Hyde Clarke was an English engineer, philologist and author. He edited the Railway Register from 1845 to 1847 and founded the London and County Bank. He was a member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. He was expelled from the Anthropological Society of London

Anthropological Society of London

The Anthropological Society of London was founded in 1863 by Richard Francis Burton and Dr. James Hunt. It broke away from the existing Ethnological Society of London, founded in 1843, and defined itself in opposition to the older society...

on 22 August 1868 in the wake of public allegations he had made concerning (chiefly) the mismanagement of accounts of that body.

Principal works

• Physical economy a preliminary inqury into the physical laws governing the periods of famines and panics. 1847
• Life of Richard Trevithick, C.E.; Life of George Stephenson, C.E. 1848
• Contributions to railway statistics in 1846, 1847, & 1848 1849
• A grammar of the English tongue, spoken and written; for self-teaching and for schools. 1859
• Memoir of the comparative grammar of Egyptian, Coptic & Ude 1873
• Researches in prehistoric and protohistoric comparative philology, mythology, and archæology, in connection with the origin of culture in America and the Accad or Sumerian families. 1875
• The Khita and Khita-Peruvian epoch: Khita, Hamath, Hittite, Canaanite, Etruscan, Peruvian, Mexican, etc. 1877
• Himalayan Origin and Connection of the Magyar and Ugrian. 1877
• A short handbook of the comparative philology of the English, Anglo-Saxon, Frisian, Flemish or Dutch, Low or Platt Dutch, High Dutch or German, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, Latin, Italian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese tongues. 1879
• The early history of the Mediterranean populations, &c., in their migrations and settlements : illustrated from Autonomous Coins, Gems, Inscriptions, &C. 1882

External links

• For a note about Hyde Clarke "Sunspots and Expectations" of the Economics of W.S. Jevons by Sandra Peart Google books.com