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

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