Morrison Watson
{{Short description|Scottish anatomist (1845–1885)}}
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Morrison Watson (1845 – 25 March 1885) was a Scottish anatomist and comparative anatomist.
Life
Watson was born in Montrose in 1845. He was educated at the Edinburgh Institution, going on to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh, where he took the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1867.{{Cite journal|last=Watson|first=Morrison|date=1867|title=On the mus-cular anatomy of the posterior limb in aves|url=https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/32009|language=en}} He then undertook postgraduate studies at Berlin and Vienna (he must have been competent in German).
Around 1865 he returned to the University of Edinburgh, working as a Demonstrator in the Anatomy classes, and as assistant to William Turner.
In 1873 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposer was William Turner.{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=978-0-902198-84-5|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|access-date=2019-03-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=dead}}
Aged 29 he 1874 he moved to Manchester to take on the role of Professor of Descriptive and Practical Anatomy at Owen's College. While there he worked alongside Arthur Gamgee.Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science vol 30
At Owen's College he rose to be Dean.BMJ: 16 August 1884
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1884.
He died of a "fatal illness" in Manchester on 25 March 1885.The Annals of Manchester 1885 He did not have any family and left no will.Scottish Law Reporter 1903
Publications
- Observations in Human and Comparative Anatomy (1874)
- The Anatomy of the Northern Beluga
References
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Category:People from Montrose, Angus
Category:People educated at Stewart's Melville College
Category:Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Category:Academics of the University of Manchester
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society
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