Year-book of the Royal Society of London, Issue 9Harrison and Sons, 1905 - Great Britain Vols. for 1896/97- include List of fellows. |
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Page 180 - Treasury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the President of the Board of Trade.
Page 198 - It is determined, we find, as a certain fraction of the length of a pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London.
Page 46 - Society for election persons who, in their opinion, either have rendered conspicuous service to the cause of science or are such that their election would be of signal benefit to the Society...
Page 94 - Committee appointed by the Institution of Civil Engineers at the instance of Sir John Wolfe Barry, KCB, to inquire into the advisability of Standardising Rolled Iron and Steel Sections. The Committee is supported by the Institution of Civil Engineers...
Page 87 - Committee is supported by the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Institution of Naval Architects, the Iron and Steel Institute, and the Institution of Electrical Engineers...
Page 44 - Cambridge desirous of becoming a Fellow of the Society, shall be proposed and recommended by a certificate in writing, signed by three or more Fellows. The certificate shall specify the Christian and surname of the Candidate, his Degree, the name of his College and his usual place of residence ; all of which must be certified from the personal knowledge of at least one of the subscribing Fellows.
Page 157 - Of the Methods of manifesting the Presence, and ascertaining the Quality, of small Quantities of Natural or Artificial Electricity.
Page 48 - London for improving natural knowledge, and to pursue the ends for which the same was founded; that we will be present at the Meetings of the Society as often as conveniently we can, especially at the Anniversary Elections, and upon extraordinary occasions; and that we will observe the Statutes and Orders of the said Society.
Page 158 - The Bakerian Lecture ; an Account of some new analytical researches on the nature of certain Bodies, particularly the Alkalies, Phosphorus, Sulphur, Carbonaceous Matter, and the Acids hitherto undecompounded ; with some general Observations on Chemical Theory.
Page 50 - London for the improving of natural knowledge, present you with this small but faithful token of their regard and esteem. I do, in their name, congratulate you upon the successes you have already had, and I most sincerely wish that...