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Images Dated 18th August 1998

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View of letters addressed to Darwin on his desk
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The Galapagos Islands seen on one of Darwins maps
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Chemicals and rock samples in Darwins study
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Common Northern or Field Cricket
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Monarch Butterfly Inflating Wings
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Turquoise, Battle Mountain, Nevada
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The Galapagos Islands seen on one of Darwins maps

Darwin's map. View of a map of the Galapagos Islands at Down house, Kent, England, where Charles Darwin (1809-1882) lived for the last 40 years of his life. It was at this house that he wrote his revolutionary work On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859), and he did all his major thinking and writing there. Darwin visited the Galapagos Islands during his voyage on the HMS Beagle (1831-1836). It is a small group of islands west of South America (right), and almost on the equator (horizontal line). He noticed the diversity in the animals on each island, which provided him with data for his theories. Down House is now open to the public