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Sir
Francis Darwin
FLS FRS FRSE
Born16 August 1848
Down House, Downe, Kent, England
Died19 September 1925 (aged 77)
Cambridge, England
NationalityBritish
Known forPhototropism
Spouses
Amy Richenda Ruck
(m. 1874; died 1876)
Ellen Wordsworth Crofts
(m. 1883; died 1903)
Florence Henrietta Fisher
(m. 1913)
ChildrenBernard Darwin
Frances Cornford
Parent(s)Charles Darwin
Emma Wedgwood
Scientific career
FieldsBotany

Sir Francis Darwin FLS FRS FRSE[1] (16 August 1848 – 19 September 1925) was a British botanist. He was the third son of the naturalist and scientist Charles Darwin.[2]

  1. ^ "Obituary Notices". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 110 (768): i–c. 1932. doi:10.1098/rspb.1932.0031.
  2. ^ "Sir Francis Darwin (1848–1925)". Nature. 162 (4111): 248. 1 August 1948. doi:10.1038/162248a0. ISSN 1476-4687. S2CID 4120050.

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