scholarly journals XII.—On the Climate of Edinburgh for Fifty-six years, from 1795 to 1850, deduced principally from Mr Adie's Observations; with an Account of other and Earlier Registers

1861 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 327-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
James D. Forbes
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Short Account ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Meteorological Instruments

1. The late Mr Alexander Adie, optician, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, was so generally known to be a zealous and careful observer of meteorological instruments, that an attempt to combine the results deducible from his labours carried on (though with one long break) over more than forty years, cannot be otherwise than interesting.2. The plan of superintending the careful reduction of the thermometrical part of Mr Adie's registers occurred to me a long time ago, but circumstances prevented the execution of it until two or three years since, when, through the kindness of Mr Adie and his family, the whole of the manuscript observations, commencing with 1795, were put into my hands, and the Council of the Royal Society of Edinburgh provided sufficient funds for the employment of computers for reducing them.3. The work has proceeded with frequent interruptions, but is at length complete. Before I proceed to detail the particulars of the reductions and their results, I will give a short account of the earlier observations on the climate of Edinburgh which I have been able to trace, some of which perhaps have hitherto escaped notice.

scholarly journals James Keir of the Lunar Society

1967 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-154 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Scientific Revolution ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Phlogiston Theory ◽  
Short Account ◽  
Modern Chemistry ◽  
Lunar Society Of Birmingham

THE long career of James Keir (born in Edinburgh on 20 September 1735, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 8 December 1785, died at West Bromwich on 11 October 1820) effectively covered the period of the scientific revolution out of which modern chemistry evolved. Keir himself played a significant part in that revolution, as writer, experimenter, and industrialist—and, by no means least, as a frequent ‘chairman’ at meetings of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, which he helped to hold together by his tact and force of character. Although there are frequent references to Keir in books and articles dealing with the period (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8), he remains relatively unknown, partly because he was overshadowed by men like Priestley and Watt, partly because he adhered too long to the phlogiston theory, and perhaps also because of his own modesty. A short account of his life, and an appreciation of his contributions to science and technology, may therefore not be out of place, particularly in view of the marked revival of interest in the Lunar Society in recent years.

scholarly journals XV. A short account of Mr. Kersseboom's essay [intituled, verhandeling tot een proeve om te weeten de probable menigte des volks in de proventie van Hollandt en Westfrieslandt. Hage 1738. In 4 to . door W. Kersseboom] upon the number of people in Holland and West-Friezland, as also in Harlem, Gouda and the Hague; drawn from the bills of births, burials, or marriages, in those places

1738 ◽  
Vol 40 (450) ◽  
pp. 401-406
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Short Account ◽  
The Hague ◽  
The City

Every body knows to what useful Purposes the Bills of Births and Burials at the City of Breslau , the Capital of Silesia , have been applied, by a very learned and sagacious Member of the Royal Society; as also what curious Observations have been made, both Moral, Physical and Political, by Sir William Petty , upon the same Argument, several Years before, and Dr. Arbuthnot and others since.

III. On the structure of a species of millepora occurring at Tahiti, Society Islands

1877 ◽  
Vol 167 ◽  
pp. 117-135 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Yellow Colour ◽  
Short Account ◽  
Society Islands ◽  
Bright Yellow ◽  
The Subject

In a paper treating mainly on the structure of the Heliopora cœrulea , which was communicated to the Royal Society in the autumn of last year (1875), I gave a short account of the results at which I had arrived from the examination of two species of Millepora obtained at Bermuda and at the Philippines, and expressed my intention of further prosecuting the subject at the Sandwich Islands and Tahiti, should material be forthcoming. At Honolulu no Millepora was met with; and this form apparently does not occur at the Sandwich Islands, the water being too cold for it. At Tahiti a Millepora is very abundant on the reefs in from one to two feet of water, and is very conspicuous because of its bright yellow colour.

scholarly journals I. A letter from his Excellency Nicolas-Michael d'Aragona, Prince of Cassano, and F. R. S. to the President of the Royal Society, containing an account of the eruption of Vesuvius in May 1737. Translated from the Italian by T. S. M. D. F. R. S.

1740 ◽  
Vol 41 (455) ◽  
pp. 237-252
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Experimental Philosophy ◽  
Good Reason ◽  
Short Account ◽  
Royal Society Of London

Sir, As your extraordinary Talents, and excellent Taste, in a true Examination of Natural Effects, and in Discoveries relating to Experimental Philosophy, are so well known, that you have, with Justice, been elected into the most celebrated Academies of Europe, and to the Presidentship of the Royal Society of London in Particular; I resolved, with good Reason, to offer you a short Account of the last great, dreadful and pernicious Eruption of our Vesuvins.

scholarly journals The Bakerian lecture. On the manufacture of glass for optical purposes

1833 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 383-385
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Present Stage ◽  
Short Account ◽  
Reasonable Expectation ◽  
Experimental Part ◽  
Royal Institution ◽  
The Government ◽  
Made In

As an introduction to his paper, the author gives a short account of the circumstances which have led to the present inquiry. He states the difficulties that exist in procuring glass sufficiently homogeneous to answer the purposes of the optician, and adverts to the efforts made by Guinand and by Fraunhofer to overcome them. As the art was still imperfectly known in this country, the President of the Royal Society in the year 1824 suggested the appointment of a committee, whose labours were facilitated by the Government removing the restrictions imposed by the excise laws to experiments on glass, and also undertaking to bear all the expenses of the inquiry, as long as it held out a reasonable expectation of ultimate success. An expe­rimental glass-house was at first erected on the premises of Messrs. Pellatt and Green, at the Falcon Glass-works; but Mr. Faraday being unable to conduct them at that distance from his own resi­dence, the President and Council of the Royal Society obtained leave of the President and Managers of the Royal Institution to erect an­ other experimental furnace for continuing the investigation on their premises. The author being intrusted with the immediate superintendence of the experimental part of the manufacture of the glass, conceives it to he his especial duty, at the present stage of the inquiry, to give an account of what has been done in his department; for although the investigation is still far from being completed, yet he trusts that a de­cided step has now been made in the manufacture of glass for optical purposes; and that it is due to the Society, as well as to the Go­vernment, to render an account of the results hitherto obtained.

scholarly journals II. On the relative powers of various metallic substances as conductors of electricity

1827 ◽  
Vol 117 ◽  
pp. 18-24 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Electrical Charge ◽  
Relative Degree ◽  
Easy Method ◽  
Short Account ◽  
Metallic Body

The relation between metallic bodies, as conductors of elec­tricity, has engaged the attention of those whose talents have, at various periods, enriched that branch of science; I enter therefore upon a further investigation of this interest­ing subject with much diffidence; but having, by an easy method, obtained a series of results, apparently calculated to advance our knowledge of it, I am led to hope that a short account of my inquiries may be honoured by the notice of the Royal Society. It has been long since observed by one of the most active contributors to the success of modern science, that the heat evolved by a metallic body, whilst transmitting an electrical charge, is in some inverse ratio to its conducting power—a principle generally admitted, not only as a reasonable deduc­tion, but also as being established by a great variety of facts; l have therefore sought to measure the relative degree of heat, so evolved, by various metallic substances in a gazeous medium such as air, and thus to discover their precise rela­tions as conductors of electricity.

scholarly journals The diary of Sir Charles Blagden

1950 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-89 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Considerable Portion ◽  
Long Time ◽  
History Of

Among the Blagden papers recently acquired by the Royal Society is a considerable portion of the diary of Sir Charles Blagden himself, closely written in difficult handwriting from edge to edge of the paper on hundreds of small sheets. The complete decipherment and transcription of this diary may take a long time, if it is ever done. But it was thought that the Fellows and those engaged in the history of science at the close of the eighteenth century might be interested in a sample of the diary of this man, Secretary of the Royal Society from 1784 to 1797, who was closely associated with many of the persons and events which made those days memorable in the history of science. Even before his appointment to the Secretaryship of the Royal Society, when he was acting as Secretary to Henry Cavendish, it was he who informed Lavoisier in June 1783 that Cavendish had burned inflammable air and obtained water. On this information Lavoisier repeated the experiment and solved the problem of the composition of water.

scholarly journals V. A short account of the cause of the saltness of the ocean, and of the several lakes that emit no rivers; with a proposal, by help thereof, to discover the age of the World. Produced before the Royal-Society by Edmund Halley, R. S. Secr

1714 ◽  
Vol 29 (344) ◽  
pp. 296-300 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Short Account ◽  
The World

There have been many Attempts made and proposals offered, to ascertain from the Appearances of Nature, what may have been the Antiquity of this Globe of Earth ; on which, by the Evidence of Sacred Writ, Mankind has dwelt about 600 Years; or according to the Septuagint above 7000.

The Thursday’s Club called the Club of the Royal Philosophers, and its relation to the Royal Society Club

1971 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-80
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Annual General ◽  
Long Time

As far as I have been able to ascertain the Royal Society Club appears to be the oldest dining club in Europe. We know it has been in continuous existence since 1743, dining for many years every Thursday before the Royal Society met, and in more recent years dining after the meeting. The weekly registers have been kept almost unfailingly—though some have been lost— recording the names of members dining and their guests, what they ate and what they paid. The President of the Royal Society has been President of the Club and for a long time the Secretaries and the Astronomer Royal have automatically been members. With a few exceptions in the earliest years, all members have been Fellows. And yet the Club has not always been called the Royal Society Club, and we have never known why, or exactly when, the original name ‘The Club of the Royal Philosophers’ was replaced by the shorter name, for there is no record of the change to be found in the Minutes of the Annual General Meetings held in the summer. The Club might have been in existence long before 1743; there is written evidence that it was in existence in 1736 and a more casual reference that it began about 1731, but we do not encounter the full title until the first recorded A.G.M. of 1749. The first Treasurer, Josiah Colebrook, does not repeat the title, there was indeed no reason why he should have done so for the Minutes were never published; but the full title is found in several places up to January 1784.

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