In February 1859, the Geological Society of London bestowed its highest honor on 50-year-old Charles Darwin for his nearly three decades of devotion to the profession. The Wollaston Medal, cast from ...
ON MONDAY, September 5, 1831, Robert FitzRoy was exactly twenty-six years and two months old. Young as he was, he had been in His Majesty’s Navy for twelve years, and before that in the Royal Naval ...
For the first time since his death in 1882, Charles Darwin’s impressive library has been virtually reassembled to reveal the multitude of books, pamphlets and journals cited and read by the ...
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