Saints and Sinner: Sir Richard Owen

2013 ◽  
Vol 95 (5) ◽  
pp. 170-171
Author(s):  
Richard Bellon
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Technical Detail ◽  
British Association ◽  
Animal Kingdom ◽  
General Audience ◽  
Current State ◽  
Richard Owen

The presidential address launched the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Each year a new president provided a broad and accessible summary of the current state of science to a general audience. These talks served as the meeting's intellectual tent-pole. Afterwards attendees fanned out to more specialised events. Most presidents spoke for less than 60 minutes. At the 1858 meeting in leeds, Richard Owen pummelled his audience for nearly three hours. He dedicated much of his time to describing, in excruciatingly technical detail, his groundbreaking work on the structural correspondences present in all vertebrate skeletons, which he had earlier christened 'homologies'. He now made the case that his work provided 'a superstructure of higher generalisations in regards to parts homological or answerable throughout the animal kingdom .' He finished well after eleven at night. A journalist insinuated that no one emerged from the ordeal seemingly unexhausted except for the speaker himself.

scholarly journals John Hogg (1800-1869) e a descrição do quarto reino natural: Primigenum

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 125-139
Author(s):  
Verônica Klepka ◽  
Maria Julia Corazza ◽  
Fagner De Souza
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
British Association ◽  
Animal Kingdom ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Richard Owen ◽  
The Creation

ResumoAté o século XIX, organismos que, por indefinição ou por falta de caracteres distintivos claros, compartilhavam características com as plantas e/ou com os animais estavam distribuídos nos reinos vegetal ou animal. Novos conhecimentos tornaram necessária a criação de um agrupamento separado.  Em 1860, o naturalista John Hogg revisa a separação feita pelo paleontólogo Richard Owen propondo modificações e a criação do quarto reino da natureza: o Primigenum, foco de debates conceituais ao longo de todo século XX até chegar ao que hoje conhecemos como Reino Protista. A tradução do trabalho de Hogg, lido para a Associação Britânica, em Oxford, no dia 28 de junho de 1860, é aqui apresentada. Palavras-Chave: Classificação biológica; Protistas; Seres Vivos.AbstractUntil the nineteenth century, organisms, of indefiniteness or lack of clear distinctive characters, shared features with the plants and / or animals were distributed in the plant and animal kingdom. New knowledge made necessary the creation of a separate grouping. In 1860, naturalist John Hogg review the separation maked for paleontologist Richard Owen proposing modifications and the creation of the fourth kingdom of nature: the Primigenum, focus of conceptual debates throughout the twentieth century to get to what we know today as the Kingdom Protist. The translation of Hogg, work read to British Association, in Oxford, on June 28, 1860, is presented here.Keywords: Biologic classification; Protists; Living Beings

scholarly journals PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS Does the history of science have a future?

1999 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN HEDLEY BROOKE
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Fiftieth Anniversary ◽  
British Association ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Moment

It has been a singular privilege to preside over the BSHS as it celebrates its fiftieth anniversary. As we share our festivities with the British Association annual meeting at Leeds, I am doubly honoured to be giving this address. A fiftieth anniversary is a sentimental occasion. It is a moment when we can express our gratitude to our many friends and forebears who by their dedication have enabled the Society to grow and flourish. That so many of those friends should be with us to share in our celebration is a source of delight to us all. To our past presidents, former editors, officers and councillors, I extend the warmest welcome. And to our visitors and guests from overseas, I should like to say how much we value your presence and contribution to this conference.Is there not, then, an incongruous note in my title – a hint of foreboding perhaps? If tempted to speculate on its source one might have wondered whether it is in those rumours we sometimes hear that the end of science is nigh. When we can almost clone humans and almost explain the moment of creation, what is there left? Might the end of science not spell the end of its history? A moment's reflection suggests that this cannot be. After all, the question why science should have come to an end when it did would still keep historians in business. And the more intriguing question of why the end of science has been proclaimed at the end of each of the last four centuries would keep us in business even longer!

1973 Presidential Address Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting

1974 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Charles Issawi
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Thomas Carlyle ◽  
Henry Ford ◽  
Middle East Studies

Anything coming after the floor show we have just seen can only be an anticlimax, and my impulse is to tear up my prepared text and just quote two great men: Thomas Carlyle, who described economics as “the dismal science” and Henry Ford, who said “history is bunk” — from which it presumably follows that economic history is dismal bunk. Instead, I should like to take advantage of this captive audience and speak to you in praise of economic history. This is an old Arabic genre : mahasin al-iqtisad. And of course economic history means giving as little history for as much money as possible, so you will not expect a long speech.

Sentiment and Prejudice

2021 ◽  
pp. 799-832
Author(s):  
Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche ◽  
Annie L. Cot
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
British Association ◽  
Equal Pay ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Women's Wages ◽  
Equal Work ◽  
Economic Journal

This article describes the evolution of Edgeworth’s thought on women’s wages and on the principle of “equal pay for equal work.” We first document Edgeworth’s early works on “exact utilitarianism” as an epistemic basis for his reflections upon women’s wages. Second, we review his first writings on women’s work and wages: early mentions in the 1870s, his book reviews published in the Economic Journal, and the substantial preface he wrote for the British Association for the Advancement of Science 1904 report on Women in Printing Trades. Third, we document his 1922 British Association presidential address in relation to the burgeoning literature on women’s work and wages within political economy at the time. Finally, we show that his 1923 follow-up article on women’s wages and economic welfare constitutes an update of his “aristocratical utilitarianism” in the post–World War I context.

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