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RefNoEC/1898/13
Previous numbersCert XII, 71
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TitleReid, Edward Waymouth: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationProfessor of Physiology, University College, Dundee. Distinguished as a Physiologist, especially in enquiries relating to absorption and secretion, and to electromotive phenomena. Published the following papers on electromotive phenomena: - 'On the Action of the Excised Mammalian Heart' (with Dr Waller) (Phil Trans, Proc Roy Soc, 1887); 'On the Process of Secretion in the Skin of the Common Eel' (ibid, 1893, and Journ Physiol, 1894; 'The Electromotive Properties of the Skin of the Common Eel' (ibid, 1894); 'Electromotive Phenomena of the Iris' (Journ Physiol, 1895). Also papers on osmose, absorption, and secretion in Journ Physiol, 1890, 1893, 1895-1896.
ProposersA D Waller; C S Sherrington; F Gotch; J B Sanderson; J N Langley; A S Lea; F W Mott; F W Pavy; E Klein
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Reid, Edward Waymouth: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA669Reid; Edward Waymouth (1862 - 1948)1862 - 1948
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