Sir Robert Robinson

Address of the President Sir Robert Robinson, at the Anniversary Meeting, 30 November 1946

The grievous losses sustained by the Society during the past year have just been announced. Our Obituary Notices are the appropriate medium for the appreciation of the services to science and the Society of the deceased Fellows but, before following the example set by Sir Henry Dale last year and proceeding to the presentation of Medals, I will make a few very brief comments. First that Sir Jam...

[Sir Robert Jones (1857-1933)].

Sir Robert James Johnstone, B.A., M.B., F.R.C.S.ENG

IT is with profound regret that we have to record the death of Sir Robert John-stone, at Newcastle, Co. Down, after a relatively short and trying illness. It is impossible in one short article to recapitulate the scope and extent of his many activities, and a brief summary must suffice. Seldom has it been granted to one man to achieve so many distinctions, and to adorn so many high offices. A C...

A hand list of the writings of Sir Robert Hutchison.

Sir Robert Hutchison has written and lectured and published books*, some in the best-seller class, for over 50 years. After working in chemistry and physiology and making some interesting researches into the thyroid gland, his arrival in London and in clinical medicine gave him the opportunity for which his qualities best suited him-of teaching. From the days in 1896 when in the residents' quar...

Sir Robert PHILIP: a pioneer in the campaign against tuberculosis.

ROBERT WILLIAM PHILIP was born on 29 December I857. He came of a clerical family, his father and three paternal uncles being ministers of the Free Church. His father was the Rev. George Philip, D.D., of Aberdeen, minister of the Union Church in Govan at the time of the birth of his son. In I866, Dr. Philip was called to St. John's Free Church, Edinburgh, which is now St. Columba's Free Church, ...