The Domain of Natural Science: the Gifford Lectures delivered in the University of Aberdeen in 1921 and 1922

Nature ◽  
1923 ◽  
Vol 112 (2816) ◽  
pp. 567-568
Author(s):  
F. S. MARVIN
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
The University

Henry Crozier Plummer, 1875-1946

1948 ◽  
Vol 5 (16) ◽  
pp. 778-789
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
Wide Field ◽  
Careful Attention ◽  
Natural Knowledge ◽  
Astronomical Society ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Royal Astronomical Society ◽  
The University ◽  
Assistant Lecturer ◽  
Attention To Detail

Henry Crozier Plummer was born at Oxford on 24 October 1875. He was the eldest son of William Edward Plummer, who was then Senior Assistant at the Oxford University Observatory under the directorship of Pritchard and who was subsequently (1892) appointed Director of the Observatory of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board and Reader in Astronomy at the University of Liverpool. Plummer was educated at St Edmund’s School, Oxford, from whence he proceeded to Hertford College where he held a scholarship. He took first classes in Mathematical Moderations and Finals, and a second class in the Final Honours School of Natural Science (Physics). After a year as Assistant Lecturer in Mathematics at Owens College, Manchester, and another year as Assistant Demonstrator in the Clarendon Laboratory, he accepted, in 1901, the position of Second Assistant in the University Observatory under the directorship of H. H. Turner. The salary of this post was not attractive, but Plummer wished to devote his energies to astronomy, a subject to which he had already made contributions in the form of papers published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ; he had been elected a Fellow of that Society in 1899. His career as a professional astronomer lasted until 1921. During that period his published papers (most of which appeared in the Monthly Notices ) covered a wide field of topics and included several well-defined series which represented substantial contributions to natural knowledge. He always approached a problem critically and with careful attention to detail; thoroughness and solidity were the characteristics of his work.

Ralph Tate, his Natural History Museum at the University of Adelaide and the ‘Tate Museum'

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Kidman
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
History Museum ◽  
The University

Many of Ralph Tate's achievements as the University of Adelaide's foundation Professor of Natural Science arewell known.The focus here is on the quite remarkable, but almost forgotten, natural history museum that he built at the University and that after his death was named the Tate Museum. The paper outlines and explains the difficulties that Tate encountered in establishing the museum, the strictly geological focus of his successors and the gradual dispersal of Tate's main collections.

scholarly journals Natural Science at the University of Cambridge

Nature ◽  
1870 ◽  
Vol 1 (18) ◽  
pp. 451-452
Author(s):  
T. G. BONNEY
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
The University

Ralph Tate (1840–1901), Naturalist par excellence: Life and Work before Emigration to Australia

2013 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 207
Author(s):  
Barbara P. Kidman
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Research Publications ◽  
University Experience ◽  
The University

Ralph Tate (1840–1901), the foundation Professor of Natural Science at the University of Adelaide, proved to be a remarkable scientist and naturalist with outstanding achievements in several fields. Tate was selected for the Chair in Adelaide, despite having no previous university experience, mainly on the recommendation of T. H. Huxley. This paper examines Tate's background in some detail and establishes that, in fact, as a respected geologist and palaeontologist with interests in conchology and botany, he was particularly well qualified to fill the post. He had had years of teaching practice, a long list of research publications and even experience in exploring new territories.

scholarly journals The Course in Natural Science in the University Elementary School. II

1918 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
pp. 493-504
Author(s):  
Otis W. Caldwell ◽  
Margaret M. Gordon ◽  
Cordelia Kingman ◽  
Tirzah S. Morse ◽  
C. Frank Phipps ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
The University

scholarly journals The Meteorite Collection in the Natural Science Museum of Turin

2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 259-265
Author(s):  
E. Costa ◽  
L. M. Gallo
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Science Museum ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Historical Importance ◽  
Ideal Tool ◽  
High Resolution Images ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The University ◽  
Selection Of

AbstractThe Natural Science Museum of Turin is the owner of a small but nice collection of meteorites, partly obtained by means of direct acquisition during the last 30 years, and partly inherited from the rather old collection of the University of Turin. This collection was partially forgotten for the last 50 years, and after 1936 the collection became almost invisible. In the last 30 years the meteorite samples were tightly packaged and retained in the basement of the museum building. Currently a new listing of the meteorite collection is in progress and almost finished, in which every sample is described, measured and weighed. For each sample the authors acquired high resolution images and examined historical documentations. Images were acquired with a desktop scanner, which was found to be an ideal tool for this purpose. A classification based on most famous meteorite catalogues is coupled to each description. About eighty samples (and probably a new meteorite, not described until now) will be depicted in the new catalogue, which hopefully will be published during 2009. The authors want to inform the international community that Turin the Museum holds an important collection containing almost all of the Piedmont meteorites (e.g. MOTTA DI CONTI, CERESETO, ALESSANDRIA), some Italian meteorites of considerable historical importance (TRONZANO, ALFIANELLO, ASSISI, SIENA), together with a selection of American and Eastern European samples.

scholarly journals The Course in Natural Science in the University Elementary School. I

1918 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 410-422
Author(s):  
Otis W. Caldwell ◽  
Margaret M. Gordon ◽  
Cordelia Kingman ◽  
Tirzah S. Morse ◽  
C. Frank Phipps ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
The University
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