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 ...
For example, one of the first ones was used by Captain Cook, and when Cook made ... But this one is famous, because in 1831 it was issued to 'HMS Beagle', the ship which carried Charles Darwin ...
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On This Day in 1831, Charles Darwin Embarked on a Journey That Led to His Groundbreaking Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection“After having been twice driven back by heavy southwestern gales, Her Majesty’s ship Beagle, a ten-gun brig, under the command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N., sailed from Devonport on the 27th of ...
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 ...
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