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Darwin’s student booklist

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In October 1825 Charles Darwin and his older brother, Erasmus, went to study medicine in Edinburgh, where their father, Robert Waring Darwin, had trained as a doctor in the 1780’s. Erasmus had already graduated from Cambridge and was continuing his studies…

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  • … who had moved on to London for further medical training (see letter from E. A. Darwin, [29 …
  • … to date precisely. Darwin mentions reading  Granby  in a letter to his sister dated 29 January …
  • … the books are suitable reading for a medical student: John Abernethy was a London surgeon whose …
  • … work in 1879 Darwin judged it ‘a wretched production’ (letter to Ernst Krause, 19 March 1879 ); …
  • … Cochrane Travels in Columbia. 2  2 Vol. 8 Vo Abernethy Physi. Lectures 3  1 Vol. …
  • … Blairs lectures on Belles Lettres. 8  3 Vol. 8Vo Abernethy Hunterian orat & Lect. Pamph …
  • … 1823. 8 Vo: octavo. 2 Cochrane 1825. 3 Abernethy 1822. There is a lightly …
  • … and Parker 2006). 8 Blair 1790. 9 Abernethy 1819a; CD perhaps refers to …
  • … CD described Lister 1826 as an ‘entertaining book’ (see letter to S. E. Darwin, 29 January [1826] …