Skip to content

The Friends of Charles Darwin

  • Home
  • Contents
  • Join
  • Newsletter
  • Blog
  • Articles
  • Reviews

Writing tagged: ‘natural history museum’

Fossil barnacles
Darwin's (and others') fossil barnacles. Natural History Museum.

The great Darwin fossil hunt

In which a friend beyond measure arranges a behind-the-scenes visit to the Natural History Museum to see fossils collected by Charles Darwin during the Beagle voyage.

Published 17-Jun-2015
Filed under: Articles Tags: barnacles, beagle voyage, brachiopods, falkland islands, fossils, molluscs, natural history museum, stense
Charles Darwin (1879)

19-Apr-1882: The death of a hero

After decades of mysterious ailments, and a short, final illness, Charles Darwin died at 4 o’clock in the afternoon of Wednesday 19th April 1882, at Down House, Downe, in Kent.

Published 19-Apr-2013
Filed under: Articles Tags: anniversaries, charles darwin, natural history museum, thomas henry huxley

Serendipity do dah!

Pleasing coincidence in Darwin photo file number.

Published 23-Feb-2009
Filed under: Blog Tags: coincidences, natural history museum, personal

God endorses Darwin!

Statue of Charles Darwin bathed in heavenly light.

Published 22-Feb-2009
Filed under: Blog Tags: charles darwin, natural history museum, religion

Erm... I think not

Minor howler on Darwinian fridge magnet shock!

Published 17-Nov-2008
Filed under: Blog Tags: charles darwin, natural history museum, origin of species

Photos from the London trip

Photos from a fantastic day out in London yesterday

Published 15-Nov-2008
Filed under: Blog Tags: beagle project, darwin exhibition, natural history museum

Live-blogging in London

All day today, I'll be live-blogging my trip to London.

Published 14-Nov-2008
Filed under: Blog Tags: beagle project, darwin exhibition, liveblogging, natural history museum

The great Darwinian live-blogging experiment

Starts tomorrow.

Published 13-Nov-2008
Filed under: Blog Tags: beagle project, karen james, liveblogging, natural history museum

The Wallace Collection

The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection goes online.

Published 14-Apr-2007
Filed under: Blog Tags: alfred russel wallace, charles darwin, natural history museum

LATEST NEWSLETTER

Friends of Charles Darwin newsletter logo Newsletter No. 16: ‘Pilgrimages and plans’ A bumper Christmas edition of Darwin-related goodies.

RECENT ARTICLES

Manuscript page of ‘On the Origin of Species’ Charles Darwin’s book-writing process Charles Darwin’s approach to book-writing went through four key stages…
Alfred Russel Wallace Modesty and candour: the Darwin-Wallace friendship To mark the 200th anniversary of Wallace’s birth, an article exploring the friendship between Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace.

RECENT BLOG POSTS

Kazakhstan Hello, Kazakhstan! 🇰🇿 The Friends of Charles Darwin have their first member from Kazakhstan. We now have members in 106 countries.
Darwin Bicentennial Oak, 2023 The Darwin bicentennial oak, 14 years on Fourteen years ago today, I planted the Darwin Bicentennial Oak in my garden.

RECENT FAQs

Monkey facepalm If humans evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys? A simple answer, and a more detailed answer…
Left Power! Was Darwin left-handed? There are a lot of people on the internet who claim Charles Darwin was left-handed…

RECENT REVIEWS

BUY MY BOOK

‘On the Moor’ by Richard Carter

On the Moor: Science, History and Nature on a Country Walk
“…wonderfully droll, witty and entertaining… At their best Carter’s moorland walks and his meandering intellectual talk are part of a single, deeply coherent enterprise: a restless inquiry into the meaning of place and the nature of self.”
—Mark Cocker, author and naturalist
Amazon: UK | .com | etc.

  • Sign up for the Friends of Charles Darwin newsletter
  • Friends of Charles Darwin RSS feed
  • Richard Carter FCD on Mastodon
  • Friends of Charles Darwin on Facebook
  • @friendsofdarwin on Twitter
  • Contact form
  • Buy Richard Carter FCD a coffee
  • Richard Carter’s personal website
  • Richard Carter’s book: On the Moor
The Friends of Charles Darwin

There is grandeur in this view of life…