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unusual facts about Robert Grant


William A. F. Browne

Browne is now regarded as an important influence - along with Robert Grant - on the young Charles Darwin as a medical student in Edinburgh in 1826/1827.


Samuel Wesley Stratton

In 1927, he served as one of three members as an Advisory Committee to Massachusetts Governor Alvan T. Fuller, along with President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard and Probate Judge Robert Grant.

Solar eclipse of July 28, 1851

United Kingdom astronomers, Robert Grant and William Swan, and Austrian astronomer Karl Ludwig von Littrow observed this eclipse and determined that prominences are part of the Sun because the Moon is seen to cover and uncover them as it moves in front of the Sun.


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Elizabeth Grant

Grant being unfortunate, sold Carron in 1786 or 1787 to Robert Grant of Wester Elchies, and in 1790 he died within Holyrood.