Background
Nora, as she was known, was the daughter of the civil engineer Sir Horace Darwin and his wife The Honorary Lady Ida Darwin (née Farrer), daughter of Thomas Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer.
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Nora, as she was known, was the daughter of the civil engineer Sir Horace Darwin and his wife The Honorary Lady Ida Darwin (née Farrer), daughter of Thomas Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer.
As a young lady, she studied genetics under William Bateson, married and had children. She worked as a research assistant at the John Innes Institute from 1905, and studied plant genetics under William Bateson at Cambridge in 1906, then the centre for what was pioneering genetics research, and was an active member of the Cambridge University Genetics Society.
Her elder brother Erasmus was killed during the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915. She also had a sister, Ruth Darwin. Marriage and motherhood Darwin"s editor Her first book as editor was a new edition of The Voyage of the Beagle (1933).
She also edited several collections of letters and notes, including correspondence between Darwin and John Stevens Henslow, his mentor.
Legacy The Columbine flower cultivar Aquilegia "Nora Barlow" is named after Barlow. Nora Barlow appears as a supporting character in Scott Westerfeld"s 2009 young-adult steampunk novel Leviathan.
In Westerfeld"s alternate history, Barlow is a prominent genetic engineer and diplomat.