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Darwin’s student booklist

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In October 1825 Charles Darwin and his older brother, Erasmus, went to study medicine in Edinburgh, where their father, Robert Waring Darwin, had trained as a doctor in the 1780’s. Erasmus had already graduated from Cambridge and was continuing his studies…

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  • In October 1825 Charles Darwin and his older brother, Erasmus, went to study medicine in Edinburgh, …
  • who had moved on to London for further medical training (see letter from E. A. Darwin, [29
  • of England. This list is difficult to date precisely. Darwin mentions reading  Granby  in a
  • The position of  Granby  on the list would suggest that Darwin was very busy reading in January
  • the books are suitable reading for a medical student: John Abernethy was a London surgeon whose
  • of chemistry in 1801. Other books illustrate Darwins wider scientific interests, and also
  • … , which was edited by David Brewster; and Robert Grant took Darwin to meetings of the Wernerian
  • university. There are several books of travel, and Darwin seems to have been particularly
  • arctic zoology. Two titles are closely connected with Darwins familyZoonomia  was
  • work in 1879 Darwin judged ita wretched production’ (letter to Ernst Krause, 19 March 1879 ); …
  • Cochrane Travels in Columbia. 2  2 Vol. 8 Vo Abernethy Physi. Lectures 3  1 Vol. …
  • Blairs lectures on Belles Lettres. 8  3 Vol. 8Vo Abernethy Hunterian orat & Lect. Pamph
  • 1823. 8 Vo: octavo. 2 Cochrane 1825. 3 Abernethy 1822. There is a lightly
  • and Parker 2006). 8 Blair 1790. 9 Abernethy 1819a; CD perhaps refers to
  • CD described Lister 1826 as anentertaining book’ (see letter to S. E. Darwin, 29 January [1826] …
  • 21 Clarke 181023. Bibliography Abernethy, John. 1819aThe Hunterian oration, for
  • 3 vols. London: A. Strahan and T. Cadell; Edinburgh: W. Creech. Bostock, John. 18247An
  • Zoonomia; or, the laws of organic life . 2 vols. London: J. Johnson. Desmond, Adrian, and
  • times to the year 2000 . (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. …
  • Anna. 1804Memoirs of the life of Dr. Darwin . London: J. Johnson. Smith, Horace. 1826.  …