Study of organisms and other natural objects through observation, collection and description; historically it included subjects now separated among several sciences.
The learned society to which materials by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace were communicated together on 1 July 1858.
A practitioner who observes, collects, describes or classifies organisms and other natural objects. The historical role predates modern disciplinary divisions among biology, geology and related subjects.
Naturalist who defended spontaneous generation, using the term heterogenesis for the origin of living forms from nonliving organic material. His experiments and interpretations belonged to the nineteenth-century controversy over whether growth in preparations required pre-existing organisms.[ref]
Verified external portrait record: wellcomecollection.org/works/ctma9gk7
Figure 1.
Portrait of Robert Chambers
. Anonymous engraving made before 1864; Wellcome Collection / Wellcome Library, London, L0012623. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . No alteration other than display scaling. Source.

Ancestors (2)

  1. Biology
  2. Home

Incoming links (3)

View article source

Discussion (0) New discussion

There are no discussions about this article yet.

Articles by others on the same topic (0)

There are currently no matching articles.
See all articles in the same topic Create my own version