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shrewsbury

cambridge

edinburgh

malvern

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.

The Darwin Safari
Shrewsbury
Ausgust 26, 2007

Old School Darwin

The Darwin Safari
Shrewsbury
September 2007

Peter Boyd - at the Mount

The Darwin Safari
Shrewsbury
August 26, 2007

The Charles at the Mount

The Darwin Safari
Shrewsbury
August 26, 2007

Yew at the Mount

Yew
The Darwin Safari
Shrewsbury
August 26, 2007
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Darwin and the Bellstone

The Captain and Charles

Darwin pixellated

Mural philosophy

Shrewsbury stunna

Barleston - The Wedgwood museum

"Wedged" in

The venerable bead

Lichfield - home of Erasmus Darwin

Lichfield cathedral

Erasmus plaque

The unmitigated excitement of lawn bowling

What it's like to bee in Lichfield

Snowdon

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 Darwin Safari
Iron bridge
September, 2007

The face in the bridge

Pareidolia
The Darwin Safari
Iron bridge
September, 2007

Wroxeter

Anne Wrox out

Edinburgh, Scotland

Sitting atop Arthur's seat

Edinburgh, Scotland
September, 2007

Darwinian education

Edinburgh, Scotland
September, 2007

Darwin's Lothian home

Edinburgh, Scotland
September, 2007

Darwin's home plaquated

Edinburgh, Scotland
September, 2007

Darwin lothian around

Edinburgh, Scotland
September, 2007

Fear and lothian in Edinburgh

Edinburgh, Scotland
September, 2007

Hume us a tune

Edinburgh, Scotland
September, 2007

Hello Dolly

Edinburgh, Scotland
September, 2007

Dolly in the spotlight

Edinburgh, Scotland
September, 2007

Cloned?

Edinburgh, Scotland
September, 2007

Castle luminousity

Works of fire over Edinburgh castle

Edinburgh, Scotland
September, 2007

Near St John's cathedral

Edinburgh, Scotland
September, 2007

The Museum of Anatomy, University of Edinburgh Medical School

Elephantine entrance

University of Edinburgh
Museum of Anatomy

Elephants
Edinburgh, Scotland
The Darwin Safari
September 3, 2007
Canon 30D

University of Edinburgh
Museum of Anatomy
Edinburgh, Scotland
The Darwin Safari
September 3, 2007
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No sticks

Signs
University of Edinburgh
Museum of Anatomy
Edinburgh, Scotland
The Darwin Safari
September 3, 2007
Canon 30D

Skulls
University of Edinburgh
Museum of Anatomy
Edinburgh, Scotland
The Darwin Safari
September 3, 2007
Canon 30D

Burke and Hare

Burke

Burke and Hare
University of Edinburgh
Museum of Anatomy
Edinburgh, Scotland
The Darwin Safari
September 3, 2007
Canon 30D

Burke and Hare
University of Edinburgh
Museum of Anatomy
Edinburgh, Scotland
The Darwin Safari
September 3, 2007
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Burke and Hare
University of Edinburgh
Museum of Anatomy
Edinburgh, Scotland
The Darwin Safari
September 3, 2007
Canon 30D

Oxford

Geoffrey Tyack demystifies Oxford

Shrewsbury
Oxford
September 2007

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

Darwin Safari
Oxford
September 2007

Aye aye skeleon

Aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis)
Family: Daubentoniidae
Darwin Safari
Oxford
September 6, 2007

Aye aye skeletal hand showing remarkable adaptation of the middle finger

Aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis)
Family: Daubentoniidae
Darwin Safari
Oxford
September 6, 2007

Aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis)
Family: Daubentoniidae
Darwin Safari
Oxford
September 6, 2007
Canon 30D

Cassowary
Darwin Safari
September 6, 2007
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Dodo

Dodo (Raphus cucullatus)
Darwin Safari
September 6, 2007
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Tring

Darwin's finches / Gould's revelation

Tring
Darwin Safari
September 6, 2007
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Aye aye captain

Tring
Darwin Safari
September 6, 2007
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Zoology of the Beagle

Tring
Darwin Safari
September 6, 2007
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Kew

A kew-ious sense of elation

Curly kew

Pyramid scheme

Victoria amazonica

Kew Gardens
England
September, 2007

Kew Gardens
England
September, 2007

Giant lily underside - revealed

Bar some

Bar-headed goose (Anser indicus)
Family: Anatidae (duck, geese, swans)
The Darwin Safari
Kew Gardens
September 10, 2007
Canon 30D

White-headed Black-headed

Black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)
Family: Laridae (gulls)
The Darwin Safari
Kew Gardens
September 10, 2007
Canon 30D

Peacock

Indian peafowl ()
Family: ()
The Darwin Safari
Kew Gardens
September 10, 2007
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Muck

The Darwin Safari
Kew Gardens
September 10, 2007
Canon 30D

Nepenthe

Ardisia solanacea
Family: Myrsinaceae
Kew Gardens
Septemebr 10, 2007
Canon 30D

Golden shrimp

Lollipop or Golden shrimp plant Pachystachys lutea)
Kew Gardens
September 10, 2007
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Golden shrimp

Chinese hibiscus )
Kew Gardens
September 10, 2007
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Roarke juggles three biological concepts

Cambridge

Keynes and Darwin; Fossils, Finches, and Fuegeans

Richard Keynes
The Darwin Safari
Cambridge, England
September 14, 2007
Canon 30D

Richard

Richard Keynes
The Darwin Safari
Cambridge, England
September 14, 2007
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Richard and Kate

Richard Keynes
The Darwin Safari
Cambridge, England
September 14, 2007
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Richard and Bob

Richard Keynes
The Darwin Safari
Cambridge, England
September 14, 2007
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Kate and manuscript

Richard Keynes
The Darwin Safari
Cambridge, England
September 14, 2007
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Richard Keynes' library

Richard Keynes library
The Darwin Safari
Cambridge, England
September 14, 2007
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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

University Museum
Cambridge, England
September 14, 2007
Canon D30

Cirripedia

Darwin's finch

Darwin's last sand?

Conduit Head

Conduit Head
Home of Sir Peter Lachmann
Cambridge, England
September 14, 2007
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Conduit Head

Conduit Head
Home of Sir Peter Lachmann
Cambridge, England
September 14, 2007
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Darwin wasafiri at Conduit Head

with Sir Peter Lachmann
Conduit Head
Cambridge, England
September 14, 2007
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Sir Peter Lachmann presents Christ's College, Darwin presides from above

with Sir Peter Lachmann
Christ's College
Cambridge, England
September 14, 2007
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Barnacles, Darwin, Stott, and Siegel

with Rebecca Stott
Cambridge, England
September 14, 2007
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London

The great and the great great

Randal Keynes
London, England
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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 - 1838 - 1842

Darwin Safari
London
September 10, 2007
Canon 30D

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

Natural History Museum, London

Charles x 2

Natural History Museum
London

Darwin and Huxley

Natural History Museum
London

Natural History Museum
London

Leaf-cutter

Leaf-cutter ants
Natural History Museum
London

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.

Natural History Museum
London

Deciphering Bob
self reflection in the Rosetta Stone

Greek to me?
British Museum

The eye, the eye

Palatial perambulation

Down House

Down House
England
Darwin Safari
2007

Studying Darwin's study

Down House
England
Darwin Safari
2007

Students mirror Darwin's life at Down

Down House
England
Darwin Safari
2007

The sandwalk

Down House
England
Darwin Safari
2007

Darwin studies terrestial worming

Down House
England
Darwin Safari
2007

Darwin's nepenthe

Down House
England
Darwin Safari
2007

Uncoordinated exuberance at Down House

Down House
England
Darwin Safari
2007

Following Darwin to the T.

Down House
England
Darwin Safari
2007

St. Mary's Church, Downe

St. Mary's Church, Downe
England
Darwin Safari
2007

Darwin family tomb

St. Mary's Church, Downe
England
Darwin Safari
2007

Malvern

Malvern 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

Mourning Annie

Despite its purity, the Malvern water is associated with plaque

Font of health

Laid to rest

Westminster Cathedrale
"Under Newton"

Speke obelisk

Obelisks
Darwin Safari
London
September 11, 2007
Canon 30D

In London

Darwin Safari
London
September 9, 2007
Canon 30D

Fence top

Darwin Safari
London
September 9, 2007
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Evolution greenhouse

Greenhouse
Darwin Safari
Kew Royal Botanical Gardens
September 10, 2007
Canon 30D

Greenhouse walk

Greenhouse
Darwin Safari
Kew Royal Botanical Gardens
September 10, 2007
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White flowers on kew

Darwin Safari
Kew Royal Botanical Gardens
September 10, 2007
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Sagar castled

Darwin Safari
Oxford
August 27, 2007
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Journal of researches in geology and natural history

Darwin Safari
London
September 10, 2007
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Darwin Safari
London
September 10, 2007
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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!

Itinerary - in progress

Darwin Safari Itinerary - August 24, 2007 - September, 2007

August 24, 2007 Friday - Day 1 - Oxford

Students arrive in Oxford

First meeting: welcome, group dinner

August 25, 2007 Saturday - Day 2 - Oxford - Malvern - Shrewsbury

Leave Oxford

Malvern

Shrewbury

Meet homestay families

August 26, 2007 Sunday - Day 3 - Shrewsbury

The Mount - tour

August 27, 2007 Monday - Day 4 - Shrewsbury

August 28, 2007 Tuesday - Day 5 - Shrewsbury

August 29, 2007 Wednesday - Day 6 - Shrewsbury

August 30, 2007 Thursday - Day 7 - Shrewsbury

Day trip to Wales

Climb Mount Snowden

August 31, 2007 Friday - Day 8 - Shrewsbury

September 1, 2007 Saturday - Day 9 - Shrewsbury to Edinburgh

September 2, 2007 Sunday - Day 10 - Edinburgh

September 3, 2007 Monday - Day 11 - Edinburgh

Arthur's Rock

September 4, 2007 Tuesday - Day 12 - Edinburgh to Oxford

Oxford House - check in

September 5, 2007 Wednesday - Day 13 - Oxford

Tour of Oxford - Geoffrey Tyack - Darwin's Times

University Museum

Pitt-Rivers Museum

September 6, 2007 Thursday - Day 14 - Oxford

September 7, 2007 Friday - Day 15 - Oxford

September 8, 2007 Saturday - Day 16 - Oxford

September 9, 2007 Sunday - Day 17 - Oxford to London

September 10, 2007 Monday - Day 18 - London

Kew Gardens

Gower Street Residence

September 11, 2007 Tuesday - Day 19 - London

London to Downe

Down House

Emma's church - grave site of Darwin's third child

Dinner at Darwin's Pub (The Quueen's Head)

September 12, 2007 Wednesday - Day 20 - London

Westminster Abbey - Darwin's tomb

Broad Street - pump handle, John Snow pub and plaque

British Library, National History Museum

September 13, 2007 Thursday - Day 21 - London

September 14, 2007 Friday - Day 22 - London

Oxford to Cambridge by train

Tour of Cambridge

Lunch at Conduit Head with Sir Peter Lachmann

Meet with Rebecca Stott - author of Darwin and the Barnacles

Meet with Richard Keynes (Kate and Bob)

September 15, 2007 Saturday - Day 23 - London

Linnaean Society

Closing dinner