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Charles Stewart (18

May 1840 – 27 September 1907) was anatomist. He

was elected a Fellow of the Royal

Society on 4 June 1896, and he was the president of the Linnean Society from 1890 to 1894. Stewart was born

in Plymouth and studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital,

receiving his MRCS in

1862. He was Conservator of the Hunterian Museum of the Royal

College of Surgeons of England from 1884 to 1900, in succession

to William Henry Flower.

After

practising for four years at Plymouth, he was appointed in 1866 curator of the

museum at St. Thomas's Hospital, then situated in the Surrey Gardens. In 1871,

shortly after the removal of the hospital to the Albert Embankment, he was

appointed lecturer on comparative anatomy in the medical school, and in 1881 he

became lecturer on physiology jointly with Dr. John Harley.

He was also professor of biology and physiology at the Bedford College for

Women from 1882-6.

He

left St. Thomas's Hospital in 1884 on his appointment as conservator of the

Hunterian museum at the Royal College of Surgeons in succession to Sir William Henry Flower. In

1886, he became Hunterian professor of comparative anatomy and physiology at

the college, and gave an annual course of lectures until 1902. Stewart fully

maintained at the college the Hunterian tradition. Abreast of the current

knowledge of anatomy, physiology, and bacteriology, which together make up

modern pathology, he was able to utilise to the best advantage the stores of

specimens collected by John Hunter. His dissections enabled him to correlate

many facts for the first time, and his results were set forth in his lectures.

In 1885, he lectured on the structure and life history of the hydrozoa; in 1886

and 1887 on the organs of hearing; in 1889 and again in 1896 on the

integumental system; in 1890 on phosphorescent organs and colour; in 1891 on

secondary sexual characters; in 1895 on the endoskeleton; in 1897 on joints,

and on the protection and nourishment of the young; in 1899 on the alternation

of generations. He spoke without notes and drew admirably on the blackboard,

illustrating his remarks from the stores of the museum. But unhappily the

lectures were neither published nor reported, and only remain in the memories

of his auditors or in their scanty notes. His valuable work survives alone in

the catalogues of the Hunterian museum.

In

spite of ill-health Stewart was active outside the College of Surgeons. From

1894 to 1897, he was Fullerian professor of physiology at the Royal Institution, where on two occasions he delivered the

’Friday evening' discourse. In 1866, he was elected a fellow of the Linnean

Society, and served as its president (1890-4). He also took an active part in

founding the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, of which he was

the original treasurer (1887-1892). He also served as secretary of the Royal Microscopical

Society from 1879 to 1883. He was deeply interested in the

welfare of the Marine Biological

Association, which was established at Plymouth, his native place. He

was admitted F.R.S. in 1896, and in 1899 he received the honorary degree of

LL.D. from Aberdeen.

He

died in London on 27 September 1907, and was buried at Highgate cemetery.