Wells returned to Charleston in 1771 become a medical apprentice under Dr. Alexander Garden, a naturalist, physician, who himself was a pupil of Charles Alston, Director of the Botanical Gardens in Edinburgh. Between 1775 and 1780, Wells took a medical degree at the University of Edinburgh.
In 1813 a paper was read beofre the Royal Society ad published in 1818. Two essays, On Upon Single Vision with Two Eyes; The Other on Dew and An Account of a Female of the White Race... Part of Whose Skin Resembles That of a Negro...By the Late W.C. Wells…with a Memoir of His Life, Written by Himself.
WilliamCharlesWells (1757 — 1817), a physician and printer, was the second son of Robert and Mary Wells.
Wells was born in Charleston, South Carolina and was sent to school in Dumfries, Scotland at the age of eleven.
Wells returned to Charleston in 1771 become a medical apprentice under Dr. Alexander Garden, a naturalist, physician, who himself was a pupil of Charles Alston, Director of the Botanical Gardens in Edinburgh.
Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England on 12 February 1809 at The Mount, the house his father had built along the Severn River.
Several of their children suffered illness or weaknesses, and Charles Darwin's fear that this might be due to the closeness of his and Emma's lineage was expressed in his writings on the ill effects of inbreeding and advantages of crossing.
Charles Darwin recounted in his biography of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin how false stories were circulated claiming that Erasmus had called for Jesus on his deathbed.
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