Word: darwinism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scientific adventure rather than romantic has been the object of his cruises in the wake of Charles Darwin's Beagle. Allan Hancock is credited with at least two discoveries-the fish Aganostomus hancocki Seale and the lizard Diploglossus hancocki (Slevin). Among the prodigious animals he brought back last week...
Herndon himself was well-read, a student of Darwin and Feuerbach, an admirer of Whitman, a man of the world in his understanding of men. He could turn out gnarled sentences as strong as Whitman's: "The great, keen, shrewd, boring, patient, philosophic, critical and remorselessly searching world will find out all things, and bring them to light," he wrote. "I know Lincoln better than I know myself. He was so good and so odd a man, how in the hell could I help study...
...Darwin, North Australia, Filipino Ignale Iglasius, 80, who had slept in a coffin every night for 30 years "to get used to it," died in a hospital...
...grand tour he took with his wife & son to Edinburgh, Rome, Berlin and Paris. It shows him as a good-natured, hard-headed patriot, as provincial as General Grant, gawking at every cathedral, castle, museum and picture gallery. But it shows him also as a distinguished scientist, meeting Charles Darwin and Thomas Huxley on equal terms. A stanch Presbyterian, he hated Episcopalians and Catholics, but thought the Congregationalists would win out in the end. The only thing he wholeheartedly admired was European art in general, nudes in particular. He studied representations of Venus all over Europe, found little fault with...
...DARWIN CURTIS...