The Huxley Lecture

The Huxley Lecture was a memorial lecture instituted by Charing Cross Hospital Medical School in 1896[1] to honour Thomas Henry Huxley[2] and is delivered biennially. The Huxley Lecture was one of two memorial lectures created to honour Huxley. The other lecture series is known as The Huxley Memorial Medal and Lecture and was created in 1900 by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.[3]

Recipients

YearNameRationale or TitleDateRef
1896Michael Foster"Recent Advances in Science and Their Bearing on Medicine and Surgery"5 October 1896[4]
1898Rudolf Virchow"The Huxley Lecture of Recent Advances in Science and Their Bearing on Medicine and Surgery"3 October 1898[5]
1900Joseph Lister"The Huxley Lecture"2 October 1900[6]
1902William H. Welch"On recent studies of immunity with special reference to their bearing on pathology"1 October 1902[7]
1904William Macewen"The Huxley Lecture on the Function of the Caecum and Appendix"3 October 1904[8]
1906Ivan Pavlov"Recent Advances in Science and Their Bearing on Medicine and Surgery"6 October 1906[9]
1908Patrick Manson"The Huxley Lecture on Recent Advances in Science and Their Bearing on. Medicine and Surgery"3 October 1908[10]
1910Frederick Walker Mott"Hereditary Aspects Of Nervous And Mental Diseases"8 October 1910[11]
1912Simon Flexner"On some problems in infection and its control"31 October 1912[12]
1914Ronald Ross"Malaria and the transmission of diseases"2 November 1914[13]
1920Frederick Gowland Hopkins"The Huxley Lecture on Recent Advances in Science and Their Bearing on. Medicine and Surgery"24 November 1920[14]
1927Archibald Garrod"The Huxley lecture on Diathesis"24 November 1927[15]
1929Humphry Rolleston"The Huxley Lecture on the nature of disease"12 February 1929[16]
1935Thomas Lewis"The Huxley Lecture on clinical science within the university"14 March 1935[17]
1937Edgar Adrian"Huxley, the Brain and the Mind"18 November 1937[18]

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