2009 was both the 200th Anniversary or bicentenary of the birth of the greatest naturalist in history,
Charles Robert Darwin, and
the 150th Anniversary of the publication of his most famous work On
the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
"das Charles Darwin Jahr" article of Peter Brandhuber (on German) |
Many postal authorities around the world issued some stamps in the years 2008 - 2010, to sign this
event(s).
The first stamp related to "150 years of the Theory of
Evolution" is issued by
Bosnia and Herzogovina under Serbian administration on
01.07.2008.
Printed in
Mini-sheet
of 8 stamps and one tab in the middle
On 12.02.2009
(exactly on the Birthday of Charles Darwin) : three stamp sets are
issued by Cuba, Great Britain and Portugal; two individual stamps are
issued by Italy and Vietnam. The stamps of Great Britain's set have a
form of puzzle.
The
latest stamps are issued by Palau and Paraguay in 2010 on 02.03.2010
and 28.05. Palau issued two MS with 6 stamps each. On one of the MS has
a stamp of
Robert
FitzRoy who was the captain of Beagle sheet and share his cabin with young unknown naturalist
Charles Darwin.
Click on image
to enlarge it or to be redirected to description page, when exist.
Some other
stamps to mention:
Mozambique and Togo issued some stamps shows Charles Darwin and
Dinosaurs. Paleontology was not a main, if at all, area of interest
for Charles Darwin. Moreover most of the species
depicting there were discovered many years after c. Darwin died (1882),
:
Tyranosaurs
discovered in1905,
Zuniceratops
was discovered in 1996,
Muttaburrasaurus
in 1987. Only
Stegosaurus
and
Archaeopteryx
were discovered when Charles Darwin was alive
30.11.2009
Mozambique
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Some books of and about Charles Darwin
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"Darwin: The Man, his great voyage, and his Theory of Evolution", by John Van Wyhe. Published in 2018.
Amazon:
USA,
UK,
DE
Free PDF files from Darwin-online website:
"Charles Darwin: his life and work by Charles Frederick Holder, published in 1892"
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"On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection: Slip-Cased Edition"
Amazon:
USA,
UK,
DE
Free PDF files from Darwin-online website.
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"Darwin's Fossils: The Collection That Shaped the Theory of Evolution", by Adrian Lister. Published in 2018.
Amazon:
USA,
UK,
DE
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"The Voyage of the Beagle"
Amazon:
USA,
UK,
DE
Free PDF files from Darwin-online website.
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