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Darwin Correspondence Project

William Lauder Lindsay

1829–80

Physician and botanist. MD, Edinburgh, 1852. Medical officer, Royal Institution for the Insane, Perth, 1854. Wrote on the mental processes of lower animals, emphasising their similarity to those of humans. As a botanist, specialised in lichens.

Source

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 Press. 2004.

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