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Practicing Medicine In London: Born in Mancetta, England, Grew received a B. A. from Cambridge in 1661 and an M. D. from the University of Leiden in 1671. While practicing medicine in London, he began work on microscopic plant anatomy, describing many individual plant organs. Grew also observed the fluorescence of chlorophyll, geotropism (the reaction of root tips and stem growing points to the pull of gravity), and the discharge of spores from fern lodon, in Northumberland.
QUAIN, SIR Richard, British physician, cousin of Jones and Richard Quain (qq.v.) : b. Mallow, County Cork, Ireland, Oct. 30, 1816; d. London, England, March 13, 1898. He studied medicine in University College, London, whence he was graduated in 1840. He was elected a member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1846 and he was president of the General Medical Council from 1891 (when he was created a baronet) until his death. His practice in London was large and lucrative and besides publishing several medical treatises he edited a well-known Dictionary of Medicine (1882; 3d ed., 1902).
Richards exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, at the Paris Salon, and at various American expositions. A series of his water-color marines hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
RICHARDSON, rich'erd-s'n, SIR Benjamin Ward, English physician: b. Somerby, Leicestershire, England, Oct. 31, 1828; d. London, Nov. 21, 1896. He was educated in Scotland at Anderson College and St. Andrews University. In 1855 he moved to London and for three years was lecturer on medical jurisprudence at the School of Medicine in Grosvenor Place. He was also lecturer on physiology there until 1865.
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