Port Famine, Strait of Magellan, August 2, 1828. It is…
In 1934, Nora Barlow, the granddaughter of Charles Darwin, visited…
In January 1829, HMS Adventure, with Captain King, HMS Beagle,…
Small wonder the job had driven Pringle Stokes mad.
FitzRoy has been characterized as going after the Fuegians who…
FitzRoy—s instructions from the British Admiralty contained no provisions about…
The term “collecting” had a particular weight attached to it…
Early in December 1830, Coxswain Bennett and the Beagle’s recent…
It was FitzRoy’s man on the scene, Coxswain Bennett, installed…
Perhaps only the dawn of the Internet, and the computer…
Or so FitzRoy told Alexander Charles Wood, his cousin, a…
Darwin traveled to Devonport by coach on October 24, 1831.
As the Beagle rolled and pitched across the Bay of…
They had come a remarkably long way. There was no…
Nowhere are the designs of men more subject to the…
Darwin was among the large group that set out on…
A year and more into this second voyage aboard the…
FitzRoy never counted on Admiralty support for his extracurricular hiring…
Early voyagers called them the Enchanted Islands, but not because…
The Beagle dropped anchor in Falmouth, England, on October 2,…
Sometime between coming home in October 1836 and finishing his…
The book—in three volumes: King’s, FitzRoy’s, and Darwin’s, with a…
Religious mania was mainstream in nineteenth-century Britain. Almost as if…
Robert FitzRoy read of the massacre in the British press…
In October 1838…I happened to read for amusement Malthus…
In late June 1860, FitzRoy traveled by train to Oxford…
Late in 1863, two years before FitzRoy’s death, Reverend Whait…