Inside Darwin’s bookshelves: a project to catalogue his personal library
Post by Alex Cuadrado, Darwin Library Cataloguer Charles Darwin changed how we see our place in nature, but how did he build the theories that […]
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A Scientific Life: New additions from the Darwin Archive to Cambridge Digital Library
Post by Elizabeth L. Smith (Digital Curator, Nineteenth-Century Science Collections) This autumn marks the completion of a four year project digitising the Darwin Archive, the […]
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Conservation of a Bound Volume of Letters from the Darwin Archive
This volume was kindly donated to the Library in 2018 and comprises 80 letters all of which were sent to William Kemp, an amateur geologist, […]
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Turning over a new leaf: Fasciculing fragile letters and plant specimens in the Darwin Archive
The Darwin Archive contains a wide variety of loose sheet papers, often in diverse formats and frequently found in specific combinations. Letters are kept together […]
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The man who knew everything! The letters of John Stevens Henslow (1796-1861)
175 years ago John Stevens Henslow started lobbying for a Botanic Garden in Cambridge. After twenty years of effort, his work bore fruit and led […]
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Discovery: 200 Years of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
Coming into the Cambridge University Library entrance hall visitors encounter three objects: a wall-mounted cast of 565 million-year-old sea-creature fossils, a plastinated pitcher plant, using […]
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Views of the Beagle Expedition
The second of our ‘Treasures of the University Library’ talks was given by Alison Pearn, Associate Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project:
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Treasures of the University Library: don’t miss out!
Would you like the opportunity to come face-to-face with some of the most precious items from Cambridge University Library’s collections? To celebrate our 600th anniversary, […]
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Darwin Correspondence Project launches their new website on Darwin’s birthday
The Darwin Correspondence Project is celebrating ‘Darwin Day’ today (12th February) with a new website helping us to find out more about the life and […]
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Cambridge Digital Library – July update
This release sees the launch of our new Royal Commonwealth Society collection. The Royal Commonwealth Society Library collections are a treasure-trove of information, pictorial and […]
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