Happy 200th Birthday Charles Darwin!

Today - February 12, 2009 - is the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birthday. Wellesley College is holding several events in Darwin's honor.

• On Thursday February 12 at 4p.m., join selected Wellesley faculty for a symposium entitled Darwin's Impact. This event will be held in Tishman Commons in the Campus Center.
  
  
• Be sure to stop by Clapp Library this month to view the exhibit Before and Beyond Darwin, which showcases Wellesley College's Special Collections books by scientists who predated Darwin, Darwin's (scientist) ancestors, a first edition of On the Origin of Species, and special editions of works by scientists who followed in Darwin's footsteps.
  
  
• The capstone event of the College's Darwin Celebration is a lecture by Olivia Judson, a research fellow at Imperial College London and blogger for the New York Times. Judson will deliver Wellesley’s 2009 Wilson Lecture, Glad to Have Evolved, Tuesday, Feb. 17, at 8 pm in Jewett Auditorium.

More information on all these events is available from Public Affairs.

If you are interested in finding out more about the man and his works, check out the following resources from the Wellesley College Library and on the Internet:

• Books by and about Darwin in the libraries
• First editions of books by Darwin in the libraries' Special Collections (i.e. original works!)
• Biographical information about Darwin from AccessScience and Biography Resource Center
• Exhibition from the American Museum of Natural History
• The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online and the Darwin Correspondence Project
• Friends of Charles Darwin
• Make Darwin stickers and Darwin bookmarks

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