Browsing School of Genetics & Microbiology by Author "DE ARCE, MIGUEL"
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Further notes on the genealogy and social history of the Carlow family of John Tyndall (1820-1893)
DE ARCE, MIGUEL (2013)Using local information and early correspondence we trace aspects of the history of the Carlow family of John Tyndall, concentrating particularly on his sister Emma and several hitherto unknown incidents in her life and ... -
John Tyndall: Peaks and troughs.
DE ARCE, MIGUEL; MacMillan, Norman (2013-07-01)The scientist and natural philosopher John Tyndall was known to the public through his lectures and newspaper debates. But, say Miguel DeArce and Norman MacMillan, one of Tyndall?s most famous public speeches, his ... -
A letter from William B. Brownrigg to Thomas H. Huxley, dated 29 November 1865, authorising him to describe his fossil vertebrates from Jarrow Colliery, Co. Kilkenny and giving details of his find
DE ARCE, MIGUEL (2011)William Bookey Brownrigg, who discovered the Upper Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) vertebrate fossils at Jarrow Colliery, Co. Kilkenny in 1864, published a short paper on the material. Shortly afterwards E.P. Wright, a ... -
The natural history review (1854-1865)
DE ARCE, MIGUEL (2012)ABSTRACT: The natural history review was a quarterly founded in 1854 by Edward Perceval Wright, then an undergraduate student of zoology at Trinity College Dublin. Its first editorial committee (1856? 1860) held traditional ... -
The parallel lives of Joseph Allen Galbraith (1819-90) and Samuel Haughton (1821-97): religion, friendship, scholarship and politics in Victorian Ireland.
DE ARCE, MIGUEL (Royal Irish Academy, 2012)Joseph Allen Galbraith and Samuel Haughton were both Junior Fellows at Trinity College Dublin, who in the 1840s became popular lecturers of mathematics-based subjects as well as successful textbook authors. In the 1880s ... -
Two forgotten poems by John Tyndall (1841)
DE ARCE, MIGUEL; McGING, DEIRDRE; McMILLAN, NORMAN (2013)Two poems published by John Tyndall (under the pseudonym "W.S.") in 1841 in his local newspaper The Carlow Sentinel are presented and their historical context revealed. The poems are of a political nature and intended to ... -
The uneasy correspondence between T. H. Huxley and E. P. Wright on fossil vertebrates found in Jarrow, Co. Kilkenny (1865-67)
DE ARCE, MIGUEL; WYSE JACKSON, PATRICK (2011)The collection of Carboniferous fish and amphibian fossils found in Jarrow in 1864 has been the object of several studies, and has resided successively in at least three Irish museums. This paper draws from the Huxley ... -
What Tyndall read: provenance, contents and significance of the Proby Bequest to Carlow Library
DE ARCE, MIGUEL; MaCMILLAN, NORMAN; NEVIN, MARTIN; FLAHAVAN, CARMEL (CARLOW HISTORICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 2011-11-30)We give a preliminary description of the provenance and contents of the library that the Tyndalls kept in Hind Head House, in Surrey, and the path it followed to end up in the Carlow County Council Library. For the provenance ...