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Authorised form of nameGoodsir; John (1814 - 1867)
Dates1814 - 1867
NationalityBritish
Place of birthAnstruther, Fife, Scotland
Date of birth14 or 20 March 1814
Place of deathSouth Cottage, Wardie, near Edinburgh
Date of death06 March 1867
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
The Dean cemetery, Edinburgh
OccupationSurgeon
Research fieldAnatomy
Marine zoology
ActivityCareer:
Demonstrator of Anatomy, University of Edinburgh
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election11/06/1846
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1867-1868 vol 16 pp xiv-xvi
Notes:
Boase gives birth date as 14 March 1814
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/792748
CodeNA7649
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1846/23Goodsir, John: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/3/181Referee's report by John Goodsir, on a paper 'On the early stages of inflammations' by Joseph Lister 4 October 1857
RR/3/180Letter from John Goodsir, on a paper 'On the early stages of inflammations' by Joseph Lister 4 October 1857
MS/426/272Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to J [John] Goodsir Esq2 April 1847
PT/70/11/5Plate, ventricles of hearts of sheep, heifers, elk, and deer by [Edwin M Williams][1863]
RR/1/78Referee's report by unknown referee, on a paper 'On the supra-renal, thymus and thyroid bodies' by John Goodsir9 November 1846
PT/31/9Paper, 'On the supra-renal, thymus, and thyroid bodies' by John Goodsir28 May 1845
PT/70/11/4Plate, ventricles of hearts of sheep, swans, turkeys, emus, dugongs, heifers, and humans by [Edwin M Williams][1863]
PT/70/11/1Manuscript, 'On the arrangement of the muscular fibres of the ventricular portion of the vertebrate heart, with physiological remarks' by James [Bell] Pettigrew[1863]
PT/70/11/2Plate, left ventricles of hearts of sheep, deer, heifers, and humans by [Edwin M Williams][1863]
PT/70/11/3Plate, ventricles of sheep heart by [Edwin M Williams][1863]
PT/70/11/6Plate, dissected sheep's heart and diagrams of muscular fibres by [Edwin M Williams][1863]
PT/70/11Paper, 'On the arrangement of the muscular fibres of the ventricular portion of the vertebrate heart, with physiological remarks' by James [Bell] Pettigrew[1863]
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