The Red Notebook » liverpool http://blog.friendsofdarwin.com The Friends of Charles Darwin blog Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:41:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Darwin in Liverpool http://blog.friendsofdarwin.com/2009/02/20090205/ http://blog.friendsofdarwin.com/2009/02/20090205/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:15:00 +0000 Richard Carter FCD http://blog.friendsofdarwin.com/2009/02/05/ Paul Nettlefield as Charles Darwin
Paul Nettlefield as Charles Darwin.

Looks as if I missed an opportunity to meet Charles Darwin in the flesh this week. Well, nearly.

Half a mile from where I work, Paul Nettlefield was playing the part of my hero at the World Museum, Liverpool. And get this, for a prop, he had a 100% genuine specimen from the Beagle voyage: an ovenbird [Cinclodes patagonica] which Darwin collected in Wolsey Sound in the Straits of Magellan in 1834. It still bears the label Darwin tied to it.

Note to self: must get down to the museum one lunchtime. There’s a Darwin display!

You can read the full story in the Liverpool Daily Post.

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