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Charles Darwin: Cambridge England
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The "Darwin Correspondence Project", in Cambridge England, has placed online every letter written by and to Charles Darwin for the years 1837 and 1859. The on-line database now contains more than 2,250 letters, and is still growing. In March of 2006 they published volume 15 of the Darwin Correspondence, covering the year 1867. You can find a link to their website in the Links Database section under the folders: "Darwin" - "For Scholars".
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Charles Darwin left Cambridge University in 1831. The same year he signed up to sail, without pay, as a naturalist on a ship called the Beagle. Its captain was Robert Fitzroy and it sailed on 27 December 1831.
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Few Victorians are as well-remembered today as Charles Robert Darwin. Born into a wealthy Shropshire gentry family, Darwin grew up amidst wealth, comfort and country sports. An unimpressive student, Darwin vacillated between the prospect of becoming a country physician, like his father, or a clergyman. The advantage to becoming a country parson, as Darwin saw it, would be the freedom to pursue his growing interest in natural history. However, an unforeseen opportunity precluded Darwin's plan of becoming a clergyman. After his student days in Edinburgh and Cambridge, Darwin's connections in 1831 offered him the opportunity of travelling on a survey ship, H.M.S. Beagle, as the captain's gentleman dining companion and as naturalist.
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February 12th marks the 199th birthday of Charles Darwin. The next year will be a very exciting one. The area around Down House will become a World Heritage Site, HMS Beagle is being rebuilt, Cambridge will play host to a number of Darwin exhibits schedualed for 2009, and many other events are in the works!
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