The Beagle’s library of more than 400 books has been reconstructed and made freely available in digital form
HMS Beagle’s library was reconstructed using letters sent by crew members, Darwin’s notebooks and his surviving book collection. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis
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Mee-Lai Stone, The Guardian Portrait of Alexey Nikolaevich Tiutchev with his wife Anna Iosifovna and their daughters Anna and Maria Alekseyevna, 1864. Photograph: Piotr Vedenisov
JOSHUA COHEN New York Times At the same time, I was investigating the more practical, or just more traditional, alternatives to Google: Bing (owned by Microsoft), Yahoo (operated by Google back then and by Bing now), Info.com (an aggregator of Yahoo/Bing, Google and others) and newer sites like DuckDuckGo and IxQuick (which don’t track your…