Authorised form of name | Cunningham; David Douglas (1843 - 1914) |
Dates | 1843 - 1914 |
Place of birth | Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland |
Date of birth | 29 September 1843 |
Date of death | 31/12/1914 |
Activity | Education: Edinburgh University. MB; CM (1867) Career: Entered the Indian Army (1868); studied mycology on the Continent; went to India and worked on tropical diseases, especially cholera; Professor of Physiology, Medical College, Calcutta (1879); set up a laboratory in the Calcutta Presidency General Hospital; Surgeon Major, Bengal Medical Service (by 1888); Honorary Surgeon to the Viceroy of India; Fellow of the University of Calcutta; resigned due to ill health Honours: CIE 1893 Memberships: FLS
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Membership category | Fellow |
Date of election | 06/06/1889 |
Relationships | Son of Rev W B Cunningham, minister of Prestonpans, and his wife the daughter of David Douglas of Reston |
Sources | Sources: Bulloch's Roll Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc Series B 1915-1917 vol 89 pp xv-xx signed by D P References: R W Home, 'The Royal Society and the Empire: the colonial and Commonwealth Fellowship. Part 2. After 1847' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 47-84 |
Royal Society code | NA6158 |
Reference number | Title | Date |
IM/Maull/001018 | Cunningham, David Douglas | nd |
NLB/3/429 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor David Douglas Cunningham, Fellow of the Royal Society, the Medical College, Calcutta | 7 June 1889 |
NLB/3/693 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor David Douglas Cunningham, Fellow of the Royal Society, 9 London Street, Calcutta | 17 September 1889 |
NLB/17/105 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 19 July 1898 |
NLB/16/57 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to W T Thiselton-Dyer, Fellow of the Royal Society | 21 January 1898 |
RR/9/132 | Letter from David Douglas Cunningham, on his paper 'On the relations of particular structural features' to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 4 July 1883 |
NLB/35/710 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Joseph Larmor, Secretary, Royal Society | 9 July 1907 |
RR/9/131 | Referee's report by Francis Darwin, on a paper 'On the relations of particular structural features' by David Douglas Cunningham | 1883 |
RR/9/133 | Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the relations of particular structural features' to David Douglas Cunningham | 7 July 1883 |
EC/1889/08 | Cunningham, David Douglas: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
NLB/28/124 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Augustus Edward Hough Love, Fellow of the Royal Society | 13 January 1904 |
RR/13/310 | Referee's report by David Douglas Cunningham, on a paper 'An investigation on the variability of the human skeleton: with especial reference to the Naqada race discovered by Professor Flinders Petrie in his explorations in Egypt' by Ernest Warren | 20 June 1897 |
MC/30/156 | Letter from [David] Prain, Royal Gardens, Kew, Surrey, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, The Assistant Secretary, The Royal Society, Burlington House | 31 December 1915 |