If you have a sense of adventure and know your squills from your spurges, Cambridge University Botanic Garden may have the job for you
With the promise of travel, adventure and the chance to follow in the footsteps of Charles Darwin, applications have opened for what might be the best job in the natural world: anIt is understood to be the first time such a post has been offered by a British botanic garden in modern history. “It’s very unusual – there was no template for this,” said Samuel Brockington, professor of evolutionary biology and curator at the Cambridge University Botanic Garden .
“So many people love the opportunity to travel, and see different landscapes and experience different cultures, and the world of botany is a fantastic lens to do that through,” said Brockington. Although it is the first time CUBG has offered such a role, in 1831 its founder, Prof John Stevens Henslow, recommended his former student, 22-year-old Charles Darwin, for the post of gentleman naturalist aboard HMS Beagle.
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