In August 1831, Darwin received a letter from his mentor, fellow geologist John Stevens Henslow, explaining that the Beagle’s new captain Lieutenant Robert Fitzroy was seeking an assistant who ...

A timepiece used on a seagoing voyage by the HMS Beagle – the ship that carried Charles Darwin on his travels – has been ...

A temporary export bar has been placed on a pocket chronometer present on the second voyage of HMS Beagle, well-known for ...

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 ...

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.

For the first time since his death in 1882, Charles Darwin’s impressive library has been virtually reassembled to reveal the multitude of books, pamphlets and journals cited and read by the ...

Between 1831 and 1836, Darwin traveled the world on the HMS Beagle, where he visited the Galápagos Islands and first began thinking about the ideas his name would become synonymous with.

On This Day in 1831, Charles Darwin Embarked on a Journey That Led to His Groundbreaking Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection Darwin was just 22 when he set out on a voyage that would change ...

Dr Tim Pestell, a member of the reviewing committee on the Export of Works of Art, said the 1831-36 voyage was "most popularly associated" with Darwin, but its role in testing scientific ...