TYPOGRAPHIC SPECIMENS

The Reverend Jackson Whitehead served as the ships chaplain aboard the HMS Pica, sistership to the HMS Beagle, which accompanied th e Beagle on its second survey expedition in1831. As well as being a visually perceptive man of the cloth, Whitehead was also a keena mateur collector of fauna as well as a typography enthusiast. Upon realizing that the majorityof both ships crews were either commi tted atheists or budding evolutionists, Whiteheadembarked on entertaining himself between landfalls by creating a whole series of na turalhisto...[Read more]