So begins The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin’s account of his trip around the coast of South America, between the islands of the Galápagos, and back to England—a journey that inspired ...

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 ...

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, famed for his theory of evolution, profoundly influenced modern biology. Notably, Darwin shared a birthdate ...

In no rush to take holy orders, in 1831 Darwin accepted an offer to embark on a five-year voyage aboard HMS Beagle. Drawing of H.M.S. Beagle from A Naturalist’s Voyage Round the World by Charles ...

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.

Dhruv Shenai talks to Peter Mason about turning the The Voyage of the Beagle into a piece of travel literature ...

By the time he was serendipitously invited to accompany Captain Robert FitzRoy on a voyage of the HMS Beagle, Darwin had become an astute and insatiable scientist, primed for significant discoveries.

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 ...