Lecture, 'Darwin, Hooker, and Empire,' and Guided Tour of APS Exhibition, 'Dialogues With Darwin'

Tour: 3:30 - 4:30 p.m., American Philosophical Society's Philosophical Hall, 427 Chestnut Street

Lecture: 5:00 - 6:30 p.m., American Philosophical Society's Benjamin Franklin Hall, 104 South Fifth Street

Registration

The tour of the APS exhibition, "Dialogues With Darwin," will be led by APS Museum Director and exhibit curator Sue Ann Prince. Tour spaces are limited; please register early.

Jim Endersby will discuss the correspondence between Charles Darwin and botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker. Darwin established an astonishing global network of correspondents. The 1300 letters he exchanged with Hooker reveal the surprising links between science and empire and show us how the private lives of these two men affected their public work, even shaping the language and philosophy of Origin of Species. Endersby is Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Sussex. He is the prize-winning author of Imperial Nature: Joseph Hooker and the practices of Victorian Science, A Guinea Pig’s History of Biology, and editor of a new scholarly edition of On the Origin of Species, published by Cambridge University Press.