It was taken from the Smithsonian Institution Archives and returned last week.

The 150th anniversary of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species will be celebrated all day Saturday at the Natural History Museum. Creationists: hide your children. DCist’s guide to lectures and discussions in the D.C. area Wednesday: >> This week’s first crime novelist event is today at noon at the Freer’s Meyer Auditorium with forensic mystery author, forensic anthropologist and professor Kathy Reichs, whose novels inspired the TV series Bones. Reichs will give an illustrated…

FRIDAY: >> Attention all nerds: This is like our Lollapalooza or something. First Person: Stories from the Edge of the World is an event being held tonight by National Geographic Live, which features some sort of “collaboration” between NPR’s Neal Conan and Liane Hansen, the Celtic/early music crossover group Ensemble Galilei, and actor Bill Pullman. Together this crew will narrate excerpts from the journals of great explorers such as Jacques Cousteau, George Mallory, and Charles…

Journeymen Theater has never been a company to shy away from plays involving heavy themes or brimming with moral dilemmas. The group stays true to form with its ambitious production of After Darwin, now being staged at Church Street Theater. After Darwin is a work where the play within a play is as fascinating, or even more so, as the action going on behind the scenes. A ragtag group of performers is staging a work…