Testimonials in favour of John Cleland, M.D., F.R.S., L.R.C.S.E., Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in the Queen's College, Galway : candidate for the Chair of Anatomy in the University of Glasgow.
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- [1877]
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Credit: Testimonials in favour of John Cleland, M.D., F.R.S., L.R.C.S.E., Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in the Queen's College, Galway : candidate for the Chair of Anatomy in the University of Glasgow. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Ill.—JF rom Thomas Henry Huxley, LL.])., Secretary of the Royal Society, V.P.Z.S., &c., Professor of Natural History in the Royal School of Mines, South Kensington Museum. As the author of various important original Memoirs, and as the co- editor (with Dr. Sharpey and Dr. A. Thomson), of the standard English work on the structure of the human body, Dr. Cleland has a well-established reputation, and stands in no need of my testimony to his scientific capacity, and to his proficiency as an anatomist. Should Dr. Cleland be appointed to the Chair of Anatomy in the University of Glasgow, for which I understand he is a candidate, I am sure that the high character which the Anatomical teaching of the University lias so long possessed will be maintained, and that the Professors will obtain a colleague in every way worthy of their esteem. T. H. HUXLEY. The Roj’ul School of Mines, London, June 10, 1877. IV— F 'rom. George Rolleston, M.D., F.R.S., &c., Linacre Professor of Anatjomy artel Physiology, Oxford, and Member of the General Medical i 'mncil. Anatomical Department, Museum, Oxford, June 4th, 1877. Having known Professor Cleland for many years, I have the greatest satisfaction in bearing my humble testimony to his great merits. He is a master in his great subject; upon a foundation laid firmly for him by the excellent teaching of Scotland, he has built up successively through a long series of years an enduring fabric of well-earned reputation. His experience has not been merely long, it has also been large; for his relations to the practice of Medicine, though I presume they would terminate with any further promotion, has given a reality and availability to his teaching which cannot otherwise be obtained. This I think it of importance to state with reference to Professor Cleland’s candidature for a post in a large school, from which such numbers of practitioners will have to issue.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24930751_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
