Word: darwin
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...proposition in England now is that the testimonial to Darwin shall consist of a marble statue in the hall of the Museum of Natural History at South Kensington, London. In the United States, the committee charged with deciding on a form of a memorial to Darwin is likely to recommend the establishment of a Darwin scholarship of biology which will support an American student of biology at the European schools...
...annual meeting of the Vienna Imperial Academy of Science, on May 25, Sir Henry Rawlinson was elected a foreign honorary member in place of the late Mr. Darwin...
Upon hearing of the death of Mr. Darwin the students of Kieff University drew up and sent off for transmission to his son the following telegram : "The students of Kieff University deplore with you the loss of the grand master and buissant soldier of science. The Russian youth bows with respect before the profound genuis who has revealed to man the mysteries of the struggle for existence, has assigned to him his place in nature, has indicated to thought the way of indefinite development, and who, by his own example, has shown how truth ought to be served. The memory...
...Darwin left an autobiography behind. Among his papers was found a life of his father...
...must be an astonishing reflection to the younger generation of Englishmen that the famous university men of fifty years ago, whom they constantly hear praised, had not the smallest tincture of science, The Oxford men - Newman, Manning and Arnold - knew nothing of it. The Cambridge man, Darwin, when at school, which was a principal feeder of Cambridge, heard his pursuits described by the head master as the cultivation of 'stinks' - which, indeed, became the popular university term for them." - [St. James' Gazette...