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1848), F.R.S., botanist; biographer of his father; reader in botany at Cambridge, 1876-1903; foreign sec. Royal Society. Author of botanical works and memoirs.--["Who's Who."] _bro_, Major Leonard DARWIN (b. 1850), late R.E., second in the examination of his year for Woolwich; served on several scientific expeditions, including transit of Venus of 1874 and 1882; Staff Intelligence Dep. War Office, 1885-1890; M.P. for Lichfield, 1892-1895. Author of "Bimetallism," "Municipal Trade."--["Who's Who."] _bro_, Horace DARWIN (b. 1851), F.R.S., engineer and mechanician; joint founder of the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company and its proprietor. It is now a limited company, of which he is chairman.--["Who's Who."] _More distant relation:_ _fa fa si son_, Francis GALTON, F.R.S. (q.v.). Sir John #EVANS# (b. 1823), K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., Sc.D., F.R.S., President of the Royal Numismatic Society since 1874; trustee of the British Museum; treasurer and vice-president of the Royal Society during twenty years; has been president of numerous learned societies; author of works on the coins of the Ancient Britons, and on their stone and bronze implements.--["Who's Who," and "Ency. Brit."] _fa fa_, Lewis EVANS (1755-1827), F.R.S., F.A.S., mathematician; first Mathematical Master of R.M.A., Woolwich.--["Dict. N. Biog."] _fa_, Arthur Benoni EVANS (1781-1854), D.D., miscellaneous writer; Professor of Classics and History, R.M.C., 1805-1822; headmaster of Market Bosworth Grammar School, 1825-1854.--["Dict. N. Biog."] _me bro_ and _wi fa_, John DICKINSON (1782-1869), F.R.S., inventor of paper-making machine. _bro_, Sebastian EVANS, LL.D., poet, artist, and author. _si_, Anne EVANS (1820-1870), poet and musician, composer.--["Dict. N. Biog."] _son_, Arthur John EVANS (b. 1851), D.Litt. (Oxon), Hon. D.Litt. (Dublin), Hon. LL.D. (Edinburgh), F.R.S., Keeper of Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, since 1884; in 1893 started investigations in Crete, which resulted in the discovery of the pre-Phoenician script; in 1900-1905 excavated the prehistoric palace of Knossos.--["Who's Who."] _me bro son_ and _wi bro_, John DICKINSON (1815-1876), writer on India, and founder of Indian Reform Society, 1853.--["Dict. N. Biog."] Right Hon. Sir Edward #FRY# (b. 1827), D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., Judge of High Court, Chancery Division, 1877-1883; Lord Justice of Appeal, 1883-1892; President of the Royal
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