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  Square, 
  Edinburgh, 
  on 
  the 
  11th 
  of 
  November, 
  1793. 
  His 
  mother's 
  

   maiden 
  name 
  was 
  Jane 
  Edmond. 
  It 
  appears, 
  from 
  a 
  memorandum 
  in 
  

   Dr. 
  G-rant's 
  handwriting, 
  that 
  he 
  was 
  sent 
  from 
  home 
  to 
  be 
  nursed, 
  and 
  

   saw 
  little 
  of 
  either 
  of 
  his 
  parents 
  during 
  his 
  infancy 
  and 
  childhood. 
  He 
  

   had 
  eight 
  brothers 
  and 
  three 
  sisters, 
  all 
  of 
  whom 
  died 
  before 
  him 
  ; 
  and 
  

   as 
  none 
  of 
  them 
  left 
  any 
  children, 
  Dr. 
  Grant 
  was 
  the 
  last 
  survivor 
  

   of 
  his 
  family. 
  

  

  When 
  about 
  ten 
  years 
  old 
  he 
  was 
  placed 
  at 
  the 
  High 
  School 
  of 
  Edin- 
  

   burgh, 
  where 
  he 
  continued 
  for 
  five 
  years, 
  under 
  the 
  tuition, 
  successively, 
  

   of 
  Mr. 
  Christison 
  (afterwards 
  Professor 
  in 
  the 
  University), 
  Dr. 
  Carson, 
  

   and 
  Dr. 
  Adam, 
  the 
  Rector, 
  author 
  of 
  the 
  well-known 
  work 
  on 
  Roman 
  

   Antiquities. 
  In 
  1808 
  his 
  father 
  died 
  ; 
  and 
  in 
  November 
  of 
  that 
  year 
  Dr. 
  

   Grant 
  became 
  a 
  student 
  in 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  Edinburgh, 
  attending 
  the 
  

   junior 
  classes 
  of 
  Latin 
  and 
  G-reek. 
  In 
  the 
  following 
  November 
  he 
  

   entered 
  on 
  his 
  curriculum 
  of 
  medical 
  study, 
  and 
  during 
  its 
  course 
  

   attended 
  the 
  several 
  classes 
  in 
  the 
  Eaculty 
  of 
  Medicine 
  under 
  the 
  Pro- 
  

   fessors 
  of 
  that 
  day. 
  He 
  also 
  studied 
  Natural 
  History 
  under 
  Professor 
  

   Jameson, 
  and 
  attended 
  the 
  lectures 
  of 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  extra-academical 
  

   teachers. 
  After 
  completing 
  his 
  course 
  of 
  medical 
  study, 
  he 
  in 
  1814 
  took 
  

   his 
  Degree 
  of 
  Doctor 
  of 
  Medicine, 
  and 
  published 
  his 
  inaugural 
  disser- 
  

   tation, 
  " 
  De 
  Sanguinis 
  Circuitu." 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  mean 
  time 
  he 
  had 
  obtained 
  (in 
  May 
  1814) 
  the 
  Diploma 
  of 
  the 
  

   College 
  of 
  Surgeons. 
  In 
  November 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  year 
  he 
  was 
  elected 
  one 
  

   of 
  the 
  Presidents 
  of 
  the 
  Medical 
  Society 
  of 
  Edinburgh, 
  a 
  place 
  justly 
  

   regarded 
  as 
  an 
  honourable 
  object 
  of 
  ambition 
  among 
  the 
  young 
  aspirants 
  

   in 
  the 
  Medical 
  School. 
  

  

  Rather 
  more 
  than 
  a 
  year 
  after 
  taking 
  his 
  degree 
  Dr. 
  Grant 
  went 
  to 
  the 
  

   Continent, 
  where 
  he 
  spent 
  upwards 
  of 
  four 
  years. 
  During 
  this 
  time 
  he 
  

   visited 
  various 
  places 
  of 
  interest 
  in 
  France, 
  Italy, 
  and 
  Germany, 
  and 
  made 
  

   a 
  pedestrian 
  tour 
  in 
  Hungary 
  ; 
  but 
  his 
  principal 
  stay 
  was 
  in 
  Paris, 
  Rome, 
  

   Leipsic, 
  Dresden, 
  Vienna, 
  and 
  Munich, 
  on 
  account, 
  no 
  doubt, 
  of 
  the 
  varied 
  

   opportunities 
  for 
  scientific 
  study 
  and 
  general 
  culture 
  afforded 
  by 
  these 
  

   foreign 
  seats 
  of 
  science, 
  art, 
  and 
  learning. 
  He 
  returned 
  to 
  Edinburgh 
  in 
  

   the 
  summer 
  of 
  1820, 
  and 
  took 
  up 
  his 
  residence 
  in 
  his 
  native 
  city. 
  At 
  a 
  

   later 
  time 
  he 
  became 
  a 
  Eellow 
  of 
  the 
  Edinburgh 
  College 
  of 
  Physicians 
  ; 
  

   but 
  he 
  seems 
  not 
  to 
  have 
  engaged 
  in 
  medical 
  practice 
  — 
  his 
  career 
  had 
  

   taken 
  another 
  direction. 
  He 
  had 
  early 
  imbibed 
  a 
  taste 
  for 
  Comparative 
  

   Anatomy 
  and 
  Zoology, 
  and 
  now 
  devoted 
  himself 
  assiduously 
  to 
  the 
  pro- 
  

   secution 
  of 
  those 
  branches 
  of 
  science, 
  both 
  by 
  continued 
  systematic 
  study 
  

   and 
  by 
  original 
  research. 
  The 
  study 
  of 
  the 
  invertebrate 
  animals 
  was 
  

   peculiarly 
  attractive 
  ; 
  and 
  at 
  this 
  time 
  Dr. 
  Grant 
  published 
  various 
  

   interesting 
  anatomical 
  and 
  physiological 
  observations 
  on 
  mollusks 
  and 
  

   zoophytes 
  ; 
  and 
  his 
  name 
  will 
  always 
  be 
  associated 
  with 
  the 
  advances 
  of 
  

   our 
  knowledge 
  concerning 
  the 
  structure 
  and 
  economy 
  of 
  sponges, 
  to 
  the 
  

   investigation 
  of 
  which 
  Dr. 
  Grant 
  at 
  this 
  time 
  enthusiastically 
  applied 
  him- 
  

   self. 
  The 
  pools 
  left 
  by 
  the 
  retiring 
  tide 
  on 
  the 
  shores 
  of 
  the 
  Eirth 
  of 
  

  

  