 The three Fuegians taken on the previous voyage were going to be returned to Tierra del Fuego on "Beagle" together with the missionary Richard Matthews.For Beaufort and the leading Cambridge "gentlemen of science" the opportunity for a naturalist to join the expedition fitted with their drive to revitalise British government policy on science.This elite disdained research done for money and felt that natural philosophy was for gentlemen, not tradesmen.