3-039-062 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Mr. C. R. Darwin, author of "The Origin of Species'', 1871. Engraving from a photograph by Ernest Edwards. '...as an observer of the processes of nature...Mr. Darwin is a very high authority...The Rev. Mr. Henslow, Professor of Botany at Cambridge, recommended him...to Captain Fitzroy and the Lords of the Admiralty, in 1831, when a naturalist was to be chosen to accompany the second surveying expedition of H.M.S. Beagle in the Southern Seas...the Beagle, which sailed again Dec. 27, 1831, and returned to England Oct. 22, 1836, made a scientific circumnavigation of the globe...the zoology, botany, and geology of the different countries visited were examined by Mr. Darwin. He served without salary, and partly paid his own expenses, on condition that he should have the entire disposal of his collections. These were received in England by Professor Henslow. Their value to the advancement of science was shown by the special reports, upon these collections, of the highest authorities in each case; of Professor Owen, upon the fossil mammalia; of Mr. Waterhouse, upon the living beasts; of Mr. Gould, upon the birds; of Dr. Hooker, Professor Henslow, and others, upon the plants; and of the most learned men in fishes, reptiles, and insects'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.