| name = Waterston
| honorific_prefix =
| honorific_suffix = MD
| image = File:Waterston,_David.jpg
| birth_date = 1871
| death_date = 1942
| address = Professor University of Anatomy, King's College, London, WCSt Andrews [A63]| occupation = medical<br />academic<br />anatomist
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 19091922.0102.2015
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ordinary fellow- fellowship not taken up| left = 1913 last listed
| clubs =
| societies = Royal College of Surgeons
}}
== Notes ==
=== House Notes ===
19081922.1101.10 17 proposed by JD. GreyMacRitchie, seconded by AE. Francis Dixon<br />N. Fallaize, F.C. Shrubsall <br />Dept of Anatomy, University of Edinburgh; later Prof. of Anatomy, King’s College, London
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
THE death of Prof. David Waterston on September 4 at OBE FRSE (1871–1942) was a 20th-century British surgeon and anatomist. He was the age Bute Professor of seventy-one removed Anatomy at St Andrews University.<br /><br />Waterston was one of the distinguished anatomists of first to debunk the Piltdown Man hoax, correctly pointing out that the Edinburgh School jaw and a familiar figure for the past twenty-eight years skull did not match correctly<br /><br />He was born in the life Govan district of Glasgow on 25 August 1871 the University son of Rev Richard Waterston (1830-1892) of StUnion Church on Morrison Street, and his wife Isabella Anderson. AndrewsThe family lived at 2 Park Grove on the Paisley Road. After graduating [2] His father moved to St Paul's Church in arts Dundee in 1878.[3] Ironically the family then lived at 2 Park Place in Dundee (very similar to their Glasgow address).[4]<br /><br />He studied for a general degree at Edinburgh University (the home town of Edinburgh he took the M. B., C. Mhis parents) graduating MA around 1890 then studied Medicine under Sir William Turner graduating MB ChB in 1895. He then began lecturing in 1895, Anatomy at the F. R. C. Suniversity alongside David Hepburn. He gained his doctorate (Ed.MD) in 1898 and won the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh's Gold Medal in 1900.[5] In 1900 he was living at 16 Merchiston Terrace in west Edinburgh.[6]<br /><br />In 1901 he was elected a Fellow of the degree Royal Society of MEdinburgh. DHis proposers were Sir William Turner, Ramsay Heatley Traquair, Robert Munro, and David Hepburn. with [7]<br /><br />In 1909 he was still working in Edinburgh and lived at 1 Coates Place in the West End of the city, a gold medal for his thesis very large terraced townhouse in 1900the West End of the City. [Nature8]<br /><br />Anatomist David Waterston He was Professor of Anatomy at King's College , London decided that from around 1910. During this period he came to national fame in 1913 as the first person to discredit the two specimens could not belong together and that 'Piltdown Man' hoax which had been made public in December 1912.[9]<br /><br />In 1914 he became the Bute Professor of Anatomy at St Andrews University in 1914, succeeding Prof James Musgrove.[10]<br /><br />He died on 4 September 1942.[11] When he died there was just an ape jaw attached inter-regnum in the Bute chair due to a human skullthe Second World War. He was eventually succeeded in 1946 by Prof Robert Walmsley.<br /><br />He was married to Isabel Amy Simsom. Their children included Brigadier Surgeon Richard E Waterston FRCS and David James Waterston FRCSE.[12]
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
contributor to the Wellcome Research Laboratories, 3rd Report, 1908, etc.
=== House Publications ===
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
Membership correspondence: Watuston, D.
=== Other Material ===
Un. of St Andrews: The Collection also contains material such as the nine original watercolour drawings of a progressive dissection of the trunk and inguinal regions, produced by David Waterston, Professor of Anatomy 1914-1942<br />
