{"title":"Dr. Bernard Smith, 1881 - 1936","authors":"W. G. Fearnsides","doi":"10.1098/RSBM.1938.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/RSBM.1938.0004","url":null,"abstract":"By the death of Dr. Bernard Smith, on 19 August, 1936, after a short illness at the age of fifty-five, English Geology and the Geological Survey of Great Britain suffered an untimely loss. A field geologist of wide experience, he had served on the Survey for almost thirty years before, in October, 1935, he became its Director. The services he rendered to science in interpreting the stratigraphy and structure of Lower Palaeozoic ground in Denbighshire, and in discovering and working out the system of the glacier-lake overflow -channels about the margins of the Lake District, are outstanding ; his able advocacy of descending waters as the vehicle of emplacement of Cumbrianironores ; and his efficient leadership of the team of geologists who revised the Cumberland Coalfield,will not soon be forgotten.","PeriodicalId":113125,"journal":{"name":"Obituary Notices of Fellows of The Royal Society (1932-1954)","volume":"8 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":"134284295","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":"John Theodore Cash, 1854 - 1936","authors":"C. R. Marshall","doi":"10.1098/RSBM.1938.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/RSBM.1938.0010","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":113125,"journal":{"name":"Obituary Notices of Fellows of The Royal Society (1932-1954)","volume":"46 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":"122361475","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":"James Ernest Marsh, 1860 - 1938","authors":"F. Soddy","doi":"10.1098/rsbm.1939.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.1939.0015","url":null,"abstract":"J. E. Marsh was the youngest member of a large family of boys and girls. His father, John Marsh, was connected with the chemical industry, the Marsh Works in Lancashire being now incorporated with Imperial Chemical Industries. He was educated at Rugby and Balliol College, Oxford, studied for short periods both in Germany and France, in Paris acquiring a knowledge of materia medica in which he was a lecturer for a few years at Oxford. In appearance and innumerable trifling ways all his life he might have been taken for a Frenchman. In 1886 he became University Demonstrator in Chemistry under Odling, and acted in this capacity till after the War. When W. H. Perkin succeeded Odling, he continued to teach organic chemistry to medical students, and only recently retired from active experimental work in the laboratory.","PeriodicalId":113125,"journal":{"name":"Obituary Notices of Fellows of The Royal Society (1932-1954)","volume":"38 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":"124809748","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":"Stewart Ranken Douglas, 1871 -1936","authors":"P. Laidlaw","doi":"10.1098/rsbm.1936.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.1936.0015","url":null,"abstract":"Stewart Ranken Douglas, youngest son of the late J . A. Douglas, was ,born at Coulsdon Grange, Surrey, on 22 February , 1871 ; he died in London , after a brief illness, on 20 January , 1936. His life of almost sixty-five years was devoted to the service of medicine— especially pathology . Douglas was educated at Hailey bury College an dafterwards at St. Bartholomew ’s Hospital. Here he was dresser to Sir Thomas Smith ; and Colonel H. J. Walton , I.M.S ., who was house-surgeon at that time, writes : “ I was attracted to him by his marked keenness. He was not a bookish man , and it was the handicraft, not the theory of medicine and surgery, that interested him . When other dressers left in the afternoon, Douglas could be relied upon to stay and help with any practical work (putting up of fractures, making plaster splints, etc.) that had to be done in the ward s.” This desire to do things for the benefit of his fellow men was characteristic of his whole career.","PeriodicalId":113125,"journal":{"name":"Obituary Notices of Fellows of The Royal Society (1932-1954)","volume":"86 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":"117280960","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":"John Alexander MacWilliam, 1857 - 1937","authors":"A. Keith","doi":"10.1098/RSBM.1938.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/RSBM.1938.0015","url":null,"abstract":"John Alexander MacWilliam, the son of a farmer, was born on 31 July 1857, in the fertile parish of Kiltarlity, on the banks of the Beauly just within the northern fringe of Inverness-shire. In 1886, when twenty-nine years of age, he was appointed to the Chair of Physiology— then known as the “Institutes of Medicine” — in the University of Aberdeen. He occupied this Chair for forty-one years, retiring in 1927, but after his retirement continued to live in his home at Cults on the Dee. He died on 13 January, 1937, while on a visit to Edinburgh. He was in his eightieth year. He entered Aberdeen University as a student of arts in 1874, being then seventeen years of age, but after two years at arts moved to medicine* graduating M.B., C.M. in the spring of 1880, with “Highest Honours It is a matter characteristic of the subject of this notice that we do not know the steps which led him to devote his life to physiology; he was ever interested in the doings of those round him, but as regards himself totally and irremediably impersonal. We know that he worked with Ludwig in Leipzig and with Kronecker in Berne. We know that in 1882 he became Demonstrator in Physiology under Schafer, but apparently before then held some house appointments at hospitals in London. The research to which he applied himself was inspired by the work that was being done on the heart by Gaskell at Cambridge rather than by anything that was being done then at University College.","PeriodicalId":113125,"journal":{"name":"Obituary Notices of Fellows of The Royal Society (1932-1954)","volume":"402 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":"117291198","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 Herbert Jackson, 1863 - 1936","authors":"H. Moore","doi":"10.1098/RSBM.1938.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/RSBM.1938.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Emeritus Professor Sir Herbert Jackson, K.B.E., FR.S., was born at Hampstead on 17 March , 1863. From King’s College School he entered King’s College, London, in 1879, and worked as student, Daniell Scholar, and Student-Demonstrator under Professor C. L. Bloxam until the latter’s retirement in 1887, much of his work being carried out in Professor Bloxam’s private laboratory . He was appointed Lecturer in Chemistry shortly after John Millar Thomson had succeeded Bloxam , became Assistant Professor in 1902, and Professor of Organic Chemistry in 1905.","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":"127752195","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":"Marcus Seymour Pembrey, 1868-1934","authors":"Claude Gordon Douglas","doi":"10.1098/rsbm.1935.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.1935.0020","url":null,"abstract":"Marcus Pembrey came of an Oxford family, and was born on May 28, 1868. His father was well known as a learned proof-reader in Oriental languages at the University Press, and from an uncle who had a farm at Bampton in Oxfordshire he acquired that love of the country and interest in agriculture which remained with him throughout his life. He originally intended to become a farmer, and it was largely the influence of Sir Henry Acland that turned his thoughts to Medicine. Even when he was occupied with physiological work at Guy’s Hospital, he managed, with the help of his family, to farm a property in Sussex, and when the time came for him to vacate his chair in 1933 he retired to a farm which he had bought a year or two before at Ramsden in Oxfordshire, where he hoped to maintain an active interest in agriculture and to find some leisure for continuing research in pure physiology, for in his latter years at Guy’s much of his time had been occupied by physiological investigations in connexion with clinical medicine. His death on July 23, 1934, from an attack of cardiac failure within a year from his retirement was sudden and unexpected. He leaves a widow and several sons and daughters.","PeriodicalId":113125,"journal":{"name":"Obituary Notices of Fellows of The Royal Society (1932-1954)","volume":"206 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":"131443591","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":"Professor G. A. Schott, 1868 - 1937","authors":"A. W. Conway","doi":"10.1098/RSBM.1939.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/RSBM.1939.0003","url":null,"abstract":"George Augustus Schott was born at Bradford of German parentage in 1868. Educated at Bradford Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge, he took a first in each part of the Natural Science Tripos, taking chemistry in his second part. After taking his B.A. degree in 1890, and later obtaining the D.Sc. degree of London, he became assistant lecturer to Professor D. M. Lewis in the D epartm ent of Physics. H e was granted leave of absence to work in G erm any for a year. H e becam e lecturer in Applied Mathematics in Aberystwyth and in 1910 was appointed to the Chair of Applied Mathematics. Later he was appointed head of both the Departments of Pure and Applied Mathematics, and at his own request the Departm ents were again separated in 1929. He was Vice-Principal of Aberystwyth 1933—34, having retired from the Chair of Applied Mathematics in June 1933. He died suddenly on 15 July 1937, and, as his posthumous work shows, in the full possession of his powers. He had obtained the Adams Prize in 1909 and became Fellow of the Royal Society in 1922.","PeriodicalId":113125,"journal":{"name":"Obituary Notices of Fellows of The Royal Society (1932-1954)","volume":"280 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":"131707041","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 Arthur Robb, 1873 - 1936","authors":"J. Larmor","doi":"10.1098/RSBM.1938.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/RSBM.1938.0013","url":null,"abstract":"By the death of Dr. A. A. Robb on 13 December, 1936, at his residence, Lisnabreeny House, Gastlereagh, at the age of 63, from heart weakness contracted a year before, one of the main protagonists in the scientific domain now known as relativity has passed away. This term in its recent technical sense connotes the relative character of all motions ; and its significance may perhaps be summarized by the statement that the cosmos in which the motions can be represented as occurring is a world expressed in terms of a calculus of pure vectors, or directed line arsegments labile along their lengths without an origin, any special universal frame of reference related to a space and time with regard to which movements have to be formulated being thus unnecessary and so irrelevant.","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":"131346411","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":"David William Dye. 1887-1932","authors":"A. EvaConkov","doi":"10.1098/rsbm.1932.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.1932.0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":113125,"journal":{"name":"Obituary Notices of Fellows of The Royal Society (1932-1954)","volume":"24 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":"125994038","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}