The Mount garden in Shrewsbury provided the young Charles Darwin with mental stimulation and an environment for quiet contemplation for his morning walks. It comprised a kitchen garden, filled ...

Charles Darwin's "Tree of Life" sketch is seen on a page of "Notebook B," one of the trove of Darwin documents that had been stored in the Cambridge University library until it went missing in 2001.

Charles Darwin's 1842 theory about the formation of ring-shaped reefs, called atolls, ... "He published a beautiful map that compiled all the known reefs on Earth," Droxler said.

These books about Charles Darwin are a very select group, says James A. Secord. Skip ... instruments, portraits, maps -- lend to the book the flavor of a gorgeously illuminated medieval ...