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December 10:

 * 1817 - Fielding Bradford Meek was born in Madison, Indiana, USA.
 * 1831 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin, attempted to embark on its second voyage but was driven back by foul weather.
 * 1943 - Frederick Chapman died.
 * 2014 - Amy M. Balanoff, G. S. Bever, and Mark A. Norell published a study comparing the brains of Conchoraptor gracilis and modern birds. Andrew A. Farke and others described the new genus and species Aquilops americanus from the Albian Cloverly Formation of Montana, USA.