Obituary notices: Frank Baker, 1886–1914; Cecil Reginald Crymble, 1885–1914; John Gunning Moore Dunlop, 1885–1914; Wilhelm Hittorf, 1824–1914; Edward Riley, 1831–1914; Joseph William Thomas, 1846–1914; Robert Williamson, 1853–1914; William James Sell, 1847–1915

Did William Shakespeare and Thomas Kyd Write Edward III?

William Shakespeare is believed to be a significant author in the anonymous play,The Reign of King Edward III,published in 1596. However, recently, Thomas Kyd, has been suggested as the primary author. Using a neurolinguistics approach to authorship identification we use a four-feature technique, RPAS, to convert the 19 scenes in Edward III into a multi-dimensional vector. Three complementary a...

William Robert Ackland

Thomas William Thompson

nature which gave to Thompson's work a value of its own. But not less necessary for this work, upon which Thompson and the Society were alike engaged, was his ability to consider his subject from every view-point; to state in exact proportion the evidence which told in favour of, or against, a hypothesis that had to be examined. There has passed into the hands of the Societ}' an unfinished piec...

Case Study : William Neal Moore

William Neal Moore was indicted by a grand jury in Jefferson County, Georgia, for the April 2, 1974 malice murder and armed robbery of Fredger Stapleton, an elderly black man and the uncle of an acquaintance of Mr. Moore. At a hearing conducted before Judge Walter C. McMillan, Jr. in the Superior Court of Jefferson County on June 4, 1974, Mr. Moore waived trial by jury with respect to both guil...

Robert William Briggs (1911-1983)

Briggs was born 10 December 1911 in Watertown, Massachusetts. He was raised by his grandparents, as both his mother and brother died of tuberculosis before Briggs was two years old. He lived with his grandparents until 1929 when he left for college. Briggs described his aunt's lessons on the family piano as one of his most lasting boyhood experiences. Even though he would eventually stop playin...