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... avoided a career as a minister, desperately availing himself by signing up with the Royal Naval ship, the HMS Beagle, as the one and only naturalist on board. He travelled the world, South America, Galapogas, Australia; collecting countless specimans and documenting even more. As a child he had been an avid collector of natural wares, so as a man he found his calling. After two or so years of ...

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