| Citation | Lecturer on Applied Mathematics in the University of Edinburgh. General Secretary of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Author of the following papers among others: - 'Researches on Contact Electricity, 1880'; several papers on 'Relations between Magnetism and Twist in Magnetic Metals, 1883-1892'; 'Magnetic Strains in Tubes of Iron and Nickel, 1896-1898'; several papers on 'The Relation between Magnetism and Resistance at High Temperatures, 1902-1904'; 'Effect of Transverse Magnetisation of Nickel at High Temperature, 1904'; 'Changes of Electrical Resistance accompanying Longitudinal and Transverse Magnetisation in Magnetic Metals, 1913-1914'; 'Seismic Radiations and Propagation of Earthquakes Waves through the Earth, 1907, 1909, 1919' (Trans and Proc Roy Soc Edin); 'Refraction and Refraction of Elastic Waves with Seismological Applications, 1889'; 'On Swan's Prism Photometer, 1900' (Phil Mag); 'Lunar Periodicities in Earthquake Frequency, 1897'; 'Earthquakes and Earthquake Sounds as Illustrations of the General Theory of Elastic Vibrations, 1888' (Proc Roy Soc); 'A Magnetic Survey of all Japan,1888' (Journ Coll of Sci, Imperial Univ, Japan); and other papers. Author of the following treatises: - 'The Physics of Earthquake Phenomena, 1908'; 'Life and Scientific Work to P G Tait, 1911'; Editor of Kelland and Tait's Introduction to Quaternions, 3rd Ed, 1904; Editor of the Memorial Volume of the Napier Tercentenary, 1914; Articles, Pneumatics, Light, Photometry in Encyclopaedia Britannica. |