The Mind of the Child: Child Development in Literature, Science and Medicine, 1840-1900 by Sally Shuttleworth

Author:Sally Shuttleworth [Sally Shuttleworth]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2010-09-29T16:17:00+00:00

Figure 13.2. 'Jack takes his medicine'. Francis T. Buckland, Curiosities of Natural History: Third Series (1865; London: Macmillan and Co., 1900), 94. Courtesy of the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, shelfmark: 18933 C. 132

Through his journalistic writings on monkey-keeping, which stretched from 1853 to his death in 188o, Buckland perhaps did as much as Darwin himself to affix in the popular mind the parallelism of monkeys and children. Although Buckland knew and corresponded with Darwin, frequently supplying him with information for his research, he was not a believer in evolution." It is not until nearly the end of his life, however, that he addresses Darwinian theory directly in his writing, when he rejects it outright. A friend of the anti-Darwinian Richard Owen and a devoted son, he continued to subscribe, like his father, to the principles of natural theology. His reflections come in an article on `Mr Pongo the Gorilla', who arrived at the Zoological Gardens in 1877 and with whom, Buckland notes, he had several `interviews'. Whilst he was there a boy and girl arrived, and began to play with him:

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