{"date":"December 27","id":"12-27","intro":["It was the new-old lands that Darwin visited on his voyage of the “Beagle.” The strange specimens of prehistoric life he saw there made the world gape and shudder."],"minutes":28,"readings":[{"author":"Charles Darwin","end":389,"start":376,"volume":29,"work":"Voyage of the Beagle"}],"slug":"december-27","status":"proofread","title":"Million-Year-Old Islands","url":"/harvard-classics/december-27/","words":5500}