...regard to the position of science at the time of its issue, an effective advance — his pupils were even more valuable. The greatest praise of a great...the last half century a school of Natural History ?" Jameson attained the age of eighty years, and had filled his chair for upwards of half a century,...

...regard to the position of science at the time of its issue, an effective advance — his pupils were even more valuable. The greatest praise of a great...the last half century a school of Natural History 1" Jameson attained the age of eighty years, and had Riled his chair for upwards of half a century,...

...regard to the position of science at the time of its issue, an effective advance — his pupils were even more valuable. The greatest praise of a great...the last half century a school of Natural History ? I have a difficult task before me, gentlemen, with those traditions of greatness to overshadow my...

...professor is that which proclaims the foundation of a school ; and where else in the British Empire has there been, for the last half century, a school of natural history?' In all probability it was because of the fame of Jameson that Darwin found his way to the University...

...tradition. As Edward Forbes, his successor, was to ask rhetorically in his Inaugural Address in 1854: 'Where else in the British empire, except here, has there been for the last half-century a school of Natural History?1 — a broad school, that is, and one not merely confined...