古植物学的故事（86） 英国古植物学的传承(1)--William Crawford Williamson William Crawford Williamson（1816--1895）是19世纪英国历史上一位有名的博物学家和古植物学家。1854年William Crawford Williamson当选为 英国皇家学会会员（院士-FRS） 。他还是瑞典皇家科学院外籍院士。有人认为，他可以与 Adolphe Theodore Brongniart （1801--1876）一起被称为古植物学之父。 在William Crawford Williamson的学生中，Sir Albert Charles Seward (1863--1941)是一位著名的古植物学家，Dukinfield Henry Scott （1854--1934）也跟随William Crawford Williamson学习和研究过古植物学。 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Charles_Seward http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dukinfield_Henry_Scott 孙启高 2010年12月28日星期二 --------------------------- Obituary: William Crawford Williamson.pdf ----------------- William Crawford Williamson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crawford_Williamson William Crawford Williamson (24 November 1816 23 June 1895) was an English naturalist and palaeobotanist . Williamson was born at Scarborough, North Yorkshire . His father, John Williamson, after beginning life as a gardener, became a well-known local naturalist, who, in conjunction with William Bean, first explored the rich fossiliferous beds of the Yorkshire coast. He was for many years first curator of the Scarborough natural history museum (Rotunda Museum), and the younger Williamson was thus from the first brought up among scientific surroundings and in association with scientific people. William Smith , the father of English geology , lived for two years in the Williamsons' house. Young Williamson's maternal grandfather was a lapidary , and from him he learnt the art of cutting stones, an accomplishment which he found of great use in later years, when he undertook his work on the structure of fossil plants. Williamson very early made a beginning as an original contributor to science. When little more than sixteen he published a paper on the rare birds of Yorkshire, in 1834 a monograph on the Gristhorpe Man, and still in 1834, presented to the Geological Society of London his first memoir on the Mesozoic fossils of his native district. In the meantime he had assisted Lindley and Hutton in the preparation of their Fossil Flora of Great Britain. On entering the medical profession he still found time to carry on his scientific work during his student days, and for three years acted as curator of the Natural History Society's museum at Manchester . After completing his medical studies at University College, London , in 1841, he returned to Manchester to practise his profession, in which he met with much success. When Owen's College at Manchester was founded in 1851 he became professor of natural history there, with the duty of teaching geology, zoology and botany . A very necessary division of labour took place as additional professors were appointed, but he retained the chair of botany down to 1892. Shortly afterwards he removed to Clapham , where he died. Williamson's teaching work was not confined to his university classes, for he was also a successful popular lecturer, especially for the Gilchrist Trustees . His scientific work, pursued with remarkable energy throughout life, in the midst of official and professional duties, had a wide scope. In geology, his early work on the zones of distribution of Mesozoic fossils (begun in 1834), and on the part played by microscopic organisms in the formation of marine deposits (1845), was of fundamental importance. In zoology, his investigations of the development of the teeth and bones of fishes (18421851), and on recent Foraminifera, a group on which he wrote a monograph for the Ray Society in 1857, were no less valuable. In botany, in addition to a remarkable memoir on the minute structure of Volvox (1852), his work on the structure of fossil plants established British palaeobotany on a scientific basis; on the ground of these researches Williamson may rank with Adolphe Theodore Brongniart as one of the founders of this branch of science. A full account of Williamson's career can be found in his autobiography, entitled Reminiscences of a Yorkshire Naturalist, edited by his wife (London, 1896). References Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Williamson, William Crawford . Encyclopdia Britannica (Eleventh ed.). Cambridge University Press. This articleincorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopdia Britannica (Eleventh ed.). Cambridge University Press.
英国小莫奈 Kieron Williamson 英国八岁男孩“小莫奈 Mini Monet ” Kieron Williamson ，最近创造了 33 幅画卖 $235,804 (150,000 英镑 ) 的奇迹。 London’s Daily Mail dubbed Kieron “Mini Monet” after Kieron raked in $235,804 (150,000 British pounds) at a gallery show in his hometown, where all 33 of the works exhibited sold in under a half hour. 来自： Mini Monet’: Boy of 8 sells paintings for $235,803 http://www.today.msnbc.msn.com/id/38553499/?GT1=43001 Kieron Williamson 的个人网站： Kieron Williamson Home http://www.kieronwilliamson.com/ 以下图片来自： http://www.today.msnbc.msn.com/id/38553499/?GT1=43001 ———— 莫奈 Claude Monet 的绘画 ———— http://www.abcgallery.com/M/monet/monet146.html Claude Monet. Water-Lilies. 1914. Oil on canvas. National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Claude_Monet_-_Water_Lilies_-_1906,_Ryerson.jpg Claude Monet. Water Lilies , 1906, Art Institute of Chicago http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nympheas_71293_3.jpg Claude Monet. Nympheas , 1915, Neue Pinakothek, Munich http://www.abcgallery.com/M/monet/monet98.html Claude Monet. Poplars on the Bank of the River Epte . 1890. Oil on canvas. Tate Gallery, London, UK. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Claude_Monet_040.jpg Claude Monet. 1900. Poplars at the Epte ———— ———— ———— ———— ———— 卫星拍到北大西洋大片海藻如莫奈画作 http://news.sciencenet.cn/htmlnews/2010/8/236256.shtm
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