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Dog Power!

Article about a dog-powered sewing machine from 'Popular Scientific Recreations, Profusely Illustrated'.

I have bought a gem of a book.

I've just finished reading 'Beechcombings' by Richard Mabey.

I've just finished reading 'Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5 Billion-Year History of the Human Body' by Neil Shubin.

Last week, I finished reading volume 7 of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, which deals with the years 1858–1859.

In which I hit the Darwin motherlode.

How kestrels track voles!

A whistle-stop tour of the history of natural history.

Courtesy of Michael Barton, FCD.

Did HMS Beagle have a figurehead?

New book on HMS Beagle arrives.