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Authorised form of nameYeo; Gerald Francis (1845 - 1909)
Dates1845 - 1909
NationalityBritish
Place of birthDublin, Ireland
Date of birth19 January 1845
Place of deathAustin's Close, Harbertonford, Devon
Date of death01/05/1909
OccupationSurgeon
ActivityEducation:
Trinity College, Dublin. MB, MCH (1867), MD (1871); Berlin, Vienna, Paris
Career:
Taught Physiology, Carmichael School of Medicine; Professor of Physiology, King's College, London (1875-1890); Assistant Surgeon, King's College, London (1877); filled his retirement with yachting, fishing and gardening
Memberships:
FRCS (1878)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election06/06/1889
RelationshipsSon of Henry Yeo of Ceanchor, Howth
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
References:
Neil Morgan, 'William Dobinson Halliburton, FRS (1860-1931). Pioneer of British Biochemistry?' in NR 1983-84 vol 38 pp 129-145
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/47543834
CodeNA8098
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1889/17Yeo, Gerald Francis: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/2/263Copy letter from Michael Foster, to John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society15 March 1888
NLB/3/1072Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Gerald Francis Yeo, Fellow of the Royal Society4 January 1890
NLB/10/828Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Gerald Francis Yeo, Fellow of the Royal Society13 February 1895
NLB/10/869Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Dr Charles Scott Sherrington, Fellow of the Royal Society22 February 1895
NLB/11/983Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons[November 1895]
NLB/40/242Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Messrs Harrison & Sons5 May 1909
RR/10/378Referee's report by Gerald Francis Yeo, on a paper 'An experimental investigation of the central motor innervation of the larynx' by Felix Semon and Victor Alexander Haden Horsley9 July 1890
RR/10/380Referee's report by Gerald Francis Yeo, on a paper 'On out-lying nerve-cells in the mammalian spinal-cord' by Charles Scott Sherrington25 February 1890
RR/10/377Referee's report by Gerald Francis Yeo, on a paper 'On the positon of the vocal cords in quiet respiration in man and on the reflex-tounus of their abductor muscles' by Felix Semon25 June 1890
RR/12/341Referee's report by Gerald Francis Yeo, on a paper 'On the analysis of voluntary muscular movements by certain new instruments' by William R Jack14 February 1895
NLB/3/1063Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to [John William Strutt] the Lord Rayleigh, [Royal Society]3 January 1890
RR/8/355Referee's report by Arthur Gamgee, on a paper 'The effects of certain modifying influences on the latent period of muscle contraction' by Gerald Francis Yeo and John Theodore CashNovember 1881
RR/12/36Referee's report by Gerald Francis Yeo, on a paper 'Experiments in examination of the peripheral distribution of the fibres of the posterior roots of some spinal nerves' by Charles Scott Sherrington29 December 1892
RR/12/29Referee's report by Gerald Francis Yeo, on a paper 'An experimental investigation of the nerve roots which enter into the formation of the lumbo-sacral plexus of Macacus rhesus' by J S Risien Russell6 June 1893
RR/10/322Referee's report by Gerald Francis Yeo, on a paper 'On the course of the fibres of the cingulum and the posterior parts of the corpus callosum and fornix in the marmoset monkey' by Charles E Beevor8 August 1890
RR/10/288Referee's report by Gerald Francis Yeo, on a paper 'Observations on the secretion of bile in a case of biliary fistula' by Arthur William Mayo-Robson9 January 1890
NLB/3/1056Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr John Ambrose Fleming, 9 Clifton Gardens, Maida Hill, W.1 January 1890
PP/3/27Paper, 'On the variations of latency in certain skeletal muscles of some different animals' by John Theodore Cash and Gerald Francis Yeo1883
PP/1/41/2Supporting data, experimental results by Gerald F [Francis] Yeo and J [John] Theodore Cash1882
PP/18/18Paper, 'Note on the audibility of single sound waves, and the number of vibrations necessary to produce a tone' by E F [Edward Felix] Herroun and Gerald Francis Yeo1891
PP/1/41Paper, 'The effects of certain modifying influences on the latent period of muscle contraction' by Gerald F [Francis] Yeo and J [John] Theodore Cash1882
RR/10/326Referee's report by Gerald Francis Yeo, on a paper 'A record of the results obtained, by electrical excitation of the so-called motor cortex and internal capsule in an orang-outang (Simia satyrus)' by Charles E Beevor and Victor Alexander Haden Horsley11 July 1890
RR/12/25Referee's report by Gerald Francis Yeo, on a paper 'The process of secretion in the skin of the common eel' by Edward Waymouth Reid12 July 1893
RR/9/5Referee's report by William Rutherford, on five papers 'On the effect of electrical stimulation of the frog’s heart, and its modification by cold, heat, and the action of drugs', 'On the action of alkaline and acid on muscle', 'On the action of ammonia and its salts, and of hydrocyanic acid upon muscle and nerve' and 'On absorption of gas by the intestines' [np] by Thomas Lauder Brunton and John Theodore Cash; 'The effects of certain modifying influences on the latent period of muscle contraction' by Gerald Francis Yeo and John Theodore Cash4 February 1882
MC/14/304Letter from [John Newport] Langley, Trinity College, Cambridge, to the Secretary of the Royal Society3 March 1888
PP/1/41/1Manuscript, 'The effects of certain modifying influences on the latent period of muscle contraction' by Gerald F [Francis] Yeo and J [John] Theodore Cash1882
MC/14Volume 14 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1885-1888
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