Director of the darwin manuscript project at the American Museum of Natural History and he will be joining as soon. A special welcome to the other Staff Members and research from the American Museum of Natural History. We are very pleased you were here. Thank you, thank you. And also to the students and researchers from fordham university. Its a pleasure to have you here. This morning our focus of course is darwin. All of you have a special relationship with this man, and today will focus on his backyard experiments. And doctor james costa will guide us through the story. He is an aspiring scientist and esteemed author of the new book darwins backyard and youve already seen that youre actually able to purchase it here after the presentation and have doctor costa, or jim as we will call him, but a special personal message for you. While people are standing in line to buy that book, we have a first edition, a very rare sample of the darwin materials the library is so lucky to have. And f
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