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- Douglas Galton was given the middle name of `Strutt' from his mother's maiden name. His mother, Isabella Strutt, was the eldest daughter of Joseph Strutt of Derby. Douglas Galion was cousin to the eminent Victorian geneticist, Sir Francis Galton (1822–1911) who became well known as the founder of the subject of 'eugenics'. His cousin, Edward Strutt, was the first Lord Belper.
- Engineering, 17 March 1899, pp. 353–354, Galton's obituary.
- H. Colvin Biographical Dictionary of British Architects (John Murray, London 1978), p. 374. Thearchitect for the house was Matthew Habberson (1789–1852); it was built for J. H. Galton in 1827. The house survives and, since 1930, has been used by a religious group known as The Society of the Divine Word.
- 'Diving Dresses and Apparatus' Proc. ICE/5 p. 320: It was decided to destroy the ship's remains by gunpowder and on 20 September, 1839 a charge of 260 lbs was fired by means of a voltaic battery and was claimed to be the first practical application of such means.
- Parliamentary Papers, Reports Commissioners 14, 1871, p. 153. Memorandum dated 22 March, 1857.
- C. Woodham Smith, Florence Nightingale 1820–1910, Constable, London, 1950 p. 314.
- Parliamentary Papers ( 1123 ) XXIX 1849, p. 7. Galton's cousin, Edward Strutt, first Lord Belper, when chief commissioner for railways, brought Galion into his department in 1847.
- Ibid., p. 7.
- For the Board of Trade see The Oxford Companion to British Railway History OUP 1997 pp. 532–3.
- Proc. ICE 21, 1861–2, pp. XX 'Railway Accidents — Showing the bearing which existing legislation has upon them' by Douglas Galton (1 April, 1862).
- Proc. ICE 53, 1878, 'Notes on the Railway Appliances at the Philadelphia Exhibition of 1876', by Douglas Galton, CB, DCL, FRS, Assoc. ICE, pp. 28–63.
- Proc. IMechE 29, June 1878, pp. 467–478, 'On the Effect of Brakes Upon Railway Trains', by Captain Douglas Galion, CB, Hon.DCL, FRS. [Galton first read this paper at a meeting in Paris — he also was occupied with the Paris Exhibition of that year (Engineering, 17 March 1899,354)].
- Ibid., p. 483, J. A. Haswell in discussion.
- Ibid., pp. 590–616.
- Proc. IMechE 30, April 1879, 'On the Effect of Brakes Upon Railway Trains', pp. 170–191 and discussion.
- Memorandum by Douglas Galton, CB, DCL, FRS, Brake . . . Experiments made by the North Eastern Railway Company, at York, on 14th and 15th July, 1879 upon a train fitted with the Westinghouse Automatic Brake [Published from Galton's home address: 12, Chester Street, Grosvenor Place, S.W., 22 July, 1879, Ottley 3223 (ICE)]
- Ibid., p. 8.
- Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, 11 March, 1887, p.432.
- Proc. IMechE, April 1879, p. 217. For a more detailed account of these experiments see: I. R. Winship, 'The Acceptance of Continuous Brakes of Railways in Britain' in History of Technology, 11th Annual Volume 1986, London, Mansell, pp. 209–248.
- Girard was better known as the designer, and manufacturer, of water turbines at his works at La Johnchere.
- Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, 14 March, 1890, 'Le Chemin de Fer Glissant or Sliding Railway', Sir Douglas Galion, pp. 393–407.
- Proc. ICE 1002), 1889–90, pp. 440 142.
- Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Examine into Plans for Embanking the Thames within the Metropolis 1861. The other Commissioners were William Cubitt, Joshua Jebb, Edward Burstall, Henry Hunt and John Robinson M'Clean.
- J. F. Nichols, and John Taylor, Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith, 1882, pp. 316–7.
- Proc. ICE 45, 21 March 1876, p. 124 'Hydraulic Canal Lift at Anderton, on the River Weaver', by Sidengham Duer.
- The conference occupied two days; 10-11 th May and seventeen papers were presented. Three further papers, received after the closing of the conference, were also published.
- Galion must have been referring to the Local Government Act [51 & 52 Vict., 41] which was to receive the Royal Assent on 13 August, 1888.
- Sir H. T. Wood The History of the Royal Society of Arts (London, John Murray, 1913), p. 449.
- Proc. ICE 101, 4 March 1890, p. 2.
- The Board of Trade members were Douglas Galton, Charles Wheatstone, William Fairbairn, and Robert Stephenson. Stephenson died before the committee first convened, and he was replaced by his friend, and colleague, G. P. Bidder. The representatives of the Atlantic Telegraph Company were Edwin Clark, Cromwell F. Varley, Latimer Clark and George Saward.
- Report of the Joint Committee appointed by the Lords of Privy Council for Trade and the Atlantic Telegraph Company to Inquire into the Construction of Submarine Telegraph Cables; together with the Minutes of Evidence and Appendix London, HMSO, 1861. (ICE Library).
- Ibid., p.
- Ibid., p. xxxvi.
- W. H. Russell The Atlantic Telegraph (Dawson, London, 1865), p. 108.
- The Electrician /, 30 November 1861. In 1861, the results of experiments 'made under the direc-tion of Captain Galton, R.E.,' were published. These were tests on the elasticity of the materials used in the outer covering of submarine cables, namely, steel, iron and copper wires, and hemp (tarred and steeped in water before the experiment).
- I.E.E. Archives: Galton's membership form, dated 16 November, 1871; he was proposed by C. W. Siemens.
- The Builder 76(2929), 18 March, 1899, p. 281.
- B. A. Report 1860 (Oxford), p. 249.
- B. A. Report 1863 (Newcastle), p. 173.
- B. A. Report 1877 (Plymouth), pp. 220–228. The Committee comprised Sir William Thomson FRS, Major-General Strachey FRS, Captain Douglas Galton FRS, G. F. Deacon, Rogers Field, E. Roberts, and James N. Shoolbred (Secretary).
- B. A. Report 1876 (Glasgow), p. 95. Second Report of the Committee for Investigating the circulation of the Underground Waters in the New Red Sandstone and Permian Foundations of England and the quantity and character of the water supplied to various towns and districts from these formations.
- B. A. Report 1877 (Plymouth), pp. 202–6.
- B. A. Report 1878 (Dublin), pp. 157–8. Committee appointed for the purpose of considering the use of steel for structural purposes [Committee: W. H. Barlow, H. Bessemer, F. J. Bramwell, Captain Douglas Galton, Sir John Hawkshaw, Dr. C. W. Siemens, Professor Abel and E. H. Harbutt (Sec.)].
- Ibid., p. XX, General results of some Recent Experiments upon the Co-efficient of Friction between Surfaces Moving at High Velocities, by Douglas Galion.
- The Society was formed in 1754 for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce and, although they received a Royal Charter in 1847, it was many years before the 'Royal' prefix was used and became, somewhat misleadingly, 'The Royal Society of Arts'.
- Sir H.T. Wood, op. cit., p. 449. A later history is D. Hudson and K.W. Luckhurst, The Royal Society of Arts 1754–1954 (London, John Murray, 1954).
- RSA Journal 3, 1864–65. W. Bridges Adams, 'On the Mechanical Conditions of Railway Working to Prevent Destructive Wear and Risk', p. 47.
- TNA (PRO) Work 22 2118 'Letter to First Commissioner of Works from Treasury Chambers, 18 March, 1869'.
- TNA (PRO) Work 22 2120 'Comparative Statement of Papers registered at H. M. Office of Works in 1868 and subsequently', pp. 19–21, 'Letter from Treasury Chambers 17 January, 1870 [received. 18 January, 1870', marked 'Immediate].
- Ibid.
- Ibid.
- See also: M. Port, 'Design and Practice in British Architecture' in Studies in Architectural History presented to Howard Colvin: Architectural History 27, 1984, pp. 74–85.
- G. Kitson Clark, The Making of Victorian England. The Borough Engineer was a Mr. Newlands and the Medical Officer of Health was Dr. Duncan. In the following year (1848) the City of London appointed Dr. John Simon as M.O.H. [the second appointment in the UK].
- James Simpson (1799–1869) was Engineer to the Chelsea and Lambeth Waterworks Companies and Thomas Blackwell (1819–1863) was Engineer to the Kennet and Avon Canal Company.
- See: C. Woodham Smith, op. cit. (where there are 25 references to the Nightingale/Galton correspondence).
- General R. E. Collinson, General Sir Henry Drury Harness, KCB, Colonel Commandant Royal Engineers (London, 1903), p. 200, [ICE library].
- C. Woodham Smith, op. cit., p. 314.
- The hospital was named after Lord Herbert's death in 1861 at the suggestion of Florence Nightingale. Herbert had been chairman of the Sanitary Commission and Secretary of State for War.
- See The Builder, 18 March 1865, pp. 183–185; and The Builder, 14 April 1866, pp. 267–271.
- Douglas Galton, Report to the Right Hon. The Earl de Grey and Ripon, Secretary of State for War descriptive of the Herbert Hospital at Woolwich 1865, London, Eyre & Spottiswoode (53 pp.) [Wellcome Institute Library].
- The floors were laid with iron joists and concrete on Fox & Barrett's system.
- By Sir Wm. Armstrong at Elswick. A 15-hp steam engine powered a 7-in-diameter ram, with a stroke of 12 feet and water pressure of 800 lb per sq. in.
- James Thorne, Handbook to the Environs of London (London, John Murray, 1876), p. 556.
- C. Woodham Smith, op. cit., p. 335.
- RSA Journal On a New Form of Ventilating Stove in Use for Barracks and Military Buildings, 8 May, 1868, pp. 454–463. The chairman of the meeting was Edwin Chadwick.
- Ibid. Results of further experiments made in 1874 were published in RSA Journal 16 January 1874, Observations and Experiments in the Working of Capt. Galton's Fire-Places, made during January, 1874 by Rev. W. G. Wrighton, pp. 149–150.
- Report, Determination, and Appendix, The Conservators of the Thames and the Metropolitan Board of Works, 24 April 1880. ICE (Tait Room)
- Ibid., p. 1; Galton was appointed an arbitrator on 23 June, 1879.
- witnesses were called for the Thames Conservators and 17 on behalf of the M.B.W.
- Report, p. 26.
- According to John Evelyn's Diary Fumifugium was presented to His Majesty on 13 September, 1661. Having become extremely scarce it was reprinted in 1772.
- ICE Tract, 8vo. 381(5), p. 3. On Some Preventable Causes of Impurity in London Air, The Sani-tary Institute of Great Britain, 8 July, 1880 (Anniversary Address), 23pp.
- Ibid., p. 4.
- Ibid.
- Ibid., p. 10.
- Trans. of the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain 4, Congress at Newcastle on Tyne, 1882–3, p. 109.
- Ibid., vol. 5, Congress at Glasgow, 1883–4, p. 85.
- ICE Tract, 8vo., 351(8). 'Report on the Works of Sewerage and Drainage proposed for the Town of Cannes, France (Alpes Maritime)', by Douglas Galton, London, February, 1883, p. 2.
- Ibid., pp. 6–7.
- Trans. of the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain 8, 1886–87. Galton's lecture to the Congress at York, p. 305.
- Journal of the Society of Arts 37, 10 April 1889, pp. 489–499, The Sanitary Functions of County Councils, by Captain Douglas Galton.
- Sir D. Galton Observations on the Construction of Healthy Dwellings (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1880), 206 pp. and Healthy Hospitals: observations on some points connected with hospital construction (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1893).
- On his I. Mech. E. Membership proposal form of July, 1862 he gave his alternative address as War Office, Pall Mall'.
- These awards include: MIMechE (1862), FRS (1863), CB (1865), DCL Oxford (1875), KCB (1887), Hon.MICE (1894).
- Engineering, 17 March 1899, p. 353.
- G. R. Hawke, Railways and Economic Growth in England and Wales: 1840–1870 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1970), pp. 295. Hawke remarked that 'The coke consumption figure of 1858, derived from the work of Galion, is reasonably well established'.
- Journal of the Sanitary Institute 20,1899, p. 187.
- Ibid.