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THE' seventies of last century may be said to have witnessed the renaissance of biological studies in Cambridge. It was in the year 1870, if we mistake not, that Michael Foster, at the invitation of Trinity College, became prlector in physiology and founded the great school for which the university has since been famous. Of his pupils the greatest was F. M. Balfour. He very soon became the centre of a new system which was thrown off, so to speak, from the main body, and rapidly acquired form and influence.
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Prof. W. F. R. Weldon, F.R.S. . Nature 73, 611–612 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/073611b0
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