Mega-Post: Post-Second Week of Internship

This week at the Heritage and Research Center (info on the place 1, 2), I continued to search for newspaper accounts of visits to Yellowstone, and went on a short hike to Bunsen Peak and later checked out Norris Geyser Basin (pictures of Mammoth Hot Springs from last week and the Bunsen Peak hike are here). It is interesting to read people's impressions of the place, be it that Yellowstone shows the beautiful work of God or the thermal regions act as the gateway to Satan's Sanctum. Some interesting quotes:

"Nature generally knows her own business, and she has good motive in everything she does, altho' we, her near sighted children, may not be able to see through her designs at once."
-Calvin C. Clawson (1871) on why visitors should not try to understand how and why geysers work (see "A Ride to the Infernal Regions" here)

"In scientific research Humboldt circumnavigated the globe to witness natural phenomena far surpassed today in Montana, within an area of a few square miles."
-Helena Herald (1871)

If anyone is interested in the exploration of the Yellowstone region and its establishment as a national park, this is a valuable resource.

And on with Darwin!!!

NOTABLE HISTORY OF SCIENCE EVENTS:
July 5th: Ernst Mayr born in 1904; Robert Fitzroy born in 1805 (Peter missed this one!)
July 6th: Sir William Jackson Hooker (father to Joseph Dalton) born in 1785

DARWIN, NATURAL HISTORY, HISTORY OF SCIENCE (evolution related):
Coffee at the feet of a giant at The Beagle Project Blog (Darwin, Huxley & Owen statues at London's Natural History Museum)
USA Today: Darwin's defense of missionaries (see commentary on the Journal of Religious History paper [abstract, let me know if you want to see the paper] discussed by Cary McMullen, Mondito, and Red State Rabble)
Was Lyell's "project simply the worldview of naturalism"? at Literature: A discussion of ID-related Reading
British Journal for the History of Science: [forthcoming article] From the Curse of Ham to the curse of nature: the influence of natural selection on the debate on human unity before the publication of The Descent of Man
University of Bath: How has Darwin changed the way we think about society?
Bromley Times: Pupils go back in time to help heritage bid (Down House)

EVOLUTION, NATURAL SELECTION, GENETICS, ETC:
Mike the Mad Biologist on The Macroevolution 'Controversy'
Evolution Education at evolgen
Mano Singham's Web Journal's sixth post in a series on evolution: The probabilities of natural selection
Scientific American: We are African apes, cousins of monkeys, descended from fish

CREATIONISM & INTELLIGENT DESIGN:
"Who Designed the Designer?" at Red State Rabble
Evolution News & Views: John West's Forthcoming Book: Darwin Day in America (thoughts at Sandwalk)

MUSEUMS, COLLECTIONS, ETC:
educate/innovate on an exhibit called Bye-bye blackboard… from Einstein and others

OTHER HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Who's a pretty scientist? at The World's Fair (portraits of scientists)
History Now: Exploration
HSS Graduate and Early Career Caucus, a blog for graduate students in the history of science, medicine and technology
a roundup of resources for ‘emerging professionals,’ ‘young professionals,’ ‘early career historians’ at Public Historian
recent history of science doctoral dissertations