Robert Edmond Grant

Robert Edmond Grant is a British zoologist , born in 1793 and died in 1874.

Grant is one of the professor-founders of the Université of London and occupies, of 1827 to 1874, the combined pulpits of Zoologie and Comparative anatomy of 1827 with 1874. It occupies moreover the pulpit fullerienne of Physiologie of 1837 with 1840 and the pulpit of Swiney lecturer to the British Museum of 1853 with 1857.

Its principal zoological work is devoted to the sponge S. In addition to the small dozen S and of S which it describes, it highlights the role of the pores to make enter and leave water. It looks further into the searchs of Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck (1744-1829) and for Jean Vincent Felix Lamouroux (1779-1825) on the colonial zoophytes. He is a fervent supporter of the theses transformists of Lamarck as well as his zoological work.

Grant exerts a great influence on the teaching of the Comparative anatomy in Great Britain and on its pupils of which William Benjamin Carpenter (1813-1885), William Farr (1807-1883), George Newport (1803-1854), Thomas Laycock (1812-1876), Sir William Henry Flower (1831-1899), Henry Charleton Bastian (1837-1915) and Edwin Lankester (1814-1874). It influences deeply the young person Charles Darwin (1809-1882) at the time of his second year that this one passes to the Université of Edinburgh.

Robert Edmond Grant became member of the Royal Society the February 4th 1836.

Source

Adrian Desmond and Sarah E. Parker (2006). The Bibliography off Robert Edmond Grant (1793-1874): illustrated with has previosly a published photograph, Archives off natural history , 33 (2): 202-213. This article gives the list of works of R.E. Grant.

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