#william lawrence
Oh it’s six miles from Bangor to Donaghadee by National Library of Ireland on The Commons
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Ballymagee Street in Bangor, County Down on a fine day with an omnibus complete with destination plate to put our location on the map, so to speak! I do love posting photographs like this with so much going on, shops, awnings, clothing, traffic etc. The title comes from the song The Auld Orange Flute Oh, it’s six miles from Bangor to Donaghadee Now Bob, the deceiver, he took us all in He married a Papist called Bridget McGinn Turned Papish himself and forsook the old cause That gave us our freedom, religion and laws Photographer: Robert FrenchCollection:Lawrence Photograph Collection Date: Circa 1865 - 1914 NLI Ref: L_ROY_11218 You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
The Windmill and Castle but not a pint to be had! by National Library of Ireland on The Commons
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Castles and windmills, stacks on the lea stone walls and cottages out near the sea, telegraph poles, quarry holes blackberries too All kinds of everything remind me of you! Dalkey Hill as none of us have ever seen it! Photographer: Robert FrenchCollection:Lawrence Photograph Collection Date: Circa 1865 - 1914 NLI Ref: L_CAB_07245 You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Sir William Lawrence (1783-1867) first published his work Lectures on Physiology, Zoology and the Natural History of Man in 1819. This book, which expressed pre-Darwinian ideas on the evolution of man, was quickly suppressed by Lawrence as he was being threatened with prosecution for blasphemy. However further pirated editions were printed - and left seemingly unexpurgated.
The pamphlet shown here, Cursory Observations on the Lectures is a response to Lawrence’s work, also published in 1819. Its author, Edward William Grinfield (1785-1864) a biblical scholar and former Lincoln College Oxford student, pleads with Lawrence to refrain from contradicting the Scriptures, and urges Lawrence’s pupils to discount his ideas on theology.
In this pamphlet we discovered these 1958 letters between C. D. Darlington (1903-1981) who at the time was the Sherardian Professor of Botany at Oxford, and Professor Robb-Smith (1908-2000) a distinguished Oxford pathologist. In these letters Darlington and Robb-Smith the compare the 1819 edition of Lawrence’s book with a later, most-likely pirated, 1823 version.
Darlington mentions that he is of the opinion Huxley based his title Man’s Place in Nature, on Lawrence’s Natural History of Man, and that he thinks Lawrence was a far better writer than Huxley and Darwin!
A year after this exchange, Darlington had his work Darwin’s Place in History published. In this book Darlington draws attention to the suppression of Lawrence’s work as well claiming, rather controversially, it was helpful in forming Darwin’s perspectives years later.
