3-066-018 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Professor Rolleston, of Oxford, 1881. Engraving from a photograph by Messrs. Barraud and Jerrard. 'The University of Oxford has sustained a loss by the death, last week, of Dr. George Rolleston, the Linacre Professor of Physiology...After studying medicine at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, he became assistant-physician at the British Civil Hospital, Smyrna, during the Crimean War; assistant-physician to the Children's Hospital in London, 1857; physician to the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, 1857; Lees reader in anatomy at ChristChurch, Oxford, 1857; examiner in the Natural Science School, Oxford, in 1859 and 1869; Linacre Professor of Physiology in the latter year; Fellow of the Royal Society in 1872; and a Fellow of Merton College in 1872. Dr. Rolleston was the author of the "Report on Smyrna," 1856, "Forms of Animal Life," 1870, and the "Harveian Oration," 1873. He was also a Fellow of the Linnaean Society. He was, until his illness, actively engaged in the work and internal government of the University, and was personally much esteemed'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.