@cdarwin@c.imCharles Darwin's Address Book published for the first time!
Full of surprises and new information.
One of Darwin's water-cure doctors was charged with manslaughter!
The fireworks manufacturer he ordered from later blew himself up!
https://darwin-online.org.uk…
@cdarwin@c.imHappy #DarwinDay! 🧪
#OTD Charles Darwin was born 217 years ago today.
It’s not all cheetahs versus gazelles
Darwin the botanist • UNESCO recognition • Darwin’s address book • Charles Lyell • Leonard Jenyns • punctuated equilibria • what the heck are chins for? • and lots more…
-- MU-Peter Shimon
@cdarwin@c.imYou never know what life might hold in store for you
If you had asked Charles Darwin three years earlier, I’m pretty sure he would not have predicted that he would spend his 25th birthday encountering Patagonian natives and hearing horror stories about them from a Fuegian (and having a mountain named after him).
He would, more likely, have predicted that he would spend it in his parsonage somewhere, maybe drafting next Sunday’s sermon.
@seeingwithsound@mas.toNYT: The rise of eyes began with just one https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/science/evolution-vertebrate-eye.html (archived at https://
@cdarwin@c.imPlant specimens and teaching materials that inspired Charles Darwin
and qualified him to work as a naturalist on HMS Beagle
have been unearthed from an archive in Cambridge
and will be used for the first time to teach contemporary students about botany.
The fragile specimens, ink drawings and watercolour illustrations of plants belonged to
Darwin’s teacher and mentor,
Prof John Stevens Henslow,
and have been stored in Cambridge University’s herbarium…
