Charles Robert Darwin

Bio

* 1809, The Mount, UK

† 1882, Downe, UK

Career

1825-1827 studies of medicine at Edinburgh University; 1827 stay at Cambridge as a preparation to enter the Church of England as a clergyman; 1831 degree at Cambridge and invitation (instigated by Henslow) to join the Admiralty survey ship H.M.S. Beagle (under the command of Robert FitzRoy) as unpaid naturalist on a voyage to survey the coasts of Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego, Chile, and Peru, to visit some Pacific islands and to carry a chain of chronometrical stations around the world; 27 December 1831 start of the five year voyage on the Beagle; 1838 secretary of the Geological Society in London; from 1843 onward private lecturer at his estate in Downe; honorary doctorates from several foreign universities.

VL Library

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H. M. S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R. N. from 1832 to 1836, London 1839; Narrative of the surveying voyages of Her Majesty's Ship "Adventure" and "Beagle" between the years 1826-1836, describing their examination of the Southern shores of South America, and the "Beagle's" circumnavigation of the globe, Vol. 3, Journal and remarks, 1832-1836, London 1839 (dt. v. E. Dieffenbach, Braunschweig 1844); (Hrsg.) Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. "Beagle", London 1839-1843 (I: R. Owen, Fossil mammalia, 1840; II: G. R. Waterhouse, Mammalia, 1839; III: J. Gould, Birds, 1841; IV: L. Jenyns, Fishes, 1842; V: Th. Bell, Reptiles, 1843); A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with figures of all the species Origin of Species, 1859; The Decent of Man, 1871; The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals, 1872

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