Some Criticisms of Robert Simson by Sir T. L. Heath

[Sir Robert Jones (1857-1933)].

Robert Heath Lock and his textbook of genetics, 1906.

Robert Heath Lock (1879-1915), a Cambridge botanist associated with William Bateson and R. C. Punnett, published his book Recent Progress in the Study of Variation, Heredity, and Evolution in 1906. This was a remarkable textbook of genetics for one appearing so early in the Mendelian era. It covered not only Mendelism but evolution, natural selection, biometry, mutation, and cytology. It ran to...

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...

A hand list of the writings of Sir Robert Hutchison.

Sir Robert Hutchison has written and lectured and published books*, some in the best-seller class, for over 50 years. After working in chemistry and physiology and making some interesting researches into the thyroid gland, his arrival in London and in clinical medicine gave him the opportunity for which his qualities best suited him-of teaching. From the days in 1896 when in the residents' quar...

A review of oscillating water columns BY T . V . HEATH

This paper considers the history of oscillating water column (OWC) systems from whistling buoys to grid-connected power generation systems. The power conversion from the wave resource through to electricity via pneumatic and shaft power is discussed in general terms and with specific reference to Voith Hydro Wavegen’s land installed marine energy transformer (LIMPET) plant on the Scottish islan...