While he was in British Guiana Waterton taught his skills to one of his uncle's slaves, John Edmonstone. Edmonstone, by then freed and practising taxidermy in Edinburgh, in turn taught the teenage Darwin.
While he was in British Guiana Waterton taught his skills to one of his uncle's slaves, John Edmonstone Edmonstone by then freed and practising taxidermy in Edinburgh in turn taught the teenage Darwin.