To mark the 200th anniversary of Wallace’s birth, an article exploring the friendship between Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace.
Mini Biographies
Short biographical articles.
Book review: ‘The Ascent of John Tyndall’ by Roland Jackson
A long-overdue biography of the Victorian scientist, mountaineer, and public intellectual.
Thomas Wedgwood: the Uncle of Photography
As historians of science are forever reminding us (although nobody listens to those killjoys), we enter dangerous territory when we start to discuss the ‘first’ person to do X, the ‘lone genius’ who invented Y, or the ‘Father of’ Great Idea Z.
W.B. Tegetmeier
For every giant that strides the scientific world like a colossus, there are many thousands more mini-heroes of science whose contributions are sometimes overlooked or forgotten. William Bernhardt Tegetmeier is an excellent example.
John Stevens Henslow
Botanist, clergyman, and Charles Darwin’s great friend and tutor.
Sir Richard Owen: the archetypal villain
‘What a strange man to be envious of a naturalist like myself, immeasurably his inferior!’—Charles Darwin.
(1805–1865)
Robert FitzRoy
Robert FitzRoy’s name will forever be associated with Charles Darwin’s. But he deserves to be remembered for his own many achievements.