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1900-2001
Alexander James Edward Cave was a British anatomist. Cave was Senior Demonstrator and Lecturer in Anatomy at the University of Leeds until 1933, when he became the Curator of the Anatomical Museum at University College in London. He also became Arnott Demonstrator and Professor of Human and Comparative Anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons. For more than two decades, he was Professor of Anatomy at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He was also Examiner in Anatomy for London University, Cambridge University, and the Royal University of Malta. He was elected to the Royal College of Surgeons as a Fellow in 1959, and was granted lifetime membership to the Anatomical Society. He served as president of the Linnean Society from 1970 to 1973