Which creature appears on the current English £10 note alongside Charles Darwin?
Charles Darwin arranged for the bicentenary of Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of "On the Origin of Species". Darwin has been commemorated in the UK, with his portrait printed on the reverse of £10 banknotes printed along with a hummingbird and HMS "Beagle", issued by the Bank of England. A life-size seated statue of Darwin can be seen in the main hall of the Natural History Museum in London. A seated statue of Darwin, unveiled 1897, stands in front of Shrewsbury Library, the building that used to house Shrewsbury School, which Darwin attended as a boy. Another statue
Bank of England £10 note note features a number of security features in addition to the metallic thread, including raised print, a watermark, microlettering, a hologram, and a number ten which only appears under ultraviolet light. In December 2013 the Bank of England announced that the next £10 note would be printed on polymer, rather than cotton paper. This followed the announcement in July 2013 that Charles Darwin would be replaced by 19th Century author Jane Austen on the next £10 note, which would enter circulation in 2017. The decision to replace Darwin with Austen followed a campaign to have a woman on the back