Robert James Minnitt 1889-1974

Sir Robert James Johnstone, B.A., M.B., F.R.C.S.ENG

IT is with profound regret that we have to record the death of Sir Robert John-stone, at Newcastle, Co. Down, after a relatively short and trying illness. It is impossible in one short article to recapitulate the scope and extent of his many activities, and a brief summary must suffice. Seldom has it been granted to one man to achieve so many distinctions, and to adorn so many high offices. A C...

The hiring of James Mark Baldwin and James Gibson Hume at the University of Toronto in 1889.

In 1889, George Paxton Young, the University of Toronto's philosophy professor, passed away suddenly while in the midst of a public debate over the merits of hiring Canadians in preference to American and British applicants for faculty positions. As a result, the process of replacing Young turned into a continuation of that argument, becoming quite vociferous and involving the popular press and...

Dr Henry James Paine: medical officer of health for Cardiff 1853-1889.

A county and its health, A history of the development of the West Riding health services 1889–1974

need for a detailed study of a fascinating period, aimed at English readers. The present book has a good deal of German, in a text which, in any case, is not always easy to read. However, it should be widely known to medical historians, and can be warmly recommended to them. Moreover, its price is quite modest. Little has been written on the history of medicine in the provinces of Britain, and ...

AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF ROBERT JAMES PRICE for the DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY