Author:Erasmus Darwin

Erasmus Darwin
(1731–1802)

Erasmus Darwin

Works

• A System of Vegetables (1783, 2 volumes)
  • translation of Carl Linnaeus' Systema Vegetabilium (13th edition)
• The Families of Plants (1787)
  • translation of Linnaeus' Genera Plantarum
• The Botanic Garden
  • Part 1: The Economy of Vegetation (1791)
  • Part 2: The Loves of the Plants (1789)
• Zoonomia (1794; 3 parts)
• A plan for the conduct of female education in boarding schools (1797)
• Phytologia (1800)
• The Temple of Nature (1806–1807)

Works about Darwin

• "Erasmus Darwin" (Anonymous), in Midland Naturalist, 1:261-265. (1878)
• "Darwin, Erasmus," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Darwin, Erasmus," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Darwin, Erasmus," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Darwin, Erasmus," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Darwin, Erasmus," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.