George Rolleston
George Rolleston FRCP FRS (30 July 1829 – 16 June 1881) was an English physician, zoologist, and, from 1860 to 1881, Linacre Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at the University of Oxford.
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[edit]- Places especially amenable to the influence of malaria are found to be the beds of streams, ravines, and situations exposed to land and covered from sea breezes. But the most malarious of all localities are those where the sea has retired from the coast, and left in the place of shallow water a block of flat marshy land interposed between itself and a mountainous background. Such conditions are found to exist at Ephesus, where it is said no European can sleep without contracting a fever; at Mersina, the seaport of Tarsus, and Alexandretta, the seaport of Aleppo, whose reputation is, and deservedly, much worse even that of Ephesus.
- Report on Smyrna. London: printed by G.E. Eyre & W. Spottiswoode for Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1856. pp. 60–61. (123 pages)
- To the biological teachings of Professor Huxley I owe a larger debt than even my numerous references to his works would indicate. I stand in a relation of similar, though of less extensive, obligation to the systematic works of Professor Gegenbaur of Jena, of Professor V. Carus of Leipzig, of Professor Claus of Marburg, of Professor Bronn, and of Professor Keferstein of Göttingen. I have also to make acknowledgment to Professors Acland, Phillips, and Westwood of Oxford, and to Albany Hancock, Esq., of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, for suggestions requested and valued by me.
- "Preface". Forms of Animal Life: Being Outlines of Zoological Classification Based Upon Anatomical Investigation and Illustrated by Descriptions of Specimens and of Figures. Clarendon Press series. Oxford at the Clarendon Press. 1870. pp. v–x. (quote from pp. ix–x; 268 pages)
- Our twenty-one chief domesticated mammals may be enumerated in something like order of merit and necessity to us as follows: the dog, the cow, the sheep, the pig, the horse, the cat, the goat, the ass, the camel, the dromedary, the buffalo, the alpaca, the vicugna, the reindeer, the zebu, the banteng, the yak, the ferret, the rabbit, the mongoose, and the guinea-pig, omitting some few species the importance of which as being locally limited to very small areas, as consisting of individuals numerically few, is too small to make it necessary to notice them.
- (1879) . "The modifications of the external aspects of organic nature produced by man's interference (a lecture delivered at the evening meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, May 12th, 1879)". The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London 49: 320–392. (quote from p. 361; pdf of 1880 offprint at commons.wikimedia.org)
External links
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Encyclopedic article on George Rolleston on Wikipedia- Rolleston, George (1873). The Harveian Oration 1873, Issue 196. London: Macmillan & Company. (90 pages)
