Dr Gordon Chancellor

Gordon Chancellor is a palaeontologist by training. He has been researching the HMS Beagle voyage of 1831-1836 for 50 years, and has made very many contributions to Darwin Online, including introductions to Darwin's Geological diary, geological books Coral reefs, Volcanic islands, South America and Earthworms and the six editions of Origin of species.

Chancellor's 2009 book, with John van Wyhe and Kees Rookmaaker, Charles Darwin's notebooks from the voyage of the Beagle, is published by Cambridge University Press. See the Darwin Online versions of the Beagle notebooks here.

Chancellor has more recently published ‘Levels of Selection in Darwin’s Origin of Species’ in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences and is currently working with John van Wyhe on an edition of Darwin’s Geological diary and field notes from the voyage of the Beagle (OUP forthcoming).

Gordon persuaded his father John Chancellor (1925-1984), one of the finest marine artists of recent generations, to paint two pictures of the Beagle. Requests to reproduce either of these pictures must be directed to Gordon at gordon.chancellor@btinternet.com. Further information about John Chancellor’s work is available at www.johnchancellor.co.uk.

HMS Beagle in the Galapagos, 17 October 1835 2.15 p.m., by John Chancellor.
See John Chancellor. 2007. FitzRoy's Beagle. [Previously unpublished manuscript c. 1980]. Introduction Text

Sorely Tried, HMS Beagle off Cape Horn, 13 January 1833 at 1.45 p.m., by John Chancellor.