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GEORGE JAMES ALLMAN (1812-1898)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 698 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE See also:JAMES See also:ALLMAN (1812-1898)  , See also:British biologist, was See also:born in See also:Cork, See also:Ireland, in 1812, and received his See also:early See also:education at the Royal Academical Institution, See also:Belfast . For some See also:time he studied for the Irish See also:bar, but ultimately gave up See also:law in favour of natural See also:science . In 1843 he graduated in See also:medicine at See also:Dublin, and in the following See also:year was appointed See also:professor of See also:botany in that university, succeeding his namesake, See also:William See also:Allman (1776-1846) . This position he held for about twelve years until he removed to See also:Edinburgh as regius professor of natural See also:history . There he remained till 1870, when considerations of See also:health induced him to resign his professorship and retire to See also:Dorsetshire, where he devoted himself to his favourite pastime of See also:horticulture . The scientific papers which came from his See also:pen are very numerous . His most important See also:work was upon the gymnoblastic See also:hydrozoa, on which he published in 1871-1872, through the See also:Ray Society, an exhaustive monograph, based largely on his own researches and illustrated with drawings of remarkable excellence from his own See also:hand . Biological science is also indebted to him for several convenient terms which have come into daily use, e.g. endoderm and ectoderm for the two cellular layers of the See also:body-See also:wall in Coelenterata . He became a See also:fellow of the Royal Society in 1854, and received a Royal See also:medal in 1873 . For several years he occupied the presidential See also:chair of the Linnaean society, and in 1879 he presided over the See also:Sheffield See also:meeting of the British Association . He aied on the 24th of See also:November 1898 at Parkstone, Dorsetshire .

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