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Darwin Correspondence Project

Martin Barry

1802–55

Studied medicine in London, Paris, Erlangen, and Berlin. MD, Edinburgh, 1833; did not practise as a physician. Carried out researches in embryology and histology in Britain and Germany; discovered the presence of spermatozoa in ova, 1843. FRS 1840.

Sources

DNB

DSB.

Bibliography

DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.

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.

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