George James Allman
George James Allman (1812 - November 24th 1898), was an eminent naturalist, professor emeritus of natural history to Edinburgh.
Allman was born has Cork in Ireland and began its schooling in Royal Academical Institution of Belfast. It began studies of right, then gave up the law for the natural science. In 1843, it obtains its diploma of medicine to Dublin. It is then named professor of botany in the same university, successor of its homonym William Allman (1776-1846). It preserved this employment during a dozen years, until its departure for Edinburgh as a professor of natural history. It remained there until 1870, where health reasons made him give up its professorship and be withdrawn in the Dorset, where it was devoted to its favorite pastime, the Horticulture.
He wrote many scientific articles. Its major work concerns the gymnoblastic Hydrozoa, on which it published in 1871-1872, via Ray Society, a monograph exhaustive, mainly founded on its own research and illustrated by remarkable drawings carried out by itself. Biology owes him also several terms of use now daily, like Endoderme and Ectoderme for the two cellular layers of the surface of Coelenterata. He became member of Royal Society in 1854, received a royal Médaille in 1873. He occupied during several years the presidency of the Société linnéenne of London and chaired in 1879 the meeting Sheffield of British Association.
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