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Page from Conrad Martens’s sketchbooks (1833–35), from his time on board the HMS Beagle (courtesy Cambridge University Library) Yet the sketchbooks aren’t just about Darwin; Martens was an adventurous ...

Charles Darwin spent five years sailing around the world aboard the Beagle. In between exploring South America and checking out the Galapagos, Darwin had a lot of time to kill. Luckily, the Beagle's ...

A group of marine archeologists may have solved one of the world’s most enduring maritime mysteries -- the final resting place of the Beagle, the ship in which Charles Darwin traveled the globe for ...

1831: HMS Beagle, a 10-gun, Cherokee-class brig sloop of the Royal Navy's survey service, sets sail from Plymouth, England on its second voyage as a survey vessel. On board, at the invitation of ...

For the five years Charles Darwin spent sailing on the HMS Beagle the budding naturalist had around 404 books for company. After the ship returned to England on October 2, 1836, the books were ...

Beagle: In Darwin’s Wake is a commemoration of 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s book “On The Origin of Species”. Almost 180 years after Charles Darwin’s journey circumnavigating the ...

“[Mister] Renous, alluding to myself, asked him what he thought of the King of England sending out a collector to their country, to pick up lizards and beetles, and to break stones? The old gentlemen ...

Charles Darwin was a prolific letter writer — not unusual in his day, of course, before telephones, e-mail and Facebook. A little less usual is the degree to which his correspondence has been ...