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Death and legacy. Grave of Robert Edmond Grant in Highgate Cemetery. Grant died at home at 2 Euston Grove, Euston Square, London, [18] still occupying the chair at UCL, a forgotten anachronism. In his will he bequeathed his estate, of less than £1,500, to UCL. [19] He was buried on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery .
Robert Grant. Robert Edmond Grant (1793 - 1874) was an Edinburgh-trained physician, who gave up the profession to study invertebrates. He was an early advocate of evolutionary thought (a strong supporter of Lamarck and his views), and cited Erasmus Darwin's Zoonomia in his medical dissertation. Darwin, while briefly a medical student (1825 ...
Robert Edmond Grant. Grant est l’un des professeurs-fondateurs de l’ université de Londres et occupe, de 1827 à 1874, les chaires combinées de zoologie et d’ anatomie comparée de 1827 à 1874. Il occupe de plus la chaire fullerienne de physiologie de 1837 à 1840 et la chaire de conférencier Swiney au British Museum de 1853 à 1857 .
At the Zoological Society the reformers were led by Darwin's tutor from Edinburgh days, Robert Edmund Grant. Darwin now had an allowance plus stocks from his father, bringing him around £400 per year, and his sympathies were with the amateur clerical "Dons in science" of Cambridge. Owen and fossils
Abstract The comparative anatomist Robert Edmond Grant (1793–1874), best known for his work on sponges and other marine invertebrates, was important as a teacher and outspoken as a medical reformer. At Edinburgh University his transformist zoology provided the young Charles Darwin with his first theoretical framework. As professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at the newly founded ...
Biografía. Robert Edmond Grant. Grant fue uno de los profesores fundadores de la Universidad de Londres, y de 1827 a 1874 ocupó las Cátedras Combinadas de Zoología y Anatomía Comparada de 1827 a 1874 . También ocupó la cátedra Fulleriana de fisiología de 1837 a 1840 y la cátedra Swiney en el Museo Británico de 1853 a 1857 .
The comparative anatomist Robert Edmond Grant (1793-1874), best known for his work on sponges and other marine invertebrates, was important as a teacher and outspoken as a medical reformer. At Edinburgh University his transformist zoology provided the young Charles Darwin with his first theoretical …
