In my research on Matthew, the originator of the the theory of macroevolution by natural selection, I have proven many times that contrary to the Darwinite myth, he was not simply an unread obscure writer on forest trees.
Matthew had an international reputation as an agriculturalist and writer on that topic in Europe and the USA (see Woodbury cited at end of his post) long before Darwin. Yet the serial liar Darwin sought to portray Matthew (even after Matthew had informed him that the opposite was true) that he was a mere obscure Scottish writer on forest trees. Credulous neo-religious Darwin and Wallace cultish worshippers have fallen for Darwin's sly propaganda plagiarising cover-up lies ever since.
Here, in this one further example, we see Matthew's (1831) book (which contains the original conception of macro evolution by natural selection) cited and praised in relation to information about spreading soot around plants to improve their growth. My book (Sutton 2014 & 2017) on the topic reveals that years before Darwin and Wallace replicated Matthew's original breakthrough ideas without citation that Matthew was read and cited many times, not only in the Encyclopedia Britannica, but at least 25 times, seven by naturalists, four of whom (Loudon, Chambers, Selby and Jameson) were at the epicentre of their influence.
The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement, (1837) Volume 3. pp 517-518
The historian Ton Munnich kindly translated a Dutch article published in 1832 on Matthew's research (
here) that reproduced the text of
Matthew's Lightning Rod Experiment. As cited in
On Knowledge Contamination see pp. 184-185), The Gardener’s Magazine and Register of Rural and Domestic Improvement, vol. 9, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green 1833 also published the results of that very same experiment.
Ton also reveals that the same Matthew information had been published in Germany on this topic.
Ton Munnich via On 24.01.2019 (private email correspondence) kindly provides us with the following intelligence:
: about the magazine
The "Algemeene Konst- en Letter-bode" existed from ca. 1800 until 1862.
It published weekly an issue of ca. 15 pages.
It was a magazine for the educated general readership.
About developments in science, medicine, agriculture, art, literature, new publications, etc.
: about Patrick Matthew's article
The 52 issues of 1832 are bound in two volumes. Vol. 1 contains issue 1 to 27.
Page-numbering went on throughout the year.
Matthew's article is in issue 8, published on Friday, February 17, 1832.
That issue goes from page 113 to 128. Matthew's article uses ca 70 lines.
It starts on page 125 (lower half), then 126 (whole page) and 127 (two lines).
- "...the article was taken from "Frorieps Notizen", which took it from R. Jameson's "Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal". (the translator's note does not add from which specific issue it was taken, only the names of the German and Scottish magazines). (in Germany Ludwig Friedrich von Froriep edited a kind of science-news magazine : "Notizen aus dem Gebiete der Natur- und Heilkunde". Also known as "Frorieps Notizen".
- So perhaps the article was translated twice. First from English into German, and then from German into Dutch."
CONCLUSION
The fact (uniquely noted by Ton Munnich) that Matthew's Lightning Rod Experiment was first published by Robert Jameson is extremely important. Jameson was Darwin's Edinburgh University Tutor! Matthew and Jameson and Jameson's nephew (the naturalist William Jameson) are intricately bound together and - yet again provide many potential routes for 'knowledge contamination' of Darwin's and Wallace's brains via The Hookers of Kew (
see important earlier post)
Pre 1859 citations of Matthew in the USA
Woodbury, L. (1832) Live Oak. Report of the
Secretary of the Navy. December 15th. House of Representatives. Executive
Documents. Duff Green. Washington.
Woodbury, L. (1833) Live Oak Timber for the Navy.
Military
and Naval Magazine. Vol. 1 Number 3. (
here)
Woodbury, L. (1838) Live Oak. House of Representatives.
December 15, 1832. Report of the Secretary of the Navy on Live Oak. Navy
Department. December 14th. In: Register of Debates in Congress:
Comprising the Leading Debates and Incidents of the Second Session of the
Eighteenth Congress: Dec. 6, 1824, to the First Session of the
Twenty-fifth Congress, Oct. 16, 1837. Together with an Appendix, Containing the
Most Important State Papers and Public Documents to which the Session Has Given
Birth: to which are Added, the Laws Enacted During the Session, with a Copious
Index to the Whole. Volume IX. Washington. (see p. 128).
Woodbury, L. (1852) Writings of Levi Woodbury, LL.D.
Political, Judicial and Literary.Volume 3 - Literary. Boston. Little, Brown
and Company. p. 361.
