Bouffard also took care of the infant boy Jean. Following Jeanne Rabin's death, Audubon renewed his relationship with Sanitte Bouffard and had a daughter by her, named Muguet. His father already had an unknown number of mixed-race children (among them a daughter named Marie-Madeleine), some by his mixed-race housekeeper, Catherine "Sanitte" Bouffard (described as a quadroon, meaning she was three-quarters European in ancestry). His mother died when he was a few months old, as she had suffered from tropical disease since arriving on the island. Another 1887 biographer has stated that his mother was a lady from a Louisiana plantation. He was the son of Lieutenant Jean Audubon, a French naval officer (and privateer) from the south of Brittany, and his mistress, Jeanne Rabine, a 27-year-old chambermaid from Les Touches, Brittany (now in the modern region Pays de la Loire). Early life Īudubon was born in Les Cayes in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) on his father's sugarcane plantation. Dozens of scientific names first published by Audubon are still in use by the scientific community.
He is the eponym of the National Audubon Society, and his name adorns a large number of towns, neighborhoods, and streets across the United States. Audubon is also known for identifying 25 new species. His major work, a color-plate book titled The Birds of America (1827–1839), is considered one of the finest ornithological works ever completed. He was notable for his extensive studies documenting all types of American birds and for his detailed illustrations, which depicted the birds in their natural habitats.
His combined interests in art and ornithology turned into a plan to make a complete pictorial record of all the bird species of North America. Poiret, E.M.John James Audubon (born Jean-Jacques Rabin Ap– January 27, 1851) was a French-American self-trained artist, naturalist, and ornithologist. FriesĬhapter XIV: Alexander Keyserling, Hermann Schaafhausen, and Henri LecoqĬhapter XIII: D.A. d'Alton, and Lorenz OkenĬhapter XIII: D.A. Richard Owen, Part II: Owen After the OriginĬhapter X: Isidore Geoffroy Saint-HilaireĬhapter XI: Herbert Spencer and Charles Victor NaudinĬhapter XII: Heinrich Bronn, Franz Unger, J.W.E. d'Omalius d'Halloy, and Henry FrekeĬhapter VIII: Richard Owen, Part I: Owen Before the Origin and his 1860 ReviewĬhapter IX. Wells and William HerbertĬhapter V: Robert Grant and Patrick MatthewĬhapter VI: Leopold von Buch, C.S Rafinesque, and Samuel HaldemanĬhapter VII: Robert Chambers, J.B.J. Lamarck, Erasmus Darwin, Goethe, Etienne Geoffroy Saint-HilaireĬhapter IV: W.C. Authors to be "passed over": Buffon, Maillet, AristotleĬhapter III: Early Transmutationists: J.B. WallaceĬhapter II: Darwin's Earliest Sources. The Preface to Darwin's Origin of Species : The Curious History of the "Historical Sketch"Ĭhapter I: Darwin's "Priority": Baden Powell and A.R. Johnson conveys the pressure Darwin felt from friends and other correspondents to showcase the originality of his theory, and he tackles questions of originality by carefully examining the 35 authors Darwin referenced in this monumental text. How did it evolve in Darwin's mind? Why did he write it at all? What did he think he was accomplishing by prefacing it to Origin of Species? Curtis Johnson approaches these questions, offering some clarity on the originality of Darwin's work.ĭarwin's "Historical Sketch" is the first comprehensive study of Darwin's "Preface" to Origin of Species.
Some things are known about its production, such as when it first appeared and what changes were made to it between its first appearance in 1860 and its final form in 1866. His "Historical Sketch" was written as an attempt to address these issues. As such, he was able to claim originality and priority for the idea that has transformed our understanding of nature. While some previous thinkers anticipated portions of Darwin's theory long before he did, none of them saw the complete picture as clearly as Darwin. The "Historical Sketch" provides a brief history of opinion about the species question as a prelude to Darwin's own independent contribution to the subject, but its provenance is somewhat obscure.
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