scholarly journals III. Part of a letter from the Reverend Mr. Benjamin Colman, of Boston in New England, to the late Bishop of Peterborough; giving an account of the late earthquake which happened there. Communicated by Dr. Jurin. R. S. S. &c

1730 ◽  
Vol 36 (409) ◽  
pp. 124-127
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Critical Enquiry

My Lord, Your Lordship hopes that some of our accurate observers took notes of the symptoms and incidents of our late storms and earthquake, to communicate to the Royal Society, for the more critical enquiry into the causes and effects of this.

I. Part of a letter from Mr. Benjamin Bullivant, at Boston, in New England; to Mr. James Petiver, Apothecary, and Fellow of the Royal Society, in London. concerning some na­tural observations he had made in those parts

1698 ◽  
Vol 20 (240) ◽  
pp. 167-168
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Made In

Sir, The last I addressed. to you, was by our ingenious Friend Mr. Trott , who went hence in October ; I have since received from you Mr. Josselin’s Book of New England Rarities , and observe him to be short, but nervous.

LVIII. An account of an extraordinary disease among the Indians, in the islands of Nantucket and Marthu's Vineyard, in New England. In a letter from Andrew Oliver, Esq; Secretary of his Majesty's Province of Massachusett's Bay, to Israel Mauduit, Esq; F. R. S

1764 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 386-388
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Royal Society

Sir, Considering your connexions, both as a member of the Royal Society, and of the Society for propagating the gospel among the Indians, I transmit you an account of an uncommon sickness, which prevailed the last year at the islands of Nantucket and Martha'a Vineyard, which lie about six or seven leagues from each other, and the latter about four or five leagues distant from the Indian plantation at Mashpee on the continent, where it did not make its appearance at all.

scholarly journals IV. A letter from Samuel Dale, M. L. to Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. President of the Royal Society, containing the descriptions of the moose-deer of New-England, and a sort of stag in Virginia; with some remarks relating to Mr Ray’s description of the flying squirrel of America

1735 ◽  
Vol 39 (444) ◽  
pp. 384-389
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Flying Squirrel

Worthy Sir, The present of which I herewith make you, is the head, or rather the attire (as it is called in Heraldry) of the moose-deer, sent me some years since from New-England by the Honourable Samuel Shute, Esq; then governor of that colony.

III. An account of meteor seen in New England, and of a whirlwind felt in that country: In a letter to the Rev. Tho. Birch, D. D. Secretary to the Royal Society, from Mr. John Winthrop, Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge in New England

1761 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 6-16
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Great Earthquake

Reverend Sir, I Am extremely obliged to the Royal Society, for their favourable acceptance of my paper on our late great earthquake; and to you Sir, for the very polite manner, in which you were pleased to inform me thereof.

‘Mr Secretary, Colonel, Admiral, Philosopher Thompson’: the European odyssey of Count Rumford

1995 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-111
Author(s):  
Peter Day
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Mechanical Equivalent ◽  
Royal Institution

Benjamin Thompson, better known as Count Rumford, discovered the mechanical equivalent of heat. He was also soldier, administrator, founder of the Royal Institution in London and the English Garden in Munich. Fellow of the Royal Society and Membre de l'Institut, his career embraced rural New England, London society, service to the Elector of Bavaria and an unhappy marriage in Paris to the widow of Antoine Lavoisier.

scholarly journals John Winthorp (Junior), F. R. S. Governor of Connecticut 1660 to 1676

1940 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-115
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
New World ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
Natural Knowledge ◽  
New Born ◽  
Charles Ii ◽  
John Wallis

The first steps which were taken to form the Royal Society are said on the authority of Dr John Wallis, the mathematician, to date from about 1645, when he and certain other learned men in London began to meet from time to time to discuss the new philosophy, and other matters of common interest. There is however evidence to show that even earlier some of these men and their friends had in mind a plan, still undeveloped, to found a Society for the advancement of Natural Knowledge. For this information we are indebted to John Winthrop (junior) and to his correspondents in this country. He was one of the early puritans many of whom emigrated to the New World and there established the colony of New England. The fortieth volume of the Philosophical Transactions was dedicated to his grandson, also a John Winthrop, F.R.S., who was a generous benefactor of the Society. In the dedicatory letter Dr Cromwell Mortimer, the Secretary of the Society, writes of John Winthrop (junior) on 15 August 1741 : ‘In concert with these (i.e. Boyle, Wilkins and Oldenburg) and other learned friends (as he often revisited England) he was one of those who first formed the Plan of the Royal Society, and had not the Civil Wars happily ended as they did Mr Boyle and Mr Wilkins with several other learned men would have left England (as may appear in letters from Boyle, Wilkins, K. Digby, etc., to Mr Winthrop), and, out of esteem for the most excellent and valuable Governor, John Winthrop the younger, would have retired to his new-born colony and there established that Society for promoting Natural Knowledge which these gentlemen had formed, as it were, in embryo among themselves, but which afterwards receiving the Protection of the King Charles II obtain’d the style of Royal, and hath since done so much Honour to the British Nations, as to be imitated by the several European Princes who desired to be esteemed the Patrons of learning.’

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