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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was a trove of fossils. Never mind the notion of Darwin's finches. For a fresh view of the Beagle voyage, start with Darwin's armadillos and giant sloths. "What we had for dinner to day would ...

An international group of scientists plan to recreate Charles Darwin’s five-year sea voyage around the world aboard a replica of the HMS Beagle. They plan to set sail from London in 2014.

HMS beagle in the Straits of Magellan Leaving home in 1831 at just 22, Darwin's first stop on the Beagle voyage was Cape Verde, off the west coast of Africa. In his diaries, the ship's captain, Robert ...

Darwin’s The Voyage of the Beagle chronicles his 1831–1836 journey aboard HMS Beagle, a pivotal expedition that shaped his theories on evolution and the diversity of life. John’s music ...

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 ...