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Royal Medical Society Edinburgh NOW The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections

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The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections, Edinburgh, Scotland.

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To the curators of patronage, Edinburgh University   28 February 1879

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CD has read several papers by E. Perceval Wright and has a high opinion of his abilities and great zeal for natural science.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Edinburgh University
Date:  28 Feb 1879
Classmark:  Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (July 1994)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11909

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Edinburgh University

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Rice, D. Talbot. 1957. The University portraits. Biographies by Peter McIntyre. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

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Dalzel, Andrew (1742–1806)

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  • … scholar. Professor of Greek at Edinburgh University, 1779–1805. ODNB . Bibliography ODNB : …
  • … Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004. 1 Edinburgh University Edinburgh Classical scholar …

Wilson, J. C. (1842–77)

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Gillespie, J. D. (1822/3–91)

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  • … Scottish surgeon. Extramural lecturer, Edinburgh University, 1851. Surgeon and lecturer in …
  • … Robert Hutchison. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [Vols. 10,11] Medical directory : …
  • … J. & A. Churchill. 1870–1905. 10 Edinburgh University Edinburgh Royal Infirmary Edinburgh …

Stewart, T. G. (1837–1900)

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  • Edinburgh University Press. [Vols. …
  • … Edinburgh Royal Infirmary Surgeons’ Hall Edinburgh University Edinburgh Scottish physician …
  • … professor of the practice of physic, Edinburgh University, 1876. Knighted, 1894. DNB J. …
  • University Press. 1927–96. Gray, James. 1952. History of the Royal Medical Society, 1737–1937. Edited by Douglas Guthrie and with a foreword by Robert Hutchison. Edinburgh: …

Simpson, J. Y. (1811–70)

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Cullen, William (a) (1710–90)

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Duncan, Andrew, the elder (a) (1744–1828)

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  • … the elder 1744–1828 Physician. Professor of medicine, Edinburgh University, from 1790. …
  • … Press. 2004. 1,27 Edinburgh University Edinburgh Physiologist …
  • Edinburgh, 1790, 1824. ODNB . Bibliography ODNB : Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition. ) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University

Graham, Robert (1786–1845)

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  • … 1845 Physician and botanist. Regius professor of botany, Edinburgh University, 1820–45. …
  • … Press. 2004. 1,3,6,11,12,14 Edinburgh University Edinburgh Infirmary Edinburgh Physician …
  • Edinburgh. ODNB Bibliography ODNB : Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition. ) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University

Leslie, John (1766–1832)

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  • … natural philosopher. Studied at Edinburgh University, 1785–8. Private tutor at Etruria, …
  • … on him in 1797. Professor of mathematics, Edinburgh University, 1805; professor of natural …
  • … Oxford University Press. 2004. 1,3 Edinburgh University Edinburgh Mathematician natural …

Allman, G. J. (1812–98)

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Alison, W. P. (1790–1859)

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  • … of ‘institutes of medicine’ at Edinburgh University, 1822–42. ODNB . Bibliography ODNB : …
  • … index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004. 1 Edinburgh University Edinburgh Physician …

Low, David (1786–1859)

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  • … Professor of agriculture at Edinburgh University, 1831–54. Set up an agricultural museum. …
  • … Oxford University Press. 2004. 7 Edinburgh University agricultural museum Edinburgh …

Bennett, J. H. (1812–75)

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Hope, T. C. (1766–1844)

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  • … Professor of chemistry at Edinburgh University, 1799–1843. DSB ODNB Bibliography DSB : …
  • … and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004. 1 Edinburgh University Edinburgh Chemist …

Henry, Charles (1804–92)

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  • … William Henry. Studied medicine at Edinburgh University. John Dalton’s literary executor; …
  • … von Liebig, Justus Dalton, John Edinburgh University Edinburgh Germany biography of John …
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Darwin and vivisection

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Darwin played an important role in the controversy over vivisection that broke out in late 1874. Public debate was sparked when the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals brought an unsuccessful prosecution against a French physiologist who…

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  • … Darwin played an important role in the controversy over vivisection that broke out in late 1874. …