CHARLES DARWIN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 14 January 1936, Page 2

CHARLES DARWIN

CELEBRATION OF CENTENARY OF VISIT TO AUSTRALIA SYDNEY, Bth January. Various scientific bodies throughout Australia are preparing to celebrate the centenary of Charles Dawn's -visit to Australia in 11.M.5. Beagle. The Naturalists’ Society of New South Wales will hold a meeting at the Education Building, Loft-us street, on the evening of 14th January, and a meeting will be held at the Union Ilali, the University, on 13th March, at 8 p.m. Early in the morning of 12th January, 1836, the 10-gun brig, 11.M.5. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzßoy, R.N., entered the heads of Port Jackson, sailed down, and anchored in Sydney Cove. On the scientific staff was a young naturalist, Charles Darwin, who, 22 years later, gave to the world the result of his investigations in his “The Origin of Species.” In the retrospect of liis “A Naturalist’s Voyage Round the World,” he writes; “In the same quarter of the globe Australia is rising, indeed it may be said to have risen, into a great centre of civilisation, which, at some not very remote period, will rule as empress over the southern hemisphere. It is impossible for ail Englishman to behold these distant colonies without a high pride and satisfaction. To hoist the British flag seems to draw with it as a certain consequence, wealth, prosperity, and civilisation.”