Dr. J. Gray, F.R.S.

Abstract

Prof. Stanley Gardiner will be succeeded by Dr. James Gray, who was one of his pupils when he became professor in 1909. Dr. Gray has had a varied career. He was demonstrator of zoology before the Great War, carrying out research on fertilization of echinoderm eggs. Then he saw war service from August 1914 until the peace, serving in France and Palestine, attaining the rank of captain and being awarded the M.C. Returning to Cambridge, he became Balfour student, commencing a long line of research on ciliary movement, in which he and his pupils are still interested. Lecturer and reader in turn, by a natural evolution he passed onwards to a comprehensive study of the physiology of animal locomotion, being especially interested in fish. In 1928, he was visiting professor at Columbia University. His share in the rebuilding of the whole Zoological Department at Cambridge was great, and in particular he was charged with the design of the experimental section, which contains, besides a teaching laboratory, twenty-five separate research rooms and at present overflows into the whole building. Elected to the Royal Society in 1929, he is now a member of the Council. He is also a member of the Advisory Committee on Fisheries of the Development Commission, but perhaps his greatest public service to science is in the editing of. the Journal of Experimental Biology, which is associated with the Society of the same name.