Selected Letters on Evolution and Origin of Species (Dover, 2018)

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Selected Letters on Evolution and Origin of Species THE ‘BEAGLE’ LAID ASHORE, RIVER SANTA CRUZ. CHAPTER VI. THE VOYAGE. “There is a natural good-humoured energy in his letters just like himself.”—From a letter of Dr. R. W. Darwin’s to Professor Henslow. T HE object of the Beagle voyage is briefly described in my father’s Journal of Researches, p. 1 , as being “to complete the Survey of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, commenced under Captain King in 1826 to 1830; to survey the shores of Chile, Pe…