Darwin’s plant specimens stored for 200 years to go on public display
by Donna Ferguson from Science | The Guardian on (#6KCAJ)
Specimens collected on Voyage of the Beagle have been unearthed at Cambridge University archive
Plant specimens collected by Charles Darwin on the voyage of the Beagle have been unearthed in an archive at Cambridge University.
The rare specimens, which have been stored in the archives of the Cambridge University herbarium for nearly 200 years, were given by Darwin to his teacher and friend Prof John Stevens Henslow, the founder of Cambridge University Botanic Garden.
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