| Authorised form of name | Smith; James Lorrain (1862 - 1931); pathologist |
| Dates | 1862 - 1931 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Half-morton, Dumfriesshire, Scotland |
| Date of birth | 02 August 1862 |
| Place of death | Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Date of death | 18/04/1931 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Cremation: Warriston Crematorium, Ediburgh, Scotland. |
| Occupation | pathologist |
| Research field | Physiology |
| Pathology |
| Activity | Education:
George Watson's College in Edinburgh; University of Edinburgh MA; MD
Career:
Following his medical qualifications worked at Oxford, Cambridge, Strasbourg, and Copenhagen, on physiological problems in association with John Scott Haldane (FRS 1897); lecturer and later professor of pathology in Belfast; combined pathology and bacteriology chair in Manchester (1904); first professor of pathology, Edinburgh (1912).
Memberships:
Harveian Society of Edinburgh (1913)
RSE |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 06/05/1909 |
| Age at election | 47 |
| Proposer | William Turner; Johnson Symington; John Scott Haldane; Francis Gotch; Charles James Martin; Frederick Walker Mott; Ernest HenryStarling; William Dobinson Halliburton; Leonard Hill; Frederick William Pavy |
| Relationships | Parents: Rev. Walter Smith, of Half-morton, Dumfriesshire.
Siblings: Annie Lorrain Smith, mycologist; Walter Smith, professor of philosophy at Lake Forest College, Illinois; William George Smith, lecturer in psychology.
Spouse: Isabella Edmond (1895). |
| OtherInfo | Studies the transport of oxygen by the blood; the pulmonary condition due to excess oxygen; suggested using charcoal in gas masks; helped introduce the antiseptic "Eusol". |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; B., A. Prof. J. Lorrain Smith, F.R.S. Nature 127, 787 (1931) [URL: https://doi.org/10.1038/127787a0; last accessed 15/05/2024]
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1932 vol 109 pp iv-ix signed by J S H and R M |
| Code | NA1437 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| NLB/46/187 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor James Lorrain Smith, Fellow of the Royal Society | 22 June 1912 |
| NLB/46/586 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor James Lorrain Smith, Fellow of the Royal Society | 28 September 1912 |
| NLB/58/171 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [James] Lorrain Smith, FRS | 22 March 1920 |
| NLB/52/255 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor James Lorrain Smith, FRS | 26 October 1915 |
| RR/23/11 | Referee's report by James Lorrain Smith, on a paper 'An investigation into the periodicity of measles epidemics in London from 1703 to the present day by the method of the periodogram' by John Brownlee | December 1916 |
| NLB/58/336 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [James] Lorrain Smith, FRS | 22 April 1920 |
| NLB/58/445 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [James] Lorrain Smith, FRS | 6 May 1920 |
| NLB/57/256 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to unknown correspondent | 30 September 1919 |
| NLB/70/475 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary of the Medical Research Council; 15 York Buildings, Adelphi, W.C.2. | 13 April 1927 |
| EC/1909/21 | Smith, James Lorrain: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/52 | New Letter Book volume 52, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration | 9 July 1915-8 March 1916 |
| RR/36/77 | Referee's report by Arthur Edwin Boycott, on a paper 'The distribution of lymphatics defined by fatly acid compounds developed in the autolysis of their contents' by James Lorrain Smith and Theodore Rettie | 1 July 1927 |
| MC/27/325 | Letter from [Grafton] Elliot Smith, The University, Manchester, to The Assistant [Secretary], Royal Society | 11 October 1912 |