ABSTRACT
Physiologists helped establish the place of scientific method and experimental analysis in British education. They urged the creation of teaching laboratories throughout Britain. Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) directly encouraged this process. He was an outspoken publicist for the teaching of both biology and physiology in British schools. His views were shared by Sharpey and Foster who toured German physiological laboratories in 1870, studying facilities and teaching methods. Physiology at Cambridge was particularly enhanced by the interest of George Eliot (1819-1880). In 1879, she established the George Henry Lewes studentship. Lewes had been a founding member of the Physiological Society.
