Darwin’s doodles digitised Were you told not to ‘scribble’ in books as a child? I was. And I obeyed. But as I get older and more inclined to forget what I’ve read, I tend to add marginal notes in books, on articles, etc...
I often quote the last paragraph of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species: “It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds … and to reflect that these elaborately...
Image: portrait of the 31-year-old Charles Darwin by George Richmond, 1840. If – apparently like me – you nodded off a little during 2009’s Darwin double-celebration (his birth in 1809 and publication of Origins...