Leonard George Guthrie

“ In 1907 he delivered before the Medical Society of London the Lettsomian lectures on ‘The Diagnosis and Localisation of Cerebral Tumours.’ He contributed many papers on subjects connected with neurology to ‘Brain’ and other medical journals, and in 1898 he published a ‘Handbook on Diseases of the Nervous System,’ which became a leading text-book. His most important work, however, was embodied in a paper on ‘The Distribution of the Different Arteries supplying the Brain,’ which was published in the ‘Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society’ in 1908. ”

“ Henry Ashby [q. v. Suppl. II] , and others in founding the 'Society for the Study of Disease in Children,' the first of its kind in this, though not in other countries. The society was a success from the first, and Carpenter's interest in its welfare never flagged. He acted as one of its secretaries for three years, as editor of its 'Transactions' for eight years, and when the society was incorporated in the Royal Society of Medicine in 1908, and became the section for the study of disease in children, he was elected its president. ”

“ Victor Horsley in experimental research on the localisation of cerebral functions, especially with regard to the course and origin of the motor tracts. This work crystallised the truth of the results obtained by previous investigators, and established the reputation of the authors (Phil. Trans. clxxxi. 1890; also 1887–9) . In 1903 Beevor delivered the Croonian lectures before the Royal College of Physicians, on ‘Muscular Movements and their Representation in the Central Nervous System’ (published in 1904) , a classical piece of work entailing prodigious labour and painstaking observation. ”