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Charles Darwin*

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by Kathleen Krull

Pliny the Elder

  popular science

  population theory

  postal system

  The Power of Movement in Plants (Darwin)

  prehistoric man

  Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy (Herschel)

  Priestley, Joseph

  primates

  Principles of Geology (Lyell)

  priority of scientific discoveries

  psychology

  race issues

  radioactivity

  rainforest

  religion

  and agnosticism

  and Catastrophism

  Church of England

  and Darwin’s marriage

  Darwin’s theology education

  and English education

  and evolutionary theory

  and FitzRoy

  and fixation of species concept

  and natural selection

  and naturalism

  and opposition to Darwin’s work

  and population theory

  and spiritualism

  and the X Club

  reproduction. See also population theory

  Royal Botanic Gardens

  Royal Medal

  Royal Society

  Salvador, Brazil

  The Sceptical Chymist (Boyle)

  scientific method

  Scopes, John

  Scopes trial

  seasickness

  Sedgwick, Adam

  seeds

  Shrewsbury, England

  Shrewsbury Grammar School

  sketching

  slavery

  smallpox

  South America

  species. See also evolution

  Spencer, Herbert

  spiritualism

  St. Jago, Cape Verde Islands

  Stephens, James Francis

  Stone Age tools

  sundews

  survival of the fittest

  Systema Naturae (Linnaeus)

  A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)

  taxidermy

  Tenerife, Canary Islands

  Tennyson, Alfred

  theology education

  Thoreau, Henry David

  Tierra del Fuego, Argentina

  tiktaalik

  Times (London)

  tortoises

  trade routes

  transitional species

  transmutation. See also adaptation

  Transmutation Notebooks

  Tree of Life drawing

  Unitarians

  United States

  University of Chicago

  vaccines

  Valdivia, Chile

  The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication (Darwin)

  variation of species

  Venus flytraps

  Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (Chambers)

  Victoria, Queen of England

  Victorian society

  volcanoes

  The Voyage of the Beagle (Darwin)

  Wales

  Wallace, Alfred Russel

  water cures

  wealth of Darwin family

  wedding of Darwin

  Wedgwood, Emma. See also Darwin, Emma (wife)

  Wedgwood, Josiah

  Westminster Abbey

  White, Gilbert

  Wilberforce, Samuel

  worms

  X Club

  zoology

  Zoönomia (Erasmus Darwin)

 

 

 


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