In celebration of Charles Darwin's 197th Birthday, the Biology Department will host a party in the main lobby of Hughes Hall on Friday, February 10th from 12:00noon to 1:30pm.

Charles Darwin was born February 12, 1809, the same day and year as Abraham Lincoln. In celebration of this anniversary, the Biology Department will have a party. Everyone is welcome to attend!

Bake a Cake Competition: Bake a cake based on a theme of one of Darwin's Publications. To see the list either click on the link or visit the main foyer of Hughes, where a list of his publications is posted on the south wall. If you would like to see pictures of cakes from last years competition, click on "read more".

Prizes will be awarded including the "Annual Blue-Footed Booby Prize".

Below are some pictures of the winning cakes from last year.


The HMS Beagle: Darwin Traveled around South America and to the Galapagous islands aboard the HMS Beagle.


This cake was inspired by Charles Darwin's publication "On the connexion of certain volcanic phænomena, and on the formation of mountain-chains and volcanos, as the effects of continental elevations", Proceedings of the Geological Society of London, 2(56) 1838, pp. 654-660.


This cake was inspired by Charles Darwin's publication "The descent of man and selection in relation to sex"


This cake was inspired by one of several of Darwin's publications on bees. E.g. "Bees and Fertilisation of Kidney Beans'. Gardeners' Chronicle, 24 Oct 1857, p. 725"; "On the Agency of Bees in the Fertilisation of Papilionaceous Flowers, and on the Crossing of Kidney Beans", Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 3rd series ii. 1858, pp. 459-465.

Darwin's Publications