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  Horace Darwin - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Sir Horace Darwin, F.R.S. 13th May 1851 - 29th September 1928), a son of the British naturalist Charles Darwin was a civil engineer.
Darwin was born in Down House in 1850, the fifth son and ninth child of the British naturalist Charles Darwin and his wife Emma, the youngest of their seven children that survived to adulthood.
Darwin married Emma Farrer in January 1880, and they had three children.
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  Charles Darwin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Darwin took part in Grant's investigations of the life cycle of marine animals on the shores of the Firth of Forth which found evidence for homology, the radical theory that all animals have similar organs and differ only in complexity.
Darwin preferred the respectability of his friends the Cambridge Dons, even though his ideas were pushing beyond their belief that natural history must justify religion and social order.
Darwin came fourth in the 100 Greatest Britons poll sponsored by the BBC and voted for by the public.
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal
Sir Horace Darwin, KBE, FRS (13 May 1851 - 29 September 1928), a son of the English naturalist Charles Darwin, was a civil engineer.
Darwin was born in Down House in 1851, the fifth son and ninth child of the British naturalist Charles Darwin and his wife Emma, the youngest of their seven children that survived to adulthood.
Ruth Frances Darwin (1883-1972), married Dr William Rees-Thomas, was a notable advocate of eugenics.
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 AboutDarwin.com - Darwin's Children
The first of Darwin's children was born on December 27, 1839.
It was the death of Annie that radically altered Darwin’s belief in Christianity.
Horace married Emma Farrer in January of 1880 and they had three children.
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 Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was a British naturalist who achieved lasting fame by convincing the scientific community of the occurrence of evolution and proposing the theory that this could be explained through natural and sexual selection.
Darwin's five-year voyage on the Beagle and subsequent writings brought him eminence as a geologist and fame as a popular author.
He was the grandson of Erasmus Darwin on his father's side, and of Josiah Wedgwood on his mother's side, both from the prominent English Darwin – Wedgwood family which supported the Unitarian church.
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 Charles Darwin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, the fifth of six children of Robert and Susannah Darwin (née Wedgwood), and the grandson of Erasmus Darwin, and of Josiah Wedgwood.
Darwin died in Downe, Kent, England, on 19 April 1882 was given a state funeral, and interred in Westminster Abbey near Isaac Newton.
Darwin was given particular recognition in 2000 when his image appeared on the Bank of England ten pound note, replacing Charles Dickens.His impressive and supposedly hard-to-forge beard was reportedly a contributing factor in this choice.
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 URBANOWICZ ON DARWIN/September 1996
Charles Darwin was an extremely important individual for a variety of reasons: the data he collected, the experiments he conducted, and the theories he proposed influenced a variety of disciplines, from anthropology to zoology as well as ecology, geology, and the general social sciences.
Robert Darwin had the distinction of being the largest man that Charles Darwin ever observed: Robert Darwin was some six feet two inches in height, with a tremendous girth, and the last time he weighed himself he was at some 360 pounds (or 24 stone in the measurement system of the day).
Darwin was essentially confined to his home at Down as a result of his illness from his South American research and he really did not take part in the great public and scientific debates that came about with the publication of Origin.
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 Amazon.com: "Horace Darwin": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Correspondence of Charles Darwin by Charles Darwin
According to Emma Darwin's diary (DAR 242), 3o December 1861, both Francis and Horace Darwin were `feverish'.
A Calendar of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, 1821-1882 by Frederick Burkhardt
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 Universität Tübingen: Die Ausstellung "38 Dinge"
Erfunden wurde der Konstruktionstyp dieses Mikrotoms von Horace Darwin in England.
Dies ist vor allem wichtig bei der histologischen Untersuchung von Embryonen und kleinen Organismen.
Entwickelt wurde diese nach ihrer Herkunft ‚Neapler-Kammer’ genannte Haltevorrichtung von Anton Dohrn an der dortigen Zoologischen Station, wo mit Unterstützung von Darwin, Huxley, Virchow, Abbe und Zeiss für Biologen aus aller Welt hervorragend ausgestattete Arbeitsplätze am Mittelmeer eingerichtet wurden.
www.uni-tuebingen.de /uni/qvo/38dinge/dinge19.html   (470 words)

  
 Cambridge Museum of Technology - Home
Take a brief virtual tour around the museum to learn about the development of the pumping station and find out more about what there is to see at the musem.
Discover how a company founded by Horace Darwin fueled the advance of the scientific instrument industry read more...
Find out how you can help the progress of The Cambridge Museum of Technology by becoming a member or even a volunteer.
www.museumoftechnology.com   (131 words)

  
 The Autobiography of Charles Darwin - Early Years by Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin > The Autobiography of Charles Darwin > Early Years
from such studies, was from some of the odes of Horace, which I
Voyage of the 'Beagle' - Dec 27, 1831 to Oct 2, 1836
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 Horace Montford (died 1918)
by Horace Montford, after a bust attributed to Edward Pierce
The online database contains information on 102,296 works, 53,316 of which are illustrated; the National Portrait Gallery's collection includes over 330,000 works.
This page has been parsed by a modified version of the BBC's Betsie version 1.5, with thanks.
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 SMILE PROGRAM BIOLOGY INDEX
Give Me A Hand, I'm "Thumb-body" Special by Ranada L. Johnson - Horace Mann Elementary
Animals and Their Coverings by Sorenson, Beverly - Darwin School
Wearing My Genes: Basic Principles of Heredity by Anita Jacobs - Horace Mann
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