Syms Covington
Syms Covington (1816 - 1861) was the assistant of famous the Naturaliste English Charles Darwin at the time of sound voyage on the Beagle.
It is still adolescent when it leaves England on board HMS Beagle for its second voyage around the world between 1831 and 1836. As an assistant of Darwin, it is all at the same time collector, hunter, taxidermist and man of service.
In addition to these tasks, Covington holds a personal newspaper in which he tells his impressions of the voyage. This newspaper included of the notes on daily subjects going of its corvets to its impressions on the countries and the people which they meet, and it gives a new visual angle to this famous voyage of exploration, starting point of the theory of the evolution, which Darwin will publish well after his return in England.
It is him, and not Darwin, who sought and captured famous the Pinsons of Darwin, Darwin preferring to observe the geology and the crossed invertebrates of the areas.
In 1840, Covington emigrates in News-Wales of the South in Australia and becomes later the chief of the post office of Pambula.
In 1998, the Australian author Roger McDonald publishes a news on Syms Covington, called Mr. Darwin' S Shooter .
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