In fact aged 18 Darwin even aped the highly idiosyncratic specialist interests of his university mentor Robert Grant on sponges and rushed by capering off to be slyly first to present his own version on them at the Plinian Society at Edinburgh University. Grant was livid. https://t.co/69MSLRIgGR pic.twitter.com/DMlWuRuTde— Dr Mike Sutton (@Criminotweet) September 9, 2019
Reference : https://www.jstor.org/stable/4330891?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
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.I read it some time ago. Yes it does. You can find various other books covering the story in detail. Most simply say that Grant was too harsh and the whole affair made Darwin despise the conventions on priority. However, see https://t.co/UI2I61mHEp— Dr Mike Sutton (@Criminotweet) September 9, 2019
Hugh. On Darwin upsetting Grant and so Grant upsetting Darwin on Darwin's capering @HughDower @BiologiaPensamt This is a most interesting (p. 232 from Darwin's Ghosts by Rebecca Stott) on yet another now missing Darwin paper.From page 232 of Darwin’s Ghosts by Rebecca Stott: pic.twitter.com/sLMadXiOeT— Dr Mike Sutton (@Criminotweet) September 10, 2019
References@HughDower @BiologiaPensamt
— Dr Mike Sutton (@Criminotweet) September 10, 2019
So Gavin de Beer's text was taken from Darwin's biography (written with help of Darwin's son) . What Darwin writes there does no square with what Henrietta Darwin wrote about her father's & Grant's feeling on the matter at all https://t.co/IfCRI4LU2g
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ML8b6hhdujsC&pg=PA232&lpg=PA232&dq=henritetta+darwin+lost+note+1947&source=bl&ots=SUMyuflEYC&sig=ACfU3U2wJY69KuAmmppEve9FnhGqpmF2Rw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjI98jPwcbkAhWQYMAKHU7LCxUQ6AEwFHoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=henritetta%20darwin%20lost%20note%201947&f=false
