{"title":"Otto Meyerhof, 1884 - 1951","authors":"Rudolph Peters","doi":"10.1098/rsbm.1954.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.1954.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Otto Meyerhof was born on 12 April 1884 in Berlin and died in Philadelphia on 6 October 1951 at the age of 67; he was the son of Felix Meyerhof, who was born in 1849 at Hildesheim, and Bettina Meyerhof, nee May, born in 1862 in Hamburg; both his father and grandfather had been in business. An elder sister and two younger brothers died long before him. In 1923 he shared the Nobel prize for Physiology (for 1922) with A. V. Hill. He received an Hon. D.C.L. in 1926 from the University of Edinburgh, was a Foreign Member (1937) of the Royal Society of London, an Hon. Member of the Harvey Society and of Sigma XI. In 1944 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. Otto Meyerhof went through his school life up to the age of 14 without delay, but there is no record that he was then brilliant. When he was 16 he developed some kidney trouble, which caused a long period of rest in bed. This period of seclusion seems to have been responsible for a great mental and artistic development. Reading constantly he matured perceptibly, and in the autumn of 1900 was sent to Egypt on the doctor’s advice for recuperation.","PeriodicalId":295874,"journal":{"name":"Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1954-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128196147","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":"Henry Horatio Dixon, 1869-1953","authors":"W. R. G. Atkins","doi":"10.1098/RSBM.1954.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/RSBM.1954.0007","url":null,"abstract":"The first issue of Notes from Botanical School of Trinity College, Dublin, opens with an article on ‘The Herbarium of Trinity College: a retrospect’, which ends as follows with page 14, ‘As has already been explained the Cape Flora is for the present kept apart from the rest. ‘In 1893, the Board granted the use of another room to the Herbarium, the one in which the British Collection is now placed. This enabled this collection to be consulted during the hours of daylight, without the routine work of the General Herbarium being interfered with, and has in many ways improved the comfort of the place. They further have fitted up the rooms, at one time devoted to the Geological Collection, as a Botanical Laboratory, and appointed Mr Henry Dixon as assistant to the Professor of Botany. In this Laboratory each student is provided with a microscope and all the necessary apparatus and reagents for the investigation of plant structure. During the seven weeks of each term, in addition to the lectures, demonstrations are here given, and the student is encouraged to work out details for himself at any hour of leisure from his other College work. Fresh material is received each day from the Curator of the College Botanical Gardens, F. W. Burbidge, M.A. In their senior year the students are invited to work out some original problem in plant structure or physiology, or to investigate some named family of plants, and prizes are awarded for the best essays on such. Prizes are also given for collections made within a specified time, attention being paid to the care with which the specimens are dried and named, no merit being given for rare species.","PeriodicalId":295874,"journal":{"name":"Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1954-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133889777","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":"Edward Provan Cathcart, 1877 - 1954","authors":"G. Wishart","doi":"10.1098/rsbm.1954.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.1954.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Edward Provan Cathcart died at his home in Glasgow on 18 February 1954, seven years after his retiral from the Regius Chair of Physiology in the University of Glasgow. His death has removed a well-known personality in academic circles in Scotland, a scientist of international reputation devoted in the broadest sense of the term to the study of his fellow men, and a man whose hum an sympathies and understanding had an influence on his associates which can hardly be over-estimated. E. P. Cathcart was born on 18 July 1877 in the town of Ayr. His forbears were practical people interested in agriculture and commerce, and in iron and steel. His father, Edward Moore Cathcart, was a merchant in the town of Ayr; his mother was the daughter of a rivet and bolt manufacturer whose home was at Invereck, near the village of Kilmun on the Firth of Clyde. His father died at the early age of 37, when Cathcart was only nine, and he with a younger brother and sister were brought up by the widowed mother. She, in addition to being a very good amateur painter who had gained several awards at the Glasgow School of Art, was in many ways a woman of intellectual attainment and personality.","PeriodicalId":295874,"journal":{"name":"Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1954-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126605497","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":"Mervyn Henry Gordon 1872-1953","authors":"L. Garrod","doi":"10.1098/rsbm.1954.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.1954.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Mervyn Henry Gordon, who died on 26 July 1953 at his home at Molesey, was a medical bacteriologist whose whole career was largely devoted to research: he occupied a leading position in this branch of medical science in London for the greater part of the first half of this century. Gordon was born on 22 June 1872, the sixth of ten children of Canon H. D. Gordon, Vicar of Harting, Sussex. His mother was a daughter of William Buckland, F.R.S., the first Professor, of Geology at Oxford and later Dean of Westminster, and was acquainted with many of the leading scientists of her time. The Gordon family was descended from Scots who migrated to the Gower peninsula in the time of Henry VII, and therefore had a strong Welsh as well as Scottish element in their ancestry. His paternal grandfather as well as his father was a Canon of the Church of England, and it was apparently with some hope that he might also enter the Church that Gordon was sent to Keble College, Oxford, after his earlier education at the Dragon School, Oxford and Marlborough. This was done in spite of a verdict from Marlborough that he was ‘backward’, and a recommendation that he be sent to the colonies.","PeriodicalId":295874,"journal":{"name":"Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1954-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115270183","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 Herbert Orton, 1884 - 1953","authors":"F. Russell","doi":"10.1098/rsbm.1954.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.1954.0014","url":null,"abstract":"James Herbert Orton was born on 11 March 1884 at Bradford, Yorkshire, his father being George William Orton of Westmorland who married Sarah Rebacca West of farmer stock from Lincolnshire. James was the fourth child in a family of six brothers and six sisters, four of whom died as infants, one at the age of 12 and another at 27. He was town bred, but at an early age he became interested in the country and would spend whole Sundays on long walking expeditions hunting for frogs and newts, and birds nests. His childhood days were healthy and happy though owing to early financial troubles his parents had little means. At the age of 11 years, while attending part time at White Abbey Board School in Bradford, he was employed half-time as an errand boy. He himself has remarked that he thereby attained a certain degree of independence, a character for which he was noteworthy throughout his life. He enjoyed his school work and remembered especially his appreciation of one teacher who taught physiology and rugby football. When 13 years of age he became apprenticed as a mechanical dentist, serving his time until he was 21. During those years he attended evening classes at the Technical School and later took his London University Matriculation examination. In 1906 he won a National Scholarship in Biology and proceeded to the Royal College of Science, London, where he became a 1st class Associate in Zoology in 1909","PeriodicalId":295874,"journal":{"name":"Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1954-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127774416","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":"Nicolai Ivanovitch Vavilov, 1885 - 1942","authors":"S. C. Harland","doi":"10.1098/rsbm.1954.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.1954.0017","url":null,"abstract":"N. I. Vavilov was born in 1885. The son of a textile manufacturer, he came from an able family. His brother, now deceased, was a distinguished physicist and a past president of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. In 1913 and 1914 Vavilov worked with Bateson at the newly established John Innes Horticultural Institution. He returned to Moscow in August 1914, on the S.S. Runo, which struck a mine on the voyage home and caused the loss of his valuable experimental materials. During the First World War he began his well-known explorations for cultivated plants. In 1916 he visited Persia and the surrounding countries, principally in search of materials for his cereal collections, though he had already done much experimental work on the systematic relationships of cereals. In 1917 he went as professor of agriculture, botany, and genetics to Saratov.","PeriodicalId":295874,"journal":{"name":"Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1954-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124915338","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":"Felix Eugene Fritsch 1879-1954","authors":"E. Salisbury","doi":"10.1098/rsbm.1954.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.1954.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Felix Eugene Fritsch was born on 26 April 1879. His father owned a small but very successful private school at Hampstead where his son was born, and Felix’s childhood was spent. Mr Fritsch’s gifts were primarily mathematical and musical, though his interests were centred on the latter and on classics. The musical bent was evidently an hereditary one since not only was the grandfather of Felix an operatic singer, but his grandmother also. Even in his latter years it was a pleasure to listen to old Mr Fritsch singing German leider. Felix inherited alike the mathematical capacity of his father and the lack of interest in its pursuit, but the parental delight in music was fully shared. Felix learnt to play the violin, and although he never attained great executive ability, he would justly describe himself as ‘a useful member of a quartet.","PeriodicalId":295874,"journal":{"name":"Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society","volume":"178 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1954-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120874621","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 Cecil Dampier, 1867-1952","authors":"G. Taylor","doi":"10.1098/RSBM.1954.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/RSBM.1954.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Sir William Dampier was born in 1867 and named William Cecil Dampier Whetham. His early work was published under that name but later he changed his surname to that of his mother’s family. At the beginning of the seventeenth century the Whetham family were small landowners in Dorset, but in the nineteenth century Dampier’s grandfather moved to London and became an important figure in its business life. He was knighted and became Lord Mayor of London. Dampier records that he acted as his grandfather’s page on state occasions. Dampier’s mother came from a Somerset family, one branch of which produced the famous explorer William Dampier. In early youth poor health prevented him from going to a public school, but in 1886 he went up to Trinity College, Cambridge. Here he came under the influence of J. J. Thomson who inspired him with a desire to undertake research in physics. After taking first class degrees in both parts of the Natural Sciences Tripos he started research work in 1889 at the Cavendish Laboratory. His first work was directed to finding out whether there is any slipping at the surface of a tube when a fluid passes through it. It had been thought that fluids which do not wet glass might slip, whereas those which do wet it would not. Dampier showed conclusively that there is no slipping. He next turned to the measurement of the velocity of ions in electrolytic solutions and devised an ingenious method in which direct measurements were made using a coloured solution. These measurements confirmed previous theories put forward by Hittorf and Kohlrausch. These researches led in 1891 to his being elected a fellow of Trinity. He remained a fellow of the college during the whole of the rest of his life","PeriodicalId":295874,"journal":{"name":"Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1954-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125251499","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":"Richard Higgins Burne, 1868 - 1953","authors":"A. Keith","doi":"10.1098/RSBM.1954.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/RSBM.1954.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Richard Burne was elected to the Royal Society in 1927 because of his eminence as a comparative anatomist and biologist; he died in a nursing home, at Godstone, Surrey, on the morning of 9 October 1953, being in his 86th year. He was born at 122 Gloucester Terrace, London, W.2, on 5 April 1868. His father, Richard Higgins Burne, was a successful solicitor at No. 1 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, W.C.2; his mother, Mayaretta Louisa Burne, was a distant cousin of his father. With the death of his elder brother Tom, in 1886, at the age of twenty, our Richard became an only child. All members of his ancestry were of pure English stock, being prosperous members of the professional or land-owning class. His father’s people came from Staffordshire (Loynton Hall, near Newport), while his m other’s people, for three generations, had been members of the medical profession in London. None of his forbears could claim a place in science; a niece of his father, Charlotte Sophia Burne, became the first woman President of the Folk-Lore Society. Richard’s maternal grandmother was a daughter of Dr Henry Ford, Professor of Arabic at Oxford and Principal of Magdalen Hall. Dr Ford’s wife was a niece of Dr John Butler, Bishop of Oxford, later of Hereford.","PeriodicalId":295874,"journal":{"name":"Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1954-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127333700","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":"Lewis Fry Richardson, 1881 - 1953","authors":"E. Gold","doi":"10.1098/rsbm.1954.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.1954.0015","url":null,"abstract":"Lewis Fry Richardson, D.Sc., F.R.S., who died quietly in his sleep, at Kilmun, Argyll, on 30 September 1953, had been a Fellow of the Society for 27 years and had contributed many papers to the Transactions and Proceedings. Richardson, born at Newcastle on Tyne on 11 October 1881, was the youngest child of David and Catherine Richardson who had a family of five boys and two girls. David Richardson was a tanner: the Richardsons had, in fact, been tanners for three hundred years. The story of the family is given in a book by A. O. Boyce, published in 1889 Records of a Quaker Family; the Richardsons of Cleveland. Contemporary relatives of note were John Wigham Richardson, shipbuilder, a first cousin of David, and Henry Richardson Procter, F.R.S., Professor of Tanning at Leeds, a second cousin once removed (a third cousin of Lewis). Hugh Richardson, educationist and geographer, was Lewis’s elder brother; Sir Ralph Richardson, actor, his nephew. David Richardson’s mother, Sarah (née Balkwill) was the daughter of a pharmaceutical chemist in Plymouth and in her youth she got the nick-name ‘Sal volatile’ because she was gay. (As his father and grandfather both went south for their wives, it is, perhaps, not to be wondered at that Lewis did the same.)","PeriodicalId":295874,"journal":{"name":"Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society","volume":"120 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1954-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134445604","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}
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