Yes, they’re revising the British banknotes again, so hang onto your tenners. You might even get a crisp one at the bank and frame it. For the £10 note, which has carried the portrait of the World’s Best Biologist since 2000, is being given the boot. I always smiled when I pulled out a tenner in England. No longer.

The old note:

Instead, as of next year, we’re going to have. . . Jane Austen. Now don’t get me wrong: I like her work (though I much prefer “George Eliot’s Middlemarch), but couldn’t they put her on the fiver and leave Darwin alone?

The twenty, which now carries Adam Smith, will be replaced in 2020 by one of my favorite painters, J. M. W. Turner. That’s okay by me.

Finally, the fiver, which now carries Elizabeth Fry, is going to be replaced by The Bulldog this September:

They do tend to change the pictures every ten years or so (except for the Queen, who remains on the other side), but with the no-platforming of Darwin no biologists will remain on the currency. What about putting on the trio of Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin, and Maurice Wilkins, along with a spiffy representation of the double helix?