John Coldstream
1806–63
Physician. M.D., Edinburgh, 1827. Elected to the Plinian Society, 1823; a president, 1824, 1825. Practitioner in Leith, 1829–47. Active in the promotion of medical missions. Established the Home and School for Invalid and Imbecile Children in Edinburgh, 1855. Friend of CD at Edinburgh University, 1825–7.
Sources
Correspondence vol. 1, letter from John Coldstream, 28 February 1829
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Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
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 Press. 2004.
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