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Charles Derwin
Charles Robert Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, at his family's home, -
Baby Charles baptism
Baby Charles baptized in the Anglican St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury, -
Charles Derwin after high school
Darwin spent the summer as an apprentice doctor, helping his father treat the poor of Shropshire -
Darwin college years
Went to University of Edinburgh Medical School (at the time the best medical school in the UK) with his brother Erasmus. -
Derwin studied classification of plants
Derwin 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 -
Charles Derwin first discovery
Derwin assisted Robert Edmond Grant's investigations of the anatomy and life cycle of marine invertebrates in the Firth of Forth, and presented at the Plinian his own discovery that black spores found in oyster shells were the eggs of a skate leech.