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FOSTER, SIR MICHAEL (1836-r9o7) , English physiologist, was born at Huntingdon on the 8th of March
medicine
practical
physiology at University College, where two years afterwards he became professor. In 187o he was appointed by Trinity College, Cambridge , to its praelectorship in physiology , and thirteen years later he became the first occupant of the newly-created chair of physiology in the university, holding it till 1903. He excelled as a teacher and administrator
Cambridge biological school. From 1881 to 1903 he was one of the secretaries of the Royal Society, and in that capacity exercised a wide influence on the study of biology in Great
parliament . Though returned as a Unionist, his political action was not to be dictated by party considerations, and he gravitated towards Liberalism; but he played no prominent part in parliament and at the election of 1906 was defeated. His chief
work
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