Langdon Smith
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Langdon Smith (1877 - 1908) was a poet, artist, illustrator and naturalist, most well know today for his love poem, apparently originally named A Tadpole and a Fish but normally cited as "Evolution".[1]
Accounts of Smith's life are contradictory. He is variously placed as having been born as early as 1858[2] and as late as 1877,[1] and as haling from Scotland[1] as well as Kentucky[3]. Little is known about his education. It has been reported that in Smith's early 20s, the Museum of Natural History in New York hired him to conduct research and he was invited to lecture at numerous scientific societies.[1]
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- ^ a b c d The Cosmos Club (1999)The Philosophic Origins of Science. Based on a lecture by scientist Ntinos C. Myrianthopoulos. Retrieved August 30, 2006.
- ^ Montclair State University. Evolution Retrieved August 30, 2006.
- ^ Apparently from the introduction and/or afternote written by Lewis Allen Browne to a 1909 volume of Smith's poetry published by L.E. Basset and Company, Boston, as reported at Evolution
