scholarly journals Edmund Brisco Ford, 23 April 1901 - 21 January 1988

1995 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 146-168 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Ecological Genetics ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
The University

Edmund Brisco Ford, Emeritus Professor of Ecological Genetics in the University of Oxford, Distinguished Fellow of All Souls College and Darwin Medallist of the Royal Society, died on Thursday 21 January 1988 at the age of 86. His body was cremated and, at his request, the ashes were scattered on a grassy Cotswold hillside near Birdlip. In death he returned to the butterfly-meadows that had been the setting for so much of his working life. As the author of what is widely regarded as the best book on butterflies ever written, he progressed through entomology to using his insects as tools for the study of evolution, and finally (as he wrote) to ‘invent and develop the science of ecological genetics.’ 1 * In doing so he became one of the outstanding evolutionary biologists of his generation, famous not only for the quality of his science but also for the individuality, not to say the eccentricity, of his behaviour. ‘Henry’, as he was known to friends and colleagues, was a man about whom tales accumulated. * Numbers in this form refer to entries in the footnotes at the end of the text.

Welcome and introduction

1989 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-96
Keyword(s):  
Advisory Committee ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Imperial College ◽  
Joint Meeting ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

It is my pleasant duty to welcome you all most warmly to this meeting, which is one of the many events stimulated by the advisory committee of the William and Mary Trust on Science and Technology and Medicine, under the Chairmanship of Sir Arnold Burgen, the immediate past Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society. This is a joint meeting of the Royal Society and the British Academy, whose President, Sir Randolph Quirk, will be Chairman this afternoon, and it covers Science and Civilization under William and Mary, presumably with the intention that the Society would cover Science if the Academy would cover Civilization. The meeting has been organized by Professor Rupert Hall, a Fellow of the Academy and also well known to the Society, who is now Emeritus Professor of the History of Science and Technology at Imperial College in the University of London; and Mr Norman Robinson, who retired in 1988 as Librarian to the Royal Society after 40 years service to the Society.

scholarly journals XV. A new demonstration of the binomial theorem, when the exponent is a positive or negative fraction. By the Rev. Abram Robertson, A. M. F. R. S. Savilian Professor of Geometry in the University of Oxford. In a letter to Davies Giddy, Esq. F. R. S

1806 ◽  
Vol 96 ◽  
pp. 305-326 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Mathematical Science ◽  
Binomial Theorem ◽  
Useful Knowledge ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

Dear Sir, Being perfectly convinced of your love of mathematical science, and your extensive acquirements in it, I submit to your perusal a new demonstration of the binomial theorem, when the exponent is a positive or negative fraction. As I am a strenuous advocate for smoothing the way to the acquisition of useful knowledge, i deem the following articles of some importance ; and unless I were equally sincere in this persuasion, and in that of your desire to promote mathemati­cal studies, in requesting the perusal, I should accuse myself of an attempt to trifle with your valuable time. The following demonstration is new only to the extent above mentioned ; but in order that the reader may perceive the proof to be complete, a successive perusal of all the articles is necessary. As far as it relates to the raising of in­tegral powers, it is in substance the same with one which I drew up in the year 1794, and which was honoured with a place in the Philosophical Transactions for 1795. If, therefore, you think the following demonstration worthy the attention of mathematicians, you will much oblige me by presenting it to the Royal Society.

John Theodore Cash, 1854 - 1936

1938 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 294-300
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
Medical Studies ◽  
Materia Medica ◽  
Quaker Schools ◽  
The University

John Theodore Cash, who died a this home in Hereford on 30 November, 1936, in his 82nd year, was elected to the Fellow ship of the Royal Society in 1887. Forthirty -two years he was Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the University of Aberdeen and was given the title of Emeritus Professor on his retiral from the Chair in 1919. Born in Manchester on 16 December, 1854, he was sent at nine years of age to the Quaker Schools of Bootham , York, and later to Kendal. After the death of his father in 1866, his mother took council regarding the education of her two sons and was advised to go to Edinburgh . She removed tere in 1868 and Alfred Midgley, the elder son, who also died in 1936 ( aet. 85 years), commenced medical studies at the University.

XXXII. Observations on the transit of Venus over the sun, on the 6th of June 1761: In letter to the Right Honourable George Earl of Macclesfield, President of the Royal Society, from the Reverend Nathaniel Bliss, M. A. Savilian Professor of Geometry in the University of Oxford, and F. R. S

1761 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 173-177 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
The Sun ◽  
State Of Health ◽  
Saturday Morning ◽  
The Public ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
The Right ◽  
The University

My Lord, The present bad state of health of my worthy friend and collegue Dr. Bradley, his Majesty's Astronomer, prevented him from making the proper observations of the transit of Venus on Saturday morning last; and consequently, has deprived the public of such as would have been taken by so experienced and accurate an observer.

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