It has been described as ‘the most significant gap year in history’. In 1831 Charles Darwin left England aboard HMS Beagle as an able but untried Cambridge graduate. He returned from the voyage in 1836 as an eagerly awaited member of the scientific establishment. Cambridge played a vital role in this transformation. Darwin’s Cambridge connections secured his place on the Beagle; his Cambridge friends and teachers sent advice, encouragement and responses to his ideas, and arranged for his discoveries to be promoted and published; and it was to Cambridge that vast numbers of specimens were shipped in caskets, barrels, jars and pill-boxes.
Read the complete entry with links to the collections at: Charles Darwin and the Beagle Collections in the University of Cambridge, as provided by the Archives Hub.
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