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Proceedings of the Royal Society 
Monday, 1 5th February 1875. 
Sir WILLIAM THOMSON, President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. Obituary Notice of Dr Kobert Edward Grant, late Pro- 
fessor of Comparative Anatomy in University College 
London. By Dr W. Sharpey. 
Dr Bobert Edmond Grant was the seventh son of Alexander 
Grant, Esquire, Writer to the Signet. He was born in his father’s 
house in Argyle Square, Edinburgh, on the 11th of November 1793. 
His mother’s maiden name was Jane Edmond. It appears from a 
memorandum in Dr Grant’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 
Edinburgh, where he continued for five years, under the tuition, 
successively of Mr Christison, afterwards Professor in the Univer- 
sity, Dr Carson, and Dr Adam, the Bector, author of the well- 
known work on Boman 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 
Greek. In the following November he entered on his curriculum 
of medical study, and during its course attended the several classes 
in the Faculty of Medicine under the professors of that day. He 
also studied Natural History under Professor Jameson, and attended 
the lectures of some of the extra-academical teachers. After com- 
pleting his course of medical study, he, in 1814, took his degree of 
Doctor of Medicine, and published his inaugural dissertation, under 
the title “ De Circuitu Sanguinis.” 
In the meantime 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 Edin- 
