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Authorised form of nameJago; James (1815 - 1893)
Dates1815 - 1893
NationalityBritish
Place of birthThe barton of Kilgilliack, Budock, near Falmouth, Cornwall, England
Date of birth18 December 1815
Date of death18 January 1893
OccupationPhysican
Research fieldOphthalmology
ActivityEducation:
St John's College, Cambridge. BA (1839) MB (1843, Oxford), MD (1859, Oxford)
Career:
Physician, Cornwall General Infirmary; Honorary Secretary, Royal Institution of Cornwall; was paralysed for several years before his death
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election02/06/1870
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1893 vol 54 pp i-iii signed by E D
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/203188069
Royal Society codeNA6359
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
NLB/7/326Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons21 January 1893
NLB/7/969Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr [Edward] Dunkin6 June 1893
NLB/7/579Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons17 March 1893
RR/3/150Referee's report by Charles Wheatstone, on a paper 'Ocular spectres, structures and functions, mutual exponents' by James Jago15 September 1858
RR/3/149Referee's report by Allen Thomson, on a paper 'Ocular spectres, structures and functions, mutual exponents' by James Jago21 May 1858
RR/7/247Referee's report by James Clerk Maxwell, on a paper 'Visible direction: being an elementary contribution to the study of monocular and binocular vision' by James Jago1873
AP/55/10/2Unpublished diagrams, relating to optics by James Jago11 March 1873
MS/426/598Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to J [James] Jago Esq30 July 1857
NLB/7/951Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Edwin Dunkin, Fellow of the Royal Society2 June 1893
NLB/7/961Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster3 June 1893
EC/1870/04Jago, James: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MC/9/89Letter from James Jago, Lemon House, Truro, Cornwall, to the Royal Society6 June 1870
MC/9/529Letter from James Jago, Lemon House, Truro, to W [Walter] White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]10 April 1873
MC/9/492Letter from James Jago, Lemon House, Truro, Cornwall, to [Thomas Henry Huxley and George Gabriel Stokes], Secretaries of the Royal Society12 February 1873
MC/9Volume 9 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1870-June 1873
AP/55/10Unpublished paper, 'Visible direction' by James Jago11 March 1873
AP/36/24/3Unpublished letter, regarding 'Ocular spectres and structures as mutual exponents' from James Jago to C R [Charles Richard] Weld27 March 1855
AP/36/24/2Unpublished letter, regarding 'Ocular spectres and structures as mutual exponents' from James Jago to the Council of the Royal Society10 February 1855
AP/36/24Unpublished paper, 'Ocular spectres and structures as mutual exponents' by James Jago1854
AP/36/24/1Unpublished manuscript, 'Ocular spectres and structures as mutual exponents' by James Jago1854
AP/40/1Unpublished paper, 'Ocular spectres, structures and functions mutual exponents' by James Jago1857
AP/40/1/3Unpublished figures, relating to ocular spectres and structures by James Jago1857
AP/40/1/2Unpublished figures, relating to ocular spectres and structures by James Jago1857
AP/40/1/4Unpublished figures, relating to ocular spectres and structures by James Jago1857
AP/40/1/1Unpublished manuscript, 'Ocular spectres, structures and functions mutual exponents' by James Jago1857
RR/3/148Referee's report by Allen Thomson on a paper, 'Ocular spectres, structures and functions, mutual exponents' by James Jago1856
AP/40/15Unpublished paper, 'The functions of tympanum' by James Jago1858
AP/55/9Unpublished letter, regarding 'Being an elementary contribution to the study of monocular and binocular vision' from James Jago to T H [Thomas Henry] Huxley11 March 1873
RR/7/246Referee's report by John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, on a paper 'Visible direction: being an elementary contribution to the study of monocular and binocular vision' by James Jago12 May 1873
AP/55/10/1Unpublished manuscript, 'Visible direction' by James Jago11 March 1873
AP/55/8Unpublished paper, 'Visible direction: Being an elementary contribution to the study of monocular and binocular vision' by James Jago1873
RR/2/115Referee's report by William Bowman, on a paper 'Ocular spectres and structures as mutual exponents' by James Jago26 May 1855
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