To round off the auction of a rare fifth edition of Darwin's On the Origin of the Species, that fetched £21,000 at GCT's Galapagos Day on 15 September, was the presentation of an outsize cheque by the winning bidder, Principal of the Mayfair School of English, Naeem Ahmad.
And where better place to receive such a generous donation than London's Natural History Museum in front of Charles Darwin himself?
Pictured from left to right are GCT's chief executive, Toni Darton; Charles Darwin (seated behind), 'reading' the fifth edition of his book; Naeem Ahmad; and Kieran Murphy, Steppes Travel's managing director.
First published by John Murray in 1869, the book was purchased in 2008 by Steppes Travel Group,which generously donated it for auction at our Anniversaries Special Galapagos Day with the proceeds going to the Galapagos Conservation Trust.
