... University Building, for the purpose of considering to the election of a Lord Rector, the following were proposed : Mr Charles Darwin, Professor Huxley ; Mr Grant Duff, M.P. (the present Lord Rector), Dr John Hill Burton, Dr Lyon Playfair, M.P. for the ...

... Biography, from the Times of the Apostles to the Age of Charlemagne. Mr Murray promises a new work from the pen of Mr Charles Darwin, The Evil Effects of Inter Breeding in the Vegetable Kingdom. The manufacture of paper from wood is being carried on ...

... millions of years this earth has been the theatre of life ail death. The riddle of the rocks has been read by the reologiets. Charles Darwin's theory of the development of species was the natural outcome of the progress of scientific discovery. The theory of ...