Charles Robert Darwinย was born in 1809 in Shrewsbury, England. At Cambridge University he formed a friendship with J. S. Henslow, a professor of botany, and that association, along with his enthusiasm for collecting beetles, led to โa burning zeal,โ as he wrote in hisย Autobiography, for the natural sciences. A voyage to the Southern Hemisphere on the H.M.S.ย Beagleย between 1831 and 1836 would lay the foundation forย The Origin of Species, publishedย in 1859. His other works includeย The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sexย (1871) andย Recollections of My Mind and Character, also titledย Autobiographyย (1887). Charles Darwinโsย Diary of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagleย was published posthumously in 1933.