| RefNo | EC/1892/15 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XI, 225 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Herdman, Sir William Abbott: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Citation | Professor of Natural History in University College, Liverpool. Distinguished as a Zoologist, and especially for researches into the structure and relations of the Tunicata. Author of the following, amongst other papers: - 'Report on the Tunicata of the 'Challenger' Expedition.' Parts I, II, III ('Challenger' Rept Zool, vol vi, 1882; vol xiv, 1886; vol xxvii, 1888); 'On the Invertebrate Fauna of Lamlash Bay' (Roy Phys Soc Edin Proc, vol v, 1879, and vol vi, 1880); 'On the Olfactory Tubercle, &c, in simple Ascidians' (ibid, 1881); 'On Individual Variations in the Branchial Sac of Ascidians' (Linn Soc Journ , vol xv, 1881); 'The Hypophysis Cerebri in Tunicata and Vertebrata' (Roy Soc Edin Proc, 1883); 'Report on the Tunicata of the 'Triton' Expedition' (Roy Soc Edin Trans, vol xxxii, 1883); 'Report on the Tunicata of the 'Lightning' and 'Porcupine' Expeditions' (ibid, 1884); 'On the Phylogeny of the Tunicata' (Roy Soc Edin Proc,1885-1886); 'On the Structure of Sarcodictyon' (Roy Phys Soc Edin, 1884); 'On the Structure and Functions of the Cerata of Dorsal Papillae in some Nudibranchiate Mollusca' (Quart Journ Micros Sci, 1890); and of important Reports on the Fauna of Liverpool Bay, 1886-1890. |
| Proposers | From Personal Knowledge: A Milnes Marshall; P Herbert Carpenter; W H Flower; A Gunther; Isaac Roberts; Thomas H Huxley; Wm Turner; R H Traquair; A Sedgwick; W C McIntosh; W H Dallinger; E B Poulton; Isaac Bayley Balfour |
| Extent | 1 sheet |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA6570 | Herdman; Sir; William Abbott (1858 - 1924) | 1858 - 1924 |