Tag on Hudsonian Gotwit

April 1, 2010

Tag on Hudsonian Gotwit—a shorebird collected by Charles Darwin from flocks in the East Falkland Islands in 1833. The label is Darwin’s. The Godwit was part of a collection of about 160 birds acquired from British ornithologist John Gould in 1857.

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Darwin Exhibition Opens at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History

The National Museum of Natural History will open a new exhibition, “Since Darwin: The Evolution of Evolution,” Sept. 12 in celebration of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his groundbreaking “On the Origin of Species.” The exhibition will be on view through July 18, 2010.
- September 10, 2009
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Vertebrate Zoology collections at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History

Vertebrate Zoology collections at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History

Darwin Exhibition Opens at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History