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The Botanic Garden (1791) is a set of two poems, The Economy of Vegetation and The Loves of the Plants, by the British poet and naturalist Erasmus Darwin. The Economy of Vegetation celebrates technological innovation and scientific discovery and offers theories concerning contemporary scientific questions, such as the history of the cosmos .
'Doom and the Poet' November 17, 1820: Keats 'Wings of a Dove' c.1855: Charles Darwin 'Rose of Parnell' 1880-91: Charles Stewart Parnell 'The Neutrality of Éire' 1939: Irish neutrality during World War II 'Leave' 1939: returning to Cambridge from Bletchley Park 'The dead of Oran' 1940: the attack on Mers-el-Kébir 'Before the landing in ...
In April 2008 Darwin's private papers were launched. The event marked the largest release of new materials by and about Darwin ever published. The collection covers c. 20,000 items across c. 90,000 electronic images. One notable item is the Diary of Emma Darwin (1808–1896), Darwin's wife. [7] [8] The site is accessible open access free of ...
Her father Sir Francis Darwin, a son of Charles Darwin, yet another 'Francis', was known to their family as "Frank", or as "Uncle Frank". She died of heart failure at her home in Cambridge, on 19 August 1960. [1] She is buried at the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge, [3] where she is in the same grave as her father Sir Francis ...
Darwin, Charles (1958), Barlow, N (ed.), The autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809–1882. With the original omissions restored. Edited and with appendix and notes by his grand-daughter Nora Barlow., London: Collins (The Autobiography of Charles Darwin) Retrieved on 15 December 2006
Darwin stated that some changes that were commonly attributed to use and disuse, such as the loss of functional wings in some island-dwelling insects, might be produced by natural selection. In later editions of Origin, Darwin expanded the role attributed to the inheritance of acquired characteristics. Darwin also admitted ignorance of the ...
The Correspondence of Charles Darwin; On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects; The variation of animals and plants under domestication; Freeman, R.B. (2007), Charles Darwin: A companion (2d online edition, compiled by Sue Asscher and edited by John van Wyhe ed.),
These aspects of Darwin's personal life are discussed in the psychoanalytic biography Charles Darwin, A Biography (1990) by John Bowlby. [20] Darwin contrasts his idea of a shared human and animal ancestry to the ideas of Charles Bell, which are aligned with natural theology. Bell claimed that facial muscles were designed to express uniquely ...