Visits to liberated countries by representatives of the Royal Society

1946 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-99
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Exchange Of Information ◽  
Scientific Institutions ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Learned Societies ◽  
Return Visits ◽  
The Many

With the liberation of the countries of Europe approaching completion, the Royal Society appointed a committee early in 1945 to consider the many problems connected with the reestablishment of contact with foreign academies and learned societies. These included visits of British scientists to foreign countries and return visits to this country, the organization of exchange of information, and of possible assistance to countries whose scientific institutions had suffered depredations at the hands of the Germans. It was decided that the Foreign Secretary of the Society or failing him other Fellows, should visit the countries of Europe which had been liberated to convey the greetings of the President, Council and Fellows of the Royal Society to the men of science of those countries, and to explore the means by which the Society might assist in the rehabilitation of science in those countries.

George Gabriel Stokes

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Fluid Dynamics ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Mathematical Analysis ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Public Servant ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
Natural Philosophers

George Gabriel Stokes was one of the most significant mathematicians and natural philosophers of the nineteenth century. Serving as Lucasian professor at Cambridge he made wide-ranging contributions to optics, fluid dynamics and mathematical analysis. As Secretary of the Royal Society he played a major role in the direction of British science acting as both a sounding board and a gatekeeper. Outside his own area he was a distinguished public servant and MP for Cambridge University. He was keenly interested in the relation between science and religion and wrote extensively on the matter. This edited collection of essays brings together experts in mathematics, physics and the history of science to cover the many facets of Stokes’s life in a scholarly but accessible way.

scholarly journals IX. Observations upon so much of Monsieur le Monnier the younger's memoir, lately presented to the Royal Society, as relates to the communicating the electric virtue to non-electrics; by Wm. Watson, F. R. S

1746 ◽  
Vol 44 (482) ◽  
pp. 388-395
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Royal Academy ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The World is much obliged to Mons. le Monnier for the many Discoverics he has made of the Power of Electricity; though the Reason of my troubling you with this Paper at this time, is my differing with that Gentleman in the Conclusions which he deduces from several of the Experiments contain’d in his Memoir lately presented to the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris , his own Extract of which was lately communicated to the Royal Society .

scholarly journals XVII. Description of an escapement for an astronomical clock, invented by the late Captain Henry Kater, F.R.S. &c., drawn up from his own memorandums by his son Edward Kater, Esq. Communicated by Sir J. F. W. Herschel, Bart., K. H. V. P. R. S. &c

1840 ◽  
Vol 130 ◽  
pp. 335-340
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Astronomical Clock ◽  
The Many

In venturing to offer to the attention of the Royal Society the following description of an escapement for an astronomical clock, I beg to premise that I restrict myself almost entirely to the collecting and arranging of my father’s own notes respecting it, written at intervals during the many years he was engaged upon it. His last improvement was made very shortly before his death, but from increasing ill health he was unable to pursue the requisite observations for verifying the accuracy of the present plan. Owing to the numerous memorandums left by my father on this subject, I am fortunately able to give the description of the escapement nearly in his own words, with but little addition beyond some drawings which I have made to elucidate the explanations.

Welcome and introduction

1989 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-96
Keyword(s):  
Advisory Committee ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Imperial College ◽  
Joint Meeting ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

It is my pleasant duty to welcome you all most warmly to this meeting, which is one of the many events stimulated by the advisory committee of the William and Mary Trust on Science and Technology and Medicine, under the Chairmanship of Sir Arnold Burgen, the immediate past Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society. This is a joint meeting of the Royal Society and the British Academy, whose President, Sir Randolph Quirk, will be Chairman this afternoon, and it covers Science and Civilization under William and Mary, presumably with the intention that the Society would cover Science if the Academy would cover Civilization. The meeting has been organized by Professor Rupert Hall, a Fellow of the Academy and also well known to the Society, who is now Emeritus Professor of the History of Science and Technology at Imperial College in the University of London; and Mr Norman Robinson, who retired in 1988 as Librarian to the Royal Society after 40 years service to the Society.

scholarly journals Address BY Dr. J. H. Jeans, President of the Royal Astronomical Society and Secretary of the Royal Society.

1925 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 151-152
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Special Care ◽  
Natural Knowledge ◽  
Astronomical Society ◽  
Good Fortune ◽  
Royal Astronomical Society ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
Learned Societies ◽  
Lord Chancellor

My Lord Chancellor, Mr. Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Campbell, Ladies and Gentlemen: It would be an impertinence on my part to try to add anything to the Cambridge welcome which the Chancellor has offered you, but it is my privilege to be allowed to offer you a few words of welcome from a somewhat different angle. As the Chancellor has said, it is my good fortune to be officially connected with the two learned societies to whom, I suppose, your visit to this country means most: the Royal Society, which takes all natural knowledge for its province, and which is especially interested in international co-operation in the pursuit of such knowledge, and the Royal Astronomical Society, which takes astronomical knowledge for its special care. I am sure that both these bodies would wish that I should seize this opportunity to offer a most cordial welcome to our astronomical visitors from other countries; a welcome not only to Cambridge, but to this country in general. We feel it right that your visit should begin at Cambridge, but we are sure it is not right that it should end there; we hope you will remember that, after Cambridge, London also exists.

scholarly journals Scientific Community in Algeria: Adopting Traditions and Developing Identity

2014 ◽  
pp. 193-200
Author(s):  
T. I. Tyukaeva
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Scientific Development ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Scientific Institutions ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
National Science ◽  
History Of ◽  
Science And Research

The history of scientific development in Algeria, which has not been long, represents a series of continual rises and falls. The Algerian leadership and researchers have been making efforts to create Algeria's national science through protection from the western scientific tradition, which is reminiscent of the colonial period of the country, and at the same time adoption of scientific knowledge and scientific institutions functioning principles from abroad, with no organizational or scientific experience of their own. Since the time the independent Algerian state was established, its scientific development has been inevitably coupled with active support of European countries, especially France, and other western and non-western states. Today the Algerian leadership is highly devoted to the modernization of the national scientific and research potential in strong cooperation with its foreign partners. The article concentrates on examining the present period (the 2000s) of the scientific development in Algeria. The main conclusion is that there still is a number of problems - for Algeria until now lacks an integral scientific community with the state preserving its dominating role in science and research activities. Despite these difficulties, the Algerian science has made an outstanding progress. The efficiently built organizational scientific structure, the growing science and technology cooperation with foreign countries as well as the increasing state expenses in science allow to hope for further success of the Algerian scientific development.

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1708 ◽  
Vol 26 (319) ◽  
pp. 292-292
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
The Many

W hereas in the many various Papers which compose these Philosophical Transactions, there have happen'd Expressions, which some have thought Reflecting; the Readers are desired to look upon all such Expressions as proceeding only from the Writers of the Papers, without receiving any Authority from the Royal Society, who leave the publishing of these Transactions to their Secretary, and without being observed by the Publisher before they came abroad .

scholarly journals Arthur George Green, 1864 - 1941

1943 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
pp. 251-270
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Scientific Development ◽  
Major Significance ◽  
Long Life ◽  
The Many

Arthur George Green died peacefully in his sleep on 12 September 1941, in the seventy-eighth year of his life. From leaving college in 1885 until the day of his death Green was continuously and actively engaged in the practice of chemistry. He was pre-eminently a chemist; all his enthusiasm, and it abounded in him, was for chemistry or for causes which had chemistry at the heart of them. The synthetic dyestuff industry was his foremost passion and practically all the energy of his long life was devoted to it, not merely because he had fertilized it by his early genius as an inventor, nor because it furnished an outlet for his talent as an experimentor, but because he believed in it fervently as a matter of major significance in the industrial and scientific development of the nation. The dyestuff industry was a ‘cause’ to Green. He was a servant to science, and a passionate preacher of science in industry. He was properly honoured for his work and for his devotion by his colleagues, becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society and the recipient of many honours, medals, etc., from other learned bodies. From the politician and the general public, however, Green received no recognition. On this account, and because of the intensity of his belief in the urgency of his cause, Green must have experienced many times the pangs of disappointment and frustration, but in spite of it, and of the many changes in his career, his life was happy and uninterrupted in the steady and fruitful practice of the branch of chemistry of which he was a master. To have been able to do this up to the very day of his death was his greatest reward.

Dwight Atkinson, Scientific discourse in sociohistorical context: The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1675–1975. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1999. Pp. xxxi, 208.

2000 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 429-432
Author(s):  
Greg Myers
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Scientific Communication ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Language Of Science ◽  
Scientific Institutions ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Sociohistorical Context

The language of science has been extensively studied by linguists and rhetoricians – as a distinctive register, as a set of genres that students and academics need to master, and as a discourse of powerful social institutions. Most of these studies have been synchronic, focusing on the structures or styles of more or less contemporary texts, particularly research articles. But if we rely on such studies, we may tend to reify some features of text (such as the Introduction–Methods–Results–Discussion form, or the tendency to passive constructions and nominalizations) as inevitable features of scientific communication. We may also treat scientific institutions – such as the lines between disciplines, or between professionals and amateurs – as given by the subject matter, rather than seeing them as changing and as constituted in part by their communicative practices.

scholarly journals Making public ahead of print: Meetings and publications at the Royal Society, 1752–1892

2016 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 361-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aileen Fyfe ◽  
Noah Moxham
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Scientific Journal ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Dominant Form ◽  
Historical Perspectives ◽  
Learned Societies ◽  
Actual Publication ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
John Tyndall

This essay examines the interplay between the meetings and publications of learned scientific societies during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when journals were an established but not yet dominant form of scholarly communication. The ‘making public’ of research at meetings, long before actual ‘publication’ in society periodicals, enabled a complex of more or less formal sites of communication and discussion ahead of print. Using two case studies from the Royal Society of London—Jan Ingen-Housz in 1782 and John Tyndall in 1857 to 1858—we reveal how different individuals navigated and exploited the power structures, social activities and seasonal rhythms of learned societies, all necessary precursors to gaining admission to the editorial processes of society journals, and trace the shifting significance of meetings in the increasingly competitive and diverse realm of Victorian scientific publishing. We conclude by reflecting on the implications of these historical perspectives for current discussions of the ‘ends’ of the scientific journal.

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