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Authorised form of nameMivart; St George Jackson (1827 - 1900)
Dates1827 - 1900
NationalityBritish
Place of birthLondon, England
Date of birth30 November 1827
Place of deathHis residence, 77 Inverness Terrace, London
Date of death01/04/1900
OccupationBarrister
Research fieldBiology
Natural history
ActivityEducation:
PhD (1876, received from the Pope); MD (1884, University of Louvain)
Career:
Lecturer, later Professor, of Comparative Anatomy, St Mary's Hospital Medical School, London (1862-1884); President, Biological Section of the British Academy (1879); member of the governing council of the Catholic Union (early 1880s); Professor of the Philosophy of Natural History, University of Louvain (1890-1893); excommunicated for beliefs expressed in magazine articles
Memberships:
MRI (1849); FZS (1858); FLS (1862); Metaphysical Society (1874)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election03/06/1869
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1905 vol 75 pp 95-100 signed by G B H
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/65506201
Royal Society codeNA6350
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
EC/1869/13Mivart, St George Jackson: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/Maull/003129Mivart, St George Jacksonnd
NLB/13/447Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons14 September 1896
NLB/8/994Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons7 February 1894
NLB/15/192Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr St George Jackson Mivart, Fellow of the Royal Society14 July 1897
NLB/15/264Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Jackson Mivart, Fellow of the Royal Society, Inverness Terrace, W.26 July 1897
NLB/15/223Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Jackson Mivart, Fellow of the Royal Society19 July 1897
NLB/18/83Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison], to Professor St George Mivart11 January 1899
NLB/19/146Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor St Georges Mivart, Fellow of the Royal Society29 June 1899
NLB/19/170Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Professor St George Jackson Mivart, [Fellow of the Royal Society][7 July 1899]
NLB/20/362Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons3 April 1900
NLB/20/370Copy telegram from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Michael Foster, [Fellow of the Royal Society][3 April 1900]
NLB/20/592Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Thomas George Bond Howes, Fellow of the Royal Society26 May 1900
RR/6/184Referee's report by George Murray Humphry, on a paper 'On the appendicular skeleton of the primates' by St. George Jackson Mivart18 March 1867
RR/7/184Referee's report by George Jackson Mivart, on a paper 'The myology of the cheiroptera' by Alexander Macalister3 March 1872
RR/6/183Referee's report by William Henry Flower, on a paper 'On the appendicular skeleton of the primates' by St. George Jackson Mivart8 March 1867
NLB/3/916List of corrections in the addresses of Royal Society Fellows8 November 1889
NLB/12/310Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor St George Jackson Mivart, 39 Marine Parade, Worthing27 January 1896
PP/11/26Paper, 'On the possibly dual origin of the mammalia' by St George Jackson Mivart1888
RR/6/307Referee's report by St. George Jackson Mivart, on a paper 'On a group of varieties of the muscles of the human neck, shoulder, and chest, with their transitional forms and homologies in the mammalia' by John Wood10 July 1869
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