A celebration of Charles Darwin's bicentenary

摘要

The 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin falls on 12 February this year,and 2009 also sees the 150th anniversary of Darwin's great work'On the origin of species'.Many people worldwide will celebrate February 12 as Darwin Day.There will be various events and exhibitions to mark the occasion,not least at the Natural History Museum in London(PJ,17 January 2009,p51).In Shrewsbury,for instance,where Darwin was born,a toast is drunk in the courtyard of the Morris Hall at noon on 12 February each year.