Darwin

St Andrews is celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Darwin next week with a number of events including talks and special exhibitions. From the press release:

"Correspondence from the University's Special Collections will be displayed alongside images of plant specimens collected during the Voyage of the Beagle.

The exhibition forms the centrepiece of a series of events at the University of St Andrews to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin.

The collection includes a letter sent by Charles Darwin in October 1844 to James David Forbes (1809 - 1868), an eminent Scottish scientist in the field of glaciology."

For more information see Darwin 200 in St Andrews