Portrait of John Macalister Dodds
Date
ca. 1878-1879
Sitter
John Macalister Dodds (1858 - 1921, British) , Mathematician
Creator - Organisation
Hills & Saunders, Photographer
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 90mm
width (print): 59mm
height (mount): 103mm
width (mount): 62mm
width (print): 59mm
height (mount): 103mm
width (mount): 62mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of John Macalister Dodds, looking directly to camera, head turned slightly to the left as viewed.
Printed below the image: “HILLS & SAUNDERS, CAMBRIDGE & OXFORD ALSO AT RUGBY, ETON, HARROW & LONDON.” Information repeated verso with a printed Royal coat-of-arms “BY APPOINTMENT TO HER MAJESTY.” A pencil inscription states: “John M. Dodds probably in 1878 or 1879.”
John Macalister Dodds was not a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was a Fellow and Assistant Tutor of St Peter's College, Cambridge and an assistant to the Professor of Mathematics in Glasgow University, 1882-1885. He contributed to the Royal Society-published paper “Experiments in the value of the Ohm parts 1 and 2” with Richard Glazebrook (1882).
Printed below the image: “HILLS & SAUNDERS, CAMBRIDGE & OXFORD ALSO AT RUGBY, ETON, HARROW & LONDON.” Information repeated verso with a printed Royal coat-of-arms “BY APPOINTMENT TO HER MAJESTY.” A pencil inscription states: “John M. Dodds probably in 1878 or 1879.”
John Macalister Dodds was not a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was a Fellow and Assistant Tutor of St Peter's College, Cambridge and an assistant to the Professor of Mathematics in Glasgow University, 1882-1885. He contributed to the Royal Society-published paper “Experiments in the value of the Ohm parts 1 and 2” with Richard Glazebrook (1882).
Transcription
HILLS & SAUNDERS, CAMBRIDGE & OXFORD ALSO AT RUGBY, ETON, HARROW & LONDON
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