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William Yarrell (1784–1856), friend and adviser to Charles Darwin (2020)

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For 25 years, from 1831 into 1856, the English zoologist William Yarrell was both a friend and adviser to Charles Darwin. He was regarded by Darwin as a wise and eminent naturalist of the older generation. Yarrell was part of a small group of naturalists, including Leonard Jenyns and John Stevens Henslow, whose interests in ornithology, entomology and geology expanded over the years. Their knowledge helped to support publication of the results of the HMS Beagle voyage and to inform Darwin while he was developing his hypotheses on evolution before the publication of On the Origin of Species, first published in 1859.

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Authors & Contributors
Browne, E. Janet
Simões, Ana Luís
Wallace Heim
Mark Toogood
Hollier, John
Hollier, Anita
Concepts
Naturalists
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
Evolution
Biographies
Natural history
Science and culture
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
Early modern
Modern
Ancient
Places
England
Great Britain
United States
Philadelphia, PA
Isle of Wight
Madagascar
Institutions
Freshwater Biological Association
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Cambridge University
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