I’m only a day late on this, but yesterday it was Darwin’s 198th birthday, a fine old age. Celebrations include this month’s issue of I and the Bird, which sails aboard the Beagle with an all-birder crew, and then there are plans for a working replica at The Beagle Project:
…the replica Beagle will set sail to re-stage the 1831-36 Voyage of the Beagle, a circumnavigation of the globe. The Beagle will be crewed by young scientists following and updating Charles Darwin’s intellectual journey, and young sailors following in the wake of Captain Robert FitzRoy.
Do they need an expedition illustrator? Wouldn’t that be sweet…
