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See also:HAUGHTON, See also:SAMUEL (1821-1897) , Irish scientific writer, the son of See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James Haughton (1795-1873), was See also:born at See also:Carlow on the 21st of See also:December 1821. His See also:father, the son of a Quaker, but himself a Unitarian, was an active philanthropist, a strong supporter of Father See also:Theobald See also:Mathew, a vegetarian, and an See also:anti-See also:slavery worker and writer. After a distinguished career in Trinity See also:College, See also:Dublin, Samuel was elected a See also:fellow in 1844. IIe was ordained See also:priest in 1847, but seldom preached. In 1851 he was appointed See also:professor of See also:geology in Trinity College, and this See also:post he held for See also:thirty years. He began the study of See also:medicine in 1859, and in 1862 took the degree of M.D. in the university of Dublin. He was then made registrar of the Medical School, the status of which he did much to improve, and he represented the university on the See also:General Medical See also:Council from 1878 to 1896. He was elected F.R.S. in 1858, and in course of See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford conferred upon him the hon. degree of D.C.L., and See also:Cambridge and See also:Edinburgh that of LL.D. He was a See also:man of remarkable knowledge and ability, and he communicated papers on widely different subjects to various learned See also:societies and scientific See also:journals in See also:London and Dublin. He wrote on the See also:laws of See also:equilibrium and See also:motion of solid and fluid bodies (1846), on See also:sun-See also:heat, terrestrial See also:radiation, See also:geological climates and on tides. He wrote also on the granites of See also:Leinster and See also:Donegal, and on the cleavage and See also:joint-planes in the Old Red See also:Sandstone of See also:Waterford (18J7-1858). He was See also:president of the Royal Irish See also:Academy from 1886 to 1891, and for twenty years he was secretary of the Royal Zoological Society of See also:Ireland. He died in Dublin on the 31st of See also:October 1897.
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