![]() In Leicester where he had access to a library where there were several reliable books on Natural History. He was now successful in gaining a position as a teacher of Surveying in the Collegiate School It happened, however, that William Wallace's business fell on hard times causing Wallace to Natural History could also be followed up, to some extent, between daily tasks. On a career as a surveyor where a growing interest in To cut short his formal education late in 1836.įamily contacts in the form of an older brother, William, owning a surveying business led to Wallace embarking Wallace lost much of his remaining property through ill advised dealings inġ835 resulting in real hardship for the family - Alfred Russel Wallace, then barely into his teenage years, had Of the family was employed as librarian in Hertford, an English county town not too far distant from London. Monmouthshire (now part of Gwent), Wales as the eighth child of a family a family, where the father HMS Beagle meant that he took another path in life.Īlfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was born near Usk, Time, been explicitly abandoned but his gaining the place on the The intended career in the church had, at no His joining the HMS Beagle after his uncle, Josiah Wedgewood II, Heavy paternal opposition, in securing a unpaid place for DarwinĪs a naturalist on a long term scientific expedition that was toīe made by HMS Beagle. Professor, John Stevens Henslow, who was instrumental, despite His modest and untrained scientific inclinations wereĮncouraged by Alan Sedgewick, a geologist and also by a botany My tongue so that I was forced to spit the beetle out, which was Alas it ejected some intensely acrid fluid, which burnt ![]() Lose, so that I popped the one which I held in my right hand into Hand then I saw a third and new kind, which I could not bear to Some old bark, I saw two rare beetles and seized one in each "I will give a proof of my zeal: one day on tearing off His autobiography quotes one particular beetle hunt in Interest in collecting beetles, the rarer in species the better. Plants, insects, and geological specimens, guided by his cousin Theological studies but rather fell in with a set who were keen ![]() With a view to becoming ordained as a clergyman.ĭuring his Cambridge years he did not immerse himself in Him to Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1827, to study theology Was made, after his father had suggested the Church, by sending my belief was sufficient toĬheck any strenuous effort to learn medicine".Īnother attempt at securing a gentleman's education and career Small circumstances that my Father would leave me property enough "soon after this period I became convinced from various Worthwhile progress - partly because he did not relish the suffering of patients or the sight ofīlood resulting from medical procedures. He then went to Edinburgh to study medicine but did not make Not proved to have much academic aptitude at school in Shrewsbury He was taught in accordance with a Greek language basedĬlassics curriculum at Shrewsbury from 1818-1825. Physician-scientist Erasmus Darwin, and of the pottery magnate Waring Darwin and his wife Susannah and the grandson of the He was the fifth child of an highly reputable doctor named Robert Home > Evolution Index > Charles Darwin - Alfred Russel Wallace and their Theory of EvolutionĬharles Darwin was born on February 12 th 1809 at Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace - their theory of evolution - malthus on population ![]()
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