Abstract
H M.S. BEAGLE, under the command of Capt. Fitzroy, sailed from Rio de Janeiro on July 5, 1832, for the Plata and anchored at Montevideo on July 26. For more than a year the ship was employed in surveying the extreme southern and eastern coasts of South America. The Plata was used as a base and to it from time to time the Beagle returned. Thus Charles Darwin, the naturalist aboard, had several opportunities of making closer acquaintance with the northern shores of the estuary and more particularly with the natural history and geology of the Banda Oriental, by which name the Republic of Uruguay, to the east of the Rio Uruguay, was at that time known.
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Falconer, J. Darwin in Uruguay. Nature 140, 138–139 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/140138a0
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