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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 - Inception Of Darwin's Theory: Encyclopedia Ii - Inception Of Darwin's Theory - Return To Celebrity And Science
When the Beagle returned, Darwin was quick to take the coach home and arrived at the family home of The Mount House in Shrewsbury, Shrops...   » 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 - Inception Of Darwin's Theory: Encyclopedia Ii - Inception Of Darwin's Theory - Transmutation
Scientific circles were buzzing with ideas of Transmutation of species with most medical men talking of a legislated "process of change",...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Inception Of Darwin's Theory: Encyclopedia Ii - Inception Of Darwin's Theory - Animal Observations
By February 1838 Darwin was on to a new pocketbook, the maroon C notebook, and was investigating the breeding of domestic animals. He fou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Inception Of Darwin's Theory: Encyclopedia Ii - Inception Of Darwin's Theory - Thoughts Of Marriage
The Hensleigh Wedgwoods were now living next door to Erasmus and were visited for a week by Catherine Darwin and Emma Wedgwood. Charles v...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Inception Of Darwin's Theory: Encyclopedia Ii - Inception Of Darwin's Theory - Marriage
Emma came to help and they found the gaudily decorated house they nicknamed "Macaw Cottage" in Gower Street, London, and Darwin moved his...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Inception Of Darwin's Theory: Encyclopedia Ii - Inception Of Darwin's Theory - Theory
Charles went house-hunting by day. At night he thought about "innumerable variations" (which he still thought were acquired in some way) ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Inception Of Darwin's Theory: Encyclopedia Ii - Inception Of Darwin's Theory - Proposal
Darwin's thoughts and work continued and he suffered repeated bouts of illness. On 11 November he returned to Maer Hall and proposed to E...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Inception Of Darwin's Theory: Encyclopedia Ii - Inception Of Darwin's Theory - Malthus And Natural Law
After returning to London on 1 August 1838 Darwin read a review of Auguste Comte's Positive Philosophy at the Athenaeum Club. It bolstere...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Inception Of Darwin's Theory: Encyclopedia Ii - Inception Of Darwin's Theory - Background: Influences
After his early life in a Unitarian family, Charles Darwin's education developed his interest in natural history. At Edinburgh University...   » 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 - 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 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 — 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 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 - 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 - 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 — 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 - Inception Of Darwin's Theory: Encyclopedia Ii - Inception Of Darwin's Theory - Summary - Outline Of Inception Of Theory
At Darwin's #Geological début, species related to places were shown when the ornithologist John Gould noticed that specimens from the Ga...   » Read the article