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  • Sneak peek at Darwin's crab haul

    02/22/2008 6:32:51 AM PST · by decimon · 8 replies · 78+ views
    BBC ^ | February 22, 2008 | Unknown
    A rarely-seen collection of crabs from Charles Darwin's voyage aboard HMS Beagle has been given a new lease of life on the web. The University of Oxford has released images of specimens held in its museum collections that have been digitised for an online Darwin database. The crustaceans changed hands several times after Darwin's return to Britain, before fading into obscurity. They were then rescued by Oxford University's Museum of Natural History. Charles Darwin developed an interest in natural history while studying divinity at the University of Cambridge and was subsequently accepted as the naturalist on an expedition aboard the...