Philadelphia Botanical Club Charles Darwin, cartoon by Frederick Waddy
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Events Associated with Darwin and Botany in a Changing World

Darwin Display
During the symposium, you will be able to view:

  • A first-edition Origin of Species
  • Letters of Darwin and Rafinesque, a naturalist and paranoid genius
  • Specimens of beetle species studied by Darwin in developing this theory of sexual selection
  • Specimens of birds collected by Alfred Russel Wallace
Books
The Academy's bookstore will be selling books by our speakers, as well as several of Darwin's books. The bookstore will be open throughout the symposium and reception.
Updated October 8, 2009. Darwin drawing adapted from "Natural Selection" by Frederick Waddy, 1872.