John Cleland, a surgeon-anatomist, trained at Edinburgh and Glasgow before gaining the Chair of Anatomy at Queens College Galway, Ireland when that institution was of a mere 14 years standing. This outline of his life, career and contemporaries provides some insight into the Scottish tradition of teaching and research in the anatomical sciences of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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MacAlister SirD.John Cleland, Recognition of Distinguished Services. 1911.Glasgow: James MacLehose & Sons.
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Queens Colleges Commission. Report of Her Majestys Commissioners appointed to inquire into the progress and condition of the Queens Colleges at Belfast, Cork, and Galway: with Minutes of evidence, Documents, and Tables and returns. 1858.Dublin: Her Majestys Stationery Office.
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BerwickE.The Report of the President of Queens College, Galway, For the Year 1862 1863. 1863.Dublin: Alexander Thomson.
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BerwickE.The Report of the President of Queens College, Galway, For the Year 1876 1877. 1877.Dublin: Alexander Thomson.
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ClelandJ.Notes of the Dissection of a Female Beaver. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal1860; 14.
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ClelandJ.The Human Mesocolon, illustrated by that of the Wombat. Brit Assoc Rep1869; 120.
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ClelandJ.Scala Naturae, and other poems.1887. Edinburgh: David Douglas.
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ClelandL., MackayL.Y., YoungR.B.Memoirs and Memoranda in Anatomy. Volume 1. 1889. Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate. 187 p.
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MurrayJ.P.Galway: a medico-social history.1994. Galway: Kennys Bookshop and Art Gallery. Pp 77–230.
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ClelandJ.A Directory for the Dissection of the Human Body.1877. Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea. 182 p.
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ClelandJ.Catalogue of Crania in the museum of the anatomical Department of the University of Glasgow.1909. Glasgow. Robert Maclehose & Co.22 p.
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ClelandJ., MackayJ.Y.Human Anatomy. General and descriptive for the use of students 1896. Glasgow: James MacLehose & Sons.833 p.
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SharpeyW., ThomsonA., ClelandJ. (eds.) Quains Elements of Anatomy.7th Ed1867. London: Longmans, Green and Co.
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ClelandJ.Animal Physiology. The Structures and Functions of the Human Body.1874. Glasgow: William Collins, Sons & Company.325 p.
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ClelandJ.On the cutaneous ligaments of the phalanges. J Anat Physiol1878; 12: 526–527.
