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GLANCING through this volume, one gains the impression that the great majority of Cambridge graduates in the late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries went into the church or into the professions of law and medicine; a smaller number became schoolmasters, entered the army or took up government service at home or abroad. The link between the clerical profession and an active scientific career was closer then than it is now, and it is not without interest that Charles Darwin, the outstanding figure in this volume, went to Cambridge to get a degree as a necessary preliminary to a career in the church. The Darwin family, with William, George, Francis and Horace, provides the best example of the inheritance of scientific power.
Alumni Cantabrigienses
A Biographical List of all known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge from the Earliest Times to 1900. Compiled by Dr. J. A. Venn. Part 2: From 1752 to 1900. Vol. 2: Chalmers—Fytche. Pp. iv + 594. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1944.) £7 10s. 0d. net.
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STRATTON, F. Alumni Cantabrigienses. Nature 156, 348 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156348a0
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