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  Encyclopedia: Charles Darwin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Darwin took part in these investigations, and in March 1827 made a presentation to the Plinian society of his discovery that the fl spores often found in oyster shells were the eggs of a skate leech.
Darwin found different mockingbirds on the nearby Galápagos Islands, and on returning to Britain he was shown that Galápagos tortoises and finches were also in distinct species based on the individual islands they inhabited.
Leonard Darwin Leonard as a boy with his mother, Emma Darwin Major Leonard Darwin (15 January 1850 —; 26 March 1943), a son of the British naturalist Charles Darwin, was variously a soldier, politician, economist, eugenicist and mentor of the statistician and evolutionary biologist Ronald Fisher.
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 Charles Darwin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
After Darwin finished his studies, Henslow recommended him for the position of naturalist and gentleman's companion to Robert Fitzroy, the captain of the HMS Beagle, which was departing on a five-year expedition to chart the coastline of South America.
Darwin was given particular recognition in 2000 when his image appeared on the Bank of England ten pound note, replacing Charles Dickens.
Darwin is included in the top 10 of the 100 Greatest Britons poll sponsored by the BBC and voted for by the public.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/charles_darwin   (2641 words)

  
 Darwin's writings available at this website   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Darwin, Charles, 'On certain areas of elevation and subsidence in the Pacific and Indian oceans, as deduced from the study of Coral Formations', Proceedings of the Geological Society of London, 2(51) 1837, pp.
Darwin, Charles, 'On the connexion of certain volcanic phænomena, and on the formation of mountain-chains and volcanos, as the effects of continental elevations', Proceedings of the Geological Society of London, 2(56) 1838, pp.
Darwin, Charles, et al, 'Report of a committee appointed "to consider of the rules by which the nomenclature of zoology may be established on a uniform and permanent basis"', Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science for 1842, 1843, pp.
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 Charles Darwin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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.
After Darwin finished his studies, Henslowrecommended him for the position of gentleman's companion to RobertFitzroy, the captain of the HMS Beagle, which was departing on afive-year expedition to chart the coastline of South America.
Darwin died in Downe, Kent, England, on 19 April 1882 was given a state funeral, and interred in Westminster Abbey near Isaac Newton.
www.therfcc.org /charles-darwin-3212.html   (1693 words)

  
 Darwin (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The word "Darwin", when used alone, has several possible meanings in the English language, many of which are associated with the pre-eminent naturalist Charles Darwin who became famous as a result of his formulation of evolution by natural selection.
Darwin, Northern Territory*, a regional Australian city, and capital of the Northern Territory.
Darwin (volcano)*, a volcano on the Galápagos Islands
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Darwin   (313 words)

  
 Leonard_Darwin
Major Leonard Darwin (15 January 1850 — 26 March 1943), a son of the British naturalist Charles Darwin, was variously a soldier, politician, economist, eugenicist and mentor of the statistician and evolutionary biologist Ronald Fisher.
Leonard Darwin was born in 1850 in Down House in Kent.
Born into the wealthy Darwin -- Wedgwood family, he was the the fourth son and eighth child of the British naturalist Charles Darwin and his wife Emma.
www.apawn.com /search.php?title=Leonard_Darwin   (397 words)

  
 Darwin Day Celebration - NEWlang
Charles and Emma Darwin were both fond of children and would eventually have a total of ten with the first one born towards the end of 1839 and the last one in 1856 when Emma was 48 yeas old.
William was a graduate of Christ’s College at Cambridge University, and became a banker, after Charles Darwin guaranteed the sum of 5,000 pounds enabling William to become a partner in a bank.
Leonard later became a Liberal-unionist MP for the town of Lichfield in Staffordshire 1892-95.
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 Anne Darwin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Anne Elizabeth "Annie" Darwin (2 March 1841-22 April 1851) was the second child and eldest daughter of Charles and Emma Darwin.
In 1849, Anne caught scarlet fever along with her two sisters and youngest brother, the last dying of the disease, and her health thereafter declined; some authorities believe that she suffered from tuberculosis.
Her death at age ten was a terrible blow for both Charles and Emma, and is said by Browne to have driven Darwin to atheism.
www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/a/an/anne_darwin.html   (245 words)

  
 Etty_Darwin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
His early death from scarlet fever meant that Charles Darwin was not present at the joint reading of the papers of Alfred Russel Wallace to the Linnean Society of London on evolution on 1st July 1858.
Leonard Darwin (1850-1943) was variously an army officer, Member of Parliament and eugenicist who corresponded with Ronald Fisher, thus being the link between the two great evolutionary biologists.
Francis Darwin (1848–1925 was the botanist son of Charles Darwin and Emma Darwin (nee Wedgwood).
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 AboutDarwin.com - Darwin's Timeline: January
Darwin was devastated at missing the chance to see the island of his dreams, and watched Tenerife fade off into the horizon.
Darwin now felt quite well, but he continued his water treatments in the backyard, just to be on the safe side.
Darwin became quite upset with Mivart, not because of his objections to his theory, but because of the venomous manner in which Mivart put forth his objections and his attacks on Darwin's colleagues.
www.aboutdarwin.com /timeline/January.html   (1811 words)

  
 AboutDarwin.com - People of Note
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.
He later became a liberal-unionist MP for the town of Lichfield in Staffordshire 1892-95, and was president of the Royal Geological Society 1908-11.
www.aboutdarwin.com /darwin/Children.html   (468 words)

  
 Leonard Darwin -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Leonard Darwin was born in 1850 in (Click link for more info and facts about Down House) Down House in (A county in southeastern England on the English Channel; the first to be colonized by the Romans) Kent.
Two of Darwin's nieces, daughters of (Click link for more info and facts about George Howard Darwin) George Howard Darwin, described their uncle.
This was preceded by an account of Darwin's economic writings by the editor of the journal, Margaret's brother-in law, John Maynard Keynes.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/le/leonard_darwin.htm   (458 words)

  
 Darwin, 'Recollections by Charles Darwin', in Leonard Jenyns, Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow 1862   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Darwin, 'Recollections by Charles Darwin', in Leonard Jenyns, Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow 1862
Darwin, 'Recollections by Charles Darwin', in Leonard Jenyns, Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow.
Darwin, the first of the names above mentioned, and thus to have much of what I have stated confirmed by one who knew him so well, and who could so thoroughly appreciate the excellence of his disposition :—
pages.britishlibrary.net /charles.darwin3/jenyns.html   (1175 words)

  
 The Darwin Page - Darwin - Life Chronology - Dr Robert A. Hatch
Darwin's interest in 'bugs and beetles' was longstanding.
Papers by Darwin and Wallace, announcing theory of Evolution through natural selection, were read at Linnaean Society, London.
In later years Darwin worked on unsolved problems of variation and heredity (published in 1868), and later he continued work on botanical works on plant hybridization and variation.
web.clas.ufl.edu /users/rhatch/pages/13-NDFE/darwin/05-DARWIN-CHRON.htm   (954 words)

  
 Charles Darwin
These plans, however, fell through.After Darwin finished his studies, Henslow recommended him for the position of naturalist and gentlemans companion to Robert Fitzroy, the captain of HMS ''Beagle'', which was departing on a five-year expedition to chart the coastline of South America.
Darwins work during the ''Beagle'' expedition allowed him to study both the geological properties of continents and isles and a multitude of living organisms and fossils.
Darwin married his cousin Emma Wedgwood in 1839.After living for a number of years in London, the couple eventually moved to Down House, in Downe, Kent (which is now open to public visits, south of Orpington).
www.americanliteraturereview.com /115382_charles-darwin_0140433902autobiographiesinfoon.html   (2079 words)

  
 The Science Show: 29 January  2005  - Tsunami   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Mark Leonard: We’ve heard these kinds of stories before, there’s actually a similar report in the United States of a water well going up and down, a few metres in that case, as the waves from this earthquake rippled across the earth.
He referred to the dogs which didn’t seem to respond presumably because the vibrations were too low and he did mention the curious fact that there were reports after the tsunami that lots of animals kind of went to the hills.
Mark Leonard: The Sunda trench runs effectively all the way from north of Sumatra down south of Sumatra, Java, Lomboch, Bali, Timor, all the way across to West Irian and it’s that 5000 kilometres of fault line is one of the more active areas tectonically in the world.
www.abc.net.au /rn/science/ss/stories/s1288855.htm   (1419 words)

  
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Feb. 12, 1809 Ð Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England.
Mid Oct. 1825 Ð Darwin was sent to the University of Edinburgh in Scotland to study medicine.
Darwin was so ill that he could not attend the funeral.
web.syr.edu /~atcollin/darwinbiography.html   (527 words)

  
 The Darwin Correspondence Online Database   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Darwin Project staff who have contributed to the development of the database are Samantha Evans, Nick Gill, Alison Pearn, and Ellis Weinberger.
The Calendar of the correspondence of Charles Darwin
The Calendar to the Darwin correspondence is a catalogue, with summaries, of all the known letters to and from Charles Darwin, the full texts of which are being published in the volumes of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin.
darwin.lib.cam.ac.uk   (1224 words)

  
 von Hagen
To mark the centenary of Charles Darwin's visit to the islands, we planned to erect at Wreck Bay on Chatham Island, the spot where he first landed, the monument which was safe in the hold of the schooner.
The bust of Darwin was a replica of a portrait [sic, bust] in the American Museum of Natural History, and had been sent to me through the kindness of Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy of that Museum; a plaster cast had been made of the original, and in Ecuador it was re-cast by a native sculptor.
The inscription for the monument was written by the sole surviving son of the great naturalist, Major Leonard Darwin, of Sussex, England, and the plaque, containing the inscription, also had a portrait of Darwin as a young man. A copy of the portrait was obtained through the gracious offices of Mrs.
www.galapagos.to /TEXTS/VONHAGEN.HTM   (2397 words)

  
 Jenyns, 1846. Observations in Natural History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Leonard Jenyns, brother-in-law of John Henslow and Vicar of Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire (1828-49), was a country parson whose avocation was entomology.
Darwin and Jenyns met, when Darwin was an undergraduate at Cambridge, and the two of them collected insects, especially beetles, together.
Further information about Leonard Jenyns is available on the web site of Roger Vaughan, who has collected a vast archive of Jenyns materials and is the author of a rich and growing web resource.
darwin.baruch.cuny.edu /biography/cambridge/jenyns.html   (1675 words)

  
 Emma Darwin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The word Darwin, when used alone, has several possible meanings in the English language.
Darwin, the capital city of Northern Territory in Australia.
Darwin, a small town in the Falkland Islands
33beat.com /Emma_Darwin.html   (595 words)

  
 ISAR - Reymond Bernard Cattell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Leonard Darwin and the Council of the Eugenics Society approve a proposal that the Society should establish a Leonard Darwin Research Studentship, to be funded by Darwin.
According to a decision reached by the Council on February 5th, 1935, the decision of the Darwin Studentship Committee as to the first scholarship should be approved by the Council.
The Darwin Studentship Committee consists of Professor Fisher and Professor Huxley representing the Society, Dr. F.H.A. Marshall representing the Royal Society, Dr. Fraser-Harris representing the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Dr. David Heron representing the Royal Statistical Society.
www.ferris.edu /isar/bibliography/catbib.htm   (12374 words)

  
 Evolution Quotes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.
Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is the only workable explanation that has ever been proposed for the remarkable fact of our own existence, indeed the existence of all life wherever it may turn up in the universe.
When a valid criticism of Darwinism is first proposed, it is dismissed without an adequate response, either on some technicality or with some irrelevancy or by simply being ignored.
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 An Annotated Calendar of the Letters of Charles Darwin in the Library of the American Philosophical Society, American ...
Enclosed proof of note which CD will insert in his forthcoming " `Reply' " is "a correct statement of the relations of the passage I have printed on the use and meaning of the term `Creation', as used by Naturalists in some of their discussions, to the partial quotation from it in Prof.
Darwin, Fertilisation of Orchids (1862)] on fertilisation of orchids; "I almost wish I could have been completely idle here"; heaven knows when Darwin, Variation under Domestication (1868) will be done; regards to wife [Mary Elizabeth Horner Lyell].
Leonard Darwin], and Horace [Darwin] are still ill; will go to Bournemouth soon to be near other children; the [John William] Lubbocks have home in Chiselhurst; is glad Glen Roy is settled; moraines opposite L[och] Treig are important, as is slope inland, if proved.
www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/d/darwin3.htm   (7752 words)

  
 The Sydney Morning Herald * Indonesian earthquake rattles Darwin
No injuries or property damage were reported after a powerful earthquake off Indonesia's eastern coast rattled windows and houses in northern Australia, police and hospital staff said.
A spokeswoman for the Royal Darwin Hospital said that no earthquake-related injuries had been reported to the hospital's emergency department.
Leonard said the depth of the quake was one reason why damage and injuries resulting from the quake were limited.
www.geocities.com /toelehoe/smh040305.htm   (236 words)

  
 Jenyns Book   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
LEONARD JENYNS, described by Jerom Murch as Darwin's lifelong friend, was an eminent Victorian scientist with many talents including Botany, Zoology and Meteorology.
In his memoirs he describes how he was offered the post of naturalist on board the Beagle's famous round the world voyage but, after some thought, felt that his duty lay with his parish.
Charles Darwin took his place and it was during this voyage that Darwin's observations and thoughts on all he had seen during the voyage led on to his famous works which revolutionised the whole science of Biology, as then conceived.
www.brlsi.org /books/jenynsbook.htm   (1410 words)

  
 Charles Darwin - Scopes Trial - UMKC School of Law
Charles Darwin understood better than anyone how his theory on the origin of new species threatened prevailing religious beliefs.
Darwin himself might well have spent his life quoting Genesis rather than studying speciation had it not been for his friendship with a professor of botany at
Osborn was true to his word, and Leonard Darwin sent his note of encouragement to John Scopes.
www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/darwin.htm   (1847 words)

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