The Anatomical Society (AS), previously known as the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland or ASGBI was founded in London in 1887 to "promote, develop and advance research and education in all aspects of anatomical science".^[1]

The society organises scientific meetings, publishes the Journal of Anatomy and Aging Cell and makes annual awards of PhD studentships, grants and prizes.

The society was suggested in early 1887 by Charles Barrett Lockwood, a surgeon and anatomist at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London and the first meeting was held on 6 May 1887. Lockwood was elected as Secretary and Sir George Murray Humphry, Professor of Anatomy and the first Professor of Surgery at Cambridge University, as first President of the society. Two resolutions were adopted: "That an Anatomical Society be founded, and that it be called the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland" and "That the scope and object of the Society be the Anatomy, Embryology and Histology of Man and of Animals in so far as they throw light upon the structure of Man."

In 2010 the name of the society was changed to "The Anatomical Society"

Coat of arms

Coat of arms of the Anatomical Society
Notes The Anatomical Society was granted armorial bearings by the College of Arms on 1 October 2014,^[2] which consist of: Crest A demi Lion Or holding with the dexter paw a Rod of Aesculapius Sable the serpent Gules and resting the sinister paw on a Human Skull Argent Escutcheon Sable fretty Argent and Bezanty on each Bezant a Roundel Gules over all a Chevron Argent Supporters On the dexter a male Écorché and on the sinister a naked Caucasian Woman proper crined Or Motto "Ex conformatione usus" (Latin for "From structure comes function" Badge A Lion rampant Or holding with the forepaws a Rod of Aesculapius Sable the serpent Gules and resting the dexter hindpaw on a Human Skull Argent Symbolism "The design alludes to the professions of members of the Anatomical Society who comprise medical practitioners, dentists, vets, scientists and artists. The frets in the Arms represent neural cells and the roundels within them, stem cells (for the scientists). A chevron is one of a series of bones on the ventral side of the tail in many reptiles and some mammals. The lion, the king of beasts (for the vets), in the Crest and in the Badge supports a Rod of Aesculapius (for the medical practitioners) and rests its paw on a skull (with teeth for the dentists). The Supporters are a male écorché and a female nude (for the artists)."^[3]

Presidents

The presidents of the Anatomical Society:^[4]

2019-present Simon Parson
2016-2019 Stefan Przyborski
2013–2016 T. Clive Lee
2011–2013 D. Ceri Davies
2008–2010 Susan Standring
2005–2007 John Patrick Fraher
2003–2005 Bernard John Moxham
2001–2003 Alan Boyde
1999–2001 John Frederick Morris
1997–1999 John Anthony Firth
1995–1997 Bernard Anthony Wood
1993–1995 Rayner Walter Guillery
1991–1993 David Brymor Thomas
1989–1991 John Williams Simmons Harriss
1988–1989 Edward John Clegg
1986–1988 Jeffrey Darcy Lever
1983–1986 Anthony Stuart King
1981–1983 Robert Barer
1979–1981 Tony William Alphonse Glenister
1977–1979 Sir Richard John Harrison
1975–1977 Rex Ernest Coupland
1973–1975 Alexander Graham McDonnell Weddell
1971–1973 Raymond John Scothorne
1969–1971 Ruth Elizabeth Mary Bowden
1967–1969 John Joseph Pritchard
1965–1967 David Vaughan Davis
1963–1965 Eldred Wright Walls
1961–1963 George Archibald Grant Mitchell
1959–1961 John Dixon Boyd
1957–1959 Frank Goldby
1955–1957 Robert Douglas Lockhart
1953–1955 William James Hamilton
1951–1953 Sir Wilfrid Le Gros Clark
1949–1951 Mary Frances Lucas Keith
1947–1949 Arthur Beeny Appleton
1945–1947 James Couper Brash
1943–1945 Frederic Wood Jones
1941–1943 Wynfrid Lawrence Henry Duckworth
1939–1941 James Peter Hill
1937–1939 Alexander Low
1935–1937 John Ernest Sullivan Frazer
1933–1935 Andrew Francis Dixon
1931–1933 William Wright
1929–1931 Thomas Hastie Bryce
1927–1929 Edward Fawcett
1924–1927 Sir Grafton Elliot Smith
1922–1924 James Thomas Wilson
1920–1922 Arthur Robinson
1918–1920 Sir Arthur Keith
1916–1918 David Hepburn
1914–1916 Robert Howden
1912–1914 Frederick Gymer Parsons
1910–1912 Robert William Reid
1908–1910 Andrew Melville Paterson
1906–1908 Arthur Thomson
1903–1906 Johnson Symington
1901–1903 Charles Barrett Lockwood
1899–1901 Alfred Harry Young
1897–1899 Alexander Macalister
1895–1897 Sir George Dancer Thane
1893–1895 Daniel John Cunningham
1890–1893 Sir William Turner
1887–1890 Sir George Murray Humphry (first President)

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