Address to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales

1866 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 126-128
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Literature And Science ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
High Place ◽  
British Court

We, the President and Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, desire humbly to approach your Royal Highness with the expression of our dutiful and heartfelt congratulations on your Royal Highness's marriage.Ever ready to rejoice at whatever affords a prospect of increased happiness to your Royal Highness, and a further security for the continued sway of a Royal House which has conferred on this realm so many benefits and blessings, we hail with especial interest and gratification the union of your Royal Highness with a daughter of an ancient nation, distinguished at all times for noble and generous qualities, and which holds a high place among the countries of Europe in literature and science; and above all, we regard it as an unspeakable boon that the Royal Lady whom we now welcome to our shores is endowed with all those virtues and attractions which are best calculated to bless and adorn domestic life, to assist in cheering the widowed solitude of our beloved Sovereign, and to sustain in unsullied lustre the honour and dignity of the British Court.

Hooke recommemorated

1996 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-140
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
Robert Hooke ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Personal Interaction ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Christ Church ◽  
History Of

Richard Nichols, The Diaries of Robert Hooke, The Leonardo of London, 1635-1703 . Lewes, Sussex: The Book Guild, 1994, Pp. 185, £15.00. ISBN 0- 86332-930-6. Richard Nichols is a science master turned historian of science who celebrates in this book Robert Hooke’s contributions to the arts and sciences. The appreciation brings together comments from Hooke’s Diaries , and other works, on each of his main enterprises, and on his personal interaction with each of his principal friends and foes. Further references to Hooke and his activities are drawn from Birch’s History of the Royal Society, Aubrey’s Brief Lives , and the Diaries of Evelyn and of Pepys. The first section of the book, ‘Hooke the Man’, covers his early years of education at home in Freshwater, at Westminster school and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he soon joined the group of experimental philosophers who set him up as Curator of the Royal Society and Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, Bishopsgate. Hooke’s domestic life at Gresham College is described - his intimate relationships with a series of housekeepers, including his niece, Grace Hooke, and his social life at the College and in the London coffee houses.

scholarly journals Learned modesty and the first lady's comet: a commentary on Caroline Herschel (1787) ‘An account of a new comet’

2015 ◽  
Vol 373 (2039) ◽  
pp. 20140210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Winterburn
Keyword(s):  
Solar System ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
Early Step ◽  
350Th Anniversary

Long before women were allowed to become Fellows of the Royal Society, or obtain university degrees, one woman managed to get her voice heard, her discovery verified and her achievement celebrated. That woman was Caroline Herschel, who, as this paper will discuss, managed to find ways to fit comet discoveries into her domestic life, and present them in ways that were socially acceptable. Caroline lived in a time when strict rules dictated how women (and men) should behave and present themselves and their work. Caroline understood these rules, and used them carefully as she announced each discovery, starting with this comet which she found in 1786. Caroline discovered her comets at a time when astronomers were mainly concerned with position, identifying where things were and how they were moving. Since her discoveries, research has moved on, as astronomers, using techniques from other fields, and most recently sending experiments into space, have learned more about what comets are and what they can tell us about our solar system. Caroline's paper marks one small, early step in this much bigger journey to understand comets. This commentary was written to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society .

scholarly journals The Anniversary Dinner

1946 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-35
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Close Contact ◽  
The United States ◽  
Scientific Society ◽  
Great Pleasure ◽  
Royal Air Force ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
High Place

The first Anniversary Dinner since 1938 was held at Claridge’s Hotel on 30 November 1945. The Society’s guests included the Prime Minister, Mr Attlee, the Lord President of the Council, Mr Herbert Morrison, the Minister of Education, Miss Ellen Wilkinson, Dr Karl Compton representing the United States Ambassador, Admiral of the Fleet Lord Cunningham, Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord Portal, General Sir Frederick Pile and Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Nye. Rising to propose the toast of ‘The Royal Society of London.' Mr Attlee said: ‘Mr President, Ladies and Gentlemen, it is a great honour for me to propose the toast of the Royal Society, the premier scientific society of the world. I should like first of all to pay tribute to your retiring President. For more than two years during the war I occupied the position of Lord President of the Council and as such I was in close contact with the Governmental organizations for research and my chief adviser throughout was Sir Henry Dale. I owed much to his wisdom and kindness. Few people probably in this room know less about science than I do and it was a source of great gratification to me to be able to rely at all times on so experienced and wise an adviser. He will, I think, take a high place in the long roll of Presidents of the Royal Society. It is also a very great pleasure to me to meet his successor, Sir Robert Robinson.

James Spilman, F. R. S. (1680-1763), and Anglo-Russian commerce

1994 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-29 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
The Body ◽  
Trading Partner ◽  
Literature And Science ◽  
Isaac Newton ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Chief Physician

On 25 October 1714 the President of the Royal Society addressed the following letter to Peter the Great’s chief lieutenant: Isaac Newton greets the most powerful and honourable Mr Alexander Menshikov, Prince of the Roman and Russian Empire, Lord of Oranienburg, Chief Councillor of his Caesarian Majesty, Master of the Horse, Ruler of the Conquered Provinces, Knight of the Order of the Elephant, of the White and Black Eagle, etc. Whereas it has long been known to the Royal Society that your Emperor his Caesarian Majesty, has furthered very great advances in the arts and sciences in his Kingdom, and that he has been particularly aided by your administration not only in military and civil affairs, but also in the dissemination of literature and science, we were all filled with the greatest joy when the English merchants informed us that Your Excellency (out of his high courtesy, singular regard for the sciences, and lover of our nation) designs to join the body of our Society. At that time we had concluded our meetings until the summer and autumn seasons should be past, as is our custom. But hearing of this we at once assembled, so that by our votes we might elect Your Excellency, which we unanimously did. And now, as soon as it is possible to renew our postponed meetings, we have confirmed the election by a diploma under our common Seal. The Society, however, has instructed its Secretary that when he has sent the Diploma off to you, he should advise you of the election. Farewell. Menshikov was elected a Fellow of the Society on 29 July 1714, as the result of a letter written on 25 June by two English merchants at St. Petersburg, James Spilman and Henry Hodgkin, his trading partner, to Samuel Shepherd, an influential London merchant, intimating that the Prince sought election. This paper endeavours to explain how a Russia Company merchant, who was not himself elected a Fellow of the Royal Society until 1734, came to engineer the election to the Society of Russia’s second most powerful figure - despite the fact that Menshikov could neither read nor write. At the same time it will illustrate the close links between science and commerce in the first two decades of the eighteenth century and the significance of Spilman’s associations with Robert Erskine, F.R.S., Peter the Great’s chief physician.

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