Henry Neville Hutchinson

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Henry Neville Hutchinson (* 1856 in Chester ; † 1927 ) was a British Anglican clergyman and author of popular science books on paleontology, anthropology, evolution and geology at the end of the 19th century.

Hutchinson, son of a clergyman, went to rugby school and studied at Cambridge University (St. John's College) with a bachelor's degree in 1878. He was then a teacher at Clifton College and St. Savior's in Bristol, private tutor of the Sons of the Earl of Morley and from 1891 freelance writer in London. He was an amateur naturalist and photographer. In 1902 he married.

Although he was a clergyman, he considered Darwin's theory of evolution to be compatible with religion, but did not make this the subject of his books (he saw God's work in the fundamental laws of nature). He also accepted a role of natural selection in evolution, but also combined this with the ideas of Lamarckism .

He was a Fellow of the Geological Society of London , the Royal Geographical Society and the Zoological Society of London and became a member of the Paleontological Society in its founding year 1912 .

Fonts

  • Autobiography of the Earth 1890
  • The Story of the Hills. A book about mountains for general readers, 1891, Archive
  • Extinct Monsters, Chapman and Hall 1893, Archives
  • Creatures of Other Days, 1894
  • Prehistoric Man and Beast, London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1896, Archives
  • Descriptive Lecture on Pre-historic Man in Britain and Europe 1896
  • Marriage Customs in Many Lands 1897, Archives
  • Primæval Scenes, 1899
  • with John Walter Gregory, Richard Lydekker: The living races of mankind: a popular illustrated account of the customs, habits, pursuits, feasts and ceremonies of the races of mankind throughout the world, 1900, 1902, Volume 2, Archive
  • The Living Rulers of Mankind, 1902, Archives

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References and comments

  1. ↑ Bernard V. Lightman, Bennett Zon (ed.): Evolution and Victorian Culture, Cambridge University Press 2014, pp. 305f
  2. ^ Bernard Lightman, Victorian Popularizers of Science: Designing Nature for New Audiences, University of Chicago Press, 2007, 452
personal data
SURNAME Hutchinson, Henry Neville
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British clergyman and popular science writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Chester
DATE OF DEATH 1927