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Authorised form of nameClark; Sir; James (1788 - 1870)
Dates1788 - 1870
NationalityBritish
Place of birthCullen, Banffshire, Scotland
Date of birth14 December 1788
Place of deathBagshot Park
Date of death29 June 1870
OccupationPhysician
ActivityEducation:
Aberdeen University; MD ( Edinburgh, 1817); Hon MA (King's College, Aberdeen, 1848)
Career:
Worked in a lawyer's office, then studied medicine at Edinburgh; Surgeon, Royal Navy
Honours:
Bt 1837; KCB 1866
Memberships:
MRCS Edinburgh (1807); LRCP
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election09/06/1832
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1870-1871 vol 19 pp xiii-xix
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/54902370
CodeNA7543
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1832/18Clark, Sir James: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MC/6/125Letter from Ja [James] Clark, Bagshot Park, Surrey, to [William] Sharpey, [Secretary of the Royal Society]8 February 1861
MC/6/74Letter from Henry Cole, Science and Art Department, South Kensington, London, to Sir James Clark28 April 1860
MS/426/691Copy letter from W [William] Sharpey, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Henry Cole Esq12 May 1860
MC/6Volume 6 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1859-1863
PT/37/4Paper, 'Researches regarding the molecular constitution of the volatile organic bases' by A W [August Wilhelm von] Hofmann[1849]
AP/32/1Unpublished paper, 'On the physiology and pathology of phosphate and oxalate of lime, and their relation to the formation of cells' by William Beneke1850
AP/32/1/1Unpublished manuscript, 'On the physiology and pathology of phosphate and oxalate of lime, and their relation to the formation of cells' by William Beneke1850
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