In celebration of Charles Darwin's 198th Birthday, the Biology Department will host a party in the main lobby of Hughes Hall on Monday, February 12th 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!

A list of Darwin's publications is available by clicking on the link below and selecting "publications in serials" in the list of items located below the title "Table of Contents".

If you bring a cake you will be entered into a contest for which a series of prizes will be given in each of the following categories:

(1) The blue-footed booby prize (you have to attend to find out what this prize is all about)
(2) The best tasting cake
(3) The most original cake (that is related to one of Darwin's publlications

Below are some pictures of the winning cakes from the first annual party


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.

The Complete works of Charles Darwin