Talk:Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet

Portraits
According to the Royal Society records, an engraved portrait of Lawrence in middle age by C. Turner exists. Macdonald-ross 17:55, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

There is also a full-length Maul & Polyblank sepia photograph of him as an elderly man (same source). Macdonald-ross (talk) 21:45, 18 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Now uploaded: photographic repro of (probably) oil portrait of Lawrence by C. Turner dated 1839. Macdonald-ross (talk) 16:25, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Three things:

1. Odd, this website shows a very similar painting to the one uploaded, but in colour and with different detailing on the table next to the surgeon: http://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E000014b.htm - not suggesting we change it, just thought it was of interest!

2. Also I've seen the sepia photograph of him, I'll try to track down a photograph of it.

3. There's a picture of the bust of him here: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/pagerender.fcgi?artid=2413773&pageindex=1 - I have no idea what the copyright issues are, though.

Apologies if any of this is deemed irrelevant or inappropriate, just thought it was worth sharing!

Phettyplace (talk) 8:21am, 3 June 2009 —Preceding undated comment added 07:27, 3 June 2009 (UTC).

Going back to the source
This paper somewhat undermine's Darlington's credibility: Mudford P.G. 1968. William Lawrence and The Natural History of Man. Journal of the History of Ideas 29, 430-436. Here the author claims that Darlington overstated the case for Lawrence as an evolution precursor. Thanks to Rusty Cashman for this ref.

Therefore, I'm taking a good look at the original text of Lawrence as seen in the 1838 reprint by Taylor, London. I will put some findings on the article page, and we will see where it gets to. The references will be to the Lawrence text rather than a secondary source. Macdonald-ross (talk) 12:53, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Merge?
Well, yes. It is the same person!

Merge WL FRS to WL (biologist), keeping the structure of WL (biologist), which is more fully developed (17,000 bytes to 3,121 bytes).

I don't mind which heading is used; FRS is shorter, though a bit unusual (degrees and awards are not usual in headings).

Macdonald-ross (talk) 19:28, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Gone ahead and merged some of the contents from the other article into this one. Shyamal (talk) 10:38, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Influence on Darwin
If you're going to say "Darwin did not want the ostracism which he knew had come to Lawrence from publishing advanced opinions" then presumably there's some evidence? If so, give a ref; if not leave it out. Macdonald-ross (talk) 17:47, 16 April 2008 (UTC)|Macdonald-ross]] (talk) 19:28, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Now reworked and referenced. Macdonald-ross (talk) 06:31, 11 June 2008 (UTC)