Cambridge University Library In late 1833, with the HMS Beagle anchored in Montevideo and Charles Darwin hunting fossils ashore, a British landscape painter named Conrad Martens joined the crew.

Today's scientists marvel that the 19th-century naturalist's grand vision of evolution is still the key to life ...

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 ...

Like so many great scientists, Charles Darwin was first drawn to ... to accompany Captain Robert FitzRoy on a voyage of the HMS Beagle, Darwin had become an astute and insatiable scientist ...

The ship, launched in 1820, allowed Darwin to make observations that led to his theory of natural selection. The remains of a rare 19th Century dock built for Charles Darwin's ship HMS Beagle has ...

Both behind the scenes and on display in the galleries, you’ll find many specimens collected by Charles Darwin on his five-year voyage aboard HMS Beagle. Take a closer look at nine highlights from the ...

Charles Robert Darwin, naturalist ... At Cambridge University he became very much interested in natural history and sailed on the ship HMS Beagle in 1831 to South America and the Galapagos islands. In ...

An international group of scientists plan to recreate Charles Darwin’s five-year sea voyage around the world aboard a replica of the HMS Beagle. They plan to set sail from London in 2014.

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection ... a ‘gentleman naturalist’ on a voyage around the world on HMS Beagle. Darwin jumped at the chance. Over the following five years ...

Researchers and historians have collected approximately 15,000 letters written both to and by Charles Darwin in an effort to better ... many of the plant specimens collected during Darwin’s HMS Beagle ...