Darwin Self-Test Four (13 September 2004)

Across
1.  Described as being Charles Darwin's "greatest personal friend and confidant, much more so than either Lyell or Huxley...."
3.  A distinguished zoologist and paleontologist and first Director of the British Museum (Natural History).
4.  Credited with being the "co-discoverer" of evolution or natural selection.
5.  This gentleman (a barrister) was born in 1821 and died in 1898; he was Emma Wedgwood Darwin's first cousin.
11.  This person (1824-1880)  was a major figure  in the development of both anthropology and medicine in the 19th century. In 1848 he founded a society of "Free Thinkers."
12.  He was a Moravian monk, famous for his experimentations on peas.
14.  In 1855 this individual was the Postmaster at Bromley.
16.  Provided Charles Darwin with a copy of Volume I of Lyell's Principles of Geology.
17.  This individual (1807-1887) was a scientific writer of the time.
Down
1.  Known as "Darwin's Bulldog."
2.  Noted Biologist of the times (born in 1848 and died in 1894) and author of Mental Evolution in Animals.
4.  A very influential and important "family name" for both Charles Darwin and Emma Darwin.
6.  Described as a "statesman, banker & man of science" Sir John _______ was born in 1834 and died in 1913.  He was one of Charles Darwin's pall bearers at his funeral in Westminster Abbey.
7.  An ornithologist who was the first Professor of Zoology at Cambridge University.
8.  Edinburgh (Scotland) publisher who was the anonymous author of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (published in 1844).
9.  A distinguished zoologist and paleontologist and first Director of the British Museum (Natural History).
10.  This individual originally came up with the phrase "survival of the fittest."
13.  Born in 1809 (and died in 1880), this individual was with Charles Darwin at Cambridge and became a celebrated ornithologist and specialist in skeletal variation.
15.  This individual was a lawyer who was born in 1873 and who died in 1926.  His first name was Wallis and he has been described as "one of the founding fathers of the State of Oregon."  And, yes, there is a "Darwin connection!"
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