George Britton Halford
George Britton Halford (26 November 1824 – 27 May 1910) was an English-born anatomist and physiologist, founder of the first medical school in Australia, University of Melbourne School of Medicine.
Creationism
Halford was a creationist who rejected evolution.[1] He criticized the idea of common descent and challenged the views of T. H. Huxley. He argued that humans and apes shared no common ancestor.[2] In his book on snake venom he wrote that the snake had been designed by "some omnipotent power with infinite will."[1]
Publications
- On the Time and Manner of Closure of the Auriculo-Ventricular Valves (1861)
- Not Like Man, Bimanous and Biped, nor yet Quadrumanous, but Cheiropodous (1863)
- Lines of Demarcation Between Man, Gorilla, & Macaque (1864)
- Thoughts, Observations and Experiments on the Action of Snake Venom on the Blood (1894)
See also
References
- ^ a b Mozley, Ann. (1967). Evolution and the Climate of Opinion in Australia, 1840-76. Victorian Studies 10 (4): 411–430.
- ^ Numbers, Ronald L; Stenhouse, John (2001). Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and Gender. Cambridge University Press. pp. 41-42
- K. F. Russell, 'Halford, George Britton (1824 - 1910)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 4, MUP, 1972, pp 321–322. Retrieved 3 January 2009
- Serle, Percival (1949). "Halford, George Britton". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. Retrieved 3 January 2009.
Further reading
- Barry Butcher. (1988). Gorilla Warfare in Melbourne: Halford, Huxley and Man's Place in Nature. In R. W. Home. Australian Science in the Making. Cambridge University Press. pp. 153–167. ISBN 0-521-39640-9