The complete online text of The Botanic Garden by Erasmus Darwin.

The grandfather of evolutionist Charles Darwin, Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) was a prominent English physician and poet whose interests included biology, botany, and technology. Darwin was born December 12, 1731, at Elston Hall, near Newark, in the county...

Erasmus Darwin was an English physician who had a significant influence on the development of theories of evolution. In particular, he helped to initiate the idea that traits developed by an organism during its life could somehow be passed on to its offs...

For the first fifty-seven years of his life Erasmus Darwin worked hard as a physician in the Midland counties of England and earned the highest reputation as a doctor. He was also an ingenious experimenter in physical science, a compulsive inventor of me...

When the graceful but rickety Palm House was taken down in 1992 at the U.S. Botanic Garden, the dismantling was viewed with hope rather than dismay: It would lead to a restoration and modernization of the historic institution on the southeast corner of the...

THREE YEARS AGO the U.S. Mint embarked on an ambitious program to sell three coins marking the bicentennial of the U.S. Capitol but was disappointed by the public's lackluster response. On Friday, the Mint launches yet another ambitious coin program, this one featuring a...

Students from New York to Alaska will be exploring forests and wetlands as part of an effort by the U.S. Forest Service to get kids out of the classroom and into the woods.The $1.5 million "Kids in the Woods" program is aimed at a growing...

Students from New York to Alaska will be exploring forests and wetlands this year as part of an effort by the U.S. Forest Service to get kids out of the classroom and into the woods.The $1.5 million "Kids in the Woods" program is aimed at...