User talk:Kenneth Wills

HMS Beagle: Captain FitzRoy's log book from the first voyage
Hi there Kenneth.

I saw your edit about the log book at El Museo Naval de la Nación & the email you received telling of it. I wonder if you could doublecheck? I searched for any references (online) and only found Forsyth's Log from the 2nd voyage at Darwin Online that was also acquired at Sotheby's (in 1948). Unless they've made another acquisition I wonder if there has been some confusion. Please clarify.--DadaNeem (talk) 20:49, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi DadaNeem.

There's probably no mention of the log book in Darwin Online because it covers the first voyage only of HMS Beagle, and Charles Darwin did not join the ship until the second voyage. Here is the text of the email message I referred to:

Estimado Señor Wills Sepa disculpar mis limitaciones para comunicarme en su idioma. Gracias por sus comentarios a cerca de nuestro museo, que con orgullo podemos afirmar que es el más completo en colecciones temáticas de Latinoamérica. En relación a la bitácora de la corbeta HMS Beagle, le podemos comentar que fue adquirida en remate de la casa Sotheby's por personal de la Armada Argentina. Contiene información técnica de la navegación del buque, manuscrita por su capitán Robert Fitzroy. No contiene datos relacionados con Charles Darwin, debido a que se trata de un viaje anterior al que el científico embarcara. Le envío además una reproducción de una acuarela de la que soy autor, que se encuentra en el libro "Charles Darwin al sur del sur" cuyo autor es Henry Von Wartenberg, quien ha recorrido todos los sitios en que estuvo Darwin en Sudamérica. Atentamente. Lic. Pablo Pereyra museólogo MUSEO NAVAL DE LA NACION TIGRE- BUENOS AIRES ARGENTINA.

This was in response to the following message from me:

Dear Sirs,

Please excuse me for writing in English, as my knowledge of the Spanish language is very weak.

When I visited your excellent museum last year, I saw that you have the log book of the HMS Beagle. However, it was secured in a locked case, and I was not permitted to inspect it.

Would you please be so kind as to give me more information about it:

How did your museum acquire it? What is the range of dates documented in the log book? Have the contents been published anywhere? Does it include any reference to Charles Darwin?

I thank you in advance for your help.

Kindest regards, Kenneth Wills

Kenneth Wills Kenneth Wills (talk) 20:56, 30 January 2014 (UTC)