Sir Edward Fry on Natural Selection

Lancastrian chemist. The early years of Sir Edward Frankland

between part-time and whole-time, provincial and metropolitan officers was deep. Did the occupation become entirely homogenous in the twentieth century or did new divisions replace old ones? Were there singular or multiple professional aims and goals amongst public health officers? Were they agreed amongst themselves? Dr Lewis tells us there were two major features ofideological development. On...

Natural selection on gene expression.

Changes in genetic regulation contribute to adaptations in natural populations and influence susceptibility to human diseases. Despite their potential phenotypic importance, the selective pressures acting on regulatory processes in general and gene expression levels in particular are largely unknown. Studies in model organisms suggest that the expression levels of most genes evolve under stabil...

Edward Jenner's unpublished cowpox inquiry and the Royal Society: Everard Home's report to Sir Joseph Banks.

Edward Jenner's Inquiry into the causes and effects of the variolae vaccinae ... known by the name of the cow pox, published in 1798, contains the evidence on which he based his claim that inoculated cowpox (later called vaccination) induced lifelong immunity to smallpox. He did one vaccination in 1796, but more important was the small series of vaccinations done in 1798 which showed that vacci...

The Puritan connexions of Sir Edward Alston, President of the Royal College of Physicians 1655-1666.

SIR EDWARD ALSTON was the son of Edward Alston senior and descended from a family that had lived and held land in Suffolk since the days of Edward III.' Edward Alston senior has been variously identified with either Edwardstone or Boxford in Suffolk. Topographically, these tiny villages are virtually inseparable. American readers will perhaps remember that Edwardstone was the birthplace, in 158...

Albert Fry