NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802 NRA: Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802) Physician Botanist and Poet DNB: Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802), physician and natural philosopher LBT ID: ErDarwi1802 VIAF ID: 7419078 LOC ID: n50037924 | B/BAP: 1731-12-12 DIED: 1802-04-18 |
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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. | |