The Yearbook Of Facts In Science And Art

Author : John Timbs
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330741603
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book The Year-Book of Facts in Science and Art written by John Timbs and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Year-Book of Facts in Science and Art: Exhibiting the Most Important Discoveries Improvements of the Past Year, in Mechanics and the Useful Arts; Natural Philosophy; Electricity; Chemistry; Zoology and Botany; Geology and Geography; Meteorology and Astronomy Professor Owen is a native of the town of Lancaster. He matriculated in the University of Edinburgh in 1824: became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of London; in 1826: and was appointed Hunterian Professor and Conservator of the Museum of the College in 1835, having for some years previously been engaged in preparing the "Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Specimens of Physiology and Comparative Anatomy," 4 to, 5 vols.; the Catalogue of the' Natural History;' and that of the 'Fossil Organic Remains, ' preserved in the Museum. The other principal works by Professor Owen, are: - "Memoir on the Pearly Nautilus (Nautilus Pompilius), 4 to, 1832: "Memoir on a Gigantic Extinct Sloth (mylodon robustus)," 4 to, 1842: "Odontography," 2 vols., 1840: "History of British Fossil Mammals and Birds," 8vo, 1 vol. 1846: "History of British Fossil Reptiles," 4 to, 5 parts, 1849-51: "Lectures on the Comparative Anatomy of the Invertebrate Animals," 8vo, 1 vol. 1843: "Lectures on the Comparative Anatomy of the Vertebrate Animals," 8vo, 1 vol. 1846: "On the Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton," 8vo, 1 vol. 1848: "On the Nature of Limbs," 8vo. 1 vol. 1849: "On Parthenogenesis, or the Successive Production of Procreative Individuals, from a Single Ovum," 8vo, 1 vol. 1849. Besides these works, Professor Owen has communicated numerous Papers, which have been published in the Transactions of the Royal, Linnaean, Geological, Zoological, Cambridge Philosophical, Medico-chirurgical, and Microscopical Societies: and he has contributed some elaborate Reports, published in the Transactions of the British Association: of the Microscopical Society, he was one of the Founders and first President: and he is a Fellow or Associate of most of the Learned Societies or Scientific Academies, at home and abroad. Professor Owen has been ready to place his scientific knowledge at the service of the Government, whenever it has been called for, in aid of any inquiry involving considerations of a physiological nature. He was an active member of the Commission of Enquiry into the Health of Towns, of the Commission of Enquiry into the Health of the Metropolis, and of the Commission of Enquiry into Smithfield Market; and it is to his persevering endeavours to bring the evils of the latter before the Government and the Public, by investigations promoted in the Commissions, of which he was a member, and by his evidence, before the Parliamentary Committees, that the public are mainly indebted for the contemplated abolition of that disgraceful nuisance. We find the name of Professor Owen, as assisting in the official reports of the first and several subsequent meetings of the Board of Health, the organization of which has been the chief result of the Sanitary Commissions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."