See also:GEORGE 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 See also:ALLMAN (1812-1898)
, See also:British biologist, was See also:born in See also:Cork, See also:Ireland, in 1812, and received his See also:early See also:education at the Royal Academical Institution, See also:Belfast
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For some 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 he studied for the Irish See also:bar, but ultimately gave up See also:law in favour of natural See also:science
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In 1843 he graduated in See also:medicine at See also:Dublin, and in the following See also:year was appointed See also:professor of See also:botany in that university, succeeding his namesake, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Allman (1776-1846)
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This position he held for about twelve years until he removed to See also:Edinburgh as regius professor of natural See also:history
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There he remained till 1870, when considerations of See also:health induced him to resign his professorship and retire to See also:Dorsetshire, where he devoted himself to his favourite pastime of See also:horticulture
.
The scientific papers which came from his See also:pen are very numerous
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His most important See also:work was upon the gymnoblastic See also:hydrozoa, on which he published in 1871-1872, through the See also:Ray Society, an exhaustive monograph, based largely on his own researches and illustrated with drawings of remarkable excellence from his own See also:hand
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Biological science is also indebted to him for several convenient terms which have come into daily use, e.g. endoderm and ectoderm for the two cellular layers of the See also:body-See also:wall in Coelenterata
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He became a See also:fellow of the Royal Society in 1854, and received a Royal See also:medal in 1873
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For several years he occupied the presidential See also:chair of the Linnaean society, and in 1879 he presided over the See also:Sheffield See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting of the British Association
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He aied on the 24th of See also:November 1898 at Parkstone, Dorsetshire
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