Bastian, HENRY CHARLTON

Bastian, HENRY CHARLTON, physiologist, was born at Truro, Cornwall, in 1837, and from a private school at Falmouth proceeded to University College, London, where he became professor of Pathological Anatomy (1867), hospital physician (1871), and professor of Clinical Medicine (1878). His works include Modes of Origin of Lowest Organisms (1871), Beginnings of Life (1872), Evolution (1874), and The Brain as an Organ of Mind (1880), the fullest scientific exposition till then published of the views on the subject of psychology held by the extreme physiological school. Dr Bastian is notable as the champion of the doctrine of spontaneous generation.