| Thomas Edward Finegan - 1922 - 500 pages
...of Boulton and Watt having their works at Soho, Birmingham. He retired from business in 1800. Watt was a fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, and member of the National Institute of France. He was twice married, and was survived by one son, who... | |
| Thomas Stenhouse - 1922 - 198 pages
...parallel motion. In 1763, he set up as a general engineer, and retired from business in 1800. Watt was a fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, and a foreign member of the Institute of France — though France and England were at war. When electricity... | |
| Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) - 1926 - 1106 pages
...He succeeded Prof. Buchanan to the Chair of Physiology in 1876, retiring in 1906 after thirty years. He was a Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, and during the active period of his life was examiner in physiology to many of the British Universities.... | |
| Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) - 1926 - 470 pages
...He succeeded Prof. Buchanan to the Chair of Physiology in 1876, retiring in 1906 after thirty years. He was a Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, and during the active period of his life \vas examiner in physiology to many of the British Universities.... | |
| Frank Moore Colby, Talcott Williams - 1922 - 900 pages
...knighted by William IV. In 1836 he was elected professor of surgery in the University of Edinburgh. He was a fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh and a member of other learned bodies. He wrote on surgery and the nervous system and edited jointly with... | |
| Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1888 - 800 pages
...of that ancient University, the King of Sweden created him a Knight of the Order of the Polar Star. He was a Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Royal Irish Academy, Ph.D. Jena, Fellow of the Linnean, Geological, Zoological, and... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1858 - 1056 pages
...extended the influence of the British name by the peaceful triumphs of science and humanity. Dr. Scoresby was a Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, and a Corresponding Member of the Institute of France. 21. At the advanced age of upwards of 80, the Rev.... | |
| Linnean Society of London - 1855 - 552 pages
...the Hudson River, in 155thstreet, New York. He became a Fellow of this Society in 1 828, and was also a Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, and of many other scientific bodies. John Brown, Esq., MD, who had for many years practised as a physician at Boston... | |
| Myles W. Jackson - 2000 - 308 pages
...Edinburgh School of Arts (1821) and the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1831). He was a fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh and a foreign associate of the French Institute. His numerous honors included the Copley, Rumford, and... | |
| Michael T. Davis, Paul A. Pickering - 2008 - 240 pages
...with the likes of Turgot, d'Alembert and Voltaire; by age twenty-six he was a member of parliament; he was a fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, and authored a well-known work recommending military reform in India.20 In 1792 he joined the Friends of... | |
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