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JOHN WHITAKER HULKE (183o-1895)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 869 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:WHITAKER See also:HULKE (183o-1895)  , See also:British surgeon and geologist, was See also:born on the 6th of See also:November 183o, being the son of a well-known medical practitioner at See also:Deal . He was educated partly at a boarding-school in this See also:country, partly at the Moravian See also:College at Neuwied (1843-1845), where he gained an intimate knowledge of See also:German and an See also:interest in See also:geology through visits to the See also:Eifel See also:district . He then entered See also:King's College school, and three years later commenced See also:work at the See also:hospital, becoming M.R.C.S. in 1852 . In the See also:Crimean See also:War he volunteered, and was appointed (1855) assistant-surgeon at See also:Smyrna and subsequently at Sebastopol . On returning See also:home he became medical See also:tutor at his old hospital, was elected F.R.C.S. in 1857, and afterwards assistant-surgeon to the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields (18J7), and surgeon (1868-189o) . In 187o he became surgeon at the See also:Middlesex hospital, and here much of his more important surgical work was accomplished . His skill as an operator was widely known: he was an excellent See also:general surgeon, but made his See also:special See also:mark as an ophthalmologist, while as a geologist he attained a See also:European reputation . He was elected F.R.S. in 1867 for his researches on the See also:anatomy and See also:physiology of the retina in See also:man and the See also:lower animals, particularly the See also:reptiles . He subsequently devoted all his spare See also:time to geology and especially to the fossile reptilia, describing many remains of Dinosaurs, to our knowledge of which as well as of other Saurians he largely contributed . In 1887 the See also:Wollaston See also:medal was awarded to him by the See also:Geological Society of See also:London . He was See also:president of both the Geological and Pathological See also:Societies in 1883, and president of the Royal College of Surgeons from 1893 until his See also:death . He was a man with a wide range of know-ledge not only of See also:science but of literature and See also:art .

He died in London on the 19th of See also:

February 1895 .

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