William Bulloch.

  • John Ledingham
Date:
1941
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: William Bulloch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Spite of all his efforts still remained from his point of view ‘lifeless’ ghosts. It was a privilege to me to assist him at the final unearthing and resurrection of one such. For instance, a small eighteenth century book.on chemistry catalogued by the second¬ hand bookseller as by Robert Boyle led to a denouement of a satisfying kind. The volume stated itself to be by ‘F. R. S.’ but otherwise it was anonymous. Bound into it after the ‘Finis’ was a page list of other printings from the same Press. This list was less discreet as to authorship, and from it with a little ingenuity the name of the anonymous F. R. S. was discoverable. It proved to be that of a ghost whom Bulloch had been enquiring after for many years. In consequence the Society’s library now con¬ tains a little series of his works. His name was William Aglionby and he is no longer ghostly. Bulloch thus compiled a biographical catalogue of the Fellowship which will be of high value to a future historian of the Society and he has the Society’s gratitude for so doino;.’ Bulloch's activities on committees.—A mere list of the expert committees on which Bulloch served and whose published reports he helped to compile must suffice. His services on these committees were of great value particularly perhaps in securing, as he alone could, an accurate historical background for any apparently novel movements or technical processes that might be discussed. Antityphoid Inoculation Committee.—Inaugurated May 1904. The interim report of this committee appeared in 1906 along with a minority report signed by Bulloch and A. E. Wright who retired from the Committee. The disagreement was over what at the time was regarded as a very trivial point. Medical Research Committee, Special Advisory Committee upon bacteriological studies of cerebrospinal fever during the epidemic of 1^13. This reported in 1916. Medical Research Committee, Special Committee upon the standardization of pathological methods: Three reports of this committee appeared in green book form in 1918 and one in 1920. Medical Research Committee, Committee upon anaerobic bacteria and infections: Of this committee Bulloch was chairman and its
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