Zöology; a textbook for colleges and universities . ther was one of the Wedgwoods, a family note-worthy in many respects, but now best remembered inconnection with the beautiful pottery made at theEtruria works in Staffordshire. An elaborate pedigreeof the ancestors of Darwin has lately been issued by theFrancis Galton Laboratory for National Eugenics, andit appears that these include such persons as Charle-magne and Alfred the Great. 2. When eight and one half years of age, Darwin was Boyhoodsent to a day school at Shrewsbury. By this time his taste for natural history, and more especially fo
Zöology; a textbook for colleges and universities . ther was one of the Wedgwoods, a family note-worthy in many respects, but now best remembered inconnection with the beautiful pottery made at theEtruria works in Staffordshire. An elaborate pedigreeof the ancestors of Darwin has lately been issued by theFrancis Galton Laboratory for National Eugenics, andit appears that these include such persons as Charle-magne and Alfred the Great. 2. When eight and one half years of age, Darwin was Boyhoodsent to a day school at Shrewsbury. By this time his taste for natural history, and more especially for collect-ing, was well developed. He tried to make out thenames of plants, and collected shells, coins, minerals,and many other things. He remarked in after yearsthat the passion for collecting was clearly innate, asnone of his sisters or his brother ever had this was no doubt stimulated by the prevalent custom in IOI IO2 ZOOLOGY English schools of collecting various objects, so that anew boy, on entering, is asked, What do you collect ?. From an old engravingFIG. 22. Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles Darwin. Many who have begun by collecting stamps, birds eggs,or butterflies, have developed into good amateur natu-ralists. When somewhat older, Darwin began to col-lect beetles, and not only obtained a fine series of theseinsects, but was able to send rare specimens to the en-tomologist, Stephens, who mentioned them in his workon British Entomology. Thus the mere collectorcame to realize that he could contribute something tothe progress of science. CHARLES DARWIN 103 3. In 1818 Darwin went to Dr. Butlers school at The old-Shrewsbury, and remained until he was sixteen years English old. He had a very poor opinion of the instruction, butit is evident that he made more progress than the state-ments in his autobiography would suggest. It is diffi-cult for us to appreciate the narrowness of the curricu-lum of an English school of those days, with its entireemphasis on
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