Housekeeping notices

the directors are opening a bank account, and once the paperwork is in the Beagle begging bowl goes out: we'll have a paypal donate button on the website and will be starting our corporate fundraising campaign. My ambition is this: that supporters of science all over the world will make small donations to see this icon of evolution built. Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln share a birthday (12 February 1809). Both men's portraits grace banknotes: the British £10 and the American $5.

Our first fundraising milestone will be £100,000 to pay our shipwright to approve the plans at Germanischer Lloyds. That's 10,000 Darwins or 40,000 Lincolns.