Augustin Pyramus De Candolle

(1778-1841)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de, 1778-1841 LBT ID: AuDeCan1841 VIAF ID: 76389959 LOC ID: n86853655	B/BAP: 1778-02-04 DIED: 1841-09-09
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Swiss-born botanist whose writings on “nature's war” are thought to have influenced Darwin's theory of natural selection. Maria Edgeworth described him as “a particularly agreeable man.”
REFERENCES TO Augustin Pyramus De Candolle: Duke of Devonshire to Francis Hodgson, 1 October 1838 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 1: ¶ 1 James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter XXI. 1837-40. Whishaw, J. (John), 1764 or 5-1840, The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Chapter XIV: Appendix Found 1: ¶ 8