The Voyage of the Beagle

The Voyage of the Beagle is a title commonly given to the book written by Charles Darwin published in 1839 as his Journal and Remarks, which brought him considerable fame and respect. The title refers to the second survey expedition of the ship HMS Beagle which set out on 27 December 1831 under the command of captain Robert FitzRoy.

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Darwin was quick to take the coach home, arriving at the family home of The Mount House in Shrewsbury, Shropshire late at night on 4 October and going straight to bed, then greeting his family at breakfast. After ten days of catching up with family news he went on to Cambridge and sought Henslow's advice on the task of organising the description and cataloguing of his collections.

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The Mount House - Shrewsbury, Shropshire - 4 October - Cambridge - Henslow

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His father gave him an allowance that enabled him to put aside ideas of other careers, and he went on to the London institutions as a sought-after scientific celebrity with his reputation already established by his fossils and by Henslow's printing of his letters on South American geology. Already, he was part of the scientific establishment, seeking expert naturalists to describe his specimens and working on ideas he had been developing during the voyage. Charles Lyell gave enthusiastic backing. In December Darwin presented a talk to the Cambridge Philosophical Society. He wrote a paper proving that Chile, and the South American land-mass, was slowly rising, which he read to the Geological Society of London on 4 January 1837.

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London - Charles Lyell - Geological Society of London - 4 January - 1837

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Syms Covington stayed with Darwin as his servant until shortly after Darwin's marriage in January 1837, when he parted on good terms and emigrated to Australia.

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Syms Covington - 1837

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