Alexander Bryson (horologist)
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Alexander Bryson FRSE FGS FRSSA FSAScot FRPSE (1816–1866) was a Scottish biologist, geologist and horologist who served as president of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts
(1860–61) and as president of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1863).
Royal Scottish Society of Arts
The Royal Scottish Society of Arts is a learned society in Scotland, dedicated to the study of science and technology. It was founded as The Society for the Encouragement of the Useful Arts in Scotland by Sir David Brewster in 1821 and dedicated to "the promotion of invention and enterprise"...
(1860–61) and as president of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1863).
Works
- On a Method of rendering Baily's Compensation Pendulum insensible to Hygrometric Influences (1854)
- On an improved method of preparing siliceous and other fossils for microscopic investigation: with a description of a new pneumatic chuck (1856)
- On a new method of measuring watch-glasses (1860)
- Memoir of Rev. John Fleming, D.D., F.R.S.E. (1861)
- Memoir of General Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, G.C.B., & C. president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1861)
- Notes of a trip to Iceland in 1862 (1864)