Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Volumes 35-36The Society, 1915 - Science Obituary notices are included in many of the volumes. |
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Page 2 - Fully convinced of the truth of his opinions, he lost no time in expanding those articles and developing them in detail in his volume The Great Ice Age, which appeared in 1874. What, we may ask, were the distinctive features of this epoch-making volume, which immediately arrested the attention of geologists all over the globe ? For the first time it gave a systematic account of the phenomena of the Glacial Epoch with special reference to its changes of climate. Selecting Scotland as the region which...
Page 24 - Victoria for the determination of the solar parallax. He was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1900, and died on January 24, 1915. PAUL EHRLICH was born on March 14, 1854, at Strehlen, in Silesia, and was educated at Breslau and at Strasburg, where he graduated in medicine.
Page 24 - He was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1892 and the Copley Medal of the Royal Society in 1911.
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Page 347 - M'Kendrick as a trustee on the Mary Dick Trust, and this doubtless quickened a desire to affiliate the Royal Dick Veterinary College to the University. He succeeded in carrying out a working arrangement, and had the satisfaction of seeing the institution of the degrees of Bachelor and Doctor of Science in this important branch of applied science. Undoubtedly Principal Sir William Turner was fond of his own way, and usually got it up to the last ; but his wisdom was such that the University must always...
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