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Authorised form of nameEwart; Alfred James (1872 - 1937)
Dates1872 - 1937
NationalityAustralian
Date of birth12 February 1872
Date of death12/09/1937
ActivityEducation:
DSc (Lond, Oxon, Melb); PhD (Leip)
Career:
Professor of Botany, Melbourne University; Government Botanist, Victoria; Secretary of Royal Society of Victoria
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election11/05/1922
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1936-1938 vol 2 pp 465-469, plate, by W Stiles
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/60591740
CodeNA630
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1922/05Ewart, Alfred James: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/35/71Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Alfred James Ewart, National Herbarium, South Yarra, Melbourne, Victoria12 April 1907
RR/15/330Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'The physics and physiology of the protoplasmic streaming of plants' by Alfred James EwartMay 1902
RR/16/177Referee's report by Frederick Frost Blackman, on a paper 'The ascent of water in trees' by Alfred James EwartDecember 1904
RR/17/158Referee's report by Frederick Frost Blackman, on a paper 'On the supposed extracellular photosynthesis of carbon dioxide by chlorophyll' by Alfred James Ewart[October 1907]
RR/15/329Referee's report by Augustus Desire Waller, on a paper 'The physics and physiology of the protoplasmic streaming of plants' by Alfred James EwartMarch 1902
NLB/25/116Memorandum from Theodore E James, to Dr Alfred James Ewart, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Hurst Green Farm, Minworth, near Birmingham13 August 1902
NLB/25/12Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Dr Alfred James Ewart, [Fellow of the Royal Society]23 July 1902
NLB/24/424Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society14 May 1902
NLB/25/527Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Alfred James Ewart, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Hurst Green Farm, Minworth[14 November 1902]
NLB/30/261Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr A J Ewart, The University, Birmingham 20 February 1905
NLB/30/256Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Alfred James Ewart, The University, Birmingham20 February 1905
NLB/35/36Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Darwin, Foreign Secretary, Royal Society8 April 1907
NLB/36/88Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Alfred James Ewart8 August 1907
NLB/36/243Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Bretland Farmer, Fellow of the Royal Society1 October 1907
NLB/36/396Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Albert Charles Seward, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Botany Sectional Committee25 October 1907
NLB/40/18Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Miss Jean White, c.o Professor A [Alfred] J [James] Ewart, The University, Melbourne24 March 1909
RR/22/49Referee's report by Frederick Frost Blackman, on a paper 'On the function of chlorophyll' by Alfred James EwartFebruary 1915
RR/16/176Referee's report by Sydney Howard Vines, on a paper 'The ascent of water in trees' by Alfred James Ewart15 November 1904
RR/23/25Referee's report by Frederick Frost Blackman, on a paper 'Function of chlorophyll - carstin xanthophyll' by Alfred James Ewart1916
NLB/54/392Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Albert Charles] Seward, Chairman of Government Grant Board E and FRS2 May 1917
NLB/54/368Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Albert Charles] Seward, FRS25 April 1917
NLB/54/349Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, Chairman of the Botany Committee and FRS19 April 1917
NLB/53/95Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Albert Charles] Seward, FRS10 April 1916
RR/17/159Referee's report by Sydney Howard Vines, on a paper 'The ascent of water in trees. (Second paper.)' by Alfred James Ewart14 May 1907
NLB/71/490Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Alfred James] Ewarts, FRS11 June 1928
RR/15/331Memoranda from Robert William Frederick Harrison, and reply from Francis Darwin, on a paper on a paper 'The physics and physiology of the protoplasmic streaming of plants' by Alfred James Ewart14 May 1902
RR/16/178Referee's report by Horace Tabberer Brown, on a paper 'The ascent of water in trees' by Alfred James EwartFebruary 1905
NLB/30/218Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Alfred James Ewart, The University, Birmingham14 February 1905
NLB/35/741Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Albert Charles Seward, Chairman of the Botany Sectional Committee11 July 1907
RR/24/35Referee's report by Frederick Frost Blackman, on a paper 'A graphical method of drawing trajectories for high-angle fire' by Alfred James Ewart[April 1917]
RR/21/66Referee's report by William Maddock Bayliss, on a paper 'A comparative study of oxidation by catalysts of organic and inorganic origin' by Alfred James Ewartnd [1914]
RR/17/160Referee's report by Frederick Frost Blackman, on a paper 'The ascent of water in trees. (Second paper.)' by Alfred James Ewart[July 1907]
RR/21/64Referee's report by Frederick Frost Blackman, on a paper 'A comparative study of oxidation by catalysts of organic and inorganic origin' by Alfred James Ewart[February 1914]
RR/21/65Referee's report by Sydney Howard Vines, on a paper 'A comparative study of oxidation by catalysts of organic and inorganic origin' by Alfred James Ewart14 February 1914
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