George Rolleston
George Rolleston ( born July 30, 1829 in Maltby Hall, South Yorkshire in Rotherham, † June 16, 1881 in Oxford ) was an English physician and physiologist.
- 3.1 Literature
- 3.2 Notes and references
Life and work
George Rolleston was the second son of a clergyman from Yorkshire. Under the supervision of his father, he first received his education at the Grammar School in Gainsborough and the Collegiate School in Sheffield. In December 1846, he began classical studies at Pembroke College, Oxford, where he received his degree in 1850 Bachelor of Arts (BA). He then studied from October 1851 Medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London. There he made his degree in 1854 Medicinae Baccalaureus (MB). In the last phase of the Crimean War Rolleston worked at the British Civil Hospital in Smyrna. After his return he became assistant physician at Children's Hospital in London. 1857 moved Rolleston as Medicinae Doctor ( MD) to Oxford, where he was Lee 's Reader of Anatomy at Christ Church College, and in 1860 the first Linacre Professor of Physiology at Oxford University Museum of Natural History. In 1861 he married Grace Davy, a daughter of John Davy, with whom he had seven children. On June 5, 1862 Rolleston was elected to the Royal Society. In 1872 he became a member of Merton College, Oxford. Of 10 December 1874 to 16 June 1881, he was part of the Council of the University of Oxford. George Rolleston was buried in the Holywell Cemetery in Oxford.
His main work Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy appeared in 1870 and was a textbook for Oxford students. In it, he summarized the main features of the known classes of animals together briefly and gave a description of the main part of the present in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History anatomical specimens.
Works (selection)
- Report on Smyrna. London 1856 ( online).
- Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy. Oxford 1870 ( online).
- Scientific Papers and Addresses. 2 volumes, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1884 ( Volume 1, Volume 2).
- The Modifications of the external aspects of organic nature produced by man's interference a lecture delivered at the evening meeting of the Royal Geographic Society, May 12th, in 1879. William Clowes, London 1880
Journal articles
- On the Affinities of the Brain of the Orang utang. In: Natural History Review. Volume 1, April 1861, pp. 201-217. Online.
- On the Domestic Cats, Felis domesticus and Mustela Foina, of Ancient and Modern Times. In: Journal of Anatomy and Physiology. Volume 2, No. 1, 1868, pp. 47-61. PMC 1318585 (Free full text ).
- On the domestic pig of prehistoric times in Britain and on the mutual relations of this variety of pig Sus scrofa ferus and, Sus cristatus, Sus andamanensis, and Sus barbatus. In: Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology. Series 2, Volume 1, London 1879, pp. 251-286.