Darwin (1859) replicated Matthew's discovery of natural selection in the Origin of Species. In 1860, Matthew - having been ignored by other pubications - finally had his letter of due claim published in the Gardener's Chronicle. Darwin fully capitultaed in that same publication, claiming - fallaciously - that no naturalists known to him had read Matthew's prior-published ideas. Thereafter, Darwin's cronies set about 'rubbishing' Matthew's reputation with totally fallacious arguments that he had discovered nothing new, Darwinists carried on the same self-serving work throighout the 20th century. Nullius in Verba contains the full story of "The Patrick Matthew Burial Project". My blog post: "Trash Talking Darwinists" provides a preview of the extent of this great injustice in the history of scientific discovery.
"When favourite speculations have been long indulged, and much pains have been bestowed on them, they are viewed with that parental partiality, which cannot bear to hear of faults in the object of its attachment. The mere doubt of an impartial observer is offensive ; and the discovery of anything like a blemish in the darling, is not only ascribed to an entire want of discrimination and judgment, but resented as an injury."
William Lawrence (1819)
This is a good book on Darwin's racism and more besides. Only the author seems to know nothing at all about Matthew. He quotes Chambers and Rafinesque many times however. And we know from my orignal F2B2 research (Sutton 2014) that Chambers cited Matthew twice pre 1858, was apparently first to be second in 1858/9 with Matthew's original term "natural process of selection" and Rafinesque was apparently first to be second with Matthew's phrase/terms "long continued selection" and "evinced in the genus".
The pdf file below reveals Wallace was a dishonest extortionist. He doctored his letters in his autobiography to hide the fact he felt Darwin and Co owed him money for his role in the Linnean debacle.
In 1831, the Scottish laird, farmer, orchard owner, grain dealer and botanist, Patrick Matthew, authored 'On Naval Timber and Arboriculture.' Matthew's book is universally recognised as the first publication to contain the complete hypothesis of the theory of natural selection. New evidence proves that both Darwin and Wallace lied by pretending they had no prior-knowledge of it; both committed science fraud by plagiarising Matthew's discovery, his name for it, his examples of the process in nature compared to culture. They even ripped-off his unique creative perspective.
Prior to the publication of this book, it was universally believed that Charles Darwin told the truth when he wrote in 1860 that apparently no naturalist had read Patrick Matthew's 1831 book, which contained the full theory of natural selection.
Nullius in Verba: Darwin's greatest secret is the hard-fact-led mythbusting book that re-wrote the history of the discovery of natural selection with new BigData made discoveries of the once hidden books that reveal who Darwin and Wallace knew who really did read Patrick Matthew's prior publication of the full theory of natural selection before Darwin and Wallace supposedly 'independently' replicated it in 1858 with, supposedly, no knowledge of what Matthew had discovered that their friends and influencers had read and actually cited in the literature before influencing them on the same topic!
Nullius is available on Amazon,
Darwin and Wallace aped Matthew's unique discovery, its name, hypothesis and many of his key explantions.
The discovery of natural selection was made at Gourdiehill, the seat of Matthew Esquire.
Read more about the mythbusting work of the criminologist Dr Mike Sutton on the Best Thinking website