Prof. Forsyth James Wilson

Contributions of Prof . James R . Melcher to engineering education

This paper reviews the teaching and research career of the late Professor James R. Melcher. It describes his approach to the teaching of electric and magnetic fields bolstered by the lecture demonstrations he had developed. He is considered the founder of the modern day field of electrohydrodynamics. His undergraduate courses, reinforced by educational films which are briefly described, gave st...

"Experimental Studies on Congenital Malformations" (1959), by James G. Wilson

The article "Experimental Studies on Congenital Malformations" was published in the Journal of Chronic Diseases in 1959. The author, James G. Wilson, studied embryos and birth defects [3] at the University of Florida Medical School in Gainesville, Florida. In his article, Wilson reviewed experiments on birds [4] and mammals from the previous forty years to provide general principles and guideli...

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Forsyth on Calculus of Variations

It is therefore wholly to its credit tha t Bell's book is so largely abstract . In this way he has secured the utmost generality and hence insured permanency to his work. There is also the following important immediate gain. After constructing abstract theories for various classes of problems, he was in a position to decide if those theories are distinct or are (abstractly) identical. In the la...

Sir John Forsyth, C.B., K.C.S.I.

der of his official life so useful and prominent. In that year he was appointed senior surgeon to the force, numbering 9,000, which served under His Majesty Soojah-ool-Moolk. While thus employed he took part in the first capture of Ghuzni, and was in 1840 decorated by Shah Soojah with the Third Class of the Order of the Doorranee Empire. During the next two years he was engaged in the thrilling...