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Sir Francis Darwin FLS FRS FRSE [1] (16 August 1848 – 19 September 1925) was a British botanist. He was the third son of the naturalist and scientist Charles Darwin. [2] Biography. Francis Darwin in 1910. Francis Darwin was born in Down House, Downe, Kent in 1848. He was the third son and seventh child of Charles Darwin and his wife Emma Wedgwood.
Francis Darwin was elected to the Royal Society in 1882, the year of his father’s death. From 1884 until his resignation in 1904, he taught botany in Cambridge. He was knighted in 1913, the year of his third marriage (his first two wives having died, and his third wife predeceased him).
Sir Francis Darwin FLS FRS FRSE (16 August 1848 – 19 September 1925) was a British botanist. He was the third son of the naturalist and scientist Charles Darwin. Quick Facts Born, Died ... Close. Biography. Francis Darwin in 1910. Francis Darwin was born in Down House, Downe, Kent in 1848.
Sir Francis Darwin (1848–1925) Nature 162, 248 (1948) Cite this article. 1346 Accesses. 4 Altmetric. Metrics. Abstract. THE third son of Charles Darwin gave early-evidence of a scientific bent....
Francis Darwin was the third son of Charles and Emma Darwin. He was educated at home and then at Clapham Grammar School before going to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1866. In 1869, he took a degree in mathematics, and the following year first-class honors in the natural science tripos.
Sir Francis Darwin, 1848–1925, English botanist, assistant to his father, Charles Robert Darwin. He lectured in botany at Cambridge and was foreign secretary of the Royal Society and president of the British Association.
Sir Francis "Frank" Darwin was a British botanist. He was a son of the naturalist and scientist Charles Darwin, brother of astronomer George Darwin, and brother of politician, economist and eugenicist Leonard Darwin.
As the autumn of 1882 slipped into winter and the pressure of events and duties following his father's death slowly eased, Francis was forced to confront his own future. Which way should he turn? There were hints coming out of Oxford University that he would be successful if he applied for the newly vacant Chair of Botany.
RECORD: Darwin, Francis ed. 1887. The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. London: John Murray. Volume 1. REVISION HISTORY: Scanned for Darwin Online 4.2006; transcribed (double key) by AEL Data 6.2006. Later corrections by John van Wyhe 2006-2020. RN6
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Nov 9, 2009 · The writings of Charles and Francis Darwin present a solution: they proposed, as already mentioned, that the root apex represents the anterior end of the plant body. They reached this conclusion in the last sentence of ‘The Power of Movements in Plants’ , 17 and it was based on an analogy between roots and lower animals.
