Skip to content

The Friends of Charles Darwin

  • Home
  • Join
  • Contents
    • Search site
    • About
    • Newsletter
    • Reviews
    • Blog
    • Articles
    • Full contents

Writing tagged: ‘snails’

Reflections on the Darwin exhibition

Now that I've returned home and a couple of days have passed, I think it only right and proper that I give a well-considered summary of the Natural History Museum's Darwin exhibition.

Published 16-Nov-2008
Filed under: Blog Tags: beagle project, darwin exhibition, mockingbirds, nomenclature, snails

Hypothesis well and truly falsified!

There are snails in my garden!

Published 18-Jun-2007
Filed under: Blog Tags: garden, molluscs, slugs, snails

Reversing Darwin

In which Gould, Dawkins and Darwin all make a contribution.

Published 06-May-2007
Filed under: Blog Tags: charles darwin, photographs, richard dawkins, snails, stephen jay gould

Snail trails

Slicker snails stick to the trail.

Published 01-Mar-2007
Filed under: Blog Tags: snails

An ugly fact

Snail find falsifies my hypothesis.

Published 26-Feb-2007
Filed under: Blog Tags: falsification, hypotheses, molluscs, slugs, snails

NEWSLETTER

  • Newsletter No. 13: ‘Some excellent news’
    Some great news • How the internet is supposed to work • Darwin plays backgammon • Links and book reviews • a necessary owl
  • Newsletter No. 12: ‘A comparatively free man’
    A poorly Darwin writes to his cousin • links and book recommendations • the evolution of the eye

RECENT POSTS

  • Hello, French Polynesia!
    I am delighted to announce that the Friends of Charles Darwin have their first member from French Polynesia
  • The Darwin bicentennial oak, 12 years on
    Twelve years ago today, I planted the Darwin Bicentennial Oak in my garden.

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.

RECENT ARTICLES

  • 28-Sep-1838: Darwin brainstorms Malthus
    On 28 September 1838, Charles Darwin made some notes inspired by the writings of Rev. Thomas Malthus, and a famous simile was born.
  • Gilbert White’s influence on Charles Darwin
    To mark the 300th anniversary of his birth, a brief account of Rev. Gilbert White’s influence on Charles Darwin.

RECENT REVIEWS

  • Book review: ‘Islands of Abandonment’ by Cal Flyn
    Life in the post-human landscape.
  • Book review: ‘Ancestors’ by Prof. Alice Roberts
    The prehistory of Britain in seven burials.
  • Book review: ‘The Diversity of Life’ by Edward O. Wilson
    On our most valuable but least appreciated resource.
  • @friendsofdarwin on Twitter
  • Friends of Charles Darwin on Facebook
  • Friends of Charles Darwin RSS feed
The Friends of Charles Darwin

There is grandeur in this view of life…