O.-W. RICHARDSON. — The Electrical Conductivity imparted to a Vacuum by Hot Conductors (La conductibilité électrique communiquée à un espace vide par des conducteurs chauffés). — Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, t. CCI, p. 497 ; 1903

For centuries, naturalists were aware that soon after hatching the common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) chick became the sole occupant of the fosterer's nest. Most naturalists thought the adult cuckoo returned to the nest and removed or ate the fosterer's eggs and young, or the cuckoo chick crowded its nest mates out of the nest. Edward Jenner published the first description of cuckoo chicks evicting eggs and young over the side of the nest. Jenner's observations, made in England in 1786 and 1787, were published by the Royal Society of London in 1788. Four years before Jenner's observations, in 1782, Antoine Joseph Lottinger recorded eviction behaviour in France and published his observations in Histoire du coucou d'Europe, in 1795. The importance of Lottinger's and Jenner's observations is considered together.

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Foreign Bodies: Travel, Empire and the Early Royal Society of London. Part II. The Land of Experimental Knowledge

Canadian Journal of History ◽

10.3138/cjh.34.1.23 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 34 (1) ◽

pp. 23-50 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Robert Iliffe

Keyword(s):

Royal Society ◽

Foreign Bodies ◽

Experimental Knowledge ◽

Royal Society Of London

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IX. An account of trigonometrical operations in the years 1821, 1822 and 1823, for determining the difference of longitude between the Royal Observatories of Paris and Greenwich

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London ◽

10.1098/rstl.1828.0011 ◽

1828 ◽

Vol 118 ◽

pp. 153-239 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Keyword(s):

Royal Society ◽

Royal Academy ◽

The Difference ◽

Academy Of Sciences ◽

The Church ◽

Royal Society Of London

In the year 1790, a series of trigonometrical operations was carried on by General Roy, in co-operation with Messrs. De Cassini, Mechain, and Legendre, for the purpose of connecting the meridians of Paris and Greenwich. In England, the work commenced with a base measured on Hounslow Heath, whence triangles were carried through Hanger Hill Tower and Severndroog Castle on Shooter’s Hill, to Fairlight Down, Folkstone Turnpike, and Dover Castle on the English coast; which last stations were connected with the church of Notre Dame at Calais, and with Blancnez and Montlambert upon the coast of France. An account of these operations will be found in the Philosophical Transactions for 1790. In the year 1821, the Royal Academy of Sciences and the Board of Longitude at Paris communicated to the Royal Society of London their desire, that the operations for connecting the meridians of Paris and Greenwich should be repeated jointly by both countries, and that commissioners should be nominated by the Royal Academy of Sciences and by the Royal Society of London for that purpose. This proposal having been readily acceded to, Messrs. Arago and Matthieu were chosen on the part of the Royal Academy of Sciences, and Lieut.-Colonel (then Captain) Colby and myself were appointed by the Royal Society to co-operate with them.

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