{"title":"Joseph William Mellor. 1869-1938","authors":"A. T. Green","doi":"10.1098/RSBM.1939.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/RSBM.1939.0018","url":null,"abstract":"With the passing of Joseph William Mellor on 24 May science lost an outstanding worker. The clay industries of this country lost a great leader, a pioneer in clay technology, appreciated alike for his high endeavour, achievement, and astuteness. Mellor was born at Huddersfield in 1869. When ten years old he was taken by his parents to New Zealand. During his youth he worked in a boot factory and took classes in the evenings at the Dunedin Technical School. At twenty-three he matriculated and a year later entered the University of Otago. After graduating and serving as a science lecturer a t an agricultural college he was awarded an 1851 Exhibition which took him to the University of Manchester in 1899","PeriodicalId":113125,"journal":{"name":"Obituary Notices of Fellows of The Royal Society (1932-1954)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125395573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Edgar Hartley Kettle, 1882-1936","authors":"A. M. James","doi":"10.1098/RSBM.1938.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/RSBM.1938.0011","url":null,"abstract":"The death of Dr. E. H. Kettle, Professor of Pathology at the London Post-graduate School of Medicine, came at the height of his powers and at a time when his influence and authority in scientific medicine gave promise of increasing value. Edgar Hartley Kettle was born in London on 20 April, 1882. He died 1 December, 1936, at the age of 54 after a long and finally painful illness. He was educated at Skipton Grammar School and while at school, as a result of an affection of the knee, suffered the first of his physical handicaps, a shortened and rigid leg. After leaving school he studied medicine in London in St. Mary ’s Hospital, graduating M.B ., B.S. in 1907 and M.D. 1910. He was appointed Pathologist to the Cancer Hospital, Fulham, in 1907, and during his tenure of this post conceived and carried out the plan of his first work, The Pathology of Tumours . This useful little handbook is important for his development, from the series of figures drawn by himself. The main advantage he himself claimed from the venture was the discipline of purposeful selection of representative fields, rigid exclusion of irrelevant detail, and unambiguous draughtsmanship. It is still, after twenty-five years, a useful and shrewd summary of the fundamental problems of tumour pathology. In 1912 he returned to the pathological department of St. Mary ’s Hospital as assistant to Spilsbury and succeeded him as Lecturer on Pathology in the Medical School in 1918. During the War, Kettle acted as Pathologist to the 3rd London General Hospital in addition to his duties as Pathologist to St. Mary’s Hospital. Unofficially nothing came amiss to him ; he acted as Superintendent of the Hospital when that overworked official finally required a holiday, and he edited, and largely wrote, the student’s Journal when it threatened to lapse.","PeriodicalId":113125,"journal":{"name":"Obituary Notices of Fellows of The Royal Society (1932-1954)","volume":"133 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120896035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Edwin Bailey Elliott, 1851 - 1937","authors":"H. W. Turnbull","doi":"10.1098/RSBM.1938.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/RSBM.1938.0026","url":null,"abstract":"Edwin Bailey Elliott, who was born at Oxford in 1851, was the son of Edwin Litch field Elliott, and was educated at Magdalen College School, from which he obtained a demyship at Magdalen College. He graduated in 1873 after gaining first-class honours in mathematics, both in moderations and in the final school, and in 1874 was awarded the senior university mathematical scholarship. In the same year he was elected Fellow and mathematical tutor at the Queen’s College, an office which he held for well-nigh twenty years.","PeriodicalId":113125,"journal":{"name":"Obituary Notices of Fellows of The Royal Society (1932-1954)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114350997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alfred James Ewart, 1872 - 1937","authors":"W. Stiles","doi":"10.1098/RSBM.1939.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/RSBM.1939.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Alfred James Ewart was born in Liverpool on the 12 February 1872, his father, Edmund Brown Ewart, B.A., being Lecturer in Chemistry and Director of the chemical laboratory of the Liverpool Institute where Ewart himself received much of his earlier education. Ewart matriculated at the University of London in 1888, obtaining a first class, and in the next year passed the Intermediate Science examination of the same University. In 1890 he obtained honours in Physics in that examination, and in the same year entered as a student at University College, Liverpool. Three years later he took the degree of B.Sc. of the University of London as an external student with first-class honours in Botany. About this time he acted as demonstrator in Botany in University College, Liverpool, at the same time carrying out his first original investigations in plant physiology. The results of these researches appeared as two papers in Transactions of the Liverpool Biological Society in 1894 and 1895 respectively, under the titles of “Observations on the Vitality and Germination of Seeds” and “Observations on the Growth and Germination of the Pollen-tube”.","PeriodicalId":113125,"journal":{"name":"Obituary Notices of Fellows of The Royal Society (1932-1954)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131956789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"William Wallace Campbell. 1862-1938","authors":"F. Dyson","doi":"10.1098/RSBM.1939.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/RSBM.1939.0021","url":null,"abstract":"This great astronomer died on 15 June 1938. In a pathetic letter to his wife he explained that his complete blindness in one eye, approaching blindness in the other eye, and still more the fear of losing his reason would make him nothing but a burden to his wife and fam ily and so had few regrets on leaving the world. The high esteem in which he was held was testified by the pall-bearers at his funeral. These included the Governor of the State of California, the Acting President and Officials of the University, the Director, the late Director of the Lick Observatory, and the Director of the Mount Wilson Observatory. William Wallace Campbell was born on 11 April 1862 in a farm in Hancock County, Ohio. H e became a student of the University of Michigan and took the degree of B.S. in the faculty of Engineering. He was appointed Professor of Mathematics in the University of Colorado, but two years later, at considerable financial sacrifice, returned to the University of Michigan as Instructor in Astronomy. In 1891 he was appointed Astronomer at the Lick Observatory, and remained there till 1923, when he yielded reluctantly to the pressure put upon him to accept the post of President of the University of California.","PeriodicalId":113125,"journal":{"name":"Obituary Notices of Fellows of The Royal Society (1932-1954)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124482637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ernest Howard Griffiths. 1851-1932","authors":"H. Ulbricht","doi":"10.1098/rsbm.1932.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.1932.0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":113125,"journal":{"name":"Obituary Notices of Fellows of The Royal Society (1932-1954)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121879291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sydney Young, 1857-1937","authors":"W. R. G. Atkins","doi":"10.1098/RSBM.1938.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/RSBM.1938.0021","url":null,"abstract":"Sydney Young was born at Farnworth near Widnes, in Lancashire, on 29 December, 1857. His father, Edward Young, was a very prosperous Liverpool merchant and a Justice of the Peace for the county. After receiving his early education at the Royal Institution, Liverpool, he refused his father’s offer of a position in his firm and entered Owens College, Manchester, with the idea of studying chemistry. On his first day at Owens College he spoke to another new student, Charles W. Kimmins, afterwards well known as a lecturer on psychology. The two became close friends and later on Young married Kimmins’s sister, Grace Martha.","PeriodicalId":113125,"journal":{"name":"Obituary Notices of Fellows of The Royal Society (1932-1954)","volume":"56 11","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121015481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"George Ellery Hale, 1868-1938","authors":"H. F. Newall","doi":"10.1098/RSBM.1939.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/RSBM.1939.0013","url":null,"abstract":"George Ellery Hale was born at Chicago on 29 June 1868. He was the son of William Ellery Hale and Mary Stratton Hale, who was the daughter of Dr Gardiner Stratton Browne, of Hartford, Connecticut. His father and grandfather had gone, before the American Civil War, from New England to Chicago and had acquired property there. The great Chicago Fire, which broke out in October 1871, involved them in serious losses ; but William Hale, with characteristic energy, continued to develop his business of manufacturing hydraulic elevators, and subsequently became one of the leaders in this field of enterprise in America, and established offices in London and Paris. Thus it came about that George Hale grew up amidst circumstances of active endeavour, and his character was developed by the wise and stimulating influence of his father and mother.","PeriodicalId":113125,"journal":{"name":"Obituary Notices of Fellows of The Royal Society (1932-1954)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129133636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sir Thomas Muir. 1844-1934","authors":"A. Stabinis","doi":"10.1098/rsbm.1934.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.1934.0002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":113125,"journal":{"name":"Obituary Notices of Fellows of The Royal Society (1932-1954)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132764117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sir Alexander Cruikshank Houston. 1865-1933","authors":"G. ManuelHelguero","doi":"10.1098/rsbm.1934.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.1934.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":113125,"journal":{"name":"Obituary Notices of Fellows of The Royal Society (1932-1954)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131890068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}