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Nos
64, 65, 66
In the late 1830s, James Howie had
lived for several years at 64 Princes Street, an address that he shared
with a saddler, a watchmaker and a firm of hatters. At No 65 was a
surgeon dentist, a firm of dyers and the engraver Robert Scott.
Two doors away to the west of Howie,
at No 66 lived a
bird-stuffer. He was a freed Guyanan slave (though
possibly African in origin) named John Edmonstone, who for an hour every
day for two months, for a charge of one guinea, showed Charles Darwin how
to skin and dry birds.
[Ref: Charles Darwin Voyaging,
p.66 by Janet Browne: Acknowledgement:
Fraser
MacLean]
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No
68
In 1841, James Howie moved to No 68
Princes Street, an address that he shared with
a fishing tackle maker, stay maker, watchmaker, writing master and
dentist. He remained at this address for only about a year before
moving to 45 Princes Street where he opened his
rooftop studio.
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