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Royal Society important memoirs on tides. As Vice-Chancellor of the 

 University introduced the triposes of Moral Science and Natural Science 

 (1840). President of the British Association in its tenth year (Plymouth, 

 1 841 ). Said that there was ' scarcely any subordinate office of labour or dignity 

 in the Association which he had not performed at one or other of its meetings. ' 

 Suggested the annual reports on the State of Science, and contributed to the 

 reports of the first Research Committees. Died and was buried in Cambridge. 



WlLLAN, Dr. RoBT., F.R.S. (1757-1812), b. Sedbergh. Studied medicine 

 at Edinburgh. Practised in Darlington and London. Physician to the 

 Public Dispensary, London, 1783-1803. Received Fothergillian Medal from 

 Medical Society of London for classification of skin diseases, 1790. He was 

 the first in this country to arrange skin diseases in a clear and intelligible manner 

 and fix their nomenclature. His classification is still used by the profession. 

 Published, in parts, Description and treatment of Cutaneous Diseases (1798- 

 1808). Elected F.R.S., 1809. Died Madeira. 



Williamson, Sir Joseph, F.R.S. (1633-1701), b. Bridekirk, near Cocker- 

 mouth. Son of a clergyman. Educated St. Bees, Westminster School, 

 Queen's College, Oxford. During a hectic political life found time for interest 

 in antiquities. Elected to the Royal Society by the original Council in 1663, 

 he became its second President (1677-1680), and was succeeded by Sir 

 Christopher Wren. Collected many valuable manuscripts relating to heraldry 

 and history. Died Cobham, Kent ; buried Westminster Abbey. 



Wood, Wm., F.R.S. (1774-1857), A. Kendal. Educated for the medical 

 profession at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, he practised first near Canterbury, 

 and then in London till 1815, when he became a bookseller in the Strand. 

 Took a keen interest in natural history. Elected F.R.S. in 1812. Wrote 

 books on zoography, conchology, insects, and British freshwater fishes ; 

 edited several others, and, besides illustrating his own works, drew pictures 

 for other authors. 



WooDVILLE, Wm., M.D. (1752-1805), b. Cockermouth. Studied medicine 

 at Edinburgh and on the continent. Practised in Cumberland, Denbigh and 

 London. In 1790 published the first volume of his great work on Medical 

 Botany, in which he gave a description of all the plants mentioned in the 

 catalogues of the Materia Medica published by the Royal Colleges of 

 Physicians of London and Edinburgh. The third edition of this work extended 

 to five volumes. 



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