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William Erasmus Darwin
William Erasmus Darwin (27 December 18398 September 1914) was the first-born son of Charles and Emma Darwin, and the subject of psychological studies by his father. He was educated at Rugby School and Christ's College Cambridge, and later became a banker at Grant and Maddison's Union Banking Company in Southampton. In 1877 he married an American, Sara Price Ashburner Sedgwick (1839 1902). William was a great believer in university education being available to all, and championed the establishment of a university
The Life of Erasmus Darwin
The Life of Erasmus Darwin is the 1879 biography of Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) by his grandson Charles Darwin and the German biologist Ernst Krause.
Ernst Krause wrote a paper on the scientific works Erasmus Darwin which was published in the German language journal "Kosmos" in February 1879. This was translated into English by William Sweetland Dallas as "The Scientific Works of Erasmus Darwin" (pages 130-216 in the original edition), and Charles Darwin added a "preliminary notice"