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EDITED BY
PROFESSOR ERIC S. ROBERTSON, M.A.,
LIFE OF DARWIN.
LIFE
OF
CHARLES DARWIN
BY
G. T. BETTANY
LONDON
WALTER SCOTT
24 WARWICK LANE, PATERNOSTER ROW
1887
| CONTENTS. | ||
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| CHAPTER I. | ||
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Darwin’s ancestry; his grandfather, Dr. Erasmus Darwin, asuccessful physician, and author of “The Botanic Garden,” “TheTemple of Nature,” &c.; his father, Robert Waring Darwin, alsoa successful physician; his maternal grandfather, JosiahWedgwood, the celebrated potter; his mother’s education andtraining; Charles Robert Darwin, born at Shrewsbury, Feb. 12,1809; Mrs. Darwin dies in July, 1817; her eldest son, Erasmus,friend of the Carlyles; Charles Darwin’s education by Mr. Case,and at Shrewsbury Grammar School; his character as a boy; issent to Edinburgh University in 1825 | 11 | |
| CHAPTER II. | ||
Darwin a member of the Plinian Society, of Edinburgh; makesnatural history excursions; his first scientific paper readMarch 27, 1827; friendship with Dr. Grant; Jameson’s lectureson zoology; Darwin enters Christ’s College, Cambridge, in 1828;his friendship with Prof. Henslow; his account of Henslow;Darwin at this time specially an entomologist; his excursionswith Henslow; takes B.A. degree in 1831, M.A. in 1837; voyag ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! | ||