| Authorised form of name | Bostock; John (1773 - 1846) |
| Dates | 1773 - 1846 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Liverpool, England |
| Date of birth | 1773 |
| Place of death | London |
| Date of death | 06 August 1846 |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Research field | Medical chemistry |
| Activity | Education:
MD (Edinburgh)
Career:
Settled to practise in Liverpool; moved to London and gave up practice, devoting himself to chemistry and physiology (1817); lecturer on chemistry, Guy's Hospital; published 'An elementary system of physiology' (1824); suffered from hay fever and gave the first detailed account of the condition (828) which is named after him 'Bostock's summer catarrh'; died of cholera
Memberships:
FGS (President 1826)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 02/04/1818 |
| Royal Society activity | Royal Society roles:
VP 1831-1832 |
| Relationships | Son of Dr John Bostock of Liverpool |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1846 No 66 pp 636-638
References:
Ronald Anderson, 'The Referees' Assessment of Faraday's Electromagnetic Induction Paper of 1831' in NR 1993 vol 47 pp 243-256
Douglas McKie, 'Priestley's Laboratory and Library and Other of his Effects' in NR 1956-57 vol 12 pp 114-136 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/77098153 |
| Royal Society code | NA5751 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1817/37 | Bostock, John: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/000453 | Bostock, John | nd |
| IM/000454 | Bostock, John | nd |
| MM/14/27 | An extract from the will of Robert Cappe | 1802 |
| CMB/42/4/1 | Minutes, meeting of the Donation Fund Committee | February 1832 |
| MC/1/356 | Letter from John Bostock and George Rennie, Royal Society Chamber, to Dr. [Peter Mark] Roget, Secretary of the Royal Society | 16 December 1831 |
| RR/1/145 | Referees' report by John Bostock, on a paper 'On the anatomy and physiology of the decidua' by Robert Lee | 11 March 1842 |
| RR/1/196 | Referee's report by John Bostock, on a paper 'On the chemical analysis of the contents of the thoracic duct in the human subject' by George Owen Rees | [c.1842] |
| RR/1/260 | Referee's report by John Bostock, on a paper 'Contributions to the physiology of vision - Part the first. On some remarkable, and hitherto unobserved, phenomena of binocular vision' by Charles Wheatstone | [1838] |
| RR/1/50 | Referee's report by John Bostock, on a paper 'Miscellaneous observations on animal heat' by John Davy | [1844] |
| RR/1/172 | Referee's report by John Bostock, on an unnamed paper by George Newport | 27 June 1837 |
| RR/1/25 | Referee's report by John Bostock on a paper 'Observations on the electro-chemical influence of long-continued electric currents of low tension' by Golding Bird | 16 February 1837 |
| RR/1/62 | Referee's report by Samuel Hunter Christie and John Bostock, on a paper 'Experimental researches in electricity' by Michael Faraday | 5 April 1832 |
| MC/1 | Volume 1 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1800-1831 |
| MC/6/73 | Letter from J Ashton Bostock, 54 Chester Square, to Chas [Charles Richard] Weld, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 25 April 1860 |
| MC/6 | Volume 6 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1859-1863 |
| RR/1/159 | Referee's report by John Bostock, on a paper 'Observations on the relation which exists between the respiratory organs of animals, and the preservation of independent temperatures' by George Macilwain | 5 July 1843 |
| RR/1/11 | Referee's report by John Bostock, on a paper 'On the chorda dorsalis' by Martin Barry | 15 March 1841 |
| RR/1/39 | Referee's report by John Bostock, on a paper 'On the motion of the blood' by James Carson | 17 July 1839 |
| RR/1/208 | Referee's report by John Botstock, on a paper 'Experimental researches in electro-magnetism and magneto-electricity' by William Ritchie | 2 February 1832 |