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X.—Charles Darwin as a Student in Edinburgh, 1825–1827

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

J. H. Ashworth
J. H. Ashworth
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Department of Zoology, University of Edinburgh
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Charles Darwin in his Autobiography, written in 1876, gives in half a dozen pages (Life and Letters, vol. i, pp. 36–42) an account of his two academic sessions as a medical student in Edinburgh. This account includes brief references to his naturalist friends and acquaintances, a statement that he collected specimens in the tidal pools on the shore of the Firth of Forth and by going out with the “trawlers,” and that he made new observations on the “so-called ova of Flustra,” which “were in fact larvæ,” and on the egg-cases of Pontobdella muricata.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 55 , 1936 , pp. 97 - 113
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1936

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