Jack William Bryden (1 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Original salmon softcover booklet. White tag stuck to front cover. Waterstaining to back cover. Several top page corners turned. Professor Jack was a mathematician, astronomer and natural scientist, and served as President of the Athenaeum the year this speech was given. The group was made up of learned men in the community. Jack and many of the other members worked at King's College, predecessor to University of New Brunswick (Jack worked with the Lieutenant Governor to establish UNB). This book reviews the papers presented to the Society during the previous year: Weights and Measures; Decimal Coinage; American Antiquities; The Microscope; Relationship Between Science and Art; and Horae Mosaicae. Scarce. 21 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.…