H G Lyons

Biographic Data

ID1748622
NAMEH G Lyons
GIVEN NAMESH G
FAMILY NAMELyons
SIGNATURELYONS H G
AFFILIATIONSGoogle (United States)
ORCID0000-0001-7482-4414
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS54
TOTAL CITATIONS12
AUTHOR COUNT54
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1905
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1940
H-INDEX2

  • Charles Babbage and the Ophthalmoscope

    Open AccessH G LyonsARTICLENotes and Records the Royal…1940

    In the early part of 1940, at one of the dinners of the Royal Society A Dining Club, Sir John Parsons drew the attention of those present to a fact of some interest in the history of the Society, namely, that the Ophthalmoscope had been invented by Charles Babbage, F.R.S., in 1847, four years before H. von Helmholtz published his Eines Augen-Spiegels in 1851. Von Helmholtz however foresaw the great utility of his invention and devised a much more…

  • The Fairchild Trust

    Open AccessH G LyonsARTICLENotes and Records the Royal…1940

    Through the Society is no longer responsible for the administration of this trust, it administered it for more than one hundred and forty years, 1729 to 1873, and made arrangements for the sermon or lecture, which the founder prescribed should be delivered annually, to be given regularly. In the last number of this journal it was recorded that, at the request of the Council, Professor F. E. Fritsch represented the Royal Society at the service whi…

  • John Winthorp (Junior), F. R. S. Governor of Connecticut 1660 to 1676

    Open AccessH G LyonsARTICLENotes and Records the Royal…1940

    The first steps which were taken to form the Royal Society are said on the authority of Dr John Wallis, the mathematician, to date from about 1645, when he and certain other learned men in London began to meet from time to time to discuss the new philosophy, and other matters of common interest. There is however evidence to show that even earlier some of these men and their friends had in mind a plan, still undeveloped, to found a Society for the…

  • The officers of the Society (1662-1860)

    Open AccessH G LyonsARTICLENotes and Records the Royal…1940

    A well-planned administration is indispensable for any new institution if it is to deal with its finances and membership, to record the communications received and to register correspondence with other bodies of like interests efficiently. With aims so wide in scope as the ‘Improvement of Natural Knowledge’ the amount of routine work was bound to be large even in the Society’s early days and to increase rapidly, but the provision of an adequate a…

  • Two hundred years ago, 1739

    Open AccessH G LyonsARTICLENotes and Records the Royal…1939

    The Journal Books and the Council Minutes of the Society as well as the manuscript records that are preserved in our Library contain a rich collection of material illustrating the opinions, ideals and achievements of the small body of men who in the seventeenth century were drawn together by a common desire to advance Natural Knowledge. With its aid we may follow the history of science through nearly three centuries which have passed since Charle…

  • The Society's first bequest

    Open AccessH G LyonsARTICLENotes and Records the Royal…1939

    Dr John Wilkins, Bishop of Chester, died in November 1672, at the age of fifty-eight, and in his will left the sum of £400 to the Society. This was a most welcome gift, for the arrears of subscriptions already amounted to £1800, and only one-fourth of the Fellows (57 out of a total membership of 212) were classed as 'good paymasters'; some were removed from the list of Fellows two years later for being several years in default. Dr Wilkins was one…

  • The composition of the Fellowship and the Council of the Society

    Open AccessH G LyonsARTICLENotes and Records the Royal…1939

    It is well known to most Fellows of the Society that for many years those who had little knowledge of science, or interest in its methods, were freely admitted to its ranks; but this has been less generally realized by some of those who have discussed the history of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This article has been prepared to show what proportion of the Fellowship was composed of scientific men at various periods of the Society’s h…

  • The Society's finances Part II—1831 - 1938

    Open AccessH G LyonsARTICLENotes and Records the Royal…1939

    The first part of this account of the Society’s finances dealt with the period 1660 to 1830, during which the Society first gradually extricated itself from many difficulties due to the lack of funds, and then after the middle of the eighteenth century succeeded in building up a moderate reserve. Throughout that period the information which the Council gave to the Fellows about the financial position of the Society was meagre, no details of the a…

  • One hundred years ago. 1839

    Open AccessH G LyonsARTICLENotes and Records the Royal…1939

    The century which had passed since the presidency of Sir Hans Sloane (1728-41) had seen many changes in the country, and not a few in the Society itself. The conditions which existed in 1739 and were described in the last number of Notes and Records differed very widely from those prevailing in the early part of the nineteenth century, and by comparing them we shall gain a clearer idea of the direction in which the Society and its activities were…

  • The landed property of the Royal Society

    Open AccessH G LyonsARTICLENotes and Records the Royal…1938

    Many institutions have found it advantageous to invest a proportion of their capital in land and buildings, but not many scientific societies follow this practice, some finding trust funds more convenient, others considering that the supervision which landed property requires outweighs its other advantages. The Royal Society, however, has from time to time acquired by purchase or accepted by gift or bequest such property, and on the whole it has …

  • The Anniversary Dinner

    Open AccessH G LyonsARTICLENotes and Records the Royal…1938

    A custom which is as old as the Society itself, and which has been observed fairly regularly for 275 years, merits some consideration as being of more than ordinary interest in the history of the Society. The small group of men who, as early as 1645, used to meet as often as they could at a tavern to dine together and to discuss the new philosophy were the pioneers of the movement which led to the foundation of the Royal Society eighteen years la…

  • The Society's finances - Part I - 1662-1830

    Open AccessH G LyonsARTICLENotes and Records the Royal…1938

    The material which is at our disposal to-day for compiling an account of the Society’s finances is unfortunately far from being as ample as could be wished. The reports of the Anniversary Meetings and the minutes of Council supply a certain amount of information, but the original account books which were available before the latter half of the nineteenth century apparently no longer exist, and many of the reports that were prepared by various com…

  • National Inland Water Survey: Discussion

    Percy Cox, Percy Douglas et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal1935

  • Recent Work on the Problem of Lake Moeris: Discussion

    Charles Close, H G Lyons et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal1929

  • Echo Sounding: Discussion

    Charles Close, Matthew et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal1929

  • The Sailing Charts of the Marshall Islanders: Discussion

    Charles Close, E H L Schwarz et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal1928

  • The Sailing Charts of the Marshall Islanders

    H G Lyons, Henry LyonsARTICLEGeographical Journal1928Cited by: 3

  • Progress in the Study of the Hydrology of the Nile in the Last Twenty Years: Discussion

    Percy Cox, H G Lyons et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal1927

  • Ships of Early Explorers: Discussion

    David George Hogarth, H G Lyons et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal1927

  • Ancient Surveying Instruments

    H G Lyons, Henry LyonsARTICLEGeographical Journal1927Cited by: 5

  • Two Notes on Land-Measurement in Egypt

    Open AccessH G Lyons, Henry LyonsARTICLEThe Journal of Egyptian Archaeology1926

  • Two Notes on Land-Measurement in Egypt

    H G Lyons, Henry LyonsARTICLEThe Journal of Egyptian Archaeology1926

  • The Lake Plateau Basin of the Nile

    H G Lyons, H E HurstARTICLEGeographical Journal1926

  • The Proposed Adoption of a Standard Figure of the Earth: Discussion

    Hink, Hinks et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal1924Cited by: 1

  • The Egyptian Wilderness: Discussion

    H G Lyons, HookerARTICLEGeographical Journal1921