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Authorised form of nameCushny; Arthur Robertson (1866 - 1926)
Dates1866 - 1926
NationalityBritish
Place of birthSpeymouth, near Fochabers, Morayshire, Scotland
Date of birth06 March 1866
Place of deathEdinburgh
Date of death25/02/1926
Research fieldPharmacology
Physiology
ActivityEducation:
MD; MA
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election02/05/1907
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1926 vol 100 pp xix-xxvii, plate, signed by H H D
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/54542475
CodeNA773
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1907/10Cushny, Arthur Robertson: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CMB/53/7Report, Professor Cushny's work on Surra and NganaApril 1908
HD/25/9Draft of obituary for A R Cushny by Henry Dale1926
CMB/53Tropical Diseases Subcommittee on Sleeping Sickness and Kala AzarDecember 1907 - May 1925
NLB/35/463Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons4 June 1907
NLB/37/61Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr J D Thomson, Lister Institute17 January 1908
NLB/39/226Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor A [Arthur] R [Robertson] Cushny, Fellow of the Royal Society14 December 1908
NLB/39/253Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor A [Arthur] R [Robertson] Cushny, Fellow of the Royal Society16 December 1908
NLB/39/295Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor A R Cushny, Fellow of the Royal Society22 December 1908
NLB/41/83Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Arthur Robertson Cushny, Fellow of the Royal Society9 October 1909
NLB/43/422Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Arthur Robertson Cushny, Fellow of the Royal Society10 January 1911
NLB/41/574Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Arthur Robertson Cushny, Fellow of the Royal Society17 January 1910
NLB/46/57Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Arthur Robertson Cushny, Fellow of the Royal Society4 June 1912
NLB/55/784Copy letter from [William Bate] Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Professor [Arthur Robertson] Cushny, FRS24 September 1918
NLB/45/125Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor A [Arthur] R [Robertson] Cushny FRS3 January 1912
NLB/45/205Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor A [Arthur] R [Robertson] Cushny FRS19 January 1912
NLB/46/759Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Arthur Robertson Cushny, Fellow of the Royal Society30 October 1912
NLB/46/394Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Arthur Robertson Cushny, Fellow of the Royal Society24 July 1912
NLB/46/309Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Arthur Cushny, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Physiology Sectional Committee9 July 1912
NLB/45/813Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor A [Arthur] R [Robertson] Chushny FRS, Chairman of the Phyiology Sectional Committee14 May 1912
NLB/46/641Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Arthur Robertson Cushny, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Physiology Sectional Committee 8 October 1912
NLB/46/600Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Arthur Robertson Cushny, Fellow of the Royal Society2 October 1912
NLB/46/595Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Arthur Robertson Cushny, Fellow of the Royal Society1 October 1912
NLB/45/816Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor A [Arthur] R [Robertson] Cushny FRS, Chairman of the Physiology Sectional Committee15 May 1912
NLB/47/459Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor A [Arthur] R [Robertson] Cushny FRS3 February 1913
NLB/54/33Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur Robertson] Cushny, FRS26 January 1917
RR/18/92Referee's report by Arthur Robertson Cushny, on a paper 'The effect of some local anaesthetics on nerve' by Victor Herbert Veley and W L Symes1910
RR/23/18Referee's report by Arthur Harden, on a paper 'On the action of cobra venom - Parts I and II' by Arthur Robertson Cushny and S Yagi1916
RR/27/84Referee's report by Arthur Roberston Cushny, on a paper 'Studies on internal secretion. I - The effect of pituitary (anterior lobe) injection upon normal and thyroidectomised axolotls' by Lancelot Thomas HogbenOctober 1922
RR/23/19Referee's report by Henry Hallet Dale, on a paper 'On the action of cobra venom - Parts I and II' by Arthur Robertson Cushny and S YagiMarch 1916
NLB/54/511Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur Robertson] Cushny, FRS 7 June 1917
RR/25/28Referee's report by Arthur Robertson Cushny, on a paper 'The mechanism and control of fibrillation in the mammalian heart' by John Alexander MacWilliam[1918]
NLB/54/147Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur Robertson] Cushny19 February 1917
RR/27/85Referee's report by Arthur Roberston Cushny, on a paper 'The pigmentary effector system. I - Reaction of frog's melanophores to pituitary extracts' by Lancelot Thomas Hogben and Frank R WintonFebruary 1922
NLB/53/397Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur Robertson] Cushny, FRS28 July 1916
RR/27/61Referee's report by Arthur Robertson Cushny, on a paper 'The sympathetic innervation of the vagina' by J A Gunn and J FranklinAugust 1922
RR/27/50Referee's report by Arthur Robertson Cushny, on a paper 'The defensive spines of fishes, living and fossil, and the glandular structure in connection therewith, with observations on the nature of fish venoms' by H Muir EvansMay 1922
NLB/56/70Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur Robertson] Cushny, Chairman of the Physiology Committee and FRS14 November 1918
NLB/56/184Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur Robertson] Cushny, Chairman of the Physiology Committee and FRS9 December 1918
RR/29/3Referee's report by Arthur Robertson Cushny, on a paper 'The pigmentary effector system. III.—Colour response in the hypophysectomised frog' by Lancelot Thomas Hogben and Frank R WintonFebruary 1923
RR/32/53Referee's report by Arthur Robertson Cushny, on a paper 'Hydrolysis of phosphoric esters by the kidney in vivo' by F Eicholtz, Robert Robison and L Brull1925
RR/32/31Referee's report by Arthur Robertson Cushny, on a paper 'The secretion of inorganic phosphate by the kidney II. Influence of the pituitary gland and of the wall of the third ventricle' by L Brull and F Eichholtz1925
RR/32/30Referee's report by Arthur Robertson Cushny, on a paper 'The effects of calcium and potassium ions on urine secretion, as studied in the whole animal' by L Brull and F Eichholtz1925
NLB/55/108Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur Robertson] Cushney, Chairman of the Physiology War (Sectional) Committee and FRS07 December 1917
NLB/66/567Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; Sir John Rose Bradford, K.C.M.G FRS30 May 1924
NLB/55/264Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, FRS07 February 1918
NLB/55/195Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur Robertson] Cushny, Chairman of the Physiology Committee and FRS09 January 1918
CD/53/3Letter from Arthur [Robertson] Cushny, Pharmacological Laboratory, University of Edinburgh, to William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society7 February 1921
RR/21/150Referee's report by Arthur Robertson Cushny, on a paper 'The influence of salt-concentration on haemolysis' by William Whiteman Carlton Topley[December 1914]
NLB/60/422Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor Arthur [Robertson] Cushny, FRS3 February 1921
RR/22/72Referee's report by Arthur Robertson Cushny, on a paper 'The spread of the excitatory process in the vertebrate heart. Parts I-V' by Thomas LewisJuly 1915
RR/27/86Referee's report by Arthur Roberston Cushny, on a paper 'The pigmentary effector system . II' by Lancelot Thomas Hogben and Frank R WintonAugust 1922
NLB/57/162Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr Jean Dufrenoy; Laboratoire de Biologie des Thermes, Bareges, Hautes Pyranees, France31 July 1919
NLB/57/722Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor AR [Arthur Robertson] Cushny, FRS28 January 1920
NLB/57/29Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to AR [Arthur Robertson] Cushny, FRS 4 July 1919
NLB/55/557Copy letter from [William Bate] Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to [Professor Arthur Roberston] Cushny, FRS10 June 1918
NLB/55/627Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Professor Arthur Robertson] Cushny, Chairman of the Physiology Committee and FRS02 July 1918
NLB/55/688Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Professor Arthur Robertson] Cushny, FRS19 July 1918
NLB/57/840Copy letter from Sir William Bate Hardy, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr SF [Sidney Frederic] Harmer, FRS20 February 1920
NLB/57/824Copy letter from Sir William Bate Hardy, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor A [Sir Arthur] Keith, FRS13 February 1920
NLB/69/542Copy letter from [Henry Hallet Dale,] Secretary of the Royal Society; to Mrs. Cushny3 June 1926
RR/30/43Referee's report by Arthur Robertson Cushny, on a paper 'The poison gland of trygon.—Supplementary note' by H Muir Evans[June 1924]
NLB/66/179Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof, [Arthur Robertson] Cushny, FRS8 March 1924
NLB/66/116Copy letter from [William Bate Hardy], Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Arthur Robertson] Cushy, FRS.23 February 1924
NLB/67/743Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur Robertson] Cushny, FRS25 February 1925
NLB/66/612Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John Rose Bradford, K.C.M.G FRS6 June 1924
NLB/67/687Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur Robertson] Cushny, FRS14 February 1925
NLB/69/418Copy letter from Sir Ernest Rutherford, President of the Royal Society; to Mrs. Cushny25 March 1926
CD/52/24Letter from Arthur [Robertson] Cushny, Pharmacological Laboratory, University of Edinburgh, to [Arthur] Keith, Royal College of Surgeons of England, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.2.22 April 1920
RR/22/74Referee's report by Arthur Robertson Cushny, on a paper 'The spread of the excitatory process in the vertebrate heart. Parts I-V' by Thomas LewisOctober 1915
RR/18/91Referee's report by Arthur Robertson Cushny, on a paper 'Certain physical and physiological properties of stovaine and its homologues' by Victor Herbert Veley and W L SymesDecember 1910
NLB/56New Letter Book volume 56, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration1 November 1918-27 June 1919
IM/Maull/001027Cushny, Arthur Robertsonnd
NLB/45/528Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor A [Arthur] R [Robertson] Cushny FRS, Chairman of the Physiology Sectional Committee22 March 1912
NLB/57New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration27 June 1919-27 February 1920
RR/21/107Referee's report by Arthur Robertson Cushny, on a paper 'The excitatory process in the dog's heart. Part II.- The ventricles' by Thomas Lewis and M A Rothschild[January 1915]
RR/26/67Referee's report by Arthur Robertson Cushny, on a paper 'Experiments on Amphibian metamorphosis and pigment responses in relation to internal secretions' by Julian Sorell Huxley and Lancelot Thomas Hogben[October 1921]
RR/31/65Referee's report by Arthur Robertson Cushny, on a paper 'The secretion of urine as studied on the isolated kidney' by Ernest Henry Starling and Ernest Basil Verney[October 1924]
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