| RefNo | EC/1864/05 |
| Previous numbers | Cert X, 55 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Ellis, Alexander John: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Citation | The Author of the Alphabet of Nature, Essentials of Phonetics, Universal Writing & Printing & other Phonetic Works; a translation of Prof Martin Ohm's Geist der Mathematischen Analysis; a paper in the transactions of the British Association for 1855 on a "More General Theory of Analytical Geometry, including the Cartesian as a particular case," & a paper in the same volume on a Universal Alphabet. Also "On Scalar & Clinant algebraical coordinate Geometry" - "On Clinant Geometry - On an application of the Theory of Scalar & Clinant Radical Loci - On a Simple Formula & Practical Rule for calculating Heights barometrically without Logarithms" published in Proceedings Roy Soc Vols XI & XII: and of Bessel's Hypsometrical Tables reduced to English Measures & recalculated" published on the recommendation of the Council in the Meteorologic Papers of the Board of Trade, No 12. Distinguished for his acquaintance with the sciences of Phonetics & Mathematics. Attached to science & anxious to promote its progress. |
| Proposers | From General Knowledge. John Bishop.
From Personal Knowledge. Neil Arnott; C W Pasley; H Wollaston Blake; Philip Kelland; W Hopkins; J H Gladstone; J F W Herschel; R Willis; C Wheatstone; Archibald Smith; T Perronet Thompson; Warington W Smyth; C Babbage; Andrew Scott Waugh; Robt Fitz Roy |
| Extent | 1 sheet |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA6159 | Ellis; Alexander John (1814 - 1890); mathematician | 1814 - 1890 |