Owl to the Board of Governors of Hogwarts

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Curriculum Vitae of Dr Stephen Maturin, applicant for the recently vacated post of Potions instructor.

Position Desired:
Professor of Potions

Education:

• Trinity College, Dublin


• Ecole de Médecine, Paris

Relevant Job Experience:

• Extensive experience compounding medicines for a variety of clients from British nobility to common sailors


• Research interests and considerable fieldwork in ethnopharmacology

Other Qualifications:

• Internationally known physician and naturalist; routinely sought after to lecture on matters medical and scientific in a number of the world's prominent cities


• Many years of practical experience as a surgeon for the British Royal Navy


• Proficiency in several languages of scholarly usefulness, including Latin, Greek, and French; also proficient in some other languages.
  

Professional Organizations:

• Royal Society, England


• Royal College of Surgeons, England


• Entomological Society of London

Professional References:

• Baron Guillaume Dupuytren, physician, Paris


• Baron Jean Nicolas Corvisart des Marest, physician, Paris


• Sir Joseph Blaine, president of the Entomological Society of London, fellow of the Royal Society


• Dr Harrington, Physician of the Fleet, London

Personal References:

• Captain Jack Aubrey, presently at Hogwarts


• don Patricio Fitzgerald y Saavedra, Corunna

Publications:

• Tar-Water Reconsidered


• Thoughts on the Prevention of the Diseases most usual among Seamen


• New Operation for Suprapubic Cystotomy


• Tractatus de Novae Febris Ingressu


• Remarks on Pezophaps Solitarious


• Modest Proposals for the Preservation of Health in the Navy


• Mariners: Consensus and cohesion in certain states of adversity


• Some Remarks on Peruvian Cirripedes

(( OOC: Yes, all these "publications" are canonical, Tar-Water Reconsidered and all. *facepalm* ))