Darwin Robert Merritt

Robert Darwin, F.r.s. (1761-1848): Splendid Country Doctor.

Darwin

The idea of biological evolution has a complex history throughout science and society. In Darwin, Darwin College at Cambridge University brings together nine scholars from diverse fields to discuss the legacy of the college namesake. This series of highly accessible lectures, intended for a popular audience, presents Darwin’s theory as both a vital part of our culture and an ongoing global deba...

Darwin

ADRIAN DESMOND and JAMES MOORE, Darwin, London, Michael Joseph Ltd, 1991, pp. xvii, 773, illus., £20.00 (0-7181-3430-3). Charles Darwin has attracted many biographers fascinated by the paradox of the wealthy and industrious Victorian invalid who, immured in rural isolation, reluctantly destroyed the world-picture of the wealthy Victorians. Adrian Desmond and James Moore, in their lengthy new bi...

Merritt : Black Hole Nuclei

Supermassive black holes inhabit galactic nuclei, and their presence influences in crucial ways the evolution of the stellar distribution. The low-density cores observed in bright galaxies are probably a result of black hole infall, while steep density cusps like those at the Galactic center are a result of energy exchange between stars moving in the gravita-tional field of the single black hol...

Kasabach-Merritt syndrome.

Hemangiomas of infancy are usually congenital lesions. Occasionally they are associated with microangiopatbic bemolytic anaemia, thrombocytopenia, and a consumptive coagulopathy. This is most often associated with cavernous hemangiomas. Thrombocytopenia associated with giant cavernous hemangiomas was first noted by Kasabach and Merritt in 1940. As the primary mechanism of platelet destruction i...