John Edmonstone was a former enslaved man who taught the young Charles Darwin the skill of taxidermy. This skill helped Darwin preserve the birds that fermented his ideas about evolution. Many Black ...

He also taught taxidermy classes to students at the nearby Edinburgh university. One of these students was a 16 year old Charles Darwin. He started the taxidermy classes as a bit of a diversion ...

Taxidermy is a skill and art form that many think is plenty weird all on its own, even though it was practiced by luminaries like Charles Darwin and Theodore Roosevelt. It stretches from the lows ...

Edmonstone moved to Edinburgh and sought a living by teaching taxidermy to students at Edinburgh University. Shortly after, an intrigued Darwin sought lessons from Edmonstone to learn this invaluable ...

John Edmonstone was a former enslaved man who taught the young Charles Darwin the skill of taxidermy. An intrepid explorer and brilliant naturalist, Alfred Russel Wallace co-published the theory of ...

Edmonstone moved to Edinburgh and sought a living by teaching taxidermy to students at Edinburgh University. Shortly after, an intrigued Darwin sought lessons from Edmonstone to learn this invaluable ...