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Home » History of The Physiological Society and its journals: Information sheets

History of The Physiological Society and its journals: Information sheets

The foundation of The Physiological Society

  • The foundation of The Society
  • The Society's founders
  • T H Huxley, the famous evolutionist, was one of the founders of The Society
  • George H Lewes, companion to the novelist, George Eliot, was one of the founders of The Society
  • The first two Honorary members of The Society were Charles Darwin and William Sharpey
  • The Society's dog

Physiologists and anti-vivisectionists

  • The Royal Commission and the Cruelty to Animals Act 1876
  • The Brown Dog Affair

The first women members of The Physiological Society

  • Florence Buchanan and the admittance of women to The Society
  • Florence Buchanan
  • How The Society first admitted women
  • The first women members of The Society

The Society's journals

  • Michael Foster: Founder of The Journal of Physiology
  • Edward Sharpey-Schafer: Founder of Experimental Physiology
  • Michael Foster and Edward Schafer: Parallel lives
  • The first three physiologists to win a Nobel Prize for work predominantly published in The Journal of Physiology
  • Nobel Prize-winning research published in The Journal of Physiology
  • Research from the last flight of the space shuttle Columbia was published in The Journal of Physiology

Physiology

  • Physiology in London: University College
  • Physiology in London: The Brown Institution

Timelines of the lives of physiologists

  • William Rutherford
  • Edward Sharpey-Schafer
  • Michael Foster
  • John Burdon Sanderson
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