English physician and philosophical poet, the author of The Loves of the Plants (1789); his interests in botany and evolution anticipated those of his more famous grandson.

REFERENCES TO Erasmus Darwin:

Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 28 October 1796 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

William Taylor of Norwich to Walter Scott, 14 December 1796 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)

Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 15 April 1797 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

William Godwin to Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, 12 June 1797 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876)

William Godwin to Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, 15 June 1797 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876)

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin to William Godwin, 19 June 1797 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876)

[William Godwin to John Horseman, 25 October 1797] in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876)

Robert Southey to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 8 January 1800 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Countess of Charleville to Sydney Owenson, 2 November 1808 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)

Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 18 February 1826 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)