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PROF. AUGUSTE SHERIDAN DELÉPINE, whose death was announced in NATURE last week, was educated in Paris, Geneva, and Lausanne, graduating in science at the last-named. He then proceeded to the University of Edinburgh, where he pursued medical studies, graduating with first-class honours in 1882. His interest from the first centred in pathology and in the then new science of bacteriology, and after acting for a time as demonstrator in these subjects at Edinburgh he settled in London, and soon afterwards was appointed demonstrator of pathology and curator of the museum at St. George's Hospital, where he did excellent work. In 1891 Delépine was appointed the first Procter professor of pathology and morbid anatomy in the University of Manchester. Here he organised the pathological department and designed the new buildings of the department. During his tenure of this professorship he carried out many investigations of a public health character, so that when, twenty years later, a department of public health was established at the University, he resigned the chair of pathology and was appointed to the new chair of public health and bacteriology and to be director of the public health laboratory, posts which he retained until his death.
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H., R. Prof. A. S. Delépine. Nature 108, 412 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108412b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/108412b0