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Wiki: Darwin
"...Darwin spent the summer of 1825 as an apprentice Doctor, helping his father treat the poor of Shropshire, before going to the
University of Edinburgh Medical School (at the time the best medical school in the UK) with his brother Erasmus in October 1825. Darwin found lectures dull and surgery distressing, so he neglected his studies. He learned
taxidermy in around 40 daily hour-long sessions from
John Edmonstone, a freed black slave who had accompanied
Charles Waterton in the South American
rainforest.
[28]
In Darwin's second year at the university, he joined the
Plinian Society,
a student Natural-history group featuring lively debates in which
radical democratic students with
materialistic views challenged orthodox religious concepts of science.
[29]
He assisted Robert Edmond Grant's investigations of the anatomy and life cycle of marine invertebrates in the
Firth of Forth, and
on 27 March 1827 presented at the Plinian his own discovery that black spores found in oyster shells were the eggs of a skate leech.
One day, Grant praised
Lamarck's
evolutionary ideas. Darwin was astonished by Grant's audacity, but had recently read similar ideas in his grandfather Erasmus' journals.
[30] Darwin was rather bored by
Robert Jameson's natural-history course, which covered geology—including the debate between
Neptunism and
Plutonism.
He learned the classification of plants, and assisted with work on the collections of the University Museum, one of the largest museums in Europe at the time.[31]
Darwin's neglect of medical studies annoyed his father, who shrewdly sent him to
Christ's College, Cambridge, to study for a
Bachelor of Arts degree as the first step towards becoming an Anglican country
parson. As Darwin was unqualified for the
Tripos, he joined the
ordinary degree course in January 1828.
[32] He preferred
riding and
shooting to studying.
[33]
During the first few months of Darwin's enrollment, his second cousin
William Darwin Fox was also studying at Christ's College. Fox impressed him with his butterfly collection,
introducing Darwin to entomology and influencing him to pursue beetle collecting.[34][35] He did this zealously, and had some of his finds published in James Francis Stephens' Illustrations of British entomology (1829–32).
[35][36]
Also through Fox, Darwin became a close friend and follower of botany professor
John Stevens Henslow.
[34] He met other leading
parson-naturalists who saw scientific work as religious
natural theology, becoming known to these
dons as "the man who walks with Henslow". When his own exams drew near,
Darwin applied himself to his studies and was delighted by the language and logic of William Paley's Evidences of Christianity (1795).[37] In his final examination in January 1831 Darwin did well, coming tenth out of 178 candidates for the
ordinary degree.
[38]
Darwin had to stay at Cambridge until June 1831.
He studied Paley's Natural Theology or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity (first published in 1802), which made an argument for divine design in nature, explaining adaptation as God acting through laws of nature[39]
He read
John Herschel's new book,
Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy (1831), which described the highest aim of
natural philosophy as understanding such laws through
inductive reasoning based on observation, and
Alexander von Humboldt's
Personal Narrative of scientific travels in 1799–1804.
Inspired with "a burning zeal" to contribute, Darwin planned to visit
Tenerife with some classmates after graduation to study natural history in the
tropics. In preparation, he joined
Adam Sedgwick's
geology course, then on 4 August travelled with him to spend a fortnight mapping
strata in
Wales.
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