extensive series of effective reforms and which he held until his retirement in 1929. In 1927 he gave a lecture to the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution which contained the first semi-official disclosure of the work done by Room 40. A house in Pollock Halls of Residence is named in his honour. Sir Alfred Ewing died in 1935 and is buried at the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge, with his second wife Lady Ellen Ewing. Honours Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1878); Fellow of the Royal Society (1887); LL.D. (honoris causa), University of Edinburgh (1902) John Scott Medal (1907); CB (1907); KCB (1911); President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1924–1929); Albert Medal of the Royal Society of Arts (1929); President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1932); The James Alfred Ewing Medal of the Institution of Civil Engineers has been awarded for specially meritorious contributions to the science of engineering in the field of research since 1938. Works 1877: (with Fleeming Jenkin) On Friction between Surfaces moving at Low Speeds, Philosophical Magazine Series 5, volume 4, pp 308–10, link from Biodiversity Heritage Library. 1883: A Treatise on Earthquake Measurement. 1899: Strength of Materials, link from Internet Archive. 1900: Magnetic Induction in Iron and Other Metals, 3rd edition, link from Internet Archive. 1910: The Steam Engine and Other Engines, 3rd edition, from Internet Archive. 1911: Examples in Mathematics, Mechanics, Navigation and Nautical Astronomy, Heat and Steam, Electricity, for the use of Junior Officers Afloat. 1920: Thermodynamics for Engineers, link from Internet Archive. 1921: The Mechanical Production of Cold, second edition, Cambridge University Press, link from Internet Archive. 1933: An Engineer's Outlook, London: Methuen Publishing See also Anglo-Japanese relations Room 40 References External links Portrait of James Alfred Ewing from the Lick Observatory Records Digital Archive, UC Santa Cruz Library's Digital Collections Bibliography Bates, L. F. (1946) Sir Alfred Ewing: A Pioneer in Physics and Engineering Pedlar, Neil, 'James Alfred Ewing and his circle of pioneering physicists in Meiji Japan', Hoare, J.E. ed., Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits Volume III Chapter 8. Japan Library (1999). Scottish civil engineers Scottish physicists 1855 births 1935 deaths British people of World War I People from Dundee Academics of the University of Dundee Academics of the University of Edinburgh Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Principals of the University of Edinburgh Academics of the University of Cambridge Fellows of