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OBITUARY! 
[1888] 
CHarLes Ropert Darwin was the fifth child 
and second son of Robert Waring Darwin and 
Susannah Wedgwood, and was born on the 12th 
February, 1809, at Shrewsbury, where his father 
“was a physician in large practice. 
_ Mrs. Robert Darwin died when her son Charles 
was only eight years old, and he hardly remem- 
‘dered her. A daughter of the famous Josiah 
Wedgwood, who created a new branch of the 
potter’s art, and established the great works of 
Etruria, could hardly fail to transmit important 
mental and moral qualities to her children; and 
there is a solitary record of her direct influence 
in the story told by a schoolfellow, who remembers 
Charles Darwin “bringing a flower to school, and 
___* From the Obituary Notices of the Proceedings of the Royal 
Society, vol. 44. 
