5. Sails with The Beagle
Private notebooks on evolution
First bouts of (chronic & lifelong) illness
Publications on geography (coral reefs, volcanic islands, shelves of Glen
Roy) and zoology (Zoology of the Voyage of the HMS Beagle)
winter Darwin named Secretary of Geological Society
Jan Elected fellow of Royal Society of London
Married to Emma Wedgwood
summer Publishes Journal and Remarks from the Beagle’s voyage
Barnacle studies (beginning of “Darwin’s Delay”)
Daughter Anne (age 10) dies, possibly of tuberculosis
June Darwin receives Alfred Russel Wallace’s paper on evolution
Baby Charles Waring dies of scarlet fever
July Wallace’s and Darwin’s papers read at Linnaean Society
Nov Origin of Species published