OCR Rendition - approximate

PLATE XX

 

	I:KS,tl:.S DARWIN. \f. D. I'KS Phhidan. Phdoropher. and Pact.
1 '	Author of the Zoonomia. Raanie Garden. and other worns. A stBful obswcr of Nato a rev vivid to imagioatwn. indefatigablc i   eachd origiruI add far-sighted in his views. Ills speculatmns were mainly directed to problems which were afterwards more su< essfWW soured by his Grandson. Cttukersc Dnxwsh. an mhenrof of many of his chars ristics.
	Ile was bom AD. t7;t. 1k resided in the City of Lichfield from AD. 1756 to AD. 1781. fie died AD. 1802. and was buried at Breadsall. Derbfshlm.
	His first w,fe_3Lsar- daughter of Guerrs Iless-c. lics buried in the Close.

Monumental Tablet to Erasmus Darwin (executed by Onslow'Ford) and erected by
his grandson Francis Galton in Lichfield Cathedral, 1886.