Episode 4 | Charles Darwin & The Origin of The Origin of Species
Channel: Carnegie Mellon University Libraries
Date: 2022-04-20

In this episode of “Coffee with the Curator"—a series featuring distinctive objects from Carnegie Mellon University’s collection of rare books and historical technologies—Curator of Special Collections Sam Lemley shares three first-edition, first-printing copies of Charles Darwin's On The Origin of Species (1859) as well as the Posner copy of the scientific journal article that preceded it, a paper Darwin co-authored with Alfred Russel Wallace, who independently discovered natural selection.