Mivart, ST GEORGE, F.R.S.

Mivart, ST GEORGE, F.R.S., born 1827, was educated for the bar, but devoted himself to the biological sciences. In 1874-84 he acted as professor of Zoology and Biology at the Roman Catholic University College in Kensington, and in 1890 was appointed to the chair of Philosophy of Natural History at Louvain. He was known as a zealous opponent of the 'Natural Selection' theory. Among his works are Genesis of Species (1871), Man and Apes (1873), Contemporary Evolution (1874), Lessons from Nature (1876), The Cat (1881), Nature and Thought (1883), and The Origin of Human Reason (1889). He died 1st April 1900.