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1819 and Brewster
The first ten volumes ( 1819 1824 ) were published under the joint editorship of Brewster and Jameson, the remaining four volumes ( 1825 1826 ) being edited by Jameson alone.
In 1819 Edward D. Clarke and in 1822 René Juste Haüy described fluorescence in fluorites, Sir David Brewster described the phenomenon for chlorophyll in 1833 and Sir John Herschel did the same for quinine in 1845.
In 1819, with Sir David Brewster ( 1781 1868 ), Jameson started the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal and became its sole editor in 1824.
His proficiency was recognised when he was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1819, having been proposed by Thomas Allan, Leonard Horner and Sir David Brewster and as a fellow of the Royal Society in 1822.

1819 and undertook
In 1819 under royal command he undertook a very successful geological expedition to Bornholm, one of the Danish islands, being one of three scientists in the expedition.

1819 and further
A further locomotive was supplied to Scott's Pit railroad at Llansamlet, near Swansea in 1819 but it too was soon withdrawn, apparently because it was under-boilered and also because of damage to the track.
His fame was extended further in 1826 by the publication of Sudre's lithograph of La Grande Odalisque, which, having been scorned by artists and critics alike in 1819, now became widely popular.
Latrobe faced further delays with the New Orleans waterworks project, trying to get an engine built for the project, which he finally achieved in 1819.
At Vienna, in spite of the powerful backing of Alexander of Russia, he failed to secure the annexation of the whole of Saxony to Prussia ; at Paris, after Waterloo, he failed to carry through his views as to the further dismemberment of France ; he had weakly allowed Metternich to forestall him in making terms with the states of the Confederation of the Rhine, which secured to Austria the preponderance in the German federal diet ; on the eve of the conference of Carlsbad ( 1819 ) he signed a convention with Metternich, by which — to quote the historian Treitschke — “ like a penitent sinner, without any formal quid pro quo, the monarchy of Frederick the Great yielded to a foreign power a voice in her internal affairs .”
Before 1731 there were eight bells, but the ring was augmented in 1732 and in 1819 by four further bells.
He was allowed to return to France in 1819, but took no further active part in politics, although he presented himself unsuccessfully for parliamentary election in 1824 and 1827.
A visionary development proposal expanded the city street grid to encompass all of Boyoma, and the 1819 opening of a railroad built to bypass the cataracts on the Congo River, opened shipping routes further into the Congo jungle.
His powers now began to fail, and his habit of working at night and other excesses told upon his constitution ; in the Salon of 1812 he exhibited only a " Tête de Vierge "; in 1819 " Pygmalion et Galatée " showed a still further decline of strength ; and in 1824, the year in which he produced his portraits of Cathelineau and Bonchamps, Girodet died on December 9 in Paris.
There is further evidence of a causewayed road leading along the bank towards the Frindsbury Peninsula leading to a villa, was found in 1819.
In 1819, while sailing cargo on the Williams from Buenos Aires to Valparaíso, he sailed further south round Cape Horn in an attempt of catching the right winds.
In 1819 Thomas Cundy rebuilt the garden front five feet further south as the wall was unstable, and in 1824 he added a new main staircase.
In part because of his rather indifferent record, especially after further embarrassment in the Court of Session in 1819, he was raised to the Scottish bench as Lord Meadowbank 1819, and resigned in 1843.
Interestingly, very shortly after the 1818 collapse ( between 1819 and 1820 ) another bridge, the Union Bridge, was built further downstream.
The event itself was also used as a justification for further suppression of liberal forces, like the Carlsbad Decrees of 1819.
Beldham made further appearances in the fixture after it was resurrected in 1819.

1819 and editorial
Notable editorial cartoons include Benjamin Franklin's " Join, or Die " ( 1754 ), on the need for unity in the American colonies ; " The Thinkers Club " ( 1819 ), a response to the surveillance and censorship of universities in Germany under the Carlsbad Decrees ; and E. H. Shepard's " The Goose-Step " ( 1936 ), on the rearmament of Germany under Hitler.

1819 and work
But largely through the skillful work of John Quincy Adams, a treaty was signed with Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the United States in return for the assumption of $ 5, 000, 000 in claims and the relinquishment of any claims to Texas.
In 1815 he was admitted to the Royal Academy Schools in London and exhibited his first work in oil, Hermia and Helena, a subject from A Midsummer Night's Dream, along with a portrait miniature, " J. Keats, Esq ", in the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1819.
An understanding of the relationship between electricity and magnetism began in 1819 with work by Hans Christian Oersted, a professor at the University of Copenhagen, who discovered more or less by accident that an electric current could influence a compass needle.
Thomas Young's work is acknowledged in Champollion's 1822 Lettre à M. Dacier, but incompletely, according to British critics: for example, James Browne, a sub-editor on the Encyclopædia Britannica ( which had published Young's 1819 article ), contributed anonymously a series of review articles to the Edinburgh Review in 1823, praising Young's work highly and alleging that the " unscrupulous " Champollion plagiarised it.
While even folkloric vampires of the Balkans and Eastern Europe had a wide range of appearance ranging from nearly human to bloated rotting corpses, it was interpretation of the vampire by the Christian Church and the success of vampire literature, namely John Polidori's 1819 novella The Vampyre that established the archetype of charismatic and sophisticated vampire ; it is arguably the most influential vampire work of the early 19th century, inspiring such works as Varney the Vampire and eventually Dracula.
Dr. John Lingard ( 5 February 1771 17 July 1851 ) was an English historian, the author of The History Of England, From the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of Henry VIII, an 8-volume work published in 1819.
As early as 1819, Chief Justice John Marshall noted in the famous case McCulloch v. Maryland, that " the opinions expressed by the authors of that work have been justly supposed to be entitled to great respect in expounding the Constitution.
Diez, the principal founder of Romance-language philology, impressed by the comparative methods of Jakob Grimm in Deutsche Grammatik, which came out in 1819 and was the first to use such methods in philology, decided to apply them to the Romance languages and discovered Raynouard's work, Grammaire comparée des langues de l ' Europe latine dans leurs rapports avec la langue des troubadours, published in 1821.
In 1819 the island of Funafuti, was named Ellice's Island ; the name Ellice was applied to all nine islands after the work of English hydrographer Alexander George Findlay ( 1812 1876 ).
In 1813, work began on the canal north from Tewitfield, which was completed to Kendal in 1819.
His second route was decided on but required a tunnel through the chalk hills ; work on this did not start until 1819.
The work was composed after Diabelli, a well known music publisher and composer, in the early part of 1819 sent a waltz of his creation to all the important composers of the Austrian Empire, including Franz Schubert, Carl Czerny, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, and the Archduke Rudolph, asking each of them to write a variation on it.
To begin work he laid aside his sketching of the Missa Solemnis, completing sketches for four variations by early 1819.
Passow's great work was his Handworterbuch der griechischen Sprache ( 1819 1824 ) (" Dictionary of the Greek Language "), originally a revision of Johann Gottlob Schneider's lexicon, which appeared in the fourth edition ( 1831 ) as an independent work, without Schneider's name.
In 1817 Tieck visited England in order to collect materials for a work on Shakespeare ( unfortunately never finished ) and in 1819 he settled permanently in Dresden ; from 1825 on he was literary adviser to the Court Theatre, and his semi-public readings from the dramatic poets gave him a reputation which extended far beyond the Saxon capital.
Sent abroad on business, he remained in Vienna from 1819 to 1824, and there drew up the first volumes of his great work, La France littéraire, ou Dictionnaire bibliographique des savants, historiens, et gens de lettres de la France, & c. ( 14 vols., 1826-1842 ), dealing especially with the 18th and early 19th centuries, which he was enabled to complete by a government subsidy granted by Guizot in 1830, and by the help of the Russian bibliophile Serge Poltoratzky.
In 1817, after the publication of his first work, Aegineticorum liber, on the Aeginetans, he received an appointment at the Magdaleneum in Breslau, and in 1819 he was made adjunct professor of ancient literature at the University of Göttingen, his subject being the archaeology and history of ancient art.
His first work, An Elementary Treatise on Mechanics ( 1819 ), cooperated with those of George Peacock and John Herschel in reforming the Cambridge method of mathematical teaching.
The term was coined by the critic John Ruskin ( 1819 1900 ) in his 1856 work Modern Painters.
The work was composed on 19 September 1819 and published in 1820 in a volume of Keats's poetry that included Lamia and The Eve of Saint Agnes.
" To Autumn " is the final work in a group of poems known as Keats's " 1819 odes ".
In his first book, he followed Adam Smith ; but in his principal subsequent economic work, Nouveaux principes d ' économie politique ( 1819 ), he insisted on the fact that economic science studied the means of increasing wealth too much, and the use of wealth for producing happiness, too little.

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