 Ramba uchiverenga ndima ino - Paakasvika kuBarmouth manheru aAugust 23, Charles akasangana neboka rekuverenga reshamwari dzeCambridge kwechinguva asati aenda mangwanani eAugust 29, kuti adzokere kuShrewsbury uye aende kunopfura partridge nehama dzake dzeWedgwood kuMaer Hall. Akanga arwadziwa nokugamuchira shoko rokuti Ramsay akanga afa. Izvi zvakaparadza zvirongwa zvaDarwin zvokushanya kuTenerife gore rakatevera racho. Akasvika kumba paGomo, Shrewsbury, musi wa 29 Nyamavhuvhu, ndokuwana tsamba yakabva kuna John Stevens Henslow. George Peacock weCambridge akanga anzwa kuna Francis Beaufort nezvezvirongwa zvorwendo rwechipiri rwokuongororaHMS Beagle, uye vakanga vanyorera Henslow vachikumbira Leonard Jenyns samunhu akakodzera kubuda semunhu wepanyama nechiitiko ichi, kana kuti kana akanga asingawaniki achitsvaka mazano kune imwe nzira yekutora iyi mukana unobwinya. Apo Jenyns akasarudza kusasiya parochi yake, iye naHenslow vakafunga nezvaDarwin. Tsamba yaHenslow, yakaverengwa naPeacock ndokutumirwa kuna Darwin, yaitarisira kuti aizobata nokudisa kupiwa kunobvira kworwendo rwemakore maviri kuenda kuTerra del Fuego kumusha neEast Indies, kwete somuzivi wezvinhu zvakasikwa akapedza, asi somurume anokwanisa zvikuru kuunganidza, kucherechedza, kucherechedza chinhu chipi nechipi chakakodzera kucherechedzwa muNhoroondo yeZvisikwa. Kugadzwa kwacho kwakanga kuri zvikuru somuperekedzi kuna Kaputeni Robert FitzRoy, kupfuura somunganidziwo zvake. Henslow akanyora kuti Ndinokuvimbisa kuti ndinofunga kuti ndiwe munhu chaiye wavari kutsvaka. 