Hon. Desmond Parsons

Desmond Mervyn Germans

Joshua Frederick Parsons

have to record the death at his residence, Garston, Frome, ? ^rJoshua Frederick Parsons, M.R.C.S., L.S.A., on the y n of February. He had been in failing health for some time, atfer^nS from a heart lesion which followed after a serious tack of pneumonia in 1905. Mr. Parson's professional career was spent entirely in .?nie, where for most of the time he enjoyed an excellent jj^ate practice, and ...

An Eddifying Parsons Model

The time-mean effects of eddies are studied in a model based on the Parsons–Veronis–Huang–Flierl models of the wind-driven gyre. Much of the analysis used for the steady solutions carries over if the model is cast in terms of the thickness-weighted mean velocity, because then mass transport is nondivergent in the absence of diabatic forcing. The model exemplifies the use of residual mean theory...

The Hon. Lady Darwin

A tribute to Torrence Parsons

I first met my friend and co-worker Tory Parsons in the autumn of 1972 when I first visited Penn State University . We had several long mathematical discussions and I visited him at his home and met his "boss" and "epsilons" which, if I remember right, were quite small at that time . We shared a common interest in graph theory in general and in Ramsey theory in particular . He wrote a nice surv...