Darwin's negro bird-stuffer
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20316431 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert B Freeman (University College London, corresponding author) |
| Editors | Reginald Victor Jones (Reader in Taxonomy, University College London), William Drummond MacDonald Paton (Reader in Taxonomy, University College London) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 83-86 |
| Publication date | 1978-08-31 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Notes and Records the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0035-9149 • E-ISSN: 1743-0178 |
| Publisher | The Royal Society (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1098/rsnr.1978.0006 |
| OpenAlex | W2078174641 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Charles Darwin wrote in his Autobiography (1, 2) that when he was a medical student at Edinburgh (1825 Oct.—1827 Apr.) ‘a negro lived in Edinburgh, who had travelled with Waterton, and gained his livelihood by stuffing birds, which he did excellently: he gave me lessons for payment, and I often used to sit with him, for he was a very pleasant and intelligent man’. Darwin does not name him and he is not mentioned in Darwinian literature except in Ashworth’s account of the Edinburgh years (3) and in de Beer’s biography (4) which add nothing
Archaeology · Art history · Biography · Darwin (ADL) · Darwinism · Epistemology · Livelihood · Nothing · Political science · Sociology · Computer Science · Evolution and Science Education · History · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2013 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |