Tyndall, John, 321
uniformitarianism, 151
Unitarianism, 28–9, 35
University College Hospital, London, 167
Upanishads, 247
Upper Gower Street, London (‘Macaw Cottage’), 167, 180
Usborne, Alexander Burns, 148
Ussher, James, Archbishop of Armagh, 47, 97, 238, 292
Valdivia, Chile, 129
Valparaiso, Chile, 122, 125–6, 130
Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, The (CD), 223, 268, 278, 293, 352
‘Variation of Organic Beings, The’ (CD), 185, 190
Vaughan, Cardinal Roger William Bede, 287
Venn, John, 44
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation see Chambers, Robert
Vesuvius (volcano), 130
Victoria, Queen, 210–11, 275, 301
viruses, 344
volcanoes, 170–1
Voltaire, François Marie Arouet, 58, 77, 130, 346
Vorzimmer, Peter J., 256
Voyage of the Beagle, The (CD), 147, 240
Vries, Hugo de, 276
Vulcanist theory see Plutonist (or Vulcanist) theory
Wagner, Richard, 274
Wallace, Alfred Russel: formulates idea of evolution, 58, 232, 247, 340; on word ‘scientist’, 66; letter to CD (1857), 229; background and career, 230–2; loses specimens in ship fire, 231; findings presented with CD’s to Linnean Society, 232–4, 236; on natural selection, 232, 283, 308–10, 324, 362, 365; Sarawak Law (on species emerging), 251–2; grows beard, 273; returns to Britain, 281; urges CD to uphold idea of natural selection, 283; and CD’s reaction to Mivart, 291; on population, 295–6; religious belief, 308, 310; view of humanity, 308; Mivart praises, 308; disparaged by Darwin supporters, 309; on language, 324–5; reviews Lyell’s Principles of Geology, 325; investigates spiritualism, 326; Dawkins on, 358; on Origin of Species, 359; and CD’s acceptance of creation of new forms in nature, 360; ‘On the Law Which Has Regulated the Introduction of New Species’, 229
Wallace, Herbert, 231, 326
Wallace’s Line, 232
Waring, Robert, 349
Warrington Academy, 29, 157
water cure, 201–4, 212, 243, 258, 271–2
Waterton, Charles, 136
Watson, James, 277, 344
Watt, James, 26, 124
Watts, George Frederick, 3
Webb, Sidney, 316
Wedgwood family: intermarriage, 331
Wedgwood, Barbara and Hensleigh: The Wedgwood Circle, 331
Wedgwood, Bessy (Emma’s mother), 163, 168
Wedgwood, Caroline (née Darwin; CD’s sister): appearance, 25; visits sick mother, 30; life in Shrewsbury, 31; correspondence with CD in Edinburgh, 40–1; religious devoutness, 45; draws up petition on CD’s shooting, 72; letters from CD on Beagle voyage, 101; marriage, 163, 331; baby’s sickness, 168; at Annie’s funeral, 214
Wedgwood, Charlotte (later Langton; Emma’s sister), 121, 122, 268
Wedgwood, Elizabeth (Emma’s sister), 43, 168, 182, 268
Wedgwood, Emma (CD’s wife) see Darwin, Emma
Wedgwood, Fanny (Emma’s sister), 121, 156, 201, 214–15, 326
Wedgwood, Frank (CD’s cousin), 43, 225–6
Wedgwood, Godfrey (CD’s nephew), 223
Wedgwood, Henry Allen (Harry; Emma’s nephew), 162
Wedgwood, Hensleigh (CD’s cousin), 43, 64, 189, 201, 215, 225, 326, 350
Wedgwood, Revd John Allen (CD’s cousin), 168, 348
Wedgwood, John (CD’s uncle), 26–7, 33, 37
Wedgwood, John (Harry’s son), 162
Wedgwood, Josiah (CD’s grandfather): supports French Revolution, 23–4; political idealism, 24, 157; runs Etruria works, 24–5, 27, 77; death and will, 25; loses leg, 25; intellectual achievements and status, 26, 44; background, 28; safeguards against industrial espionage, 176; anti-slavery views, 220, 304
Wedgwood, Josiah II (CD’s uncle): at Maer Hall, 26–7, 38; character, 27, 42; spends time in Paris, 37, 62; on CD’s enlarged curiosity, 46; supports CD’s joining Beagle expedition, 89; wealth, 162; gives piano to CD and Emma, 169; stroke and death, 182
Wedgwood, Josiah III (CD’s cousin), 43, 163, 225, 331
Wedgwood, Kitty (CD’s aunt), 30
Wedgwood, Margaret, Lucy and Sophy (Josiah III’s daughters), 331
Wedgwood, Richard (CD’s great grandfather), 25
Wedgwood, Sally (CD’s maternal grandmother), 25
Wedgwood, Sarah (CD’s aunt), 37, 210, 225–6
Wedgwood, Tom (CD’s uncle), 25, 27–8, 58, 204
Weil, Simone: The Need for Roots, 346
Weissner, Polly, 363
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of, 44
Wells, H. G., 316
Werner, Abraham, 48
Westminster Review, 212–13, 257
Whewell, William: uses word ‘scientist’, 66; ordained priest, 67; reviews Lyell’s Principles of Geology, 151; religious views, 153; recognizes CD as scientist, 154; on Malthusian ideas, 158; rejects Agassiz’s glacier theory, 174; on Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, 194
White, Gilbert, 69, 76, 189, 257
Whitley, Charles, 71, 92
Wickham, Lieut. John, 90, 95, 99, 120, 128, 170
Wicking, Matthew, 225
Wight, Isle of, 237, 240
Wilberforce, Samuel, Bishop of Oxford: as Dean of Westminster, 178; denounces slave trade, 234; hostile review of The Origin of Species, 258–9, 279–80; qualities and career, 259; reputation, 259; and Oxford debate (1860), 262–6, 293; on human kinship with apes, 307
Wilberforce, William, 44
William IV, King: coronation, 92
Williams, Charles, 326
Williams, Ralph Vaughan, 331
Wills, Christopher, 344
Wilson, Edmund Beecher, 276
Wilson, E. O.: and Social Darwinism, 4, 355–8; edits Darwin, 256
Wilson, Dr James, 201–2
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 209
Woodhouse, near Shrewsbury, 63–4, 72
Woodward, Benjamin, 261
Wordsworth, William, 23, 117, 122; Lyrical Ballads (with Coleridge), 23–4; The Prelude, 61; ‘Tintern Abbey’, 23
worms: CD’s interest in, 331–3, 348
Wright, Chauncey, 293, 309
Yaghan people, 300
Yarrell (bookseller), 181
Yeoman, Dr Thomas, 209
Zeitgeist, 196
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