Charles Otis Whitman

Charles Otis Whitman (1842–1910) was an American biologist at the end of the nineteenth century who espoused a non-Darwinian theory of evolution. He was elected in 1895 a Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Quotes The establishment of a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution biological station at Wood's Holl, which, in the hands of Spencer Fullerton Baird Professor Baird, will doubtless be pushed to a speedy completion, will create facilities for the study of marine life on a much larger scale than we have hitherto seen in this country; and the successful issue of this enterprise, we venture to predict, will increase rather than diminish the number of American Natural history naturalists at Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn Naples. Whatever improves our facilities for study will tend to increase the general interest in biology, and to augment the number of naturalists who will seek the best that world affords in the way of methods. The advantages of study at the Naples Zoological Station Science July 27, 1883 2 25 93–97 https://dn790000.ca.archive.org/0/items/sim_science_1883-07-27_2_25/sim_science_1883-07-27_2_25.pdf (quote from p. 97) [ Darwin's] triumph has won for us a common height from which we see the whole world of living beings as well as all inorganic nature; phenomena of every order we now regard as expressions of natural causes. The supernatural has no longer a standing is science; it has vanished like a dream, and the halls consecrated to its thraldom of the intellect are becoming radiant with a more cheerful faith. lecture at Clark University, "A study in evolution, based on color-characters in pigeons, and bearing on moot questions" (1909), quoted in Eight Little Piggies (W.W. Norton, 1993) by Stephen Jay Gould, page 366 Quotes about Charles Otis Whitman Dr. Whitman has left two monuments to his memory and these are the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts Woods Hole, of which he was the first director, and the Journal of Morphology, which he founded. The one in vigorous growth and prosperity, the other ceasing at the end of the seventeenth volume after publishing nearly ten thousand pages and hundreds of plates. Edward S. Morse, Biographical Memoir of Charles Otis Whitman, 1842-1910 Vol. 7 Biographical Memoirs of National Academy of Sciences U.S. National Academy of Sciences 1912 269–288 https://books.google.com/books?id=OXMPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA284 (quote from pp. 283–284) External links Category:1842 births Category:1910 deaths Category:Biologists from the United States Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Category:People from Maine Category:University of Chicago faculty