scholarly journals [Report of the Secretary and Treasurer of the Royal Society]

1837 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 235-244
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
The State

The Treasurer made the following statements with respect to the Number of Fellows, the State of the Finances, and the Receipts and Payments of the Society during the preceding year. At the last Anniversary, the Society consisted of 748 Members; of whom there were, 11 Royal Personages, 45 Foreign Members, and 692 Home Members.

scholarly journals XXVI. Report on a Communication from Dr Dyce of Aberdeen, to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, ‘On Uterine Irritation, and its Effects on the Female Constitution.’

1823 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 365-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Dewar
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Mental Disease ◽  
The State ◽  
Healthy State ◽  
Mental Symptoms ◽  
Mental Powers

The communication received from Dr Dyce chiefly consists of a description of a singular affection of the nervous system, and mental powers, to which a girl of sixteen was subject immediately before puberty, and which disappeared when that state was fully established. It exemplifies the powerful influence of the state of the uterus on the mental faculties; but its chief value arises from some curious relations which it presents to the phenomena of mind, and which claim the attention of the practical metaphysician. The mental symptoms of this affection are among the number of those which are considered as uncommonly difficult of explanation. It is a case of mental disease, attended with some advantageous manifestations of the intellectual powers; and these manifestations disappearing in the same individual in the healthy state.

scholarly journals The growth of the Fellowship

1938 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-48
Keyword(s):  
Special Interest ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
The State ◽  
Printing Press ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Absolute

Unlike the Academies of Science in most other countries where they exist, the Royal Society is not restricted by the terms of its Charters in the number of candidates which may be admitted to the Fellowship. The selection and election of candidates is left to the absolute discretion of the President, Council and Fellows of the Society. The manner in which they have carried out this duty in the past is of special interest in studying the growth of the Society. From its foundation the Society was absolutely dependent upon its own resources, for it had neither a subvention from the State nor were its publications printed by an official printing press, advantages which other national academies have usually enjoyed. The subscriptions of its Fellows and occasional gifts and bequests were all that the Council could look to for meeting the growing expenses of the young Society. The development of an adequate membership was therefore imperative, and long engaged the Councils attention.

scholarly journals On some circumstances relating to the economy of bees

1833 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 346-347
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Compact Mass ◽  
Whole Number ◽  
Permanent Settlement ◽  
The One ◽  
Hollow Tree ◽  
As If

The author had already stated, in a former communication to the Royal Society, his having noticed that for several days previous to the settling of a swarm of bees in the cavity of a hollow tree adapted to their reception, a considerable number of these insects were incessantly employed in examining the state of the tree, and particularly of every dead knot above the cavity which appeared likely to admit water. He has since had an opportunity of observing that the bees who performed this task of inspection, instead of being the same individuals as he had formerly supposed, were in fact a continual succession of different bees; the whole number in the course of three days being such as to warrant the inference that not a single labouring bee ever emigrates in a swarm without having seen its proposed future habitation. He finds that the same applies not only to the place of permanent settlement, but also to that where the bees rest temporarily, soon after swarming, in order to collect their numbers. The swarms, which were the subjects of Mr. Knight’s experiments, showed a remarkable disposition to unite under the same queen. On one occasion a swarm, which had arisen from one of his hives, settled upon a bush at a distance of about twenty-five yards; but instead of collecting together into a compact mass, as they usually do, they remained thinly dispersed for nearly half an hour; after which, as if tired of waiting, they singly, one after the other, and not in obedience to any signal, arose and returned home. The next morning a swarm issued from a neighbouring hive, and proceeded to the same bush upon which the other bees had settled on the preceding day; collecting themselves into a mass, as they usually do when their queen is present. In a few minutes afterwards a very large assemblage of bees rushed from the hive from which the former swarm had issued, and proceeded directly to the one which had just settled, and instantly united with them. The author is led from these and other facts to conclude that such unions of swarms are generally, if not always, the result of previous concert and arrangement.

Exciting an Emulation

2020 ◽  
pp. 29-60
Author(s):  
Anton Howes
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
The State ◽  
Coercive Power ◽  
Government Revenue

This chapter discusses the Royal Society of Arts' promotion of commerce. It traces trade in the eighteenth century, which was closely tied to the coercive power of the state and was one of the principal sources of government revenue. It also describes trade as a tool for enriching a country at the expense of its neighbors, emphasizing the belief among rulers and politicians across Europe that it was essential to maximize a country's stock of specie. The chapter explains mercantilism as an attitude towards trade in which rivals were made to pay for exports, while as little as possible were spent on foreign imports. It also points out how mercantilist attitudes had geopolitical repercussions.

5. Notice of the State of the Open-Air Vegetation in the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, during December 1863

1866 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 166-175
Author(s):  
J. H. Balfour
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Flowering Plants ◽  
The State ◽  
Botanic Garden ◽  
Open Ground

The state of the vegetation in the open ground of the Botanic Garden during the month of December 1863 was so very remarkable that I have been induced to submit a notice of it to the Royal Society. The number of phanerogamous species and varieties in flower during the month amounted to 245; of these 35 were spring-flowering plants which had anticipated their period of florescence, while the rest were summer and autumn flowers which had protracted their flowering beyond their usual limits.

scholarly journals Stokes at 200: a celebration of the remarkable achievements of Sir George Gabriel Stokes two hundred years after his birth

2020 ◽  
Vol 378 (2174) ◽  
pp. 20190505
Author(s):  
Silvana S. S. Cardoso ◽  
Julyan H. E. Cartwright ◽  
Herbert E. Huppert ◽  
Christopher Ness
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Applied Mathematics ◽  
The State ◽  
Theme Issue ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Mathematics

Sir George Gabriel Stokes PRS was for 30 years an inimitable Secretary of the Royal Society and its President from 1885 to 1890. Two hundred years after his birth, Stokes is a towering figure in physics and applied mathematics; fluids, asymptotics, optics, acoustics among many other fields. At the Stokes 200 meeting, held at Pembroke College, Cambridge from 15–18th September 2019, an invited audience of about 100 discussed the state of the art in all the modern research fields that have sprung from his work in physics and mathematics, along with the history of how we have got from Stokes’ contributions to where we are now. This theme issue is based on work presented at the Stokes 200 meeting. In bringing together people whose work today is based upon Stokes’ own, we aim to emphasize his influence and legacy at 200 to the community as a whole. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Stokes at 200 (Part 1)’.

scholarly journals XXXIII. Account of an observation of the right ascension and declination of Mercury out of the Meridian, near his greatest elongation, Sept. 1786, made by Mr. John Smeaton, F. R. S. with an equatorial micrometer, of his own invention and workmanship; accompanied with an investigation of a method of allowing for refraction in such kind of observations; communicated to the Rev. Nevil Maskelyne, D. D. F. R. S. and Astronomer Royal, and by him to the Royal Society

1787 ◽  
Vol 77 ◽  
pp. 318-343 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
The State ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Right ◽  
Nevil Maskelyne ◽  
Right Ascension

M. de la Lande having announced to some of my astronomical friends the utility of accurate observations of Mercury, at his two elongations the last year, in August and September; I tried to get observations of that planet in crossing the meridian, for some days before and after the greatest elongation in August; and though the state of the atmosphere about that time was not very favourable to the purpose, yet there was one day that I thought unexceptionable, but could not perceive the least appearance of Mercury; at which i was the rather surprised, as I had formerly seen that planet in the like situation, with the same instrument, with perfect perspicuity: and as i did not hear of any one else having succeeded in this observation, I thought it might be very possible for the same disappointment again to happen, with respect to the approaching elongation in September.

The Royal Society in Thomas Henry Huxley's time

1984 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-158 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
The State ◽  
Thomas Henry Huxley ◽  
Naval Hospital

It is very gratifying to have a part to play in this happy and auspicious centenary occasion which celebrates Thomas Henry Huxley’s appointment as President of the Royal Society and at the same time demonstrates the commemorative sense of recent Councils in nominating his grandson to the same position at such a suitable time. As I am an historian you will no doubt expect me to give you at least a few more dates; and as this audience is mainly composed of scientists, I imagine that you would like to be provided with at least some facts. I shall try to meet these joint expectations while avoiding excess— for I am all too conscious of my presumption, as a complete outsider to both the Royal Society and the Huxley family, in speaking to you at all about my assigned subject. To begin with, let me briefly describe the state of the Royal Society as it was in 1846 when Thomas Henry Huxley first encountered some of its Fellows, shortly after his appointment to the Haslar Naval Hospital. His chief, Sir John Richardson, had been a Fellow for 20 years and he introduced the young man of 21 to a number of ‘the scientific folks’ as Huxley himself called them.

scholarly journals XVI. Account of an assemblage of fossil teeth and bones of elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, bear, tiger, and hyæna, and sixteen other animals; discovered in a cave at Kirkdale, Yorkshire, in the year 1821: with a comparative view of five similar caverns in various parts of England, and others on the continent

1822 ◽  
Vol 112 ◽  
pp. 171-236 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
The State ◽  
Circumstantial Evidence ◽  
The City

Having been induced in December last to visit Yorkshire, for the purpose of investigating the circumstances of the cave at Kirkdale, near Kirby Moorside, about 25 miles N. N. E. of the city of York, in which a discovery was made last summer of a singular collection of teeth and bones, I beg to lay before the Royal Society the result of my observations on this new and interesting case, and to point out some important general conclusions that arise from it. The facts I have collected, seem calculated to throw an important light on the state of our planet at a period antece­dent to the last great convulsion that has affected its surface; and I may add, in limine, that they afford one of the most complete and satisfactory chains of consistent circumstantial evidence I have ever met with in the course of my geological investigations.

XV. On periodical laws discoverable in the mean effects of the larger magnetic disturbances.—No. III

1856 ◽  
Vol 146 ◽  
pp. 357-374 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
The State ◽  
Total Force ◽  
Vertical Force ◽  
Magnetic Forces ◽  
The Hours ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Magnetic Disturbances

Having at length completed the analysis of the larger disturbances of the horizontal and vertical magnetic forces at Toronto during five years of hourly observa­tion, with a view to the development of the periodical laws which regulate the occur­rence of the occasional disturbances of those elements, and of their theoretical equiva­lents, the Inclination and Total Force, I now propose to lay before the Royal Society a condensed view of the mode in which the investigation has been made, and of its results. The hourly observations of the Bifilar and Vertical Force Magnetometers during the five years terminating June 30, 1848, were received at Woolwich, from Toronto, precisely in the state in which they are printed in the second and third volumes of the 'Observations at the Toronto Observatory'; namely, the readings, uncorrected for temperature, at every hour of Göttingen time, arranged in Monthly tables, accom­panied by corresponding tables of the temperature of the magnets, shown by thermo­meters of which the balls were enclosed in the same case with the magnets, and which were read contemporaneously with the Bifilar and Vertical Force scales. The Monthly tables of the scale-readings and of the temperatures were summed before their transmission to Woolwich, both in vertical and horizontal columns, and means were taken of all the days in the month at the different hours, and of all the hours of the day on the different days, forming "hourly means” and "daily means.” In this state the observations were received at Woolwich and subsequently printed; they were, in fact, printed from the original manuscripts.

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