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On This Day: 19th of July
On this day in 1809:
The Brewhouse
The Principal William Taylor agreed to give up the cellar under Professor James Mylne's dining room "which had from time immemorial belonged to the Principal as his brewhouse", but only on condition that the cellar was returned to the Principal once Mylne departed from the building.
On this day in 1905:
Annan's Panorama
T&R Annan & Sons took eight photographs from the top of the University tower, which were subsequently published in the famous Glasgow in Panorama by Gowans and Gray Ltd.
On this day in 1962:
Influential article, by Ian Boyd, on muscle spindles was published by the Royal Society
Entitled The Structure and Innervation of the Nuclear Bag Muscle Fibre System and the Nuclear Chain Muscle Fibre System in Mammalian Muscle Spindles this article changed our understanding of physiology.
Births and Deaths
On this day in 1759
Thomas Kennedy of Dunure was born.
On this day in 1839
George Gilbert Ramsay was born.
On this day in 1786
Alexander Hill was born.
On this day in 1896
AJ Cronin was born.
On this day in 1873
David Graham Webster was born.
On this day in 1870
John Freeland Cunningham was born.
On this day in 1863
Joseph Morris Henderson was born.
On this day in 1866
Donald MacDonald was born.
On this day in 1864
George Paton MacFie was born.
On this day in 1859
Duncan MacGilvray was born.
On this day in 1864
Hector Duncan McIntyre was born.
On this day in 1849
John Morton Mathie Morton was born.
On this day in 1874
Donald Munro was born.
On this day in 1866
James Muir was born.
On this day in 1867
James Stevenson was born.
On this day in 1861
Robert Mark Wenley was born.
On this day in 1873
Harold Workman was born.
On this day in 1888
John Spence Anderson was born.
On this day in 1879
Jenny Cumming Climie was born.
On this day in 1874
James Alexander Cowie was born.
On this day in 1872
John Donald was born.
On this day in 1872
William Douglas was born.
On this day in 1891
Alexander Ferguson was born.
On this day in 1885
Alexander Findlay was born.
On this day in 1884
Charles Forsyth was born.
On this day in 1883
David Taylor Leggat was born.
On this day in 1880
Euphemia Lindsay was born.
On this day in 1882
Alex. Tulloh Inglis Macdonald was born.
On this day in 1885
William Hutchison McMillan was born.
On this day in 1878
Euphemia Helen Hunter Muir was born.
On this day in 1882
Marion Young Reid was born.
On this day in 1885
Joseph Henri Napoleon Felix Savy was born.
On this day in 1885
Thomas Strain was born.
On this day in 1872
Gertrude Florence Fleetwood Taylor was born.
On this day in 1920
Alfred Jakub Igel was born.
On this day in 1889
Thomas Pollock Inglis was born.
On this day in 1886
Hislop Dickson was born.
On this day in 1893
Hamish Baillie was born.
On this day in 1892
Ethel Margaret Maconochie was born.
On this day in 1889
Thomas Vincent McCall was born.