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SIR HORACE DARWIN, whose death on Sept. 22 is widely regretted, was born in 1851, the fifth son of Charles Darwin and the third of the group of brothers to become a fellow of the Royal Society. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, taking his degree as a Senior Optime in 1874. Immediately afterwards he entered the works of Messrs. Easton and Anderson and went through the ordinary apprenticeship course in the shops. While there he designed and built his first instrument, a klinostat, for demonstrating responses of a plant to the stimulus of gravitation. At the end of his apprenticeship he returned to Cambridge, and shortly afterwards joined Dew Smith, who was engaged in designing and making instruments for physiological investigations.
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G., R. Sir Horace Darwin, K.B.E., F.R.S. Nature 122, 580–581 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122580a0
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