Letter of application and précis of contributions to physiology of / Augustus D. Waller.

  • Waller, Augustus Désiré, 1856-1922.
Date:
1895
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Credit: Letter of application and précis of contributions to physiology of / Augustus D. Waller. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Weston Lodge: 16 Grove End Road, London, N.W. February 23rd, 1895. My Lord Bishop and Gentlemen,— I have the honour to present myself as a candidate for the Waynfiete Chair of Physiology in the University of Oxford. I am thirty-eight years of age. Since the date of my graduation at the University of Aberdeen (187 8) I have been uninterruptedly engaged in the study and teaching of Physiology. During the last ten years I have held the appointment of Lecturer on Physiology to the St. Marys Hospital Medical School, London, and in that capacity it has been my duty to organise a physiological and histological laboratory in accordance with the resources and requirements of a medical school. During the last year I have enlarged my own laboratory in order to supplement my ordinary teaching by lectures and demonstrations of a more original character. In support of my present application, I beg to submit to your considera- tion a resume of my published work during the last fifteen years, and I venture f urther to submit as evidence of its value in the eyes of competent judges (1) that upon two occasions it has been favourably distinguished—by the Academie des Sciences, Paris; and by the Accademia delle Scienze, Bologna ; (2) that it has found currency and acceptance in a book on Physiology, adopted as a text-book by many students and teachers of that science. It has long been my desire to fittingly occupy a professorial chair; the tenor of my studies, both as a learner and as a teacher, has been directed to that end, and 1 have through- out acted on the belief that teaching and learning are mutually complementary. Enlarged opportunities and responsibilities such as attach to the Waynfiete Professorship) constitute the life-task with which 1 most desire to be entrusted. L am, My Lord Bishop and Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, AUGUSTUS D. WALLER. To the Electors to the Waynfiete Professorship of Physiology, University of Oxford. A