Noteworthy Families (Modern Science) - An Index to Kinships in Near Degrees between Persons Whose Achievements Are Honourable, and Have Been Publicly Recorded by Edgar Schuster;Francis Galton
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_fa bro_, Erasmus DARWIN. (See Carlyle's inexact description, and the appreciations of him by his brother and others, in "Life and Letters of Charles R. Darwin," i. 21-25.) _fa_, Charles Robert DARWIN (1809-1882), F.R.S., the celebrated naturalist. The dates of his works are "Voyage of the _Beagle_," 1840; "Origin of Species," 1859; followed by a succession of eight important volumes ranging from 1862 to 1881, each of which confirmed and extended his theory of descent. Among the very numerous biographical memoirs it must suffice here to mention "Life and Letters," by Francis Darwin, and "Dict. N. Biog." _me me fa_, Josiah WEDGWOOD, F.R.S. (1730-1795), the famous founder of the pottery works.--["Dict. N. Biog."] _me me bro_, Thomas WEDGWOOD (1771-1805), an experimenter in early life, and in one sense the first to create photography; a martyr to ill-health later. Sydney Smith knew "no man who appeared to have made such an impression on his friends," his friends including many of the leading intellects of the day.--["Dict. N. Biog."] _me fa fa_ (she was her husband's _fa bro dau_), Josiah WEDGWOOD, F.R.S.; see above. _me bro_, Hensleigh WEDGWOOD (1803-1891), author of "Etymological Dictionary" and of other works, partly mathematical.--["Dict. N. Biog."] _me bro dau_, Julia WEDGWOOD, essayist. |
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