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Allen Thomson

1809–84

Scottish anatomist and embryologist. Professor of physiology, Edinburgh, 1842–8. Introduced the use of the microscope in teaching anatomy. Regius professor of anatomy, University of Glasgow, 1848–77. FRS 1848.

Source

ODNB

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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