Darwin at home. (transformation of Charles Darwin's Down House into museum)

History Today | April 1, 1998 | Copyright

`I like this photograph very much better than any other that has been taken of me' reeds the note penned under Julia Margaret Cameron's photograph taken in 1868 of the eminent evolutionist Charles Darwin. This serious, reflective-looking profile of Darwin takes pride of place in a line-up of portraits of the scientist at his newly refurbished home in Kent. This month English Heritage open the doors to Down House, where the author of the ground-breaking On the Origin of Species (1859) and Descent of Man (1871) lived with his family from 1842 until his death in 1882.

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