Talk:William Lawrence (biologist)

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Contents 1 Portrait 2 Going back to the source 3 Merge? 4 Influence on Darwin

[edit] Portrait

According to the Royal Society records, an engraved portrait of Lawrence exists. Macdonald-ross 17:55, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Going back to the source

This paper somewhat undermine's Darlington's credibility: Mudford P.G. 1968. William Lawrence and The Natural History of Man. Journal of the History of Ideas 29, 430-436. Here the author claims that Darlington overstated the case for Lawrence as an evolution precursor. Thanks to Rusty Cashman for this ref.

Therefore, I'm taking a good look at the original text of Lawrence as seen in the 1838 reprint by Taylor, London. I will put some findings on the article page, and we will see where it gets to. The references will be to the Lawrence text rather than a secondary source. Macdonald-ross (talk) 12:53, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Merge?

Well, yes. It is the same person!

Merge WL FRS to WL (biologist), keeping the structure of WL (biologist), which is more fully developed (17,000 bytes to 3,121 bytes).

I don't mind which heading is used; FRS is shorter, though a bit unusual (degrees and awards are not usual in headings).

Macdonald-ross (talk) 19:28, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Gone ahead and merged some of the contents from the other article into this one. Shyamal (talk) 10:38, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Influence on Darwin

If you're going to say "Darwin did not want the ostracism which he knew had come to Lawrence from publishing advanced opinions" then presumably there's some evidence? If so, give a ref; if not leave it out. Macdonald-ross (talk) 17:47, 16 April 2008 (UTC)|Macdonald-ross]] (talk) 19:28, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Now reworked and referenced. Macdonald-ross (talk) 06:31, 11 June 2008 (UTC)