Our third newsletter marks Charles Darwin’s 210th birthday.
Newsletter No. 3: Knee-deep in barnacles
darwin’s illness
Darwin's uncontrollable farting
Letter to the London Review of Books, in response to a recent piece claiming that Darwin suffered from uncontrollable farting.
Shock treatment
Charles Darwin tries galvanisation.
Such modest ambitions, Mr Darwin!
In 1841, Darwin's ill-health evidently left him with low expectations of his future ability to contribute to science.