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Authorised form of nameLea; Arthur Sheridan (1853 - 1915)
Dates1853 - 1915
Place of birthNew York, United States
Date of birth01 December 1853
Date of death23/03/1915
Research fieldChemical physiology
ActivityEducation:
Trinity College, Cambridge. MA (1879) DSc (1886)
Career:
His family had lived for some time in America when he was born, then returned to England; Lecturer in Physiology, Cambridge; Assistant Tutor, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; suffered from a progressive spinal disease
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election05/06/1890
RelationshipsSon of J Lea
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1915-1917 vol 89 pp xxv-xxvii signed by J N L
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/12095797
Royal Society codeNA2871
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
EC/1890/07Lea, Arthur Sheridan: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/6/785Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Arthur Sheridan Lea, Fellow of the Royal Society13 July 1892
NLB/6/764Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Arthur Sheridan Lea, Fellow of the Royal Society9 July 1892
NLB/6/800Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Arthur Sheridan Lea, Fellow of the Royal Society15 July 1892
NLB/8/731Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Arthur Sheridan Lea, Fellow of the Royal Society15 December 1893
NLB/8/992Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Arthur Sheridan Lea, Fellow of the Royal Society6 February 1894
NLB/8/976Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Arthur Sheridan Lea, [Fellow of the Royal Society]2 February 1894
NLB/13/111Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Arthur Sheridan Lea, Fellow of the Royal Society16 June 1896
NLB/13/112Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, Fellow of the Royal Society15 June 1896
NLB/17/307Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, Fellow of the Royal Society6 October 1898
NLB/21/45Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Arthur Sheridan Lea, Fellow of the Royal Society20 July 1900
NLB/21/208Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Arthur Sheridan Lea, Fellow of the Royal Society, Sunnyside, Sidcup, Kent27 September 1900
NLB/21/667Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Arthur Sheridan Lea, Fellow of the Royal Society7 January 1901
NLB/46/564Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Arthur Sheridan] Lea, Fellow of the Royal Society25 September 1912
RR/13/24Referee's report by Arthur Sheridan Lea, on an unknown paper by Guezda14 June 1896
RR/11/58Referee's report by Arthur Sheridan Lea, on a paper 'The influence of oxygen on the formation of ptomaines' by William Hunter1891
RR/14/51Referee's report by Arthur Sheridan Lea, on a paper 'The influence of removal of the large intestine and increasing quantities of fat in the diet on general metabolism in dogs' by Vaughan Harleynd [September 1898]
RR/11/243Referee's report by Arthur Sheridan Lea, on a paper 'On the coloration of the skins of fishes, especially of pleuronectidae' by J T Cunningham and C A MacMunn19 April 1893
NLB/8/428Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Arthur Sheridan Lea, Fellow of the Royal Society24 October 1893
NLB/8/432Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Arthur Sheridan Lea, Fellow of the Royal Society25 October 1893
RR/11/244Letter from Arthur Sheridan Lea, on a paper 'On the coloration of the skins of fishes, especially of pleuronectidae' by J T Cunningham and C A MacMunn to the Secretary of the Royal Society14 May 1893
RR/13/186Referee's report by Arthur Sheridan Lea on a paper 'On the action of light on diastase, and its biological significance' by Joseph Reynolds Green3 March 1897
NLB/8/350Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Arthur Sheridan Lea5 October 1893
RR/11/62Referee's report by Arthur Sheridan Lea, on a paper 'On the bases (organic) in the juice of flesh. Part I' by George Stillingfleet Johnson1891
RR/11/19Referee's report by Arthur Sheridan Lea, on a paper 'Contributions to the study of the connection between chemical constitution and physiological action.—Part II' by Thomas Lauder Brunton and John Theodore Cash13 April 1891
RR/12/119Referee's report by Arthur Sheridan Lea, on a paper 'Researches on the germination of the pollen grain and the nutrition of the pollen tube' by Joseph Reynolds Green18 February 1894
RR/11/254Referee's report by Arthur Sheridan Lea, on a paper 'On the presence of urea in the blood of birds, and its bearing upon the formation of uric acid in the animal body' by Alfred Baring Garrod24 May 1893
PP/15/15Paper, 'A comparative study of natural and artificial digestions. (Preliminary account)' by A [Arthur] Sheridan Lea1890
MC/14/209Letter from Walter Holbrook Gaskell, Grantchester, Cambridge, to the Royal Society2 May 1887
MC/14Volume 14 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1885-1888
MC/28/174Letter from [Arthur] Sheridan Lea, Sunnyside, Sidcup, Kent, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]11 August 1913
MC/30/109Letter from [John Newport] Langley, Journal of Physiology, Hedgerley Lodge, Madingley Road, Cambridge, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, The Assistant Secretary, Royal Society27 April 1915
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