<P> Darwin was invited by FitzRoy to contribute the natural history section to the captain's account of the Beagle's voyage . Using his field notes and the journal which he had been sending home for his family to read, he completed this section by September 1837 . FitzRoy had to edit the notes of the previous captain of the Beagle, as well as write his own account of the voyage and the previous expeditions of two ships . </P> <P> The account was completed and published as a four volume set in May 1839 as the Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle . Volume one covers the first voyage under Commander Phillip Parker King, volume two is FitzRoy's account of the second voyage . Darwin's Journal and Remarks, 1832--1835 forms the third volume, and the fourth volume is a lengthy appendix . FitzRoy's account includes Remarks with reference to the Deluge in which he recanted his earlier interest in the geological writings of Charles Lyell and his remarks to Darwin during the expedition that sedimentary features they saw "could never have been effected by a forty days' flood", asserting his renewed commitment to a literal reading of the Bible . He had married on the ship's return, and his wife was very religious . </P> <P> Darwin's contribution proved remarkably popular and the publisher, Henry Colburn of London, took it upon himself to reissue Darwin's text in August with a new title page as Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle apparently without seeking Darwin's permission or paying him a fee . </P> <P> The second edition of 1845 incorporated extensive revisions made in the light of interpretation of the field collections and developing ideas on evolution . This edition was commissioned by the publisher John Murray, who actually paid Darwin a fee of £ 150 for the copyright . The full title was modified to Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world . </P>

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