Prof. G. N. Stewart

Abstract

NEWS has been cabled from Cleveland, Ohio, of the death of George Neil Stewart, the well-known physiologist. Born in 1860 in London, Ontario, whither his parents had temporarily migrated from Lybster, Caithness, Stewart, while yet a child, was brought back to Great Britain. He entered the University of Edinburgh in 1879 and graduated M.A. four years later with honours in mathematics, having meanwhile acted as assistant to Tait, the professor of physics. During the session 1883–84 he was Mackay Smith Scholar and in 1887 received the degree of D.Sc. But physics did not hold Stewart for long. He turned his attention to medicine and graduated M.D. in 1891, receiving a gold medal for his thesis. Then followed a year's post-graduate study in Berlin, after which Stewart was appointed senior demonstrator of physiology at Victoria College, Manchester. In 1889 he became George Henry Lewes student in physiology at Cambridge, a position which he held until 1893, meanwhile acting as examiner in physiology in the University of Aberdeen and taking the then recently established Diploma in Public Health of Cambridge. Several months during 1892 were also spent in the physiological laboratory in Strasbourg.