Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S.,

Whose Profound Researches Have Thrown So Much Light Upon Every Department of Science, and Whose Charming "Voyage of the Beagle" Has So Pleasantly Associated His Name with Our Southern Continent, These Sketches of the Andes and the Amazon Are, by Permission, Most Respectfully Dedicated.

"Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval forests undefaced by the hand of man; whether those of Brazil, where the powers of Life are predominant, or those of Terra del Fuego, where Death and Decay prevail. Both are temples filled with the varied productions of the God of Nature: no one can stand in these solitudes unmoved, and not feel that there is more in man than the mere breath of his body."—Darwin's Journal, p. 503.