• In 1825 he was appointed by the YPS as keeper of its museum and draughtsman to the society commencing 1 January 1826. (yorkcivictrust.co.uk)
  • When Stokes died in 1835, William John Cock (1813-1892), like Percival Johnson a founder member of the Chemical Society in 1841 ( 14 ), joined Percival in the firm which was now called Johnson and Cock. (matthey.com)
  • His first two collections of essays, Essays: First Series 1841 and Essays: Second Series 1844, represent the core of his thinking. (geniuses.club)
  • His first two collections of essays - Essays: First Series and Essays: Second Series, published respectively in 1841 and 1844 - represent the core of his thinking, and include such well-known essays as Self-Reliance, The Over-Soul, Circles, The Poet and Experience. (weebly.com)
  • In 1844, he was appointed Professor of Geology at the University of Dublin and was awarded the prestigious Wollaston Medal by the Geological Society of London. (yorkcivictrust.co.uk)
  • He has a long list of credits including six plays produced in New York City and several nonfiction books including Corbitt [1974, biography of Ted Corbitt, the first African-American runner to compete in an Olympic marathon] which won the "Journalistic Excellence Award" from Road Runners Club of America and was hailed as "One of the Best Sports Books of the Year" by The New York Times . (algora.com)
  • As per on online biography by the Historical Society of the New York Courts, he spoke about his personal views after his retirement from the bench and advocated for preservation of individual rights, opposed the national prohibition movement and women's suffrage, arguing that women had no place in the political arena. (green-wood.com)
  • Owen was the first president of the Microscopical Society of London in 1839 and editor of its journal. (stormfront.org)
  • After six years of higher education, he sailed for China in 1864 for the Rhenish Missionary Society. (calflora.net)
  • During this period he published in the Philosophical Transactions several important memoirs, which earned for him the Copley Medal in 1814 and ensured his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1815. (ipfs.io)
  • On 1 April 1845, Barlow was elected a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers and on 6 June 1850 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1834 there was a breakthrough in his academic career when he was appointed to the Chair of Geology at King's College, London, published a Guide to Geology and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. (yorkcivictrust.co.uk)
  • Besides being directly connected with the chief scientific societies of his own country, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Irish Academy, etc., he was corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Sciences both of Paris and Berlin , and of the Royal Society of Göttingen . (ipfs.io)
  • But the Crackling Is Superb: An Anthology on Food and Drink by Fellows and Foreign Members of the Royal Society (1988). (todayinsci.com)
  • Although he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1850, he tended to remain remote from this. (go-plus.net)
  • The Congress was so successful that afterward there was a surplus of about $2,500 which Fields, as chairman of the organizing committee, proposed be used to fund two medals to be awarded at each of future Congresses. (todayinsci.com)
  • He died the following year, leaving $47,000 as additional funding for the medals, which have been awarded since 1936. (todayinsci.com)
  • In 1837 FitzRoy was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society for his achievements. (teara.govt.nz)
  • Though he was a talented statistician and skilled scientist, Davenport's scientific achievements are eclipsed by his lasting legacy as the scientific leader of the eugenics movement in the US. (asu.edu)
  • Of his sons, Joseph became a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge and later Rector of South Collingham in Nottinghamshire. (cam.ac.uk)
  • It became the most prestigious award for mathematicians, often referred to as the equivalent of a Nobel Prize for mathematicians. (todayinsci.com)
  • The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization devoted to the study and enjoyment of numismatic literature. (coinbooks.org)
  • The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) says that poverty, geographical isolation, minority status, early marriage and pregnancy, gender-based violence, and traditional attitudes about the status and role of women are among the many obstacles that prevent women from fully exercising their right to participate in, complete, and benefit from education. (saradaschool.in)
  • This challenge, uttered by a fellow student at the University of Sorbonne, spurred Frédéric Ozanam into action. (trinitystores.com)
  • Oxford University awarded him a D. Litt. (utoronto.ca)
  • I am sad that my time as an Eccles Fellow at the British Library will end before the launch of its landmark exhibition centred on Black British music presented in collaboration with the University of Westminster. (bl.uk)
  • Františka Schormová is a post-doc researcher at the Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences and an Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Hradec Králové and was a 2023 Eccles Centre Visiting Fellow at the British Library. (bl.uk)
  • Another son, Robert, became a missionary for the Church Missionary Society and spent much of the 1820s in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) with his wife Elizabeth Bickersteth, before returning to England and eventually becoming Rector of Acton near Nantwich. (cam.ac.uk)
  • Whereas Sir John Malcolm, an aggressive commander at the turn of the century was 'concerned with collecting the raw materials for the analysis of society ' and 'systematising that information and drawing conclusions from it…', his successor as Superintendent of the Indian Navy, Sir Robert Oliver, saw no need for such things. (fraternalsecrets.org)
  • As Director General of the Geological Survey, Sir Murchison himself was in charge of much of Britain's overseas research interest, appointed colonial geological surveyors, and was in charge of organising many major British expeditions between 1850 and 1870. (royalsociety.org)
  • Cassie Quarless is a filmmaker was a 2020 Eccles Centre Visiting Fellow at the British Library. (bl.uk)
  • For twenty years he served as director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew , succeeding his father, William Jackson Hooker , and was awarded the highest honours of British science. (ipfs.io)
  • From childhood he had a gift for, and a passionate interest in, mathematics, and he built up a valuable library of mathematical books, most of which were bequeathed at his death to the Literary & Philosophical Society of Newcastle , of which he was one of the early members. (blogspot.com)
  • The following lists of fellows include recipients of Hagley's short-term research grants and fellowships (exploratory and H.B. du Pont), as well as all our long-term fellowships (Henry Belin du Pont dissertation fellowships, the former Jefferson Scholar/Hagley Library dissertation fellowships now known as Galambos/Hagley Library dissertation fellowships, and NEH-Hagley fellowships). (hagley.org)
  • Opening of the First School for Girls by Savitribai Phule and Jyotirao Phule - Malvika Asher - Google Arts & Culture was a trailblazer in providing education for girls and for ostracized portions of society. (saradaschool.in)
  • He was an advocate for continuous expansion of the empire and furthered the link between the scientific community and the government by seeking patronages for geologists in a large number of colonised places. (royalsociety.org)
  • He was paid £20 to arrange the YPS's fossil and geological collections and was made an Honorary Member of what was then still an exclusive society. (yorkcivictrust.co.uk)
  • After the passing of the Municipal Reform Act of 1835, he became an elected member of the town council, and in 1850 he was Mayor of Newcastle. (blogspot.com)
  • Uniformed members of a temperance society march in the water parade and carry a standard bearing the image of a fountain. (historycooperative.org)
  • For his services to the Ottoman government he was awarded the Order of Nishan Iftikhar (Order of Glory). (wikipedia.org)
  • based by Order of the theoretical Society i( Paperback) download the equations icons of knowledge, A direct future: looking the gear functions of the Church of Rome. (translationone.com)
  • calculated by Order of the same Society in Dublin( Paperback) foundation, A approximate interaction: allowing the offering stations of the Church of Rome. (translationone.com)
  • When HMS Beagle made a brief visit to the Bay of Islands in 1835, FitzRoy paid close attention to the work of the Anglican missionaries and what he saw confirmed his predisposition in favour of the operations of the Church Missionary Society. (teara.govt.nz)
  • There can be no doubt that this testimony by an influential and knowledgeable witness earned for him the lasting gratitude of the Church Missionary Society. (teara.govt.nz)
  • His appointment owed much to the support he received from the Church Missionary Society which, at this time, exerted considerable influence on the Colonial Office. (teara.govt.nz)
  • When the Midland Counties Railway became part of the Midland Railway in 1844, he retained the position, later becoming chief engineer of the larger railway. (wikipedia.org)
  • He also produced a report for the Turkish government on lighthouses in the Bosphorus, which led to his first two scientific papers. (wikipedia.org)
  • Some of his letters may be found in the Maryland papers of the '76 Society: these letters breathe the most ardent patriotism, and might be read with benefit at the present day. (eapoe.org)
  • The charismatic Theodore Weld, after three years (1827-1830) studying with Gale at Oneida, was hired by the new Society for Promoting Manual Labor in Literary Institutions, a project of the philanthropist brothers Lewis and Arthur Tappan. (everipedia.org)
  • in 1912, and a year later he became Poet Laureate and co-founded, with Henry Bradley and Walter Raleigh, the Society for Pure English. (utoronto.ca)
  • In 1853, Savitribai and Jyotirao established an education society that opened more schools for girls and women from all classes, in surrounding villages. (saradaschool.in)
  • In 1812, aged only 19, he established his scientific credentials in a paper showing that platinum alloyed with silver and gold would dissolve in nitric acid ( 10 , 11 ). (matthey.com)
  • Whether from a novel, play, travel journal or scientific paper, these writings add greatly to our knowledge of our history. (colonialsense.com)
  • He also made scientific discoveries and although not a trained doctor nevertheless handled numerous medical cases. (calflora.net)
  • Under it men prospered, all the arts flourished, and society stood firm. (todayinsci.com)
  • His initial scientific fame arose in the 1850s from his study of diamagnetism. (stormfront.org)