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Authorised form of nameMcKendrick; John Gray (1841 - 1926)
Dates1841 - 1926
Place of birthAberdeen, Scotland
Date of birth12 August 1841
Date of death02/01/1926
Research fieldPhysiology
ActivityEducation:
Aberdeen. MD (1864)
Career:
Assistant in Physiology, University of Edinburgh; Professor of Physiology, University of Glasgow (1876); Fullerian Professor of Physiology, Royal Institution, London; retired (1906)
Memberships:
FRSE; FRCP
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election12/06/1884
RelationshipsSon of James McKendrick, merchant
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1926 vol 100 pp xiv-xviii, plate, signed by D N P
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/93863731
CodeNA2966
Archives associated with this Fellow
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IM/Maull/002888McKendrick, John Graynd
MS/377/1/74Postcard from John Gray McKendrick, 2 Buckingham Terrace, Glasgow, to William Fletcher Barrett, Kingstown, Ireland22 March 1906
MS/377/1/75Postcard from John Gray McKendrick, Stonehaven, to [William Fletcher] Barrett, 6 De Vesci Terrace, Kingstown, Co Dublin 1 November 1906
IM/Maull/002887McKendrick, John Graynd
NLB/1/439Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor John Gray McKendrick, Fellow of the Royal Society30 March 1887
NLB/7/399Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons7 February 1893
NLB/8/503Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor John Gray McKendrick, Fellow of the Royal Society, 2 Florentine Gardens, Glasgow6 November 1893
NLB/9/833Copy letter from Professor John Gray McKendrick, Fellow of the Royal Society, Eldergrove, Stonehaven, N.B.17 July 1894
NLB/10/528Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor John Gray McKendrick, Fellow of the Royal Society, Veterinary College, 10 Red Lion Square, E.C.12 December 1894
NLB/10/771Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor John Gray McKendrick, Fellow of the Royal Society, University of Glasgow2 February 1895
NLB/11/246Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor John Gray McKendrick, Fellow of the Royal Society20 May 1895
NLB/12/363Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor John Gray McKendrick, Fellow of the Royal Society6 February 1896
RR/15/184Referee's report by John Gray McKendrick, on a paper 'Observations on the visual purple of the retina' by F W Edridge Green19 November 1901
NLB/14/468Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Gray McKendrick, Fellow of the Royal Society16 March 1897
NLB/16/132Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor J G McKendrick, Fellow of the Royal Society8 February 1898
NLB/20/540Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Abbott Herdman, Fellow of the Royal Society17 May 1900
NLB/21/802Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Gray McKendrick, Fellow of the Royal Society5 February 1901
MC/19/592Letter from John [Gray] McKendrick, Physiological Laboratory, University of Glasgow, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society17 February 1904
NLB/28/349Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Gray McKendrick, Fellow of the Royal Society22 February 1904
NLB/28/351Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Gray McKendrick, Fellow of the Royal Society22 February 1904
NLB/35/721Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Professor John Gray McKendrick, Fellow of the Royal Society9 July 1907
NLB/36/342Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Gray McKendrick, Fellow of the Royal Society, Maxieburn, Stonehaven, N.B.15 October 1907
NLB/39/731Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr A A Gray, 14 Newton Terrace, Glasgow2 March 1909
NLB/39/708Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor J [John] G [Gray] McKendrick, Fellow of the Royal Society26 February 1909
NLB/46/256Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Gray McKendrick, Fellow of the Royal Society1 July 1912
NLB/45/831Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor J [John] G [Gray] McKendrick FRS, Maxieburn, Stonehaven, NB17 May 1912
NLB/46/747Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Gray McKendrick, Fellow of the Royal Society28 October 1912
NLB/50/799Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [John Gray] McKendrick, Fellow of the Royal Society9 November 1914
RR/21/166Referee's report by John Gray McKendrick, on a paper 'On the analysis of sound waves in the cochlea' by T Wrightson[July 1914]
RR/7/324Referee's report by John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, on a paper 'On the physiological action of the chinoline and pyridine bases' by John Gray McKendrick and James Dewar13 December 1874
RR/7/322Referee's report by Thomas Lauder Brunton, on a paper 'On the physiological action of the chinoline and pyridine bases' by John Gray McKendrick and James Dewar30 July 1874
NLB/58/57Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Gray] McKendrick, FRS5 March 1920
RR/10/286Referee's report by John Gray McKendrick, on a paper 'A chemical inquiry into the phenomena of human respiration' by William Marcet25 June 1889
RR/11/59Referee's report by John Gray McKendrick, on a paper 'On the physiology of asphyxia, and on the anæsthetic action of pure nitrogen' by George Johnson1891
RR/11/201Referee's report by John Gray McKendrick, on a paper 'Contributions to the physiology and pathology of the mammalian heart' by Charles Smart Roy and John George Adami30 January 1892
RR/12/203Referee's report by John Gray McKendrick, on a paper 'On hepatic glycogenesis' by Diarmid Noel Paton21 July 1893
NLB/59/440Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor John [Gray] McKendrick, FRS; Maxieburn, Stonehaven4 October 1920
RR/17/111Referee's report by John Gray McKendrick, on a paper 'The impulses of compound waves and their mechanical transmission through the ear' by Sir Thomas Wrightson6 February 1907
NLB/60/794Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor John [Gray] McKendrick, FRS6 April 1921
NLB/55/766Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Gray] McKendrick, FRS12 September 1918
NLB/64/240Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Gray] McKendrick, FRS27 February 1923
NLB/69/695Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Miss Olive Edis, W1124 July 1926
EC/1884/15McKendrick, John Gray: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/5/1224Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor John GrayMcKendrick, Fellow of the Royal Society30 January 1892
RR/15/71Referee's report by John Gray McKendrick, on a paper 'Contributions to the comparative anatomy of the mammalian eye, chiefly based on opthalmoscopic examination' by G Lindsay JohnsonJune 1900
RR/15/127Referee's report by John Gray McKendrick, on a paper 'The retinal current of the frog's eye, excited by light and excited electrically' by Dr Augustus Desire WallerApril 1900
RR/15/130Referee's report by John Gray McKendrick, on a paper 'The 'blaze-currents' of the frog's eyeball' by Augustus Desire WallerJanuary 1901
NLB/20/725Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Abbott Herdman, Fellow of the Royal Society23 June 1900
NLB/20/726Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Dobinson Halliburton, Fellow of the Royal Society23 June 1900
NLB/29/585Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Gray McKendrick, Fellow of the Royal Society9 November 1904
NLB/39/638Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor [David] Ferrier, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Sectional Committee for Physiology19 February 1909
MDA/C/12/1/5Letter from John Gray Mckendrick, University of Glasgow, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society12 February 1895
RR/12/125Referee's report by John Gray McKendrick, on a paper 'On the constitution and mode of formation of "food vacuoles" in infusoria, as illustrated by the history of the processes of digestion in Carchesium polypinum' by Major Greenwood28 December 1893
MC/13/69Letter from John G [Gray] McKendrick, University of Glasgow, to Professor G G [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society17 June 1884
MC/13Volume 13 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1884
AP/71/6Unpublished paper, 'Observations on the analysis of voluntary muscular movements by certain new instruments' by William R Jack1895
AP/71/6/1Unpublished manuscript, 'Observations on the analysis of voluntary muscular movements by certain new instruments' by William R Jack1895
AP/73/10Unpublished paper, 'Some observations on the chemistry of the contents of the alimentary tract under various conditions; and on the influence of the bacteria present in them' by A [Alexander] Lockhart Gillespie1897
RR/7/323Referee's report by George Harley, on a paper 'On the physiological action of the chinoline and pyridine bases' by John Gray McKendrick and James Dewar9 October 1874
RR/11/45Referee's report by John Gray McKendrick, on the Croonian Lecture 'On the mammalian nervous system, its functions, and their localisation determined by an electrical method' by Francis Gotch and Victor Alexander Haden Horsley1891
PP/23/28Paper, 'The refractive character of the eyes of horses' by Frederick Smith20 February 1894
MC/16/280Letter from John [Gray] McKendrick, University of Glasgow, to Professor Michael Foster, Secretary of the Royal Society25 January 1896
MC/16/65Letter from John [Gray] McKendrick, Glasgow, to Professor [Michael] Foster, Secretary of the Royal Society21 October 1893
MC/16Volume 16 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1893-1896
MC/19/593Letter from John [Gray] McKendrick, to Robert [William Frederick] Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society20 February 1904
NLB/28/329Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Gray McKendrick, Fellow of the Royal Society19 February 1904
MC/19Volume 19 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1904
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