Testimonials in favour of Martin Barry, M.D., F.R.S., F.R.S.E., ... as a candidate for the vacant chair of the Institutes of Medicine in the University of Edinburgh.

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[1848]
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Credit: Testimonials in favour of Martin Barry, M.D., F.R.S., F.R.S.E., ... as a candidate for the vacant chair of the Institutes of Medicine in the University of Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that nothing will give me more pleasure than to have you for a colleague in the University of Edinburgh ; and that I am confident your appointment to the Chair to which you aspire will be of the greatest importance to the University. I ever am, my dear Sir, your faithful friend, J. S. MORE. To Dr Martin Barry, &c. &c. From George Newport, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c., Author of several Physiological Papers in the Philosophical Trans- actions. London, 49 Cambridge Street, June 16, 1848. ]\f\ dear Ur Barry, My delay in writing to you has arisen from circumstances quite unconnected with yourself; and I now take the earliest opportunity afforded to me of stating that your papers on Embryology, printed in the Phi- losophical Transactions, place you in the first rank of Micro- scopical inquirers. They do you high honour as an ardent investigator of one of the most difficult portions of Physio- logy ; and also shew, that, if elected to the Chair of the In- stitutes of Medicine in the University of Edinburgh, for which you are a candidate, you will prove to be a most zealous and persevering teacher of science. Yours very faithfully, GEORGE NEWPORT. To Dr M. Barry, F.R.S., &c. From GJSOKOK PambsOB, MR, F.R.C.P.E., &c., Senior Or- dinary Physician lo the Royal Infirmary, Lecturer on Clinical Medicine, Edinburgh. 15 Dundas Street, Edinburgh, June 17, 184S. My dear Sir, I have pleasure in adding my testimony to that of so many more competent authorities, in favour of the reputation which your writings and discoveries on impor- tant subjects in 1 hysiology have acquired for you among men