skip to content

Darwin Correspondence Project

Benjamin Collins Brodie, Sr, 1st baronet

1783–1862

Surgeon. Professor of comparative anatomy and physiology, Royal College of Surgeons, 1819–23. Sergeant-surgeon to Queen Victoria. President of the Royal Society of London, 1858–61. Created baronet, 1834. FRS 1810.

Sources

DSB

ODNB.

Bibliography

DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.

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.

letter