See also: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
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
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 (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
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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