Nearly two centuries ago on a little archipelago off the Pacific coast of Ecuador, a 26-year-old Charles Darwin stepped off the HMS Beagle. The now famous scientist had spent three years sailing ...

Late August 1831 (Voyage of the Beagle) Only days after his crushing disappointment, Darwin gets the letter of his lifetime. His Cambridge mentor, John Stevens Henslow, has recommended him to a ...

One of his most frequent contacts was Joseph Dalton Hooker, a botanist who helped identify many of the plant specimens collected during Darwin’s HMS Beagle journey, including his famed stop at the ...

Some of our most famous specimens were collected by Charles Darwin and Captain Robert FitzRoy during the round-the-world voyage of HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836. Accepted on board as a gentlemanly ...

The journey of young Charles Darwin aboard His Majesty's Ship Beagle, during the years 1831-36, is one of the best known and most neatly mythologized episodes in the history of science.

Charles Darwin recorded the rocks and fossils he collected on the Beagle Voyage in these notebooks.In these rather plain jotters Charles Darwin (1809-1882) recorded all the dry specimens that he ...

As Visit Essex says, the two hamlets form one of the county’s oldest fishing villages. It is home to a 1000-year-old church - St Peter's Church - once run by "the King of the Smugglers" William “Hard ...

Darwin’s tutor at Cambridge recommended him as a ‘gentleman naturalist’ on a voyage around the world on HMS Beagle. Darwin jumped at the chance. Over the following five years, Darwin visited ...

Both behind the scenes and on display in the galleries, you’ll find many specimens collected by Charles Darwin on his five-year voyage aboard HMS Beagle. Take a closer look at nine highlights from the ...

St. Jago, one of the Cape Verde Islands, is the first place Darwin disembarks on his Beagle voyage. "The geology of St. Jago," Darwin notes, "is very striking yet simple: a stream of lava formerly ...

Darwin’s ship which famously carried him around the world as a 22-year-old, is speculated to be buried in the mud of the riverbank. After it was decommissioned in 1845, HMS Beagle was refitted ...