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William Erasmus Darwin with his father, Charles Darwin in 1842. William Erasmus Darwin (27 December 1839 – 8 September 1914) was the first-born son, and the eldest of all the children of Charles and Emma Darwin, and the subject of psychological studies by his father.
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 .
Henrietta Emma "Etty" Litchfield (née Darwin; 25 September 1843 [1] – 17 December 1927 [2]) was a daughter of Charles Darwin and his wife Emma Wedgwood. Henrietta was born at Down House , Downe , Kent, in 1843.
William Erasmus Darwin (1839–1914); graduate of Christ's College Cambridge, he was a banker in Southampton. He married an American Sara Sedgwick (1839–1902), but they did not have any children. Anne Elizabeth Darwin (1841–1851) died in Great Malvern aged ten and her death caused her father much grief.
Erasmus Darwin developed a theory of universal transformation. His major works, The Botanic Garden (1792), Zoonomia (1794–96), and The Temple of Nature all touched on the transformation of organic creatures. In both The Botanic Garden and The Temple of Nature, Darwin used poetry to describe his ideas regarding species.
In the 1770s and 1780s, Johnson expanded his business, publishing important works in medicine and children's literature as well as the popular poetry of William Cowper and Erasmus Darwin. Throughout his career, Johnson helped shape the thought of his era not only through his publications, but also through his support of innovative writers and ...
Stone-cast bust of Erasmus Darwin, by W. J. Coffee, c. 1795 Darwin's House in Lichfield, now a museum dedicated to his life and work. Darwin was born in 1731 at Elston Hall, Nottinghamshire, near Newark-on-Trent, England, the youngest of seven children of Robert Darwin of Elston (1682–1754), a lawyer and physician, and his wife Elizabeth Hill (1702–97).
The evidence is a photograph by William Erasmus Darwin of the infant and his mother, showing a characteristic head shape, and the family's observations of the child. [191] Charles Waring died of scarlet fever on 28 June 1858, [192] when Darwin wrote in his journal: "Poor dear Baby died." [193]