainly contains the species names resulting from Jenyns' identifications (including preliminary identifications, and names he subsequently rejected).