ALEXANDER

See also:

• MELVILLE, ANDREW (1545-1622)
• MELVILLE, ARTHUR (1858-1904)
• MELVILLE, JAMES (1556-1614)
• MELVILLE, SIR JAMES (1535-1617)

MELVILLE

See also:

• BELL
• ALEXANDER MELVILLE BELL (1819—1905)
• BELL, ANDREW (1753—1832)
• BELL, GEORGE JOSEPH (1770-1843)
• BELL, HENRY (1767-1830)
• BELL, HENRY GLASSFORD (1803-1874)
• BELL, JACOB (1810-1859)
• BELL, JOHN (1691-178o)
• BELL, JOHN (1763-1820)
• BELL, JOHN (1797-1869)
• BELL, ROBERT (1800-1867)
• BELL, SIR CHARLES (1774—1842)

BELL (1819—1905)  , American educationalist, was born at Edinburgh, Scotland, on the 1st of March 1819 . He studied under and became the principal assist-ant of his father, Alexander Bell, an authority on phonetics and defective speech . From 1843 to 1865 be lectured on elocution at the university of Edinburgh, and from 1865 to 187o at the university of London . In 1868, and again in 1870 and 1871, he lectured in the Lowell Institute course in Boston . In 1870 he became a lecturer on philology at Queen's College, Kingston, Ontario; and in 1881 he removed to Washington, D.C., where he devoted himself to the education of deaf mutes by the " visible speech " method of orthoepy, in which the alphabetical characters of his own invention were graphic diagrams of positions and motions of the organs of speech . He held high rank as an authority on physiological phonetics (q.v.) and was the author of numerous works on orthoepy, elocution and education, including Steno-Phonography (1852); Letters and Sounds (1858); The Standard Elocutionist (186o); Principles of Speech and Dictionary of Sounds (1863); Visible Speech: The Science of Universal Alphabetics (1867); Sounds and their Relations (1881); Lectures on Phonetics (1885); A Popular Manual of Visible Speech and Vocal Physiology (1889); World English: the Universal Language (1888); The Science of Speech (1897); The Fundamentals of Elocution (1899) . See John Hitz, Alexander Melville Bell (Washington, 1906) .