Scientific worthies : [No.] 29, Sir Joseph Lister / [Hermann Tillmanns].

  • Hermann Tillmanns
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[1896]
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    “Practical Geometry and Engineering Drawing” (1875); “Principles of Graphic Statics” (1879); “Perspective Ex¬ plained and Illustrated” (1884); “Plevna: a Study of the Operations of 1877” (1880); “ Official Report on the Effects of the Bombardment of Alexandria” (1882); “Fortification: Past, Present, and Future” (1890) ; and of a large number of papers on naval and military subjects. J. Norman Collie, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University College, London. Distinguished as a worker in Organic Chemistry. Author of numerous papers published during the period from 1881 to the present time in the Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Liebigs Annalen, the Berichte of the German Chemical Society, and the Transactions of the Chemical Society. His earlier papers relate chiefly to the study of phosphonium and phosphine derivatives and allied ammonium compounds, their behaviour when decomposed by heat having been thoroughly studied by him. Of late years he has made important contributions to our knowledge of dehydracetic acid, having described a number of very remarkable “condensations,” whereby it is converted into pyridine, orcinol and naphthalene derivatives. Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, M.A., D. Sc., Vice-President of the Royal Astronomical Society. President of the British Astronomical Association. Super¬ intendent of the Nautical Almanac. Author of the following papers, among many others, which have appeared in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society :—“ Proper Motions of Certain Stars in the Greenwich Seven Year Catalogue for 1864” (vol. xxxviii., p. 514); “ On the N. P.D.’s of the Green¬ wich Seven Year Catalogue for i860” (vol. xl., p. 85) ; “ The ■Greenwich Standard Right Ascensions” (vol. xl., p. 162): “The Possible Ten-month Period of Variation in Latitude” (vol. xl., p. 430); “ On the N. P.D.’s of the Cape Catalogue for 1880, and on the Greenwich and Cape Mean Systems of North Polar Distances” (vol. xlii., p. 20); “Discussion of the Obser¬ vations of 7 Draconis, made with the Greenwich Reflex Zenith Tube, during the years 1857-75 ” (vol. xlii., p. 326); “ On the relative Motion of the Components of p Eridani” (vol. xliii., p. 263); “On the Orbit of 7 Coronas Australis” (vol. xliii., p. 368); “ On the^Periodic Time of a Centauri” (vol. xlv., p. 151); “A Comparison of the Star Places of the Argentine General Catalogue for 1875 with those of the Cape Catalogue, 1880” (vol. xlvii., p. 446); “ Positions for 1750 and Proper Motions of 154 Stars, S. of — 290 dec., from a revision of Powalky’s Reduction of the Star Places of Lacaille’s Astronomige Fundamenta” (vol. xlviii., p. 322); “ Discussion of Washington Observations of the Sun, 1875—83 ’’ (vol. xlix., p. 431); “Corrections to the Orbit of Juno ” (vol. 1., p. 487); “ The Orbit of Flora, with corrections to Briinnow’s Tafeln der Flora” (vol. lii., p. 585). Francis Elgar, LL.D., F. R.S.E., Naval Architect and Engineer, Professor of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering in the University of Glasgow, and Director of Her Majesty’s Dockyards. Prof. Elgar has advanced the science of naval architecture by original investigations, notably in the departments of stability and of the structural strength of ships. These are described in papers communicated to the Royal Society, one of which is printed in extenso in Roy. Soc. Proc. No. 232, 1884. An abstract of the other was read before the Society on January 14, 1886. The first describes an important and novel principle which •determines the variation of stability with draught of water, and the second greatly advances the investigation of the straining actions upon ships at sea. Prof. Elgar is distinguished for his acquaintance with the theory and practice of Naval Architecture, and was unanimously elected on that account by the Court of Glasgow University to the “John Elder” Chair of Naval Architectural and Marine Engineering. He is eminently dis¬ tinguished as a Naval Architect and Engineer, being a Fellow of the late Royal Society of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, and Member of Council of the Institution of Naval Architects, Member of Council of the Institute of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, and Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers. He was appointed in January 1884 by the Council of the Institution of Naval Architects to sit as their representative upon the Committee formed by the President of the Board of Trade to frame rules for regulating the load lines ■of ships. NO. I384, VOL. 54] Supplementary Certificate.—Is now a representative of the Institution of Naval Architects upon the Technical Committee of Lloyd’s Register of British and Foreign Shipping. Was Vice-President of the International Jury in the class of Materiel de Navigation et Sauvetage, in the Paris Exhibition, 1889. Is the Consulting Naval Architect for the Cunard Steamers Cam¬ pania and Lzuaiiia, which are the most powerful and, with the exception of the Great Eastern, the largest ships ever built. Andrew Gray, M.A. (Glasgow), F.R.S.E , Professor of Physics, University College of North Wales. Examiner in Mathematics for degrees in the University of Glasgow. For five years Private Assistant and Secretary to Sir W. Thomson (Lord Kelvin); for four years Official Assistant to the Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Glasgow ; and for the last nine years in his present post. Distinguished for his acquaintance with theoretical and experimental physics. Author of the following scientific works and papers :—“ Absolute Measurements in Electricity and Mag¬ netism ” (1889) ; “Theory and Practice of Absolute Measure¬ ments in Electricity and Magnetism” (vol. i., 1888 ; vol. ii., in two parts, 1893); “A Treatise on Magnetism and Electricity,” shortly to be published ; “ On the Determination m Absolute Units of the Intensity of Powerful Magnetic Fields” {Phil. Mag., 1883); “ On the Dynamical Theory of Electro-magnetic Action” {ibid., 1890); “On the Calculation of the Induction Coefficients of Coils” {ibid., 1892); “On a New Reflecting Galvanometer of great sensibility, and on New Forms of Astatic Galvanometers,” jointly with , T. Gray {Proc. Roy. Soc., 1884); “On the Relation between the Electrical Qualities and the Chemical Composition of Glass and Allied Substances,” Part I., jointly with T. Gray and J. J. Dobbie {Proc. Roy. Soc., 1884) “ On the Electro-magnetic Theory of the Rotation of the Plane of Polarised Light” {Rept. Brit. Assoc., 1891). George Jennings Hinde, Ph.D. (Munich), F.G.S. Studied at University College, Toronto, Canada (1874-75) j afterwards (1879-80) studied, under Dr. Karl Zittel, in the University of Munich, where he graduated. Author of numerous papers on Geology and Palaeontology, viz. :—“ The Glacial and Interglacial Strata of Scarboro’ Heights and other localities near Toronto, Ontario” {Canad. Journ., 1877, pp. 28, one plate); “ On Conodonts from the Cambro-Silurian and Devonian of Canada and the United States” {Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xxxv., pp. 351-369, pi. xv.-xviii., 1879); “On Annelid Jaws from the Cambro- Silurian and Devonian of Canada and the Lower Carboniferous of Scotland {op. cit., vol. xxxv., pp. 370-389, pi. xviii.-xx., 1879) ! “On a New Genus of Favosite Coral from the Upper Silurian, Manitoulin Island, Lake Pluron ” {Geol. Mag., 1879, pp. 244-246); “ Fossil Sponge Spicules from the Upper Chalk, Horstead, Norfolk” {Inaug. Dissert., Munich, 1880, 8vo, pp. 84, 5 plates); “ On Annelid Jaws from Wenlock and Ludlow formations of the West of England ” {Quart. Journ, Geol. Soc., vol. xxxvi., pp. 368-378, pi. xiv., 1880); “Notes on Fossil Calcispongice with Descriptions of New Species” {Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, vol. x., pp. 185-205, pi. x.-xii., 1882); “On Annelid Remains from the Silurian Strata of the Island of Gotland ” {Bihang till K. Svenska Vet. Akad. Hand!., Bd. vii. No. 5, pp. 28, 3 plates, 8vo, Stockh., 1882); “Catalogue of the Fossil Sponges in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) with Descriptions of New and little-known Species” (4to. pp. 248, 38 plates, 1883); “On some Fossil Calcispongice from the Well-boring at Richmond, Surrey” {Quart. /ourn.Geol'. Soc., vol. xl., pp. 778-783, 1 plate, 1884); “ On the Structure and Affinities of the Receptaculitidce,” &c. {op. cit., vol. xl., pp. 795-849, pi. xxxvi.-xxxvii., 1884) ; “On a New Species of Crinoid with Articulating Spines” {Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, vol. xv., pp. 157—173, pi. vi., 1885) ; “ On Beds of Sponge Remains in the Lower and Upper Green¬ sands of the South of England” {Phil. Trans., 1885, vol. clxxvi., p. 51, pi. xl.-xlv.) Supplementary Certificate.—“ A Monograph of the British Fossil Sponges” (Pakeontographical Soc., Part I., 1887, pp. 1-92, pi. i.-viii. ; Part II., 1888, pp. 93-188, pi. ix. ; Part III., 1893, PP- 189-254, ph x.-xix.); “On the Cherts and Siliceous Schists of the Permo-Carboniferous of Spitzbergen” {Geol. Mag., 1888, pp. 241-251, 1 pi.); “ On some New species of Urugtiaya (Carter), with Remarks on the Genus” {Ann. and Mag. Nat.