Darwin Letter Friday

September 19, 2008

As Darwin watches the preparation of the H.M.S. Beagle, he gets (understandably) excited.
It also turns out that Captain FitzRoy was popular with the ladies. Darwin fears that he will get seasick on the voyage; it happens to everyone. Little did he know how bad it would be, and that raisins were all he [...]

Darwin Letter Friday

September 5, 2008
What do you pack for a journey around the world?
Well, if the year is 1831, guns. Lots of them.
Charles Darwin wrote his sister Susan 177 years ago tomorrow with a packing list for the H.M.S. Beagle voyage, and fears that he’s a bother for asking for more and more stuff. Or maybe [...]