bridge. The high girders and the train fell into the Tay and about seventy-five lives were lost. Whilst it was recalled in the immediate aftermath of the disaster that Matthew had predicted collapse in a high wind as one of the horrible ends to which a bridge at Dundee could come, the disaster is generally ascribed to defects in the design and manufacture of the lattice work piers introduced into the design well after Matthew's campaign against the bridge. See also Evolution History of evolutionary thought Natural selection Tay Bridge disaster William Charles Wells Notes Notes Citations References Barker, J.E. (2001). Patrick Matthew—Forest Geneticist (1790–1874), Forest History Today. Dempster, W.J. (1996). Natural selection and Patrick Matthew: evolutionary concepts in the nineteenth century. The Pentland Press, Edinburgh. Sutton, M. (2014). The hi-tech detection of Darwin's and Wallace's possible science fraud: Big data criminology re-writes the history of contested discovery, Papers from the British Criminology Conference''. Vol. 14: 49-64 Panel Paper. The British Society of criminology. Accessed July 2015. But see Dagg (2018). Weale, M. E. (2015), Patrick Matthew's law of natural selection., Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. doi:10.1111/bij.12524 Accessed April 2015 External links Patrick Matthew Biography – UC Berkeley The Patrick Matthew Project – Links to Matthew's writings Natural Selection as a Creative Force by Stephen Jay Gould Patrick Matthew.com Critique of "Nullius in Verba: Darwin’s Greatest Secret" Article exploring the question of whether Patrick Matthew independently discovered natural selection 1790 births 1874 deaths Catastrophism Charles Darwin Chartists Scottish farmers Proto-evolutionary biologists Pre-Darwinian publications in evolutionary biology 19th-century Scottish people People educated at Perth Academy Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Scottish science writers People from Perth and Kinross Scottish letter writers Scottish landowners Scottish agriculturalists 19th-century Scottish businesspeople