| Authorised form of name | Hamilton; David James (1849 - 1909) |
| Dates | 1849 - 1909 |
| Date of birth | 06 March 1849 |
| Date of death | 19/02/1909 |
| Activity | Education:
BM
Career:
Professor of Pathology, University of Aberdeen (by 1903)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 07/05/1908 |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1909 vol 81 pp i-v signed by J T C
Notes:
In the Printed List of Candidates 1906-1914 there are two Supplementary Certificates. The first with the following citation:
Amongst later contributions bearing on the study of causation and prevention of certain communicable diseases, the following may be mentioned: - 'On Braxy' (Trans Highland and Agric Soc, 1902); 'The Relationship of Human Tuberculosis to that of Bovines' (ibid, 1903). The proposers are: C Niven; F R Japp; J W H Trail; C S Sherrington; D J Cunningham; [John Burdon Sanderson].
The second has the following citation:
In the year 1901, the Board of Agriculture appointed Prof Hamilton chairman of a Department Committee to investigate the disease known popularly as Louping-ill (chorea paralytica ovis) and Braxy (morbus subitarius ovis). The Report of the Committee was issused in June of the past year, 1906 and contains a fine exposition by Prof Hamilton of the Pathology of these and allied diseaes, showing them to be due to a class of pathogenic anaerobes previously almost unknown. A method of prevention has also been discovered by him which in practice has reduced the tremendous mortality from these diseases to a level commensurate with profitable sheep farming. The proposers are: J W H Trail; F R Japp; William Turner; C S Sherrington; J T Cash; J G McKendrick; James Dewar |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/285060694 |
| Royal Society code | NA3559 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1908/10 | Hamilton, David James: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| EC/1908/09 | Hamilton, David James: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| PP/4/31 | Paper, 'On the structure and functional significance of the human corpus callosum' by D J [David James] Hamilton | 1884 |
| NLB/8/355 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor David James Hamilton, 4 Forest Road, Aberdeen | 7 October 1893 |
| NLB/8/354 | Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 7 October 1893 |
| NLB/37/871 | Copy Letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to W [William] Barlow, Fellow of the Royal Society | 26 May 1908 |
| NLB/39/750 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor J [John] T [Theodore] Cash, Fellow of the Royal Society | 5 March 1909 |
| NLB/40/653 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor J [John] T [Theodore] Cash FRS | 14 July 1909 |
| RR/9/210 | Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'On the cortical connexions of the optic nerves' by David James Hamilton | 27 May 1884 |
| RR/9/209 | Referee's report by Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, on a paper 'On the cortical connexions of the optic nerves' by David James Hamilton | 15 July 1884 |
| MC/13/85 | Letter from J N [John Newport] Langley, Trinity College, Cambridge, to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 11 August 1884 |
| NLB/3/75 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Michael Foster | 5 March 1889 |
| EC/1908/11 | Hamilton, David James: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/9/211 | Referee's report by Michael Foster, on a paper 'On the cortical connexions of the optic nerves' by David James Hamilton | 1884 |
| AP/63/3 | Unpublished paper, 'On the structure and functions of the human corpus callosum' by D J [David James] Hamilton | 1884 |
| MC/13 | Volume 13 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1884 |
| RR/9/213 | Second referee's report by Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, on a paper 'On the structure and functional significance of the human Corpus callosum' by David James Hamilton | 30 July 1884 |
| RR/9/212 | Referee's report by Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, on a paper 'On the structure and functional significance of the human Corpus callosum' by David James Hamilton | 15 May 1884 |
| RR/9/214 | Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'On the structure and functional significance of the human Corpus callosum' by David James Hamilton | 27 August 1884 |
| AP/63/4 | Unpublished paper, 'On the cortical connections of the optic nerves' by D J [David James] Hamilton | 1884 |