On 20th February, 1835, Charles Darwin was lying down in a wood having a rest in Valvidia, Southern Chile, when he experienced a major earthquake.
20-Feb-1835: Darwin witnesses an earthquake
darwin correspondence
Charles Darwin to Charles Lyell, 10th January, 1860
Humorously describing mankind's ancestor.
I have seriously cool friends (part 3)
My wonderful, long-suffering partner, Jen, filled a gaping hole in my Darwin-groupie library this Christmas.
Two triumphant predictions for science
In which one of Darwin's correspondents compares Darwin's famous moth prediction with the prediction of the orbit of the planet Neptune.
How to read Darwin - by Darwin
On 6th March, 1860, Charles Darwin advised a scientist whom he correctly believed to be sceptical of his views how to go about reading 'On the Origin of Species'.