Mason College Research Articles

Sonnenschein's Greek Grammar - A Greek Grammar for Schools based on the Principles and Requirements of the Grammatical Society. Part I. Accidence. Part II. Syntax. By E. A. Sonnenschein, M.A. (Oxon.), Professor of Greek and Latin in Mason College, Birmingham. (Parallel Grammar Series. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. New York: Macmillan & Co.)

Sonnenschein's Greek Grammar - A Greek Grammar for Schools based on the Principles and Requirements of the Grammatical Society. Part I. Accidence. Part II. Syntax. By E. A. Sonnenschein, M.A. (Oxon.), Professor of Greek and Latin in Mason College, Birmingham. (Parallel Grammar Series. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. New York: Macmillan & Co.)

II. On the Occurrence of Pyroxene or Augite, in Large Crystals, in Two Localities in Western Scotland

The occurrence of the mineral Pyroxene or Augite, in large crystals, amongst the basic igneous rocks of this district of Western Scotland, seems to be far from common. I formerly only knew of one intrusive boss of dolerite, near Sculliongour on the Campsie Fells, which contained them. In it many of the crystals reach some half-inch in diameter, and specimens of these are now exhibited. This rock I brought under the notice of Mr. S. Allport, F.G.S., Sir Josiah Mason Science College, Birmingham, whilst he was preparing his paper on the microscopic structure and composition of the “British Carboniferous Dolerites” ( Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society , 1874, vol. xxx., p. 529). Mr. Allport, in referring to my specimens, remarks: “A very beautiful porphyritic dolerite occurs on the south slope of the Campsie Hills, near Sculliongour. It is coarsely crystalline in texture, with large disseminated crystals of augite. The plagioclase (felspar) is well crystallised, very slightly altered, and exhibits brightly-coloured striæ in polarised light. Olivine, is abundant and unusually well-preserved, some crystals being almost unaltered, others rather more so, while a few exhibit more advanced stages of its conversion into a serpentinous pseudomorph. The augite is well crystallised, and is remarkable for the number of cavities, grains of magnetite, and small felspar crystals it contains.” Mr. Allport then concludes his description by stating that “the relation of this rock to the surrounding masses could not be traced, and its unusually fresh condition might lead one to suspect for it a more This 250-word extract was created in the absence of an abstract

“Testacella Haliotidea”

TATE, in his “Molluscs of Great Britain,” gives a list of counties in which this mollusc may be found. In this list Worcester is not included. Hence it may be of interest to note that specimens are not infrequently collected in asparagus-beds here, as also are those of the much rarer T. scutulum. A good specimen of the latter was recently given by me to Mason College, Birmingham.

Abstracts from the Ingleby Lectures on the Common Forms of Dyspepsia in Women: Delivered at Mason College, 1894

Abstracts from the Ingleby Lectures on the Common Forms of Dyspepsia in Women: Delivered at Mason College, 1894

The Ingleby Lectures on the Common Forms of Dyspepsia in Women: Delivered at Mason College, 1894

The Ingleby Lectures on the Common Forms of Dyspepsia in Women: Delivered at Mason College, 1894

II. On a determination of the mean density of the earth and the gravitation constant by means of the common balance

In a paper printed in the ‘Proceedings of the Royal Society,’ No. 190, 1878, an account was given of some experiments undertaken in order to test the possibility of using the common balance in place of the torsion balance in the Cavendish experiment. The success obtained seemed to justify the continuation of the work, and this paper contains an account of an experiment carried out with a large bullion balance, in place of the chemical balance used in the preliminary trials. The work has been carried out at the Mason College, Birmingham.

The Medical Faculty of Mason College, Birmingham

The Medical Faculty of Mason College, Birmingham

Mason College Library, Birmingham

Mason College Library, Birmingham

Societies and Academies

LONDON. Royal Society, June 4.—“On a Determination of the Mean Density of the Earth and the Gravitation Constant by means of the Common Balance.” By J. H. Poynting, D.Sc., F.R.S., Professor of Physics, Mason College, Birmingham.

Sonnenschein's New Edition of the Rudens - T. Macci Plauti Rudens, edited with critical and explanatory notes by Edward A. Sonnenschein, M.A., professor of Greek and Latin in the Mason College, Birmingham. Clarendon Press, 1891. 8s. 6d.

Sonnenschein's New Edition of the Rudens - T. Macci Plauti Rudens, edited with critical and explanatory notes by Edward A. Sonnenschein, M.A., professor of Greek and Latin in the Mason College, Birmingham. Clarendon Press, 1891. 8s. 6d. - Volume 5 Issue 5

Graphics; or, the Art of Calculation by drawing Lines, applied especially to Mechanical Engineering.

MAXWELL was the first, according to the Introduction of the present treatise, to state the principles in a very complete and general manner by which stress-diagrams are drawn, in the Phil. Mag., xxvii., 1864; and also in the Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh vol. xxvi. Graphics; or, the Art of Calculation by drawing Lines, applied especially to Mechanical Engineering. With an Atlas of Diagrams. By Robert H. Smith., Professor of Engineering, Mason College, Birmingham. Part I. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889.)

The British Association

THE fifty-sixth annual meeting of the British Association was opened in Birmingham last night, when Lord Rayleigh resigned the Presidential chair to Sir William Dawson, Principal of McGill College, Montreal. The attendance at the fourth Birmingham meeting promises to be much above the average, and so far as the Birmingham people are concerned everything has been done to secure success. All the new public buildings, including Mason College and the fine new Art Gallery, have been placed at the disposal of the Sections. The reception-rooms, reading-rooms, writing-rooms, and other general rooms, not omitting the smoking-room, are all that could be desired. All the leading clubs of the town have been thrown open to members; facilities have been given for visiting the various manufactories in the town and neighbourhood; the industrial exhibition in Bingley Hall has been admirably arranged; while there is a formidable programme of social entertainments and excursions. Among the foreign visitors expected, one of the most distinguished is Prof. Haeckel. There is a very large representation, moreover, of colonial science.

VI.—On the Sequence and Systematic Position of the Cambrian Rocks of Nuneaton

In the Geological Magazine for December, 1882, I published a brief note upon the “Discovery of Cambrian Rocks in the Neighbourhood of Birmingham,” in which evidences were adduced demonstrative of the fact that the oldest sedimentary strata of the Lickey Hills, and of the neighbourhood of the town of Nuneaton, previously referred to the Llandovery and Carboniferous respectively, are, in reality, of Cambrian age. Since that date these Cambrian areas have been in part mapped by the members of the Field Geology Class of the Mason College, and many confirmatory and interesting points of detail have been detected by myself and others. Some of these will be found incorporated in Mr. Jerome Harrison's valuable paper on the “Pre-Carboniferous Floor of the Midlands,” published in the Midland Naturalist for 1885. My friend Mr. T. H. Waller, B.Sc, kindly undertook the microscopical examination of the igDeous rooks associated with these Cambrian strata, but the results of his observations are as yet unpublished.

AN EXPERIMENTAL ENQUIRY INTO THE NATURE OF THE OBJECTIVE CAUSE OF SENSATION

Journal Article AN EXPERIMENTAL ENQUIRY INTO THE NATURE OF THE OBJECTIVE CAUSE OF SENSATION Get access JOHN B. HAYCRAFT, M.B., B.SC., F.R.S.E. JOHN B. HAYCRAFT, M.B., B.SC., F.R.S.E. Professor of Physiology, Mason College, Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Brain, Volume 8, Issue 2, July 1885, Pages 191–209, https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/8.2.191 Published: 01 July 1885

List of Members on 30th March, 1885

Honorary Members. Year of Entry. 1859. Davidson, Thomas, F.R.S., F.G.S., 9 Salisbury Road, Brighton. 1865. Geikie, Archibald, F.R.S., F.G.S., Director-General of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and Ireland, London. 1867. Jones, T. Rupert, F.R.S., F.G.S., 10 Ulverdale Road, King’s Road, Chelsea, London, S.W. 1867. Kirkby, James W., Pirnie Colliery, Leven, Fifeshire. 1867. Woodward, Henry, F.G.S., British Museum, London. 1867. M‘Chesney, Joseph H., Professor of Geology, University of Chicago, U.S. 1871. Hull, Edward, M.A., F.G.S., &c., Director of the Geological Survey of Ireland, Dublin. 1872. Thomson, Sir William, LL.D., F.R.S., &c., Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Glasgow, President . 1872. Young, John, M.D., F.G.S., &c., Professor of Natural History, University of Glasgow. 1872. De Koninck, M. L., Professor of Natural History, Liége. 1864. Hunter, John R.S., LL.D., &c., Daleville, Braidwood, Carluke. [1879]* 1883. Judd, Prof., F.G.S., Geological Soc., Burlington House, London, W. 1883. Brown, Robert, F.G.S., &c., Ferslev, Rydal Road, Streatham, London, S.W. Honorary Associates. 1859. Struthers, Thomas, Gourock. [1867] 1867. Croll, James, LL.D., &c., Geological Survey of Scotland, Edinburgh. 1858. Crosskey, Rev. H. W., LL.D., F.G.S., Birmingham. [1871] 1858. Horne, James, London. [1871] 1859. Farie, James, Canonbury, London. [1871] 1878. Lapworth, Charles, LL.D., F.G.S., &c., Sir Josiah Mason College of Science, Birmingham. 1858. Wünsch, E. A., F.G.S. [1881] 1883. Traquair, R. H., M.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., &c., Museum of Science and Art, Edinburgh. 1873. Geikie, James, LL.D., F.R.S.E., F.G.S., Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Edinburgh. [1883] Corresponding Members. 1859. Dougall, John, M.D., 115 Paisley Road, Glasgow. 1860. Sommerville, This 250-word extract was created in the absence of an abstract

Notes

AT the annual meeting of the Geological Society the medals were presented as follows:—The Wollaston Gold Medal to Dr. Franz Ritter von Hauer, Director of the Austrian Geological Survey; the Murchison Medal to Prof. Jules Gosselet, of Lille; the Lyell Medal to Dr. John Lycett, of Scarborough; the balance of the Wollaston Fund to Dr. G. J. Hinde; the balance of the Murchison Fund to Prof. T. Rupert Jones; a moiety of the Lyell Fund to Prof. Charles Lapworth, Mason College, Birmingham, and to the Rev. Norman Glass; a portion of the proceeds of the Barlow-Jameson Fund to Baron Constantin von Ettingsbausen, Professor of Botany at Graz. Mr. J. W. Hulke, F.R.S., was elected President, in succession to Mr. Etheridge.

University and Educational Intelligence

AT a recent meeting of the trustees of the Mason College in Birmingham, the executors.of Sir Josiah Mason presented a statement showing the amount to which the college will be entitled under the will of Sir Josiah Mason. After paying claims on the estate and providing for legacy duty, about 20,000l. will accrue to the college within the next three years, and after certain life interests are satisfied, a further sum of about 15,000l. will be available, making a total of 35,000l. for the estate. The benefactions of Sir Josiah Mason to the college building, endowment, and legacies will then amount to a total of 210,000l. The building and endowment of the orphanage and almshouses represent a sum of about 260,000l.

Nottingham University College

THE fine building, auspiciously opened the other day as a college in the heart of Nottingham, represents the last development of that all too tardy interest in higher education which, in the more recent years, has originated the Victoria University in Manchester, the Yorkshire College in Leeds, the Science College in Newcastle (a flourishing offshoot of Durham University), the Mason Science College in Birmingham, and others.

Endowment of Research in Birmingham

THE President of the Birmingham Philosophical Society, Dr. Heslop, recently gave an address to the members, taking for his subject the “Scientific Situation in Birmingham.” Having reviewed the various local agencies set up during the past year for the diffusion of knowledge, including the opening of Mason's Science College, he went on to say: I must now allude to the most important work undertaken by the Society, the establishment of the fund for the endowment of research. This action has received warm support in many quarters, and has in fact done more to place it in a favourable light before the country than any previous circumstances. Although the efforts made to raise this fund have been inconsiderable, yet nearly 100l, in annual subscriptions, of varying dates, and 900l. in donations have been obtained. The Council have invested 600l. in order to ensure the permanence of the fund. It is probable that some slight additions may be made to this sum, having the same object in view; but it is, I believe, their intention to recommend the Society to spend the whole income, how-soever derived, in annual grants to persons living in this town or neighbourhood who devote themselves wholly or in part to science research. It is an error to suppose that this fund is to be allotted either to any particular individual or specially to members of this Society. The Council are free to do what they deem best with the money intrusted to them, within the limits of the scheme agreed upon. There is another temporary limit to their powers. One eminent investigator (Dr. Gore) is allotted a certain sum for a certain period. The approval of this step evinced by those who have contributed to the fund, and by others, has been a source of satisfaction to the Council.

The Place of Science in Education

The Place of Science in Education