Cambridge University Library In late 1833, with the HMS Beagle anchored in Montevideo and Charles Darwin ... of evolution, Darwin must have welcomed the new shipmate. With his 6- by 9-inch ...

Like so many great scientists, Charles Darwin was first drawn to science as a young boy by his intense interest in ... founder of the Cambridge University Botanic Garden (1831), and through ...

English Heritage Images Charles Darwin lived with his wife, children and servants ... It is still as open to the garden and the sun as it ever was. It continues to move through time.

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 Robert Darwin, naturalist, is buried in the north aisle of the nave of Westminster Abbey, not far from Sir Isaac Newton. He was born in Shrewsbury on 12th February 1809, son of Robert Waring ...

Aboard HMS Beagle in 1832, near the Cape Verde island of Santiago (then called St Jago), the young naturalist Charles Darwin met his match in the form of a common octopus. Surrounded by the Tank ...

On August 29, 1831, Charles Darwin returned home from a geology field trip in North Wales to find a letter waiting for him from his Cambridge professor and mentor, John Stevens Henslow. It contained ...

John Edmonstone was a former enslaved man who taught the young Charles Darwin the skill of taxidermy. This skill helped Darwin preserve the birds that fermented his ideas about evolution. Many Black ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection made us rethink our place in the world. The idea that humans shared a common ancestor with apes was a challenge to the foundations of ...