In the Spotlight

Darwin's Finches, and Other Fine Resources

In conjunction with the One Book, One Northwestern program, the Library has opened a new section of its exhibit, "The Multifarious Mr. Darwin." This new display, chiefly on the third floor of the Deering Library, highlights Charles Darwin's antecedents and influences, his life and the development of his ideas, and reactions and responses to his scientific work. It also demonstrates the richness of the resources available to students and researchers at Northwestern by featuring books and other materials from the Charles Deering Library of Special Collections, from other libraries on the Evanston campus, from the Galter Health Sciences Library, and from the collections of the Field Museum of Natural History and of the Chicago Botanic Garden.

A special exhibit case on the main floor of the Main Library houses "Darwin's Finches"--specimens of the diversity among finches that made Darwin question the idea that species are fixed and unchanging--which are on loan from the Field Museum of Natural History.

The exhibit runs until December 23, 2008.