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 ...

Syme then used these as his starting point for the color names, descriptions and actual color charts in Werner’s Nomenclature ...

Sea levels rising and falling over hundreds of thousands of years may have helped build the oceanic structures ...

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's father Robert has many concerns ... His father foots the bill. October-December 1831 (Voyage of the Beagle) Darwin heads to the port of Plymouth. He packs gear into his tiny cabin ...

Like so many great scientists, Charles Darwin was first drawn to science as ... founder of the Cambridge University Botanic Garden (1831), and through reading progressive philosophers, such ...

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 ...

The neo-Darwinist attachment to Natural Selection has arrested the development of science for too long.

Charles Robert Darwin, naturalist, is buried in the north aisle of the ... At Cambridge University he became very much interested in natural history and sailed on the ship HMS Beagle in 1831 to South ...

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 ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection ... time collecting beetles and walking on the Fens. He graduated in 1831 but before he could take a job as a cleric, the chance of ...

Charles Darwin: Charles Darwin ... a ship that Darwin found himself on in 1831, a few years before the Victorian era technically began, but stay with me. The voyage was only supposed to last ...