Wells, William Charles, 1757-1817
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Name (Latin)
Wells, William Charles, 1757-1817
Date of birth
1757-05-24
Date of death
1817-09-18
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- His An essay on dew and several appearances connected with it, 1866:t.p. (William Charles Wells)
- LC data base, 11-6-86(hdg.: Wells, William Charles, 1757-1817)
- DAB(Wells, William Charles; physician and physicist; b. Charleston, S.C., son of Robert Wells, a prominent printer and bookseller; educated at Edinburgh Univ., M.D. 1780; returned to Charleston in 1781 to manage his father's printing business;claimed to have founded first weekly newspaper in Florida, at St. Augustine, 1783; returned to London in 1784 where he settled as a physician; b. 5/24/1757; d. 9/18/1817)
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Wikipedia description:
William Charles Wells (24 May 1757 – 18 September 1817) was a Scottish-American physician and printer. He lived a life of extraordinary variety, did some notable medical research, and made the first clear statement about natural selection. He applied the idea to the origin of different skin colours in human races, and from the context it seems he thought it might be applied more widely. Charles Darwin said: "[Wells] distinctly recognises the principle of natural selection, and this is the first recognition which has been indicated".
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