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Directions to Down House – Home of Charles Darwin
Directions to Down House – Home of Charles Darwin
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Darwin family treasures return to scientist’s home
A keepsake box that once belonged to Charles Darwin’s daughters containing family mementos associated with the great scientist has been donated to English Heritage, the charity announced today (24 February) on the 150th anniversary of the publication of his book, The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871).
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Down House is important because it was here that Charles Darwin carried out much of the research that underpinned his scientific thought
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As well as being Darwin’s family home for 40 years, Down House was where he developed and tested the theories published in his book ‘On the Origin of Species’. The garden was Darwin’s ‘living laboratory’ where he could conduct hundreds of experiments on the natural world. We look at some of these garden experiments and how they informed Darwin’s world-changing ideas.
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A rare orchid, closely related to those that informed Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, has been restored to the scientist’s former garden at Down House in Kent by English Heritage. Following two years of careful conservation and management by the charity’s gardeners and volunteers, Down House’s violet helleborine orchid population has doubled in number and is currently enjoying its best flowering season in living memory.
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10 Ways to Experiment Like Darwin
From collecting toenail clippings to using your dinner guests as guinea pigs, experimenting like Darwin did at Down House is easier – and more disgusting – than you might have thought…
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See some the the highlights from the gardens at Down House, where Darwin developed many of his groundbreaking ideas on evolution and natural selection.
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Blue plaque commemorating naturalist Charles Darwin at Biological Sciences Building, University College, Gower Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 6BT.
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Home of Charles Darwin - Down House
The great scientist’s country-house home and ‘outdoor laboratory’