The San Francisco call., 1909-09-16
PROBLEM Of LIFE
HIS LECTURE TOPIC
DR.. A. D. Waller of London Uni
versity Will Address College
Students in Berkeley

BERKELEY, Sept. 15.-UniQue prob
lens in physiology will be considered
during course of lectures given under
the Flood foundation by Prof. A. D.
Waller of the department of physiology
of London university next week. The
English savant will give FIVE lectures
in the chemistry building of the Uni
versity OF California, and among the
subjects he win consider are:
Lecture the electrical signs OF life; gen.
ersl method Of investigation; the 1rst sign OF
OF the human heart: the normal allo rhythmia
Of the hearts OF csnidae tdegs and voivesl.
Lsssurs Ine nerve nsrss o muscle Il me resna.
OF the brain; the law OF sensation: the sigmoid
curve: the relation between energy expended
Lecture III-Aicohol. ether and chloroform;
vegetable sikaleids; the axiom Of general physi-
Lecture IvEBlaze currents: the retins. green
leaves. the petals Of a nower, the living skin
Q. dead man and Of T. =, dead sarn cat; our m,,a asn
Lecture v-AicoSol, chloscsorm and ether, their
physiological equivalents; the price of anasths-
sia; the iethaI chamber In men and in animals;
the chloroform balance
In the field of physiology Professor
Waller is considered am expert and he
is highly, honored in England. He was
born in Paris in 1856, at the time that
his father, Augustus Waller. was COM
pleting his work on the Degeneration
and Regeneration of Nerve" which has
since been called the 4Wallerian
method" His father was an eminent
physiologist and was the first to OBJ
serve the emigration of leucocytes. DIR.
A. d. Waller was educated at the Coll
Iege de Geneva, and at Aberdeen, Edin-
burgh and Leipzig. He was lecturer
on physiology at the Women's medical
school and St. Mary's hospital, and was
Fullerian professor at the Royal in
stitution, London He has been presi-
dent OF the Neurological society of
Great Britain and dean of the faculty
of science of London university and
treasurer of the Physiological society
of England He is now director of the
Physiological laboratory, London
In 1888 he discovered the electrical
variations of the beat of the human
heart for which he received the Prix
Monfyon OF the Institute of France,
and the Premio Aldinf OF the Academy
of Science of Bologna. In 1898 he re-
ceived the Prix Parkin of the Institute
de France for his work on isolated
nerve by which he introduced a new
method OF determining the effect Of
anaesthetics' and drugs on the living
organism
He described this method in his
Croomian lecture at the Royal society,
London His f1rst original paper in
1878 was on tendon reflex, and each year
since then he has published papers In
the Royal society and Psychological
journals on the special senses and anil
NAL electricity, etc. He has published
three books, Human Physiology"
Animal Electricity" and Signs OF
Life" He is corresponding member
OF Societe de Biologie, Paris; Physio-
logical society, Moscow; Royal academy
OF Medicine at Rome and Belgium, and
is honorary LII d. OF Edinburgh and
NJ. D. OF Geneva He married the sec
ond daughter of the late George
Palmer, NJ. r., of Reading, and has
three sons and daughter.