Charles Darwin and Down House Gallery

Evstafieff - A R Wallace J970179

DOWN HOUSE, Kent. "A R Wallace" by Victor Evstafieff ( Eustaphieff, Evstafiev ). Alfred Russel Wallace was a proponent of natural selection whose paper on the subject (1858) prompted Darwin to publish "On the Origin of Species" (1859). Wallace was a keen supporter of Darwin's theory and later published "Darwinism" (1889)

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Alfred Russel Wallace K960210

DOWN HOUSE, Kent. Historic photograph of Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913). Wallace was a proponent of natural selection whose paper on the subject (1858) prompted Darwin to publish "On the Origin of Species" (1859). Wallace was a keen supporter of Darwin's theory and later published "Darwinism" (1889)

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Charles Lyell K970229

DOWN HOUSE, Kent. Lithograph of the geologist Charles Lyell by MAYALL J. E. Charles Darwin learnt a great deal from Lyell's book The Principles of Geology and they were to become close friends

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Darwin, Victorian