What is recorded here
This stone commemorative plaque records: Sir D'Arcy Thompson. Scholar, naturalist. Was born here 1860.
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson was a renowned scholar and naturalist, best known for his influential work "On Growth and Form," which explored the mathematical and physical basis of biological shapes and structures.
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