An egg collected by Charles Darwin while on HMS Beagle - and thought to be the last such specimen known to exist - has been rediscovered by an octogenarian volunteer at Cambridge University’s Zoology Museum.

Professor Malcolm Burrows, Head of Department, writes: Martin was born on 24 August 1928 and was a long time member of the Department. He was a Frank Smart Prize winner in 1951, then undertook research with Wigglesworth before working at the Marine Station in Naples. He was appointed a Demonstrator in 1959, a Lecturer in...

This year, the University has devolved electricity costs to Departments and has set a savings target. Saving on energy costs is both environmentally sound and financially in our interest.

The Balfour & Newton Libraries' first edition copy of Charles Darwin's On the origin of species featured on an episode of the BBC's Countryfile programme.