Ernest William Barnes, 1874-1953

1954 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-25
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Elementary Teacher ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Classical Scholarship ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University

The father of Ernest William Barnes was John Starkie Barnes, a native of Accrington in Lancashire, whose forebears and relatives were all engaged in the cotton trade. Mr Barnes became an elementary teacher in the sixties of the last century, and at an early age was appointed a headmaster. His wife, Jane Elizabeth Kerry, who came of an agricultural family in the small Oxfordshire town of Charlbury, was at the time of their marriage headmistress of the associated school for girls. They had a family of four sons, of whom the eldest, the subject of this notice, was born at Birmingham on 1 April 1874: the second, Arthur Stanley (1875—) became M.D., D.Sc., F.R.C.P., and Dean of the Medical Faculty in the University of Birmingham; the third, Alfred Edward (1877-1916) won a classical scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge, was called to the Bar, and became an official of the Local Government Board; the youngest, James Sidney (1881- 1952), was also a scholar of Trinity, was Third Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos, and entered the Admiralty: he rose to be Deputy Secretary and to be awarded the C.B. and the K.B.E. Mr J. S. Barnes, after holding more than one headmastership, became Clerk to the King’s Norton School Board, and, about 1883, an Inspector of Schools in Birmingham, a position that he occupied throughout the rest of his working life.

scholarly journals Obituary notices

1932 ◽  
Vol 110 (768) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Charles Darwin ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Practical Work ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
Mathematics And Science

Francis Darwin, the third son of Charles Darwin, was born at Down on August 16, 1848; he died at Cambridge on September 19, 1925. In his ‘Recollections' (one of the essays in “Spring-time and other Essays” (1920)) he says that he was christened at Malvern—“a fact in which I had a certain unaccountable pride. But now my only sensation is one of surprise at having been christened at all, and a wish that I had received some other name." When he was twelve years old he went to the Grammar School at Clapham kept by the Rev. Charles Pritchard, who became Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford. This school was selected on account of its nearness to Down, and also because it “had the merit of giving more mathematics and science than could then be found in public schools.” He was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1866, where, in those more peaceful days, from his bedroom he heard the nightingales sing through the happy May nights. He described the teaching of biology at Cambridge as being “in a somewhat dead condition. Indeed, I hardly think it had advanced much from the state of things which existed in 1828, when my father entered Christ’s College. The want of organised practical work in Zoology was perhaps a blessing in disguise; for it led me to struggle with the subject by myself. I used to get snails and slugs and dissect their dead bodies, comparing my results with books hunted up in the University Library, and this was a real bit of education.” On one occasion “a thoughtful brother sent me a dead porpoise, which (to the best of my belief) I dissected, to the horror of the bedmaker, in my College rooms.” After obtaining a First Class in the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1870 he went to St. George’s Hospital and in due course took the Cambridge M. B. degree. In London he “had the luck to work in the laboratory of Dr. Klein,” who gave him “the first opportunity of seeing science in the making—of seeing research from the inside” and thus implanted in his mind the desire to work at science for its own sake. The chance of doing this, he says, came when his father took him as his assistant. He did not carry out his intention of becoming a practising physician: “happily for me the Fates willed otherwise.” He returned from London to the home at Down and for eight years acted as secretary and assistant to his father.

Some Recent Progress in Air Survey With Particular Reference to Newly-Developed Territories

1960 ◽  
Vol 64 (589) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
W. P. Smith
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Recent Progress ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
General Manager ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Subject ◽  
British Commonwealth ◽  
Wilbur Wright

The Fifteenth British Commonwealth Lecture “Some Recent Progress in Air Survey with Particular Reference to Newly- Developed Territories" was given by W. P. Smith, M.B.E., B.A., F.R.I.C.S. before the Royal Aeronautical Society at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers on 19th November 1959. Mr. Peter G. Masefield, M.A., F.R.Ae.S., Hon.F.I.A.S., President of the Society, presided. Introducing the Lecturer the President said: This lecture was the second of their four premier named annual lectures. The first was the traditional Wilbur Wright Lecture, the second this Commonwealth Lecture, the third was the Louis Bleriot Lecture and the fourth the Lanchester Memorial Lecture. Five years ago, as many of them would recall, His Royal Highness, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, honoured them by giving the Commonwealth Lecture on ”Aviation and the Development of Remote Areas.“He thought that they could say that the subject of Mr. Smith's Commonwealth Lecture was in some ways a projection of the Duke of Edinburgh's lecture, under the title "Some Recent Progress in Air Survey with Particular Reference to Newly- Developed Territories.”Mr. W. P. Smith was a Director and leading light of Fairey Air Surveys Limited. Naturally as befitted a Commonwealth Lecturer, Mr. Smith was a master of his subject—one could almost say that he was “monarch of all he surveys.” He was a Durham man, born in 1920; he was educated at Wellfield School, Durham, and went up to Oxford and took his degree there. During the War, Mr. Smith was in command of Survey Units in the Royal Engineers and after the War he transferred to the Survey Branch of the Control Commission, in Germany. Then, in 1946 he left the Army to join the new Directorate of Colonial Surveys as a Senior Surveyor, and went to West Africa on the Volta River Project. He worked in Africa for a period and then in 1950 he joined Fairey Air Surveys Limited, then known as the Air Survey Company, as many would remember. He was a General Manager then, and was now a Director. So Mr. Smith had spent all his working life dealing with the subject on which he was going to talk about that evening, and in particular, he had been in charge of that vast Kariba Hydro-Electric Survey, on the Zambesi. They could have no one better to talk about Air Survey, and it was said that “life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.” Air Survey, and the sort of things Mr. Smith was going to talk about was, in some ways, a way of filling in some of those insufficiencies.He had much pleasure in calling on Mr. Smith to deliver the Fifteenth British Commonwealth Lecture.

Edward Waymouth Reid, 1862-1948

1948 ◽  
Vol 6 (17) ◽  
pp. 212-218
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Reactions ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Classical Scholarship ◽  
Physico Chemical ◽  
University College ◽  
The University ◽  
Assistant Lecturer

E. Waymouth Reid, who retired from the Chair of Physiology at University College, Dundee, University of St Andrews, in 1935, after forty-six years’ service, died on 10 March 1948 at the age of eighty-five. He was born 11 October 1862 in Canterbury, the fourth son of a surgeon there, James Reid, F.R.C.S. He was educated at Sutton Vallance Grammar School, gaining eventually a Classical Scholarship to Cambridge. He matriculated at Cambridge University in 1879. In 1882 he gained a first class in Part I of the Natural Science Tripos and in 1883 a first class in Part II. During the period 1882-1883 he also acted as one of the demonstrators in the Department of Anatomy. He then decided to qualify in medicine and in 1883 he joined St Bartholomew’s Hospital, graduating in medicine in 1885. He early showed his interest in electrical reactions,, being appointed assistant ‘electrician’ at St Bartholomew’s in 1885. The same year he was elected to a Demonstratorship in Physiology at St Mary’s Hospital under A. D. Waller and in 1887 was promoted to the post of Assistant Lecturer in Physiology. Reid, during the period he was at St Mary’s, carried out in conjunction with Waller a most interesting investigation on the electrical activity of the excised mammalian heart. This investigation must have been one of the earliest pieces of research in electrocardiography in this country. His interest in physico-chemical reactions was also manifested early as in 1887 he devised a useful recording osmometer. In 1889 Reid was elected, at the early age of twenty-seven, as the first holder of the newly created Chair of Physiology at University College, Dundee, where he joined a stimulating and enthusiastic band of colleagues including Geddes, D’Arcy Thompson and Ewing. Reid was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1898 and in 1904 gained the Sc.D. of his old University. The University of St Andrews conferred on him the degree of LL.D. when he retired from his Chair.

scholarly journals John Edward Lennard-Jones, 1894-1954

1955 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 174-184 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
National Physical Laboratory ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
Atoms And Molecules ◽  
Lennard Jones ◽  
Physical Laboratory ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Manchester

John Lennard-Jones was born on 27 October 1894 in Leigh, Lancashire and was educated at Leigh Grammar School, where he specialized in classics. In 1912 he entered Manchester University, changed his subject to mathematics in which he took an honours degree and then an M.Sc. under Professor Lamb, carrying out some research on the theory of sound. In 1915 he joined the Royal Flying Corps, obtained his Wings in 1917 and saw service in France; he also took part in some investigations on aerodynamics with Messrs Boulton and Paul and at the National Physical Laboratory. In 1919 he returned to the University of Manchester as lecturer in mathematics, took the degree of D.Sc. of that university and continued to work on vibrations in gases, becoming more and more interested in the gas-kinetic aspects of the subject as his paper of 1922 in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society shows. In 1922, on the advice of Professor Sydney Chapman, he applied for and was elected to a Senior 1851 Exhibition to enable him to work in Cambridge, where he became a research student at Trinity College and was awarded the degree of Ph.D. in 1924. At Cambridge under the influence of R. H. Fowler he became more and more interested in the forces between atoms and molecules and in the possibility of deducing them from the behaviour of gases.

Dobzhansky and Dreyfus’s Group: The Introduction of Natural Population Genetics Studies in Brazil (1943–1960)

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 244-276
Author(s):  
José Franco Monte Sião ◽  
Lilian Al-Chueyr Pereira Martins
Keyword(s):  
Population Genetics ◽  
Natural Population ◽  
Genetic Research ◽  
The Third ◽  
Theodosius Dobzhansky ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Important Center ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
And Linguistics

An important center in which genetic research started and was carried out in Brazil during the 20th century was situated at the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Linguistics of the University of São Paulo, led by André Dreyfus (1897–1952). Beginning in 1943, the Ukrainian geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900–1975) visited Dreyfus’s group four times. This paper evaluates the impact of Dobzhansky’s visits on the studies of genetics and evolution developed by the members of Dreyfus’s group during the 1940s and the 1950s. The study leads to the conclusion that Dobzhansky’s visits had an impact, not only in quantitative terms (the number of individual and joint publications), but also in qualitative terms. However, we also detect a decrease in the number of individual and joint publications related to the subject of the project during certain periods. The adoption of new experimental organisms by some members of the group; the involvement with subjects not related to the initial project, such as botany; Dobzhansky’s and his wife’s health problems during the third visit; and scientific disagreements between Dobzhansky and Brazilian researchers may have contributed to the decrease in publications.

scholarly journals Finite Elements, Roman-Style

2003 ◽  
Vol 125 (09) ◽  
pp. 58-60
Author(s):  
Robert O. Woods
Keyword(s):  
Finite Elements ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Classical Scholarship ◽  
Irregular Shapes ◽  
Recent Interest ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
Of Greece ◽  
Comprehensive Study

MJT Lewis has published a work that is a combination of classical scholarship and pragmatic experimentation, Surveying Instruments of Greece and Rome. Among other things, he has undertaken a comprehensive study of the limits of accuracy that are attainable using modern reconstructions of ancient instruments. Graceful Roman arches, built about 2,000 years ago, held up a carefully crafted water course more than 50 km long, from a rural spring to the city of Nimes. The chorobates was a tool used to get a horizontal reference by sighting along the top. A modern writer, who tried it, doubts its usefulness. The Roman practice of reducing a problem of irregular shapes to a series of manageable-sized orthogonal blocks may have been primitive; however, it got remarkable results. The recent interest in applying modern analytic and experimental techniques to the study of ancient engineering has inspired a good deal of research. Hubert Chanson, a reader in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Queensland in Australia, has published several papers on the subject and has mounted an introductory website, ‘Some Hydraulics of Roman Aqueducts’. The site gives numerous references to other literature, including experimental work by himself and V Valenti in 1995.

scholarly journals Peer tutoring in physics: the attitudes to, and experiences of, student-tutors

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Howard Sneddon
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Positive Experience ◽  
Learning Methods ◽  
The Third ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
Senior Students ◽  
Clear Description

In the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Glasgow a wide variety of teaching and learning methods are employed in our undergraduate degree courses.  Included in this are a series of peer-led tutorials, known as the “Peer to Peer” tutorial scheme. This sees Honours level students in the third, fourth or fifth years of their degrees assisting students in years one and two.  The senior students act as tutors, assisting the level one and two students with questions from their coursework and life as students in the subject. This paper details the Peer to Peer scheme, providing a clear description of a model that could be applied to any discipline.  It then reports on an in-depth study of the attitudes and experiences of the student-tutors involved. Student-tutors reported a positive experience of the tutorials. They had taken part in the scheme to improve their own skills and to assist both younger students and the School.  Their reflections on the tutorials showed that these goals were met.  The scheme, whilst not perfect, did contribute to the learning of the students, whilst improving the skills base of the student-tutors.

David William Dye, 1887 - 1932

1932 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-78
Keyword(s):  
Private School ◽  
Technical College ◽  
National Physical Laboratory ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Engineering Student ◽  
Electrical Measurements ◽  
Physical Laboratory ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

Dr. David William Dye was born at Portsmouth on December 30, 1887, and by his death at Surbiton on February 18th, 1932, at the early age of 44 years, we have lost a brilliant investigator and an acknowledged authority on the subject of electrical precision measurement to which his working life was devoted. The third son of the late Charles Dye, J.P., of Portsmouth, he received his early instruction in that city, first at a private school and later at the Municipal Technical College. As an engineering student he worked at the City and Guilds Technical College and subsequently graduated in the University of London. After a short apprenticeship course with the British ThomsonHouston Company at Rugby he joined the stall of the National Physical Laboratory in 1910, where he at once found tasks which specially appealed to him. Under A. Campbell, who was then in charge of the Electrical Measurements Division, he assisted in the development of methods for the magnetic testing of iron and its alloys in various forms, the construction of standards of inductance and the measurements of currents of radio-frequency.

Harry Medforth Dawson, 1876 - 1939

1940 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
pp. 139-154 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Chemical Research ◽  
Modern School ◽  
The University ◽  
College Educated

Harry Medforth Dawson was born in Bramley, Leeds, in 1876, and throughout his career was associated closely with his home city. Indeed with the exception of three years of Continental study he spent the whole of his working life in the University of Leeds, known in its early days as the Yorkshire College. Educated at the Leeds Modern School, he gained a Baines Scholarship at the Yorkshire College and began life as a student in 1891 at the early age of fifteen. Here he was attracted to the study of chemistry by the teaching of Arthur Smithells, who a few years previously had succeeded Sir Edward Thorpe in the Chair of Chemistry. To the influence and guidance of Smithells, not only in his student days, but later when he was a member of the chemistry staff, Dawson always acknowledged that he owed a great deal. It was probably due to his collaboration with Smithells in one of his well-known investigations on flame that turned Dawson’s interests towards chemistry and chemical research as his career; for in his last year as a student he helped in a research on the conductivity and luminosity of flames containing salt vapours. This work was completed and published a few years later in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in the names of A. Smithells, H. M. Dawson and H. A. Wilson. After graduating B.Sc. London in 1896, Dawson gained an 1851 Exhibition, the highest distinction then open to a student, and he proceeded to Germany where he studied for three years, mainly with van’t Hoff in Berlin but also at Giessen with Elbs, at Leipzig, and with Abegg at Breslau.

Central/local government relations in England: an outline 1800–1950

Urban History ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 38-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. P. Hennock
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Urban History ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Good Opportunity ◽  
Government Relations ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University

In April 1980 a group of urban historians and political scientists met at the University of York under the auspices of the Social Science Research Council to pool what they knew about the changing relations between central and local government and to identify areas for future research. The initiative had come from the political scientists whose interest in the subject had been stimulated by recent government policy. Those who attended from among the historians had to confess that this was not a subject that had recently been much discussed among them. When I was invited by the editor of this Yearbook to contribute an article on a neglected aspect of urban history, it seemed a good opportunity to draw the attention of the urban history group to the subject. What follows is an amended version of the paper that had originally been written for the SSRC seminar.

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