Charles Stewart (zoologist)

Charles Stewart (zoologist)

Charles Stewart (18 May 1840 – 27 September 1907) was an English zoologist and comparative anatomist.

Stewart was born in Plymouth and studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, receiving his MRCS in 1862. He was Conservator of the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from 1884 to 1900, in succession to William Henry Flower[1]. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 4 June 1896, and he was the president of the Linnean Society from 1890 to 1894.

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Academic offices
Preceded by
Victor Horsley
Fullerian Professor of Physiology
1894–1897
Succeeded by
Augustus Desiré Waller

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