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Patrick Matthew died on 8 June, 1874

Relatively unknown Scottish farmer and biologist who had put forward the theory of natural selection as a mechanism of evolution in his book, independently of Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace. Darwin acknowledged his findings in the later editions of On the Origin of Species.