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PROF. J. G. MCKENDRICK, F.R.S., the distinguished emeritus professor of physiology in the University of Glasgow, reached the age of eighty-four years on August 12; Sir William Tilden, F.R.S., eminent as a chemist, celebrates his eighty-third birthday on August 15. The former was born at Aberdeen and educated there at the University. For thirty years he was professor of physiology in the University of Glasgow; he was sometime Fullerian professor of physiology at the Royal Institution and president of Section I (Physiology) of the British Association. At the Oxford meeting, in 1894, of the British Association, he exhibited and demonstrated a working model intended to illustrate the mechanism of the cochlea. With Dewar and Ramsay he conducted researches on the physiological action of the chinoline and pyridine bases. Sir William Tilden, a Londoner, was a science master at Clifton College, 1872-80, leaving to take up the chair of chemistry at Mason College, Birmingham, a post which he held for fourteen years. On leaving Birmingham he became professor of chemistry at the Royal College of Science, London, retiring in 1909. He was awarded the Davy medal of the Royal Society in 1908. In organic chemistry he has made highly important researches on the terpenes, for example, on the hydrocarbons from Pinus sylvestris, and on terpin and terpinol. Author of many scientific memoirs, he has also published several well-known chemical manuals.
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Current Topics and Events. Nature 116, 253–256 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116253a0
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