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ANNOUNCEMENT has been made of the appointment of Dr. E. G. T. Liddell, of Trinity College, Oxford, to the Waynflete chair of physiology in the University of Oxford, which has been vacant since last autumn owing to the death of Prof. J. Mellanby. Dr. Liddell graduated in medicine from Oxford and St. Thomas's Hospital, and returned to the University as assistant in physiology in 1921. He collaborated in much of the later work of Sir Charles Sherrington, including the studies on the stretch reflex, the publication of the "Reflex Activity of the Spinal Cord", and the revised second edition of "Practical Exercises in Mammalian Physiology". He was thus intimately associated with the Sherrington School. His particular interest has naturally been the physiology of the nervous system, and his more independent published papers have been concerned with studies on the knee-jerk, physiology of the cerebellum and spinal cord. He has also published work on the experimental production of high blood pressure in animals. Latterly he has elaborated a technique for study of the postural reactions in the limbs of the intact animal over a long period of time, thus exploring the effects of lesions of the spinal cord and corpus striatum by operative means. He has made himself an authority on this particular branch of the subject, hitherto neglected in Great Britain.
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Waynflete Professor of Physiology, Oxford. Nature 145, 292 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145292a0
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