Henry Paul William Lyster Jameson (1875,

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– 26 February 1922,

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) was a

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, who studied

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-formation. He also made contributions to

speleology Speleology is the scientific study of caves and other karst features, as well as their make-up, structure, physical properties, history, life forms, and the processes by which they form ( speleogenesis) and change over time (speleomorphology) ...

and encouraged the study of psychology in adult education.

Life

H. Lyster Jameson was born in Louth the son of Paul Lyster Jameson, the rector of Killincoole. He was educated at

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. In 1895 he explored the Marble Arch Caves with

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, and was the first to describe fauna in the Mitchelstown Cave. After a year at the

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, Jameson studied zoology under Otto Bütschli at the

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, writing his dissertation (1898) on , a species of spoon worms. Put in charge of a pearling station in

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, he studied the causes of pearl-formation. He continued this research at the Lancashire Sea Fisheries Station in

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, developing the

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theory of pearl-formation in the common sea mussel. After developing pulmonary

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, he went to

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in 1902. Here he married Millicent Lucy Parker at

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. He worked for the Natal Education Department and later was professor of Biology the

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. However when the Institute – renamed the Transvaal University College – was reorganised in 1908, Jameson's post was abolished and he returned to

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. Back in England from 1914 he was employed as a civil servant for Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. He quickly set up the Fisheries Experimental Station at

''Outline of Psychology''

Jameson became a Marxist and joined the

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, with whom he made "strenuous attempts ..to develop psychology" as a component of working-class education in the League.J. McIlroy, 'Independent working-class education and trade union education and training', in R. Fieldhouse (ed.) ''A History of Modern British Adult Education'' (Leicester, 1996), pp.271-3 He used the pen-name "Nordicus". He wrote the first draft of ''An Outline of Psychology'', an introductory

psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries between ...

textbook published by them. The final text was produced in an attempt at "communal production" This version went through eight editions before Eden and Cedar Paul, with

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produced a revised edition in 1938, by which time 18,000 copies had been produced. He died of tuberculosis in 1922.

Works

* ''Contributions to the anatomy and histology of Thalassema neptunii Gaertner'', 1899. Jena : G. Fischer, 1899. * ''On the origin of pearls'', 1902 * ''Studies on pearl-oysters and pearls. Pt. 1. Structure of the shell and pearls of the Ceylon pearl-oyster (Margaritifera vulgaris Schumacher); with an examination of the cestode theory of pearl-production'', 1912 * * ''Outline of psychology'', Plebs' League, 1922. 6th ed., 1933, revised and expanded by Eden and Cedar Paul.

Life

''Outline of Psychology''

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