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In Darwin’s slipstream
A team on a restored Dutch tall ship have followed in the footsteps of the great naturalist, 200 years after his original ...
A timepiece used on a seagoing voyage by the HMS Beagle – the ship that carried Charles Darwin on his travels – has been ...
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 ...
Charles will share a 10-by-11-foot cabin with the 19-year-old assistant surveyor. ... October-December 1831 (Voyage of the Beagle) Darwin heads to the port of Plymouth.
A Dutch ship has left England on a two-year mission to study and save species discovered by Charles Darwin. The vessel is scheduled to retrace Darwin’s 1831 voyage.
Charles Darwin begins his fateful voyage, the effects of which will shake the Kansas State Board of Education to its foundations almost two centuries later. ... 1831: HMS Beagle, a 10-gun, ...
Both are biographies featuring Darwin’s global circumnavigation between Dec. 27, 1831 and Oct. 2, 1836, and track, on the books’ inside covers, the round-trip voyage from Plymouth, England ...
Two outstanding people were born on Feb. 12, 1809: Abraham Lincoln in the United States, and Charles Darwin in England. Darwin made a very significant contribution to science and humanity with his ...