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Month: July 2009

Darwin's beetles

The University of Cambridge Zoological Museum has a rather wonderful box of beetle specimens collected by Charles Darwin when he was at the university. Here are some photos.

Published 18-Jul-2009
Filed under: Blog Tags: beetles, cambridge, charles darwin, darwin correspondence, entomology, photographs

Darwin's octopus

Photo of an octopus collected by Charles Darwin in the Cape Verde Islands.

Published 16-Jul-2009
Filed under: Blog Tags: beagle voyage, cephalopods, charles darwin, darwin correspondence, john stevens henslow, octopuses, photographs

Darwin’s room

Photos from Darwin's student room at Christ's College, Cambridge.

Published 14-Jul-2009
Filed under: Blog Tags: cambridge, charles darwin, john van wyhe

Back from Cambridge

Just back from a pretty awesome couple of days in Cambridge with Michael Barton, FCD. More posts to follow over the next few days.

Published 13-Jul-2009
Filed under: Blog Tags: cambridge, fcd, michael barton

Correspondence Vol. 17 is out

Those frankly wonderful people at the Darwin Correspondence Project have announced the publication of volume 17 of their stupendously researched series of books.

Published 11-Jul-2009
Filed under: Blog Tags: books, charles darwin, darwin correspondence, darwin correspondence project

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