Hensleigh Wedgwood - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Development Of Darwin's Theory: Encyclopedia Ii - Development Of Darwin's Theory - Barnacles
A single barnacle species was left to describe, and Darwin began dissecting with the assistance of Hooker who was now at Kew. To compare ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Darwin From Insectivorous Plants To Worms: Encyclopedia Ii - Darwin From Insectivorous Plants To Worms - Recollections
They visited Hensleigh and Fanny to celebrate the announcement that Frank's wife Amy was five months pregnant, and Charles and Emma would...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Darwin — Wedgwood Family: Encyclopedia Ii - Darwin — Wedgwood Family - The First Generation
Darwin — Wedgwood family - Josiah Wedgwood. Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795) was a noted potter and a friend of Erasmus Darwin; in 1780 on...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Emma Darwin: Encyclopedia Ii - Emma Darwin - Biography
Emma Wedgwood was born in 1808 at the family estate of Maer Hall, Maer, Staffordshire, the youngest of six children of Josiah Wedgwood II...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Erasmus Alvey Darwin: Encyclopedia Ii - Erasmus Alvey Darwin - Education
He attended Shrewsbury School 1815–1822 as a boarder, and as a frail and studious boy his interest was in books and plants rather than ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - James Mackintosh: Encyclopedia Ii - James Mackintosh - Early Life
Mackintosh was born at Aldourie, 7 miles from Inverness. Both his parents were from old Highland families. His mother died while he was a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wooden Spoon Award: Encyclopedia Ii - Wooden Spoon Award - The Academic Wooden Spoon At Cambridge University
The wooden spoon at Cambridge, England was originally associated with the Cambridge University mathematical tripos exams, and was a kind ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Development Of Darwin's Theory: Encyclopedia Ii - Development Of Darwin's Theory - Married Life
In 1839, now married to Emma and settled in foggy London, Darwin continued to look to the countryside for information and began a Questio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wooden Spoon Award: Encyclopedia Ii - Wooden Spoon Award - The Wooden Spoon In Sport
Wooden spoon award - Rowing. "Spoons" are also awarded to Cambridge college rowing crews who go down four places in a Bumps race, somet...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Development Of Darwin's Theory: Encyclopedia Ii - Development Of Darwin's Theory - Background
Charles Darwin became a naturalist at a point in the history of evolutionary thought when theories of Transmutation were being developed ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Development Of Darwin's Theory: Encyclopedia Ii - Development Of Darwin's Theory - First Writings On The Theory
In January 1842 Darwin sent a tentative description of his ideas in a letter to Lyell, who was then touring America. Lyell, dismayed that...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Development Of Darwin's Theory: Encyclopedia Ii - Development Of Darwin's Theory - Renewal Of Work On Species
By September 1854 his second volume of Barnacles had been printed and dispatched, and he turned his attention to Species, telling his cou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Erasmus Alvey Darwin: Encyclopedia Ii - Erasmus Alvey Darwin - Miss Martineau
In May 1834 Charles got a letter from his sisters recommending Poor Laws and Paupers Illustrated in pamphlet sized parts by the fiercely ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Erasmus Alvey Darwin: Encyclopedia Ii - Erasmus Alvey Darwin - Retirement
In the summer of 1829 he gave up medicine as his father Doctor Robert Waring Darwin considered that Erasmus's "delicate frame" could not ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Darwin From Insectivorous Plants To Worms: Encyclopedia Ii - Darwin From Insectivorous Plants To Worms - Death
Emma wanted a quiet Easter, so Laura and Henrietta left on 4 April, but on the 4th and 5th Darwin suffered attacks, noting "much pain". H...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Erasmus Alvey Darwin: Encyclopedia Ii - Erasmus Alvey Darwin - Uncle Ras
While Charles Darwin's illness made him increasingly reclusive after his move to Downe, he would still visit Erasmus as one of his relati...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - James Mackintosh: Encyclopedia Ii - James Mackintosh - Later Life
He courteously declined the offer of Perceval to resume political life under the auspices of the dominant Tory party, though tempting pro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Darwin From Insectivorous Plants To Worms: Encyclopedia Ii - Darwin From Insectivorous Plants To Worms - Worms
Darwin again took up his work on worms. As ever, he corresponded widely, encouraging and helping fund research and collecting anecdotes. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Darwin — Wedgwood Family: Encyclopedia Ii - Darwin — Wedgwood Family - The Fifth Generation
Darwin — Wedgwood family - Charles Galton Darwin. Charles Galton Darwin 1887-1962 was the son of George Howard Darwin (see above) and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Darwin — Wedgwood Family: Encyclopedia Ii - Darwin — Wedgwood Family - The Sixth Generation
Darwin — Wedgwood family - Richard Keynes. Professor Richard Keynes FRS (b. 1919) is a British physiologist. Darwin — Wedgwood fam...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Darwin — Wedgwood Family: Encyclopedia Ii - Darwin — Wedgwood Family - The Fourth Generation
Darwin — Wedgwood family - George Howard Darwin. George Howard Darwin (1845–1912) was an astronomer and mathematician. He married M...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Darwin — Wedgwood Family: Encyclopedia Ii - Darwin — Wedgwood Family - Other Notables From The Same Period
Darwin — Wedgwood family - William Darwin Fox. The Rev. William Darwin Fox (1805-1880) was a second cousin of Charles Darwin and an e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Darwin — Wedgwood Family: Encyclopedia Ii - Darwin — Wedgwood Family - The Second Generation
Darwin — Wedgwood family - Robert Darwin. The son of Erasmus Darwin, Robert Darwin was a noted physician from Shrewsbury, whose own i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Darwin — Wedgwood Family: Encyclopedia Ii - Darwin — Wedgwood Family - The Third Generation
Darwin — Wedgwood family - Charles Darwin. The most prominent member of the family, Charles Darwin, proposed the first coherent theor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Darwin From Insectivorous Plants To Worms: Encyclopedia Ii - Darwin From Insectivorous Plants To Worms - Background
In the aftermath of the publication of On the Origin of Species through Natural Selection in 1859, Charles Darwin's allies Charles Lyell,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Darwin From Insectivorous Plants To Worms: Encyclopedia Ii - Darwin From Insectivorous Plants To Worms - Family Matters Eugenics
Darwin's sons George and Horace were ill and arrived home at Christmas 1872 for nursing. Darwin turned from his insectivorous plants to a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Darwin From Insectivorous Plants To Worms: Encyclopedia Ii - Darwin From Insectivorous Plants To Worms - Cross And Self Fertilisation
With Variation at the printers and with his old essay on The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants due out in November 1875 with "illus...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Darwin From Insectivorous Plants To Worms: Encyclopedia Ii - Darwin From Insectivorous Plants To Worms - Biography Of Erasmus Darwin
The German scientific periodical Kosmos featured, as a 70th birthday tribute to Charles Darwin, an essay by Ernst Krause on his grandfath...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Darwin From Insectivorous Plants To Worms: Encyclopedia Ii - Darwin From Insectivorous Plants To Worms - Variation Revised
Now Darwin turned to work on a new edition of The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication incorporating additions from the hu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Darwin From Insectivorous Plants To Worms: Encyclopedia Ii - Darwin From Insectivorous Plants To Worms - Insectiverous Plants
During 1874 Darwin contacted many of his old friends to assist with experimentation on insectiverous plants, including Hooker and his ass...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Darwin From Insectivorous Plants To Worms: Encyclopedia Ii - Darwin From Insectivorous Plants To Worms - New Edition Of The Descent Of Man
Darwin tackled a new edition of the Descent of Man, and offered the self-financing Wallace the work of assisting him. Wallace quoted seve...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Darwin From Insectivorous Plants To Worms: Encyclopedia Ii - Darwin From Insectivorous Plants To Worms - Roots And Illness
Darwin, "quite set up", returned to his experiments on plant roots standing in an ammonia solution, preparing sections and looking for "p...   » Read the article