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Waynflete Professorship of Physiology, Oxford University


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS 764

Held at: Royal Society

Title: Waynflete Professorship of Physiology, Oxford University

Date(s): 1895 and nd

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 3 items

Name of creator(s): Langley | John Newport | 1852-1925 | physiologist
Sherrington | Sir | Charles Scott | 1857-1952 | Knight | pathologist
Gotch | Francis | 1853-1913 | physiologist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (1857-1952) was Professor-Superintendent of the Brown Institution, which specialised in research into diseases of domestic animals. The Institute was situated in Wandsworth Road, South West London and was destroyed by bombing in 1944. Sherrington was later Professor of Pathology, University of London, and Lecturer on Physiology at St Thomas's Hospital.

John Newport Langley was born, 1852; Education: Exeter Grammar School; St John's College, Cambridge. BA (1875), MA (1878), ScD (1896); Career: Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (1877, re-elected 1885); Lecturer, Trinity College, Cambridge; Lecturer, Cambridge University (1883-1903); Professor of Physiology, Cambridge (1903-1925); Fellow of the Royal Society, 1883; Royal Medal, 1892; Royal Society Council, 1897-1898; Royal Society Vice President, 1904-1905; died, 1925.

Francis Gotch was born, 1853; Education: BA; BSc (Lond); Hon MA (Oxon); MRCS; Fellow of the Royal Society, 1892; died, 1913.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Three letters of application for Waynflete Professorship of Physiology, two of J N Langley and Charles Scott Sherington dated 1895; one undated from Francis Gotch.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

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Open

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No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.

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Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated by E.G.T. Liddell, 1962.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Archivist's note: Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Physiology

Personal names
Gotch | Francis | 1853-1913 | physiologist
Langley | John Newport | 1852-1925 | physiologist
Sherrington | Sir | Charles Scott | 1857-1952 | Knight | pathologist

Corporate names
Oxford University

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