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After being delayed multiple times, the original departure scheduled for the end of September, the HMS Beagle finally departed.
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The ship was denied landing, the island was quarantined due to cholera in England
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Charles Darwin deployed a plankton net in the second recorded use of this kind of device. He collected a great deal of animals and wrote, "Many of these creatures so low in the scale of nature are most exquistite in their forms and rich colours."
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Journal began. He described the desolate volcanic island. A base was set up on Quail Island. Darwin studied animals, plants, and geology.
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The Beagle passes to the Southern hemisphere
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The Beagle makes anding in Brazil and Darin explores the rainforests.
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Darwin sees a giant fossil that he is eager to study.
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Captain FitzRoy returns three natives he had previously brought to England. He also tries to start a Christian mission, which fails.
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Darwin finds many ancient looking rocks and fossils. The Falklands were full of brachiopods.
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Darwin explores Pampas with the local people (gauchos).
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Darwin sees Mount Osomo erupt and experiences the earthquake.
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Darwin finds many species of animals, including tortoises, plants, iguanas, and birds. He studied the beaks of finches and discovered evolutionary differences in their beaks.
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Darwin marvels at marsupials and wonders why a totally different set of mammals is in Australia.
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Darwin studies coral reefs and tests his theory of atoll formation.
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Darwin studied the plant life.
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Darwin studied the Table Mountain, a horizontally stratified sandstone formation that rises to a height of 3,500 feet.
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Darwin discovers many animals, but is dismayed at the zigzagging pattern of the ship
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The HMS Beagle returns to England
