Jones's Work Research Articles

Finland, Daughter of the Sea

Abstract When a scholar from a large country sets out to study the problems of a small one there is often some kind of emotional attachment to explain the interest, whether it be ties of family or friendship or something more obscure. But commonly too there are quite reasonable grounds for undertaking the study, albeit less flattering to the small country: the country might provide a convenient case study for an enquiry into some more general phenomenon, or a subject for research may present itself there which is unknown in the scholar's own country. Jones's work is of the latter kind. Elevation of the land, the subject of his research, is certainly known around the shores of other countries, but it has no remarkable social consequences where there are, for example, steep shores, strong tides, or virtually uninhabited countryside.

The kelp fauna of northeast Britain. III. Qualitative and quantitative ordinations, and the utility of a multivariate approach

Multivariate ordinations using a variety of methods are given for data on the fauna of kelp holdfasts, Laminaria hyperborea (Gunn.) Fosl. in northeast Britain. Considering qualitative and quantitative data, the turbidity correlation, previously implicated, is present, but any presumed refinement introduced by considering abundance rather than presence/absence data is refuted. The primary correlating variable in the quantitative analysis is holdfast size which tends to obscure ecologically important gradients. For comparative purposes, species structure may be more useful and more easily interpreted in terms of widescale habitat variability than abundance measures which are dependent upon local conditions. It is concluded that a uniformly depressant pollution effect on the kelp fauna over the area of coast around and between the mouths of the Rivers Tyne, Wear and Tees is unsubstantiated. Localized pollution effects may be present at Newbiggin and Seaham with Marsden being peripherally involved. Colliery waste and sewage represent contending polluting agencies. The potential role of micro-habitat structure in determining holdfast fauna cannot be ignored. Possible causal interactions still require substantiation by further field and laboratory work. A perspective of northeast coast researches is provided and in particular, criticism is made of Jones's work on local kelp fauna. The implication of the relative redundancy of quantitative data (see above) is further amplified with a view to defining conditions when the collection of qualitative data may be adequate 1. i) for efficient ecological survey 2. ii) for surveillance programmes. Finally, comments are offered on the utility and interpretability of a multivariate approach; in particular, attention is directed to the pitfalls of correlating faunal distributions with environmental variables.

One Man And His Dog: A Study Of A Deleted Draft Of Bernard Shaw's The Philanderer

Now above all the machinery of Victorian drama, Shaw abominated the plot. His hatred for it is apparent throughout his entire critical career. Speaking of H. A. Jones's play Hoodman Blind, as early as 1885, he said: “it has that dramatic cancer, a plot"; and he praised another work by the same author, six months later, by saying: "The sole superiority of The Lord Harry to Mr. Jones's previous work consists in its almost absolute freedom from the incubus of a plot." His days with The Saturday Review further exemplify this attitude; so that when he turned from playgoing to playwriting—activities which he carried out simultaneously for a time—one would expect him to put his precepts into practice. And so it has always been believed.

Passive electrical measurements from three Oklahoma tornados

Passive electrical measurement of three tornados in the Oklahoma area have been made and are being reported upon. The measurements made include point discharge current, 18.5-kc/s sferics, along with 10-, 50-, 100-, and 175-kc/s, and 30-Mc/s sferics. The preceding measurements of tornados are compared with a typical local thunderstorm. In this comparison, it is shown that the electrical discharges within the tornados are much more intense than in local thunderstorms, particularly in frequency of occurrence. Data also show that the normal frequency spectrum of sferics radiation is different from the frequency spectrum of the tornados measured. Furthermore, the tornado sferics appear to have a definite aperiodic structure that may be present to a limited extent in the intense portion of a thunderstorm. Similarities between the measurements made on the Oklahoma tornados and Jones's work are pointed out. Finally, it is suggested that a coupling between the electrical and mechanical energies of the tornado may be responsible for the difference noted between tornado sferics and thunderstorm sferics.

The Date of the Composition of the English Wyclifite Collection of Sermons

THIS article attempts to clear the ground for determination of the authorship of the English Wyclifite tracts and sermons, which in turn will involve a study of the early centers of Lollardy other than Oxford. The pertinence of the date of the composition of the English Wyclifite sermon collection to the canon of Wyclif's English works is obvious. E. P. Jones, in the only study devoted solely to the canon of Wyclif's English works, believes the 294 sermons of the collection to have been written by Wyclif and uses, for the most part, their syntactical peculiarities to determine whether Wyclif wrote some of the English didactic and polemical works ascribed to him.' The only edition of the entire collection, which, of course, Jones used, follows the sermon compilation in MS. Bodl. 788,2 since the individual sermons, in that collection as well as the groups of sermons,3 are more complete than those in the other twenty manuscripts. However, Bodl. 788, in contrast to some of the other manuscripts, is probably a comparatively late compilation,4 since its sermons, as this article shows, were written, or at any rate enlarged, over a period of years from ca 1377 to ca 1412. Since there is nothing in the style or dialect of those sermons which distinguishes the earlier portions from other portions, or from later tropological additions, some other method of ascribing English works to Wyclif must be found. Jones's work, moreover, and the work upon which it is based, Thomas Arnold's ascription of the sermons to Wyclif,s are the only considerations of the authorship of these sermons which can not be considered obiter dicta. Gotthard Lechler suggests that a large number of the sermons were preached by Wyclif in the last years of his life and that Purvey transcribed, collected, and preserved many of them.6 F. D. Matthews agrees with Arnold.7 H. B. Workman considers some of

Thomas Wharton Jones, F.R.S1

SIR RICKMAN GODLEE'S memoir of Wharton Jones, reprinted from the British Journal of Ophthalmology, March and April, 1921 (London: Geo. Pulman and Sons, Ltd.), is a most admirable short study. It gives us in close compass not only the man's work, but also the man, from 1808 to 1891-a long life in the service of physiology and ophthalmology. Wharton Jones's work on the capillary circulation and on the processes of inflammation is memorable, and was recognised and honoured by all men of science: but the advance of the medical sciences carried the younger men far ahead of him. From Edinburgh, where Wharton Jones was one of Knox's assistants, and suffered a share of the public hatred which flared up over the Burke and Hare murders, he came to London in 1838 as lecturer on anatomy and physiology at Charing Cross Hospital; among his pupils were Huxley and Fayrer. In 1840 he was elected to the Royal Society. From 1851 to 1881 he was professor of ophthalmic medicine and surgery at University College. His thirty years of teaching and writing failed to shield him in later life from miserable poverty; he fell out of the running. He was found at last, in the bitter winter of 1880-81, "crouched over a fireless grate, his shoulders hunched up under a mass of shawls and shabby wraps, the picture of destitution . . . not only very ill, but penniless and starving."Friends saved him, and collected money for him; Huxley and Fayrer obtained from Mr. Gladstone a Civil List pension for him; Jenner obtained a Tancred pension for him. The work was ended in London, and for the last ten years he lived in a couple of tiny rooms in a cottage in Ventnor.:

On Lubbock's Formula for Approximating to the Value ov a Life Annuity

The method proposed by the late Sir J. W. Lubbock ov approximating to the value ov a life annuity, appears hitherto to hav been very littl notist by mathematicians and not at all by practical men. It was demonstrated by him in the Cambridge Philosophical Transactions for the year 1829, in a paper entitld “On the Comparison of various Tables of Annuities”; and a short account ov it is also givn in the articl Probability, publisht by the Useful Knowledge Society, and very offen bound up with David Jones's work on Annuities: see § 56, p. 36. The former paper was reprinted in the Assurance Magazine (vol. v, p. 277). The original is disfigurd by numerous misprints, which ar all faithfully reproduced in the reprint; and when we add that very littl numerical illustration ov the application ov the method is givn, we hav probably said enuf to account for its attracting so littl attention in any quarter. Considerd as a means ov approximating to the value ov an annuity, the formula has been superseded by the simpler one givn by Mr. Woolhouse; but I believ it may still be practically useful in som cases.

Michael Faraday

THERE can be no doubt that a life of Faraday suitable for the general public was much needed. Dr. Bence Jones's work, though full of interest to scientific men, and to those who knew Faraday personally, was too voluminous and too lacking in cohesion to be very widely read. Dr. Tyndall's brilliant sketch fascinated the reader with the scientific aspect of the life it recorded, but left one longing to know “the inner supplement to that noble ouiivard life” of Faraday. Dr. Gladstone's memoir very largely meets the wants we express. Michael Faraday. By J. H. Gladstone, &c. (London: Macmillan and Co., 1872.)

The Formulæ in Mr. David Jones's work, Commented on by Mr. Macfadyen

The Formulæ in Mr. David Jones's work, Commented on by Mr. Macfadyen

On Certain Formulæ in Mr. David Jones's Work on Annuities

On Certain Formulæ in Mr. David Jones's Work on Annuities