Noteworthy families (modern science) : $b An index to kinships in near degrees between persons whose achievements are honourable, and have been publicly recordedGalton, Francis
Science
Noteworthy families (modern science) : $b An index to kinships in near degrees between persons whose achievements are honourable, and have been publicly recorded
Galton, Francis
Eugenics
_fa_, Arthur Charles COPEMAN, M.B., London; gold medallist in anatomy
and physiology, University of London; entered Army Medical Service on
the nomination of the Chancellor of the University; subsequently
entered the Church, and became Hon. Canon of Norwich Cathedral; for
many years Chairman of Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, and of Norwich
School Board and Board of Guardians.
_fa bro_, Edward COPEMAN, M.D., Aberdeen; President British Medical
Association; consulting physician to Norfolk and Norwich Hospital;
author and inventor of gynaecological instruments and of special
methods of operation.
James Henry #COTTERILL#, F.R.S. (b. 1836), Lecturer and
subsequently Vice-Principal of the Royal School of Naval
Architecture, South Kensington; Professor of Applied Mechanics at
the Royal Naval Coll., Greenwich, 1873-1897.--["Who's Who."]
_fa bro_, Thomas COTTERILL, eminent clergyman at Sheffield; A.B.,
Cambridge, 1801.--["Grad. Cant."]
_bro_, Joseph Morthland COTTERILL, D.D. (hon. causa), St. Andrew's
University.
_fa son_, Henry COTTERILL, Senior Wrangler, 1835; second classic,
Fellow of St. John's Coll., Cambridge; Bishop of Edinburgh.--["Grad.
Cant."]
_bro son_, Joseph M. COTTERILL (b. 1851), Surgeon to Edinburgh
Royal Infirmary, Lecturer at Edinburgh School of Medicine.--["Who's
Who."]
_bro son_, Arthur COTTERILL, Head of Permanent Way Department
Egyptian Railway Administration.
_fa bro son_, Thomas COTTERILL, third wrangler, 1832; fellow of St.
John's Coll., Cambridge; one of the earliest members of the London
Mathematical Soc., to which he contributed many papers of
importance.--["Grad. Cant."]
George Howard #DARWIN# (b. 1845), F.R.S., second wrangler, 1868;
Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy,
Cambridge; author of many papers in the "Philosophical
Transactions" relating to tides, physical astronomy, and cognate
subjects; President of British Association in 1905 at Cape
Town.--["Who's Who."]
_fa fa fa_, Erasmus DARWIN, M.D., F.R.S. (1731-1802), physician,
poet, and philosopher; author of "Botanic Garden," "Zoonomia," and
other works, in which he maintained a view of evolution subsequently
expounded by Lamarck.--["Life," by Ch. R. Darwin, and "Dict. N.
Biog."]
_fa fa_, Robert Waring DARWIN (1766-1848), M.D., F.R.S., sagacious
and distinguished physician; described by his son, Charles R. Darwin,
as "the wisest man I ever knew."--["Life and Letters of Charles R.
Darwin," i. 10-20.]
_fa fa bro_, Charles DARWIN (1758-1778), of extraordinary promise,
gained first gold medal of AEsculapian Society for experimental
research; died from a dissection wound, aged twenty; many obituary
notices.--["Life and Letters of Charles R. Darwin," i. 7.]
_fa bro_, Erasmus DARWIN. (See Carlyle's inexact description, and the
appreciations of him by his brother and others, in "Life and Letters
of Charles R. Darwin," i. 21-25.)
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