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Robert Edmond Grant MD FRCPEd FRS FRSE FZS FGS (11 November 1793 – 23 August 1874) was a British anatomist and zoologist.

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Robert Edmond Grant

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Robert Edmond Grant MD FRCPEd FRS FRSE FZS FGS (11 November 1793 – 23 August 1874) was a British anatomist and zoologist. Grant was born at Argyll Square...

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Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy

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University College London in London, England. It was established by Robert Edmond Grant in 1828 as a teaching collection of zoological specimens and material...

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Robert Grant

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judge Robert Edmond Grant (1793–1874), British zoologist, held Chair of Comparative Anatomy at University College London Robert J. Grant (1862–1950),...

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Eddy Grant

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Edmond Montague Grant (born 5 March 1948) is a Guyanese-British singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, known for his genre-blending sound and socially-conscious...

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Highgate Cemetery

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executive, closely linked to the Labour Party Robert Grant VC, soldier and police constable Robert Edmond Grant, Professor of Comparative Anatomy at University...

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Nudibranch

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Philip Henry Gosse reported observations by "Professor Grant" (possibly Robert Edmond Grant) that two species of nudibranchs emit sounds that are audible...

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Leuconia

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family Baeriidae. It was described by English anatomist and zoologist Robert Edmond Grant in 1833. The following species of Leuconia are accepted in the World...

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Recapitulation theory

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Edinburgh and London schools of higher anatomy around 1830, notably by Robert Edmond Grant, but was opposed by Karl Ernst von Baer's ideas of divergence, and...

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Plankton net

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Thompson's idea had earlier been drawn to Darwin's attention by Robert Edmond Grant in Edinburgh. Darwin describes this "contrivance" as "a bag four...

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Robert Jameson

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that the article was written by one of his students, Ami Boué or Robert Edmond Grant. Jameson's references to the Deluge in notes to his translation of...

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Second voyage of HMS Beagle

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London, Robert Brown at the British Museum, Captain Phillip Parker King who led the first expedition, and invertebrate anatomist Robert Edmond Grant who had...

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Jodrell Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy

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was Robert Edmond Grant after which the post received the Jodrell endowment. Until 1948, the professor of Zoology was also Curator of the Grant Museum...

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Moral treatment

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ready partner in the Lamarckian biology purveyed by the naturalist Robert Edmond Grant (1793–1874) who exercised a striking influence on the young Charles...

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Pangenesis

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University of Edinburgh Medical School in the late 1820s, both through Robert Edmond Grant, whom he assisted in research, and in Erasmus's journals. Darwin's...

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Ernst Haeckel

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supported by followers of Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire including Robert Edmond Grant. It proposed a link between ontogeny (development of form) and phylogeny...

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Joseph Lister

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Lindley professor of botany, Thomas Graham professor of chemistry, Robert Edmond Grant professor of comparative anatomy, George Viner Ellis professor of...

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List of Scottish scientists

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Edinburgh Thomas Graham 1805–1869 chemist discovered dialysis Robert Edmond Grant 1793–1874 biologist Swiney lecturer in geology to the British Museum...

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Peter Mark Roget

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Roget and His Thesaurus, Awards & Grants". www.ala.org. "The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus, Awards & Grants". www.ala.org. Anderson, John; Anderson...

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Sponge spicule

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taxa, and this makes them useful in taxonomic assignments. In 1833, Robert Edmond Grant grouped sponges into a phylum he called Porifera (from the Latin...

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The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

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seashore rambles near Edinburgh with the Lamarckian evolutionist Robert Edmond Grant in 1826/1827, and in the laying out of the sandwalk, his "thinking...

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List of Scots

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movement Theodore Gordon (1786–1845), inspector of army hospitals Robert Edmond Grant (1793–1874), physician and biologist James Gregory (1753–1821), physician...

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Gonionotophis

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Brussaux. The specific name, grantii, is in honor of British physician Robert Edmond Grant. "Gonionotophis ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de Kelly CMR...

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History of evolutionary thought

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anatomist Robert Edmond Grant was closely in touch with Lamarck's French school of Transformationism. One of the French scientists who influenced Grant was...

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Reactions to On the Origin of Species

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French Revolution, and some people, such as Darwin's old instructor Robert Edmond Grant had been ridiculed and marginalized by members of the scientific...

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Edmond post office shooting

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The Edmond post office shooting was a mass shooting that occurred in Edmond, Oklahoma, on August 20, 1986. In less than fifteen minutes, 44 year-old postal...

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Charles Darwin

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challenged orthodox religious concepts of science. He assisted Robert Edmond Grant's investigations of the anatomy and life cycle of marine invertebrates...

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Fullerian Professor of Physiology

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by John 'Mad Jack' Fuller. 1834–1837 Peter Mark Roget 1837–1838 Robert Edmond Grant 1841–1844 Thomas Rymer Jones 1844–1848 William Benjamin Carpenter...

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