It is organized by venue.

Shrewsbury ("ShrOsebury")

Darwin is born!

The picture is taken at The Mount, home of Darwin's father who coincidently is also named Darwin.
Supposedly Charles was born on the second floor on the left side. I came back later to explore the room.

Old School Darwin

Peter Boyd - at the Mount

The Charles at the Mount

Darwin and the Bellstone

The Captain and Charles

Darwin pixellated

Mural philosophy

Shrewsbury stunna

Barleston - The Wedgwood museum

"Wedged" in

Beady

Lichfield - home of Erasmus Darwin

Lichfield cathedral

Erasmus plaque

The unmitigated excitement of lawn bowling

What it's like to bee in Lichfield

Snowdon

Bob on top

At 1,085 meters (3,560 feet), Snowdon was "the high point" of our trip.

Darwin gets support from all directions

Sheep in the city

Darwin peeps

Sheep love

Cool hand Sagar

Kate contemplative on the Severn

Blist Hill

Josh as group leader

Porcine breathing apparatus

Iron bridge

Ironing things out

The face in the bridge

Wroxeter

Anne Wrox out

Edinburgh

Sitting atop Arthur's seat

Darwinian education

Darwin's Lothian home

Darwin's home plaquated

Darwin lothian around

Fear and lothian in Edinburgh

Hume us a tune

Hello Dolly

Dolly in the spotlight

Cloned?

Castle luminousity

Works of fire over Edinburgh castle

Near St John's cathedral

Oxford

Geoffrey Tyack demystifies Oxford

Natural History Museum - site of the famous Huxley-Wilberforce debate

Aye aye skeleon

Aye aye skeletal hand showing remarkable adaptation of the middle finger

Tring

Darwin's finches / Gould's revelation

Aye aye captain

Zoology of the Beagle

Kew

A kew-ious sense of elation

Curly kew

Pyramid scheme

Giant lily underside - revealed

Roarke juggles three biological concepts

Cambridge

Keynes and Darwin; Fossils, Finches, and Fuegeans

Craig and Darwin's octopus

"I was much interested, on several occasions, by watching the habits of an Octopus, or cuttle-fish. Although common in the pools of water left by the retiring tide, these animals were not easily caught. By means of their long arms and suckers, they could drag their bodies into very narrow crevices; and when thus fixed, it required great force to remove them. At other times they darted tail first, with the rapidity of an arrow, from one side of the pool to the other, at the same instant discolouring the water with a dark chestnut-brown ink. These animals also escape detection by a very extraordinary, chameleon-like power of changing their colour. They appear to vary their tints according to the nature of the ground over which they pass: when in deep water, their general shade was brownish purple, but when placed on the land, or in shallow water, this dark tint changed into one of a yellowish green. The colour, examined more carefully, was a French grey, with numerous minute spots of bright yellow: the former of these varied in intensity; the latter entirely disappeared and appeared again by turns. These changes were effected in such a manner, that clouds, varying in tint between a hyacinth red and a chestnut-brown, [4] were continually passing over the body. Any part, being subjected to a slight shock of galvanism, became almost black: a similar effect, but in a less degree, was produced by scratching the skin with a needle. These clouds, or blushes as they may be called, are said to be produced by the alternate expansion and contraction of minute vesicles containing variously coloured fluids."

Charles Darwin The Voyage of the Beagle

Cirripedia

Darwin's finch

Darwin's last sand?

Darwin wasafiri at Conduit Head

Sir Peter Lachmann presents Christ's College, Darwin presides from above

Barnacles, Darwin, Stott, and Siegel

London

The great and the great great

We went to the Jeremy Bentham Pub and stuffed ourselves

Apparently, Jeremy did as well...

There is a self-portrait of the photographer on the left-hand side

Platform Potter

Upper Gower residence

Darwin Building Gower Street

Head lemur, Grant Museum, Gower Street

St Pancras and the devil's sky

And who would name their church after an organ, anyway?

London color

Leaf-cutter - Natural History Museum

Elephant bird egg - Natural History Museum

This egg is humongous even in comparison with an ostrich egg. The egg is from an extinct species of birds that inhabited Madagascar.

The eye, the eye

Deciphering Bob
self reflection in the Rosetta Stone

Greek to me?
British Museum

Palatial perambulation

Downe

Down House

Studying Darwin's study

Students mirror Darwin's life at Down

The sandwalk

Darwin studies terrestial worming

Darwin's nepenthe

Uncoordinated exuberance at Down House

St. Mary's Church, Downe

Following Darwin to the T.

Malverne

Malverne is where Darwin took Dr Gully's "water cure". It is also where his eldest daughter Annie died. At this point, Darwin apparent lost his last vestige of belief in a benevolent god.

A dear and good child

Morning Annie

Despite its purity, the Malverne water is associated with plaque

Font of health

Acknowledgements:

The Darwin Safari was sponsored through the generous and helpful efforts of the Bing Overseas Studies Program at Stanford.

Many people helped to this seminar to evolve. The planning and execution phase included consultations with Bob Stephens, Geoffrey Heller, Bill Durham, Kathleen Rochester, Martin Cheek, Carlos Seligo, Lucy Horton, Heather Narciso, Michelle Silver, and Jenna Coalson. Jenny Gowers and John Chao at BOSP consistently went the extra mile.

I want to acknowledge my real family for putting up with my peregrinations and my home stay family for putting me up.

While on safari, our mission was aided and abetted by an impressive array of Darwinophiles and experts, scientists and naturalists, librarians and archivists, historian and authors, docents and clergy. Among these were Peter Boyd (Shrewsbury), Jon King (Shrewsbury), Randal Keynes (London), Rebecca Stott (Cambridge), Sir Peter and Sylvia Lachmann (Cambridge), Geoffrey Tyack (Oxford), Alan Paton (Kew), Joyce Camber (Downe), Rebecca Stott (Cambridge), Karen Goldie-Morrison (London, Downe), Liz Etheridge (Snowdon), Jack Ashby (London), David Hughson (Edinburgh), Kiri Ross-Jones, Mathew Lowe (Cambridge), Craig Buckley (Cambridge), Steve Laurie (Cambridge), Suzy Antoniw (Cambridge), Richard and Anne Keynes (Cambridge), and many others.

Of course, I am grateful to the actual Darwin wasafiri, who made this an experience of a life-time: Sagar Bapat (often last but never least), Paul Craft, Joy Henry, Lauren Higdon, Roarke Kamber, Julie Kim, Kathryn Ludwig, Chad Sitgraves, Alex Song, Anne Stake, Rebecca Tisdale, Erika Williams, Joshua Wong, Dani Zhao, Becca Sorenson, and, of course, Robbie Torney (who, while not physically with us in Great Britain, was definitely with us in spirit - brassica, solanum, flying spaghetti monster, and all).

Finally, I would like to acknowledge the extraordinary efforts of several people without whom there would be no Darwin Safari. Anja Seitz, Stephanie Williams, and most especially Becca Sorenson (my intrepid TA) were tireless in their efforts to plan, anticipate, and solve every contingency.

Thanks!

Modified: October 31, 2008 - scarey
Created: September 5, 2007