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John James Drysdale

1816–92

Physician. MD, Edinburgh, and LRCS, 1838. Practised in Liverpool. Collaborated with William Henry Dallinger on microscopical investigations of flagellate protozoa.

Sources

BMD (Death index)

Census returns of England and Wales 1871 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG10/3784/4/1)

Edinburgh Academy register

ODNB s.v. Dallinger, William Henry.

Bibliography

BMD: General Register Office, England and Wales civil registration indexes. England & Wales birth index, 1837–1983. England and Wales marriage index, 1837–1983. England and Wales death index, 1837–1983. Online database. Provo, Utah: The Generations Network. 2006. www.ancestry.com.

Edinburgh Academy register: The Edinburgh Academy register. A record of all those who have entered the school since its foundation in 1824. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Academical Club. 1914.

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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