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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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  • 1936), radio personality, pastor Robert Grant (novelist) (1852–1940), American novelist and Boston judge Robert Edmond Grant (1793–1874), British zoologist...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    included Adam Anderson, Charles Babbage, Thomas Carlyle, Robert Gordon, Robert Edmond Grant, John Leslie, Henry Liston, John Gibson Lockhart and Thomas...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, and also assisted the research of Robert Edmond Grant, who had studied under Jameson before graduating in 1814, and was...
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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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    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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  • 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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    Saint-Hilaire 1800 Paris 10 The Sponge Philosopher Robert Edmond Grant 1826 Edinburgh 11 The Encyclopedist Robert Chambers 1844 Edinburgh 12 Alfred Wallace's...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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