Darwin's notebooks show a complete professionalism that he had probably learnt at the University of Edinburgh when making natural history notes while exploring the shores of the Firth of Forth with his brother Erasmus in 1826 and studying marine invertebrates with Robert Edmund Grant for a few months in 1827.
Os cadernos de Darwin mostraron unha total profesionalidade que probablemente aprendera na Universidade de Edimburgo cando facía as súas notas de historia natural mentres exploraba as ribeiras do Firth of Forth co seu irmán Erasmus en 1826 e estudando os invertebrados mariños con Robert Edmund Grant durante algúns meses en 1827.