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Darwin

By missabby
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    Charles Darwin

    http://darwin-online.org.uk/timeline.html

  • Charles was born.

  • Begins Samuel Butler’s school at Shrewsbury

    started in June (not necessarily the 4th)

  • Left Samuel Butler's

  • Began medical classes at University of Edinburgh

  • Collects marine mammals

    In North Wales with Dr Robert Grant, naturalist and Lamarckian.

  • Becomes entomologist at Christ's College

    collects beetles

  • Appears in: Illustrations of British Entomology

    Earlier this year he collected insects with Fredrick William Hope

  • Invited to Beagle Voyage

    Invited by Henslow, and begins Beagle diary

  • First landing at St Jago, Cape Verde Islands

    Began using field notebooks and surveys east coast of South America. December arrives at Tierra del Fuego.
  • Period: to

    Surveys west coast of South America

  • Departs for Galapagos Archipelago

  • Begins publication of: The Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle

    Becomes friends with geologist Charles Lyell and John Gould

  • Marries his cousin Emma Wedgwood

  • Publishes: The structure and distribution of coral reefs

    Creats brief sketch og his theory of 'descent with modification'

  • Publishes: Geological Observations on the Volcanic Island visited during the Voyage of HMS Beagle

  • Publsihes: Geological Observations on South America

  • Publishes: A Monograph on the sub-class Cirripedia, and A Monograph on the fossil Lepadidae

  • Publishes concluding volumes on barnacles.

    A Monograph on the sub-class Cirripedia
    A Monograph on the fossil Balanidae and Verrucidae

  • Receives letter from Alfred Russel Wallace

    Darwin has his own theory of natural selection he has been working on, but finds profound simmilarities to Wallace's theory.

  • Publishes: On the ORigin of Species by means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

  • Publishes second edition of "Origin of Species"

  • Publishes third edition of "Origin of Species"

  • Publishes; On the Various Contrivances by which British and foreign Orchids are fertilised by Isects, and On the Good Effects of Intercrossing

  • Awarded the Copley medal of the Royal Society of London

    highest scientific honour

  • Publishes fourth edition of "Origin"

  • Publishes: The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication

  • Publishes: Descent of Man, and Selection in relation to Sex

  • Publishes sixt edition of "Origin"

    Also publishes: The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

  • Publsihes: Insectivorous Plants

  • Publishes: The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the same Species

  • Publishes: The Power of Movement in Plants, assisted by Francis Darwin

  • Publishes: The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms, with observation on their Habits

  • Dies, age 73