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What's New?
29 January 2002 - A list of all the books Darwin published has been added to the "Literature" section.

17 December 2001 - Information on all of Darwin's children has been added to the "Mr. Darwin" section.

5 November 2001 - A review of a Darwin book by Randal Keynes has been added to the "Literature" section.

2 October 2001 - Pictures of Charles Darwin have been added to the "Pictures" section.

Photographs
This week we present a series of photographs of Cambridge where Charles Darwin attended college to study for the clergy. Click here to see the pictures.

Check back next week when we'll have lots of photographs from the Valley of Glen Roy, in Scotland, where Darwin studied the unique geological features there.

Working on it
The "All about Charles Darwin" section is being worked on. New sections are being added as fast as possible. Click here to see what has been added so far.

The 2nd part of the illustrated Voyage of the Beagle will be completed. Detailed maps of the voyage are being created, and the text is nearly finished.

Events
Volume 12 of the "Correspondence of Charles Darwin", covering the year 1864, has just been published by Cambridge University Press (on July 12th).

Randal Keynes has just published an excellent book on Charles Darwin and how the death of his daughter, Annie, affected his life and work. The title is - "Annie's Box: Charles Darwin, his Daughter and Human Evolution" Click here to read an on-line review this fascinating book.
Monthly
See what major events in Darwin's life took place in June. This section is updated each month. Click here to see the entire list.

A FEW NOTABLE EVENTS -
17 June 1825
Darwin's father took him out of Shrewsbury school due to his poor grades and his having no direction in life.

18 June 1858
Darwin received a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace regarding his own version of evolution theory.

20 June 1860
The "Great Oxford Debate" between Bishop Wilberforce and Thomas Huxley took place on this date.

Quotes
"None have fought better, and none have been more fortunate than Charles Darwin. He found a great truth, trodden under foot, reviled by bigots, and ridiculed by all the world; he lived long enough to see it, chiefly by his own efforts, irrefragably established in science, inseparably incorporated with the common thoughts of men, and only hated and feared by those who would revile, but dare not." (Charles Darwin’s obituary, by Thomas Huxley in the journal Nature, April 27, 1882)
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