M0014217: Three young professors of McGill University, Montreal

Date:
October 1955
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/127/11
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Credit: M0014217: Three young professors of McGill University, Montreal. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS OF VOLUME I PART I THE CANADIAN PERIOD, 1849-1884 Bond Head and Dundas. Chapter I. 1849-1864. The settlement of Upper Canada, 3. Feather- stone Osier and Ellen Pickton, 5. Osier’s ancestry, 6. The parsonage at Bond Head, 12. A frontier childhood, 16. The move to Dundas, 19. Early school days, 21. Chapter II. 1864-1867. The Barrie Grammar School, 23. The ‘ Barrie Bad Boys’, 24. ‘Father’ Johnson, and reminiscences of the school at Weston, 26. The School Prefect, 32. Athletic prowess, 35. Early interest in natural history, 36. ‘Father’ Johnson’s field note-book, 37. Introduction of James Bovell, 38. An injured leg, 41. The Diatomaceae and fresh-water Polyzoa, 44. Choice of career, 46. Toronto. Chapter III. 1867-1870. Trinity College, 47. James Bovell and his influence, 48. Introduction to the ‘ Religio Medici’, 50. The Church abandoned for Medicine, 53. The Toronto Medical School, 53. Theology versus Science, 54, First appearance in print, 55. Finding of the Trichina spiralis3 59. Biological leanings, 61. Reminiscences of Bovell, 68. Montreal. Chapter IV. 1870—1872. The McGill Medical School, 70. Corre¬ spondence with Johnson, 73. Studies on the Entozoa, 76. Bovell enters the Church, 78. The Carlyle passage, 81. R. Palmer Howard, 83. A graduation prize thesis, 84. Chapter V. 1872-1874, Post-graduate study abroad, 86. Ophthalmo¬ logy in his mind, 91. Burdon Sanderson’s laboratory, 91. Offer of Chair in Botany at McGill, 96. ‘Walking the hospitals’, 100. A first visit to Norwich, 102. Discovery of the blood platelets, 104. Berlin, 106. Virchow, no. Vienna, 115. London again, with the report of his researches, 117.