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    William Benjamin Carpenter CB FRS (29 October 1813 – 19 November 1885) was an English physician, invertebrate zoologist, and physiologist. He was instrumental...
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  • (born 1940), American author William Benjamin Carpenter (1813–1885), English physiologist and naturalist William Boyd Carpenter (1841–1918), Church of England...
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    scientific investigation. The term ideomotor was first used by William Benjamin Carpenter in 1852. In a scientific paper that specifically discussed the...
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    undertook the trip, HMS Challenger. The expedition, initiated by William Benjamin Carpenter, was placed under the scientific supervision of Sir Charles Wyville...
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    uncle the Rev. Benjamin Carpenter, then returned to Kidderminster where he was at a school founded by Pearsall, and was taught by William Blake. After some...
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    became the Countess of Lovelace. In 1843–44, Ada's mother assigned William Benjamin Carpenter to teach Ada's children and to act as a "moral" instructor for...
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    standing waves or intensity variations. Science writers such as William Benjamin Carpenter (1877), Millais Culpin (1920), and Martin Gardner (1957) accept...
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    Blyth, Robert Mudie, George Johnston, John Obadiah Westwood, William Benjamin Carpenter, The Animal Kingdom: Arranged After Its Organization, Forming...
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    Secretary of State for War William Benjamin Carpenter, physician, invertebrate zoologist and physiologist Joseph William Comyns Carr, drama and art critic...
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  • claimed sightings of ghosts were the result of hallucinations. William Benjamin Carpenter, in his book Mesmerism, Spiritualism, Etc: Historically and Scientifically...
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    animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Translated by William Benjamin Carpenter. W. S. Orr and co. pp. 434–448. Webster's New World College Dictionary...
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    October 2016. Retrieved 17 August 2012. Georges Cuvier (trans. William Benjamin Carpenter) (1851). "Crustacean Entomostraca (Müller)". The animal kingdom:...
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  • percent of the adult population is perennibranchiate. Neoteny William Benjamin Carpenter (1854) Principles of Comparative Physiology, Published by Blanchard...
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    concealed. In 1871, William Benjamin Carpenter wrote a critical evaluation of the Crookes experiments with Home in the Quarterly Review. Carpenter wrote that although...
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  • properties. Carpenter was born in Clifton, Bristol to William Lant Carpenter and Annie Grace Viret. His ancestors included William Benjamin Carpenter and the...
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    Herbert Carpenter (6 February 1852 – 21 October 1891), FRS, British naturalist and crinoid authority, was the fourth son of William Benjamin Carpenter. Carpenter...
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    Mary Carpenter (3 April 1807 – 14 June 1877) was an English educational and social reformer. The daughter of a Unitarian minister, she founded a ragged...
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  • £20. The medal was named after William Benjamin Carpenter, registrar of the university from 1856 until 1879. The Carpenter Testimonial Committee had allocated...
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  • described by Danielssen & Koren. The species name honors Dr. William Benjamin Carpenter. Messing, Charles (2015). "Bathycrinus australocrucis McKnight...
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    comparative anatomy, George Viner Ellis professor of anatomy and William Benjamin Carpenter professor of medical jurisprudence. Although Lister often spoke...
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    physiologist Professor William Benjamin Carpenter, an early neuro-psychologist who introduced the "ideo-motor reflex" theory of suggestion. Carpenter had observed...
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    Sir William Withey Gull, 1st Baronet (31 December 1816 – 29 January 1890) was an English physician. Of modest family origins, he established a lucrative...
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  • historian. Roden Noël, poet James Martineau, English philosopher William Benjamin Carpenter, physiologist and naturalist James Hinton, surgeon and author...
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    lingering on the retina was questioned in an 1868 article by William Benjamin Carpenter. He suggested that the illusion was "rather a mental than a retinal...
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  • Robert Gordon Latham. Others on that side of the debate were William Benjamin Carpenter, Charles Darwin, Edward Forbes, Henry Holland, Charles Lyell,...
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  • of the first reviews of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, by William Benjamin Carpenter. Andrew King, John Plunkett (2005). Victorian Print Media: A Reader...
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    Cousins (1801–1887), engraver Mary Carpenter (1807–1877), educational and social reformer William Benjamin Carpenter (1813–1885), physiologist and naturalist...
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    Thomas Huxley, and even Darwin. Others, such as the physiologist William Benjamin Carpenter and zoologist E. Ray Lankester became publicly hostile to Wallace...
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    genuineness of Braid's hypnotism, Braid's friend and colleague William Benjamin Carpenter presented a significant paper, "On the influence of Suggestion...
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    mentioned in brother William's insert in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography by Charles Coulton Gillispie. William Benjamin Carpenter was born on 29 October...
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