Notes - The Scramble for the Amazon and the Lost Paradise of Euclides da Cunha - page 415

6. Barreto de Santana, Ciência e arte .
7. Anderson, “Charles Lyell, Uniformitarianism, and Interpretive Principles”; Gould, Time's Arrow,
Time's Cycle ; Virgili, “Charles Lyell and Scientific Thinking in Geology”; Wilkinson, “Ecology before
Ecology.”
8. Katzer, Grundzüge der Geologie .
9. Kalliola et al., “Upper Amazon Channel Migration”; Rasanen et al., “Recent and Ancient Fluvial
Deposition Systems.”
10. Campbell, Frailey, and Romero-Pittman, “Pan-Amazonian Ucayali Peneplain”; Kalliola et al.,
“Upper Amazon Channel Migration”; Neller, Salo, and Rasanen, “On the Formation of Blocked Valley
Lakes”; Pitman et al., “Tree Species Distributions”; Toivonen, Mäki, and Kalliola, “Riverscape of
Western Amazonia.”
11. Godoy, Petts, and Salo, “Riparian Flooded Forests”; Kalliola et al., “Upper Amazon Channel Mi-
gration”; Rasanen et al., “Recent and Ancient Fluvial Deposition Systems.”
12. Da Cunha, “Relatorio de Comissão Mixta Brasileiro-Peruana.”
13. Gould, Structure of Evolutionary Theory ; Hecht, “Last Unfinished Page of Genesis.”
14. Gilbert, “New Light on Isostasy.”
15. See map in chapter 16.
16. Fragment of the essay from the introduction to Alberto Rangel's Book Inferno verde , published
in 1907.
17. Katzer, Grundziige der Geologie.
18. The Agassiz expedition, funded by J. P. Morgan.
19. Maspero (1846-1916) was the preeminent Egyptologist of his time, and if Herodotus took on the
East in his review of civilizations, Maspero can be seen as the historical ethnographer of the southern
Mediterranean.
20. Da Cunha's observations are supported by modern research: Rossetti and de Toledo, “Biod-
iversity from a Historical Geology Perspective”; Rossetti et al., “Quaternary Tectonics in a Passive
Margin”; Rossetti, Valeriano, and Thales, “Abandoned Estuary within Marajó Island.”
21. See Cohen et al., “Wetland Dynamics of Marajó Island”; Rossetti et al., “Quaternary Tectonics in
a Passive Margin.”
22. Smith, Brazil, the Amazons and the Coast .
23. The town of Obidos is situated at the narrowest part of the Amazon's channel.
24. This is the second part of “General Observations” from À margem da história.
25. Here da Cunha is making reference to the “mathematical” Jesuits who were meant to determine
with celestial as well as more earthbound techniques the boundaries for the Treaty of Madrid. See
chap. 7 above.
26. Buscalione was a botanist who developed one of the major European collections of Amazon
flora and is well known for the first major botanical description of Castilloa , the caucho tree. He was
an early promoter of an international research institute for the central Amazon, an analogue to the
Goeldi museum, rather like today's Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA). See Daly and Millozza,
“'Lost' Plant Collections from the Amazon.”
27. Gaspar Barleus (1584-1648) was the biographer of Johan Mauritz (1630-54) and chronicler of
his administration in Brazil. His observations of the colonial period, including the endless slave and
native wars, prompted his cynical aphorism.
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