![]() ![]() Robert Grant (1793-1874), himself a comparative anatomist and transmutationist, was born in Edinburgh and is famous for his work with marine invertebrates such as sponges (Oxford Dictionary of National Biographies, 2005). ![]() Today, however, the museum prides itself in being the last surviving university natural history museum in London. It was then called ‘The Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy’ but after WWII, detailed comparative anatomy ‘fell out of fashion in zoology’, as described by the museum, and biochemistry, genetics and physiology became more prominent areas of study. The museum was established in 1827 by Robert Grant as a teaching collection for UCL. In December 2019, I visited the Grant Museum of Zoology in London with a couple of friends and given our current situation, I thought it would be a good time to write about that visit and daydream about my next one! ![]()
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