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William Delisle Hay

William Delisle Hay is a biology topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand William Delisle Hay rather than just read about it. In short: William Delisle Hay (11 March 1853 – ) was a nineteenth-century British author and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society from Bishopwearmouth, County Durham. He was best known for his mycological studies, writings on New Zealand, and a number of science fictional pulp novels, particularly the white supremacist and socialist "future fantasy" novel Three Hundred Years Hence; or, A Voice from Posterity (1881).

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Reference excerpt

William Delisle Hay (11 March 1853 – ) was a nineteenth-century British author and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society from Bishopwearmouth, County Durham. He was best known for his mycological studies, writings on New Zealand, and a number of science fictional pulp novels, particularly the white supremacist and socialist "future fantasy" novel Three Hundred Years Hence; or, A Voice from Posterity (1881). In his mycological writings, Hay observed a national superstition against "toadstools" in Britain, coining the term "fungophobia" to describe the prejudice. Hay's short story "The Doom of the Great City" is considered by some to be the "first modern tale of urban apocalypse", and focused in part on the smogs of London, which had famously been so bad they had caused cattle to choke to death in 1873. The story's fatal smog is largely seen by the narrator as punishment for depravity, especially female prostitution. Three Hundred Years Hence (not to be mistaken with an earlier novel of the same title, by Mary Griffith) was similarly told from a future earth in which humanity lived in domed cities, and posited a socialist world, in which white people had virtually eliminated all non-white people from the world.

Works

Fiction "The Doom of the Great City; Being the Narrative of a Survivor, Written A.D. 1942" (1880 short story) Three Hundred Years Hence; Or, A Voice from Posterity (1881) Blood: A Tragic Tale (1888)

Non-Fiction Brighter Britain!; Or, Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand (1882) (available at Project Gutenberg) The South Sea Islanders and the Queensland Labour Trade: a record of voyages and experiences in the western Pacific, from 1875 to 1891 (1893) (several copies available at the Internet Archive) The Fungus-Hunter's Guide and Field Memorandum-Book (1887) (available at Google Books) An Elementary Text-Book of British Fungi (1887) (available at Internet Archive)

Lectures and appearances 20 March 1883, "Social and Commercial Aspects of New Zealand", Meetings of the Society: Foreign and Colonial Section

References

External links

"William Delisle Hay", SF Encyclopedia "William Delisle Hay", Victorian Research Works by William Delisle Hay at Project Gutenberg

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with William Delisle Hay

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what William Delisle Hay claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In biology, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about William Delisle Hay ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of William Delisle Hay

In research: William Delisle Hay appears in biology research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses William Delisle Hay in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: William Delisle Hay is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1853 births, British biologist stubs, British mycologists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for William Delisle Hay outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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