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PROF. HAMILTON HARTRIDGE has recently retired from the University chair of physiology at St. Bartholomew‘s Hospital Medical College, London, in order to take up the post of director of the Medical Research Council‘s newly constituted research unit Qn the physiology of vision. The appointment shows the importance which the Medical Research Council attaches to this subject, and is a recognition of Prof. Hartridge‘s pre-eminent position and his contributions in this field. Educated at Harrow and King‘s College, Cambridge, Prof. Hartridge has had a distinguished academic and scientific career. A former fellow of King‘s College, he was lecturer on the organs of special sense and senior demonstrator in physiology at Cambridge at the time when Prof. Langley had surrounded himself with the brilliant team of investigators which included Keith Lucas, A. V. Hill and E. D. Adrian. Although Prof. Hartridge has published many important papers and articles on the physiology of the special senses, his research work has not been entirely confined to this field; the brilliant work which he carried out with Prof. F. J. W. Roughton on the rates of gaseous exchanges of the constituents of the blood is one of many examples of a wide interest in the problems of physiology. An account of Prof. Hartridge‘s activities would not be complete without reference being made to his great powers of exposition. He has delivered popular lectures at meetings of the British Association, given a course of Christmas Lectures at the Royal Institution and is Gresham professor of physic at Gresham‘s College in the City of London. After occupying a university chair for twenty years (1927-47), Prof. Hartridge carries with him the good wishes of a wide circle of friends for a continuation of his outstanding experimental work.
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Prof. Hamilton Hartridge, F.R.S. Nature 161, 49 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161049a0
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