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| Celebrating Charles Darwin August 10, 2009 - December 15, 2009 Donor Hall and Special Collections and University Archives, Library and Information Access From August 10 to December 15, 2009, Library & Information Access is sponsoring several exhibits in honor of Charles Darwin's 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of his book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. In the Donors Hall, the Library is hosting "Darwin Now," a traveling exhibit created by the British Council that explores Darwin’s life and the importance of the theory of evolution to the contemporary world and modern science. Additionally in the Donors Hall there is "The Fact of Evolution," an exhibit incorporating animal specimens and plants mostly from the SDSU Museum of Biodiversity and Greenhouse, including a Galápagos Island tortoise shell and a terrarium of live plants. Concurrently, the Library's Department of Special Collections is hosting the exhibit "The Book that Shook the World," an exploration of Darwin's masterpiece On the Origin of Species as well as first editions of all of Darwin's books. A complementary display called "Discovering Darwin in Special Collections" highlights evolutionary thought and ideas in books and ephemera from several of the department's collections. Darwin Exhibits
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