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September 1:

 * 1831 - Charles Darwin accepted the offer of a supernumerary naturalist position aboard the HMS Beagle, which was being prepared for its second voyage.
 * 1833 - During the second voyage of the Beagle, Darwin discovered an articulated fossil skeleton near the sites of his 1832 fossil discoveries near Punta Alta, Argentina.