_fa_, Charles Robert DARWIN (1809-1882), F.R.S., the celebrated naturalist. The dates of his works are "Voyage of the _Beagle_," 1840; "Origin of Species," 1859; followed by a succession of eight important volumes ranging from 1862 to 1881, each of which confirmed and extended his theory of descent. Among the very numerous biographical memoirs it must suffice here to mention "Life and Letters," by Francis Darwin, and "Dict. N. Biog." _me me fa_, Josiah WEDGWOOD, F.R.S. (1730-1795), the famous founder of the pottery works.--["Dict. N. Biog."] _me me bro_, Thomas WEDGWOOD (1771-1805), an experimenter in early life, and in one sense the first to create photography; a martyr to ill-health later. Sydney Smith knew "no man who appeared to have made such an impression on his friends," his friends including many of the leading intellects of the day.--["Dict. N. Biog."] _me fa fa_ (she was her husband's _fa bro dau_), Josiah WEDGWOOD, F.R.S.; see above. _me bro_, Hensleigh WEDGWOOD (1803-1891), author of "Etymological Dictionary" and of other works, partly mathematical.--["Dict. N. Biog."] _me bro dau_, Julia WEDGWOOD, essayist. _bro_, Francis DARWIN (b. 1848), F.R.S., botanist; biographer of his father; reader in botany at Cambridge, 1876-1903; foreign sec. Royal Society. Author of botanical works and memoirs.--["Who's Who."] _bro_, Major Leonard DARWIN (b. 1850), late R.E., second in the examination of his year for Woolwich; served on several scientific expeditions, including transit of Venus of 1874 and 1882; Staff Intelligence Dep. War Office, 1885-1890; M.P. for Lichfield, 1892-1895. Author of "Bimetallism," "Municipal Trade."--["Who's Who."] _bro_, Horace DARWIN (b. 1851), F.R.S., engineer and mechanician; joint founder of the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company and its proprietor. It is now a limited company, of which he is chairman.--["Who's Who."] _More distant relation:_ _fa fa si son_, Francis GALTON, F.R.S. (q.v.). Sir John #EVANS# (b. 1823), K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., Sc.D., F.R.S., President of the Royal Numismatic Society since 1874; trustee of the British Museum; treasurer and vice-president of the Royal Society during twenty years; has been president of numerous learned societies; author of works on the coins of the Ancient Britons, and on their stone and bronze implements.--["Who's Who," and "Ency. Brit."] _fa fa_, Lewis EVANS (1755-1827), F.R.S., F.A.S., mathematician; first Mathematical Master of R.M.A., Woolwich.--["Dict. N. Biog."] _fa_, Arthur Benoni EVANS (1781-1854), D.D., miscellaneous writer; Professor of Classics and History, R.M.C., 1805-1822; headmaster of Market Bosworth Grammar School, 1825-1854.--["Dict. N. Biog."] _me bro_ and _wi fa_, John DICKINSON (1782-1869), F.R.S., inventor of paper-making machine. _bro_, Sebastian EVANS, LL.D., poet, artist, and author. _si_, Anne EVANS (1820-1870), poet and musician, composer.--["Dict. N. Biog."]