Erasmus Darwin
Physician , botanist and poet . CD’s grandfather. Advanced an evolutionary theory similar to that subsequently propounded by Jean Baptiste de Lamarck. FRS 1761.
Sources: DNB DSB King-Hele, Desmond 1999: 105
(See the bibliography for full references to sources)
See also Correspondence, volume(s): 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9,10,11,12