Carpenter, William Benjamin, biologist, brother of the preceding; author, among other numerous works, of the “Principles of General and Comparative Physiology” (1838); contributed to mental physiology; held several high professional appointments in London; inaugurated deep-sea soundings, and advocated the theory of a vertical circulation in the ocean (1813‒1877).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Carpenter, Mary * Carpi, Girolamo da