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    Credit: ©The Royal Society/Jean Adams
    Image number: RS.11714

    Portrait of a group of medical practitioners at the Department of Anatomy, Medical College, Calcutta

    Date
    1950
    Sitter
    Geoffrey Hadfield (1889 - 1968, British) , Pathologist
    Lilat Mohan Banerji (1880 - 1968, Indian) , Anatomist
    Gordon Gordon-Taylor (1878 - 1960, British) , Surgeon
    Arthur St George Joseph McCarthy Huggett (1897 - 1968, British) , Physiologist
    Godrej Sorabjee Karai (Indian) , Surgeon
    Creator - Organisation
    Sen Electro Studio, Photographer
    Object type
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 151mm
    width (print): 197mm
    height (card support): 248mm
    width (card support): 299mm
    Subject
    Description
    Full-length portraits within a laboratory, seated around human bones laid out on a table. Front row, left to right: Frank Whitby, Geoffrey Hadfield, Lilat Mohan Banerji, Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor, Arthur St George Joseph McCarthy Huggett and D C Chakravarti. Back row, left to right: Godrej Sorabjee Karai, P Bose and Samarendra Mitra.

    Inscribed ‘MEDICAL COLLEGE, CALCUTTA. DEPARTMENT OF ANATOMY Primary F.R.C.S. (Eng.) Examination 13th April – 21st April – 1950. Sen Electro Studio. Left to Right. Front Row :- Mr. Frank Whitby (Asst. Secy. Exam. Board. R.C.P. & R.C.S.). Prof. G. Hadfield, M.D., B.S., F.R.C.P.. Mr. L. M. Banerjee M.S., F.R.C.S. (Eng), Sir. Gordon Gordon-Taylor K.B.E., C.B., F.R.C.S., Prof. A. St. G. Huggett D.Sc., M.B.B.S., Ph.D., L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., Dr. D.C.Chakravarti M.B.E., F.R.C.S.E. Back Row ;- Dr. Godrej S. Karai M.B., Dr. P. Bose M.B., D.T.M. Prof. of Anatomy, Dr. Samarendra Mitra M.B.’

    Huggett was an examiner for the University of London at Overseas Universities with the object of maintaining common standards of medical training, he visited India in this way.

    Geoffrey Hadfield (1889-1968) was a British pathologist.

    Lilat Mohan Banerji (1880-1968) was an India anatomist and surgeon.

    Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor (1878-1960) was a British surgeon.

    Arthur St George Joseph McCarthy Huggett (1897-1968) was a British physiologist and obstetrician, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1958.

    Godrej Sorabjee Karai (-1978) was an Indian surgeon.

    Object history
    From a collection of photographs of Arthur St George Joseph McCarthy Huggett and Helen Kemp Porter, presented to the Royal Society for duplication by Jean Adams in June 2016.
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