This was originally prepared to educate school and college students during Darwin birth bicentenary but I continued to make presentations for the children.

3. 18 th Century Erasmus Darwin : Josiah Wedgwood (1731-1802) (1730-1795)

4. Robert Waring Darwin (1766-1848)

5. Robert Waring Darwin x Susannah Wedgwood Married in 1796

6. 6 children : 1. Marianne Darwin (1798-1858) 2. Caroline Sarah Darwin (1800-1888) 3. Susan Elizabeth Darwin (1803-1866) 4. Erasmus Alvey Darwin (1804-1881) 5. Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) 6. Emily Catherine Darwin (1810-1866)

7. 19 th Century

8. Charles Darwin (1809-1882) Charles Darwin was born on February 12, 1809, in Shrewsbury, England. His father, Robert Darwin, was a physician, the son of Erasmus Darwin, a poet, philosopher, and naturalist. Charles's mother, Susannah Wedgwood Darwin, died when he was eight years old.

14. Voyage of the Beagle (1831-1836)

16. Robert FitzRoy (1805 - 1865)

17. "Anxious that no opportunity of collecting useful information, during the voyage, should be lost; I proposed to the Hydrographer [Captain Francis Beaufort] that some well-educated and scientific person should be sought for who would willingly share such accommodations as I had to offer, in order to profit by the opportunity of visiting distant countries yet little known. Captain Beaufort approved of the suggestion, and wrote to Professor Peacock, of Cambridge, who consulted with a friend, Professor Henslow, and he named Mr. Charles Darwin, grandson of Dr. Darwin the poet, as a young man of promising ability, extremely fond of geology, and indeed all branches of natural history. In consequence an offer was made to Mr. Darwin to be my guest on board, which he accepted conditionally; permission was obtained for his embarkation, and an order was given by the Admirality that he should be borne on the ship's books for provisions. The conditions asked by Mr. Darwin were, that he should be at liberty to leave the Beagle and retire from the Expedition when he thought proper, and that he should pay a fair share of the expenses of my table." -- Capt. Robert FitzRoy

19. Mt. FitzRoy in Argentina-Chile

20. The relationship between Darwin and FitzRoy is the subject of Harry Thompson's novel This Thing of Darkness , long-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2005 .

30. Atlantic islands

33. Pride of Madeira (Echium candicans)

36. Feb. 1832 - Jan. 1833: The Beagle arrives at Brazil Survey work at Rio de Janeiro Survey work at Buenos Aires Two boats hired to assist surveys Violent storms at Tierra del Fuego

37. Surveying South America

40. Jan. 1833 - Nov. 1833: The Mission is started A visit to the Falkland Islands Darwin leads the Gaucho life Darwin explores Buenos Aires Darwin explores the Rio Negro

43. Darwin made long journeys inland, With travelling companions from the locality. In Patagonia he rode inland with gauchos and saw them use bolas to bring down "ostriches" ( rheas ), and ate roast armadillo .

51. Charles Lyell (1797-1875)

53. Tierra del Fuego

55. Gauchos, Rheas, fossils and geology

56. Nov. 1833 - Jun. 1834: Return to the mission Falkland Islands, revisited Expedition up the Rio Santa Cruz The Beagle rounds the Cape

57. West coast of South America

58. Jun. 1834 - Apr. 1835: Arrival at Valparaiso Darwin's 1st Andes expedition FitzRoy's nervous breakdown Survey of Chiloe Island Survey of Earthquake damage Darwin's 2nd Andes expedition Darwin's 3rd Andes expedition FitzRoy saves the HMS Challenger Survey of the Peru coastline

59. 14 August 1843 to 27 September 1843

61. Jun. 1834 - Apr. 1835: Arrival at Valparaiso Darwin's 1st Andes expedition FitzRoy's nervous breakdown Survey of Chiloe Island Survey of Earthquake damage Darwin's 2nd Andes expedition Darwin's 3rd Andes expedition FitzRoy saves the HMS Challenger Survey of the Peru coastline

62. Apr. 1835 - Oct. 1835: Survey of Galapagos Archipelago

63. " I am very anxious to see the Galapagos Islands, -- I think both the Geology & Zoology cannot fail to be very interesting ." -- Charles Darwin, Letter to his sister, Catherine in August 1835.

74. Darwin’s Finches

76. Darwin's Discovery: Some of the specimens Darwin collected from the Galapagos: One buzzard, two owls, three flycatchers, one Sylvicola, three species of mockingbirds, one species of finch, one swallow, one dove, 13 species of finches (Darwin remarked how fascinated he was by the beak gradations, but the variation of finches confused Darwin a great deal), one turtle, one tortoise, four lizards (sea and land iguanas and two other types), four snakes, and very few insects.

80. Oct. 1835 - Mar. 1836: Into the Pacific Ocean Tahiti is Spotted Arrival at New Zealand The Beagle in Australia Exploring Tasmania

91. FitzRoy Falls in New South Wales, Australia

92. Mar. 1836 - Oct. 1836: Exploring the Cocos Islands The Beagle arrives at South Africa Arrival at St. Helena Island The return to South America The Azores are Spotted Finally home in England! The Fate of the Beagle

106. 2 October 1836 HMS Beagle finally arrived home after a voyage of four years, nine months, five days. They docked at Falmouth, England around 9:00 in the evening during a mild rain storm. Darwin set off immediately for Shrewsbury.

117. Origin of Species (1859)

121. The theory: Darwin discovered that evolution occurs by natural selection, whereby species with characteristics best suited to their environment survive and pass on these attributes to their offspring. While at the Galapagos, he found 13 varieties of finches on different islands, some that ate insects, others that ate seeds. He realized they were descendants of a single ancestor species that dispersed across the islands then adapted to the different foods available on each.

123. Responses to the publication

125. Descent of Man (1871), sexual selection, and botany

126. Darwin and Orchids

131. Darwin and Insectivorous Plants

132. Venus Fly Trap Dionaea muscipula

133. 1875

136. Robert Malthus

137. Alexander von Humboldt 1769-1859

138. Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)

139. J. D. Hooker (1817-1911)

140. Karl Marx (1818-1883)

144. " As far as I can judge of myself I worked to the utmost during the Voyage from the mere pleasure of investigation, and from my strong desire to add a few facts to the great mass of facts in natural science." -- Charles Darwin