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meeting in Oxford. Rolleston was one of the organisers for the meeting: he arranged for Huxley to stay at Christ Church during the meeting, and to have a crocodile skull in Huxley's room for study. Huxley was instrumental in Rolleston's appointment to the Linacre chair that very year, backing him
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As an expert on the brain, Rolleston was present on the Thursday, when Huxley denied Owen's claim that the human brain had parts that apes did not, and again on the Saturday for the debate on Darwin, where his opponent was Bishop
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there. He had gone to Italy and France to seek treatment but returned to England a week prior to his death after his condition did not improve and finding out that Grace was seriously ill. In
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A portrait from the Welsh Portrait Collection at the National Library of Wales. Depicted person: George Rolleston – Physician and zoologist; circa 1860.
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Rolleston was so identified with Huxley at this time that he appeared as one of 'Tom Huxley's low set' in the ironical skit
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asylums and that a thirteen-year-old John had witnessed one of his mother's breakdowns.
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against Owen's candidate. Rolleston wrote him a 'you'll never regret this' letter.
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Report of a sad case recently tried before the Lord Mayor, Owen versus Huxley
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Rolleston to Huxley, Huxley Papers (Imperial College), HP 25.142, 148, 150.
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Rolleston was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School,
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Professor of Anatomy and Physiology to be appointed at the
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Alumni of the Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital
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in 1881 and is buried with his wife, who died in 1914, in
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Forms of animal life: a manual of comparative anatomy
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He was elected as a member of the 91:Professor of Anatomy and Physiology 775:Fellows of Pembroke College, Oxford 735:People from Maltby, South Yorkshire 449: 13: 750:Alumni of Pembroke College, Oxford 14: 816: 780:Fellows of Merton College, Oxford 693: 156:, was an evolutionary biologist. 699: 682:Dictionary of National Biography 541:. 25 June 1881. pp. 1028–9. 330:Bust of George Rolleston in the 31: 770:British evolutionary biologists 618: 609: 436:Scientific papers and addresses 418: 342:, and took part in both of the 16:English physician and zoologist 600: 591: 582: 573: 521: 512: 494: 396:American Philosophical Society 239:on 5 June 1862, and Fellow of 1: 795:Linacre Professors of Zoology 646: 805:Burials at Holywell Cemetery 785:Fellows of the Royal Society 502:"The Hon. William Rolleston" 443: 247:, its representative in the 203:), and Assistant Physician, 7: 401: 185:Sheffield Collegiate School 10: 821: 474:(216–219): i–xxvii. 1881. 676:"Rolleston, George"  663:, London: Michael Joseph 579:Desmond, pp. 274–6, 280–1 558:Who Do You Think You Are? 313: 273:Who Do You Think You Are? 193:St Bartholomew's Hospital 115: 105: 98: 84: 76: 64: 42: 30: 23: 332:Oxford University Museum 302:One of his sons was Sir 189:Pembroke College, Oxford 534:British Medical Journal 249:General Medical Council 159: 480:10.1098/rspl.1881.0061 335: 323: 241:Merton College, Oxford 164:Rolleston was born at 597:Desmond, pp. 306, 329 329: 321: 276:, his great-grandson 231:in 1859, was elected 661:The Devil's Disciple 630:search.amphilsoc.org 626:"APS Member History" 365:William Henry Flower 150:University of Oxford 93:University of Oxford 689:Bulloch's Roll; DSB 359:. 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Maltby
Linacre
University of Oxford
Zoology
MA
MD
FRCP
FRS
physician
zoologist
Linacre
University of Oxford
Thomas Henry Huxley
Maltby
Rotherham
William Rolleston
Gainsborough
Sheffield Collegiate School
Pembroke College, Oxford
St Bartholomew's Hospital
Smyrna
Crimean War
Children's Hospital
comparative anatomy
physiology
zoology
archaeology
anthropology
FRCP

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