Birthday Party for Charles

As we write this blog post, it's Charles Dickens' 200th birthday. We are also approaching Charles Darwin's 203rd birthday. We though we'd go ahead and have a birthday party for both of them. Please join us on February 28th at 1:30 in the GLA Reading Room of the library for cake and a conversation with So Park of the English Department and Julie Barley of the Geology Department, who will have a few words to say about Dickens and Darwin.

Meanwhile, here are some links:

Dickens 2012 (sponsored by the Charles Dickens Museum and others)
Charles Dickens' works at Project Gutenberg (text, html, and mp3 audio versions)
The Dickens Project (at UC Santa Cruz)

Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University)
Charles Darwin's Scientific Manuscripts (American Museum of Natural History)
Darwin at 200 (a collection of features at Nature Magazine)

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