FOSTER, SIR MICHAEL (1836-1907), English physi ologist, was born at Huntingdon on March 8, 1836, the son of a surgeon. After a brilliant career at University college, London, he studied for some time in Paris, and then taught physiology for two years at University college. In 1870 he was appointed by Trinity college, Cambridge, to its praelectorship in physiology, and 13 years later he became the first occupant of the newly-created chair of physiology in the university, holding it till 1903. He had a very large share in the organization and development of the Cambridge biological school. From 1881 to 1903 he was biological secretary of the Royal Society. In 1899 he was created K.C.B., and was re turned as a Unionist for London university in 1900, but crossed the floor of the House in 1902. In 1906 he stood as a Liberal, and was defeated. His chief writings were a Textbook of Physiology (1876), which became a standard work, and Lectures on the His tory of Physiology in the Toth, 17th and 28th Centuries 0900, lectures delivered at the Cooper Medical college, San Francisco, in woo. He died in London on Jan. 29, 1907.