Dr. Sheila Dean, researcher and editor
of the multi-volume work The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, will present the
lunchtime talk "Darwin, The Origin of Influence" on Thursday, December 10 at 12
Noon at the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, 1 Lafayette Square. The
program is free and open to the public.
Dr. Dean, curator of the Cornell
University/Museum of the Earth exhibit Charles Darwin: After the Image earlier this year in
Ithaca, NY and frequent lecturer on Darwin's scientific contributions, is
visiting Buffalo as part of the project Darwin: The Origin of Influence, the collaborative
exhibition assembled by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library and the
University at Buffalo, on view at the Downtown Library from now through
February 12, 2010.
This exhibition, presented to
commemorate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's revolutionary
work On the Origin of Species in 1859, showcases outstanding rare book and document
resources related to Darwin's life and work held by the two institutions. The
Buffalo Zoo is also a project partner; its "Rainforest Falls" exhibit provides
context to Darwin's inspiration for Origin, his five-year voyage to South
America on the HMS Beagle.
Dean's program will cover Darwin's
tremendously productive decade, the 1860s, after On
the Origin of Species was published, in which he continued to find evidence for his ideas, published numerous books and articles, and researched aspects of botany, domesticated animals and human development.
For
further information on this program and the exhibition, consult
www.buffalolib.org
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