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Resident Tutorship at Hulme Hall, which posts he held until 

 1904, when he was appointed Lecturer on Civil Engineering in 

 the University of Leeds. He obtained the D.Sc. degree in the 

 Victoria University in 1900. 



Dr. Wilson was a most effective and popular teacher, and 

 his powers of organisation were displayed to a marked degree in 

 the successful conduct of the large classes in the Whitworth 

 Laboratory. As an investigator he achieved great success in 

 that field of engineering research which requires the application 

 of m.athematical analysis of an advanced character, and it was 

 this application which was undoubtedly the strongest feature of 

 his work. Although he had barely attained the age of 34, he 

 had published the results of a considerable number of investiga- 

 tions which he had successfully carried out, and there can be 

 no doubt that his early death cut short a career of the highest 

 promise. His loss will be widely regretted by the large number 

 of engineers who have had the good fortune to attend his classes 

 in the Whitworth Laboratory, and still more by those of his 

 contemporaries who have been indebted to him for his 

 invaluable advice and help in professional matters, aid which 

 was always readily and ungrudgingly bestowed. 



Of the considerable number of papers on engineering sub- 

 jects which he has published, the following may be mentioned : 

 " On the determination of the reaction at the points of support 



of Continuous Beams." Froc. Koyal Society, vol. 62. 

 " On the relation between Uniform Stress and Permanent 

 Strain in Annealed Copper Bars and Wires." Manchester 

 Memoirs, vol. 43, part 4. 

 " Experiments on Conjugate Pressures in Fine Sand." Froc. 



Inst. Civil Engifieers, vol. 149, part 3. 

 '• On the Failure of certain Cast Steel Dies used in the 

 manufacture of Drawn Tubes." Manchester Memoirs, 

 vol. 46, part 2. 

 "A Factor in the safety of High Speed Torpedo Boat 

 Destroyers." Manchester Memoirs, vol. 47, part 5. 



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