Durham School Research Articles

Dr. H. Eltringham, F.R.S

HARRY ELTRINGHAM, who died on November 26, was the eldest son of J. T. Eltringham of South Shields, and was born in 1873. Educated at South Shields High School, and then at Durham School, he was destined for a business career with science as a background. His natural leanings to science owed much in his youth to his father's encouragement. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1891, and took an honours degree in natural science, after which he spent a year in the engineering 'shops' studying mechanical drawing and practical work. His father's shipbuilding business claimed him for some years after, but in 1908 he retired, and devoted himself to the study of insect mimicry, which had already attracted his attention.

Dr. W. Steiner

DR. WERNER STEINER, born 1896 at Cologne, died after a brief illness on September 10 at Durham. From 1926 onwards he was Prof. M. Bodenstein's assistant in the Institute of Physical Chemistry at Berlin and in charge there of the teaching and research work in spectroscopy. He published some thirty valuable papers on this and related subjects, several of them in English journals. After leaving Germany in 1933 he worked for a while on similar lines at Cambridge in the laboratories of the late Prof. T. M. Lowry. In 1936 he accepted the position of a science master at the Gordonstoun School in Morayshire, and in January 1941 at the Durham School. Here, as well as in his University career, he gave of his best. Besides science his main interest was divinity, and his last contribution was to a theological journal.

Archaeologica Medica: XXIV.--The Barber-Surgeons of Newcastle-On-Tyne and the Durham School of Medicine

Archaeologica Medica: XXIV.--The Barber-Surgeons of Newcastle-On-Tyne and the Durham School of Medicine