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SIR MICHAEL FOSTER (1836-r9o7)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 733 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:MICHAEL See also:FOSTER (1836-r9o7)  , See also:English physiologist, was See also:born at See also:Huntingdon on the 8th of See also:March 1836 . After graduating in See also:medicine at See also:London University in 1859, he began to practise in his native See also:town, but in 1867 he returned to London as teacher of See also:practical See also:physiology at University See also:College, where two years afterwards he became See also:professor . In 187o he was appointed by Trinity College, See also:Cambridge, to its praelectorship in physiology, and thirteen years later he became the first occupant of the newly-created See also:chair of physiology in the university, holding it till 1903 . He excelled as a teacher and See also:administrator, and had a very large See also:share in the organization and development of the Cambridge biological school . From 1881 to 1903 he was one of the secretaries of the Royal Society, and in that capacity exercised a wide See also:influence on the study of See also:biology in See also:Great See also:Britain . In 1899 he was created K.C.B., and served as See also:president of the See also:British Association at its See also:meeting at See also:Dover . In the following See also:year he was elected to represent the university of London in See also:parliament . Though returned as a Unionist, his See also:political See also:action was not to be dictated by party considerations, and he gravitated towards Liberalism; but he played no prominent See also:part in parliament and at the See also:election of 1906 was defeated . His See also:chief writings were a Textbook of Physiology(1876), which became a See also:standard See also:work, and Lectures on the See also:History of Physiology in the 26th, 17th and 28th Centuries (1901), which consisted of lectures delivered at the See also:Cooper Medical College, See also:San Francisco, in 1900 . He died suddenly in London on the 29th of See also:January 1907 .

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