Douglas Alexander Spalding (1841–77)

Comparative psychologist. Attended lectures in literature and philosophy, Aberdeen, 1862. Entered the Middle Temple, 1866; called to the bar, 1869. Reported his experimental work on instinct in chicks at the 1872 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Became a regular reviewer for Nature and the Examiner from 1872. Became tutor to John Francis Russell in 1873, and continued his experimental work on physiological psychology.