Williamson Sentence Examples

For his work on etherification Williamson in 1862 received a Royal medal from the Royal Society, of which he became a fellow in 1855, and which he served as foreign secretary from 1873 to 1889.

Williamson showed how alcohol and ether were to be regarded as derived from water by substituting one or both hydrogen atoms by the ethyl group; he derived acids and the acid anhydrides from the same type; and from a comparison of many inorganic and the simple organic compounds he concluded that this notion of a " water-type " clarified, in no small measure, the conception of the structure of compounds.

These views were extended by William Odling, and adopted by Gerhardt, but with modifications of Williamson's aspects.

The city has, besides, numerous fine office buildings, including that of the Society for Savings (an institution in which each depositor is virtually a stockholder), the Citizens', Rose, Williamson, Rockefeller, New England and Garfield buildings; and several beautiful churches, notably the Roman Catholic and Trinity cathedrals, the First Presbyterian ("Old Stone"), the Second Presbyterian, the First Methodist and Plymouth (Congregational) churches.

The Williamson artisan school is entirely supported by an endowment.

There are several varieties of grasshopper mice (Orychomys), white-footed mice (Peromyscus), harvest mice (Reithrodontomys), rice-rats (Oryzomys), wood-rats (Neotoma), voles (Microtus), &c. Bats inhabit caves in Burnet, Williamson, Lampasas, Gillespie and other counties.

C. Williamson (best known as a botanist) in Pritchard's Infusoria, in 1861.

This has been so since the famous law case of Williamson v.

In 1907 (according to state authorities) coal was produced in 52 counties, Williamson, Sangamon, St Clair, Macoupin and Madison giving the largest yield.

Yet in this area, according to the investigations of Mr Williamson (Report of the Scottish Fishery Board for 1898), nearly 500 millions of plaice eggs are naturally produced in one spawning season.

He was a descendant of Hugh Williamson of North Carolina, and was of Scotch blood and Presbyterian training.

See Theodore Appel, The Life and Work of John Williamson Nevin (Philadelphia, 1889), containing Nevin's more important articles.

Calcified specimens are especially characteristic of the British Carboniferous formation; their preservation is equally perfect with that of the silicified fossils, and their investigation by Witham, Binney, Williamson and others has proved no less fertile.

The investigations of Nathorst, Williamson and others have shown that a very large proportion of the casts and impressions attributed to Algae had in all probability a totally different origin.

Spherical sacs, bearing forked spines, described by Williamson under the name of Zygosporites, are frequent, usually in an isolated state.

The anatomical structure of all parts of the plant is now known, in various Calamarieae, thanks more especially to the work of Williamson in England and of Renault in France.

The type of fructification described by Williamson and now named Sphenophyllum Dawsoni consists of long cylindrical cones, in external habit not unlike those of some Calamarieae.

The anatomy of Lepidodendron and its immediate allies is now well known in a number of species; the Carboniferous rocks of Great Britain are especially rich in petrified specimens, which formed the subject of Williamson's extensive investigations.

The occurrence of secondary growth in these plants, demonstrated by Williamson's researches, is a point of great interest.

The structure of a Bothrodendron has recently been investigated and proves to be identical with that of the petrified stem which Williamson named Lepidodendron mundum.

The curious, transversely-ribbed fossils known as Sternbergia or Artisia have proved to be casts of the medullary cavity of Cordaiteae; their true nature was first demonstrated by Williamson in 1850.

Williamson was the first to express the opinion that the Bennettitean flowers known as Williamsonia were borne on the trunks which terminated in a crown of pinnate fronds of the type long known as Zamites gigas; this view was regarded by Saporta and others as incorrect, and the nature of the Bennettitean foliage was left an open question.

A re-examination of the English material in the museums of Paris and elsewhere has confirmed Williamson's conclusions.

Smith & Williamson is an independent investment management, financial advisory and accounting group.

The area surrounding the property is Tarka the otter country, the central character made famous in the book of Henry Williamson.

The recognition of the polybasicity of acids, which followed from the researches of Thomas Graham and Liebig, had caused Williamson to suggest that dibasic acids could be referred to a double water type, the acid radical replacing an atom of hydrogen in each water molecule; while his discovery of tribasic formic ether, CH(OC 2 H 5) 3, in 1854 suggested a triple water type.

There was a lively game of whiffle ball going on in front of the Williamson 's house.

Bree Williamson's performance as Jessica and Tess were a page right out of Slezak's book and long-time viewers felt Viki's pain as she recognized her own illness in the eyes of her daughter.

The pilot was written by Kevin Williamson, who is well known for writing popular teen horror films such as Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer, and also for his work on the teen serial Dawson's Creek.

Critics were also fair to the series, giving it a B+ rating, mostly based upon the fact that Kevin Williamson was already well regarded in the entertainment industry.

The Vampire Diaries program was adapted for television by Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec.

Williamson is the screenwriter behind the popular horror films Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer and the teen drama series Dawson's Creek.

Plec, who also worked on Scream 2 with Williamson as well as the ABC Family Drama Kyle XY.