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Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--7
A. V. H. The Pilgrim Trust Lecture . . . . . . . 8--8
Anonymous The National Academy of Sciences . . . . 9--10
John Simon The anniversary dinner . . . . . . . . . 11--20
C. S. S. The Society's library . . . . . . . . . 21--27
H. G. L. A fragment of history . . . . . . . . . 28--31
A. C. S. Notes on the foundation and history of
the Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . 32--36
J. D. G. D. The arms of the Society . . . . . . . . 37--39
H. G. L. The growth of the Fellowship . . . . . . 40--48
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Albert C. Seward Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--55
Albert C. Seward The dedication of the Franklin Institute
of the State of Pennsylvania in honour
of Benjamin Franklin . . . . . . . . . . 55--60
J. Graham Kerr Societas Scientiarum Fennica . . . . . . 60--62
C. F. Arden Close The International Geographical Congress
at Amsterdam, July 1938 . . . . . . . . 62--64
H. J. Fleure The International Congress of
Anthropological and Ethnological
Sciences at Copenhagen, August 1938 . . 65--65
G. T. Bennett Pepys' annual Commemoration Service . . 65--67
Anonymous The Conversaziones in 1938 . . . . . . . 67--69
M. H. Gordon Letter to the Editor: Jenner and
Napoleon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--69
M. Greenwood The first life table . . . . . . . . . . 70--72
H. G. Lyons The Society's finances --- Part I ---
1662--1830 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--87
H. G. Lyons The landed property of the Royal Society 88--91
H. W. Robinson Gleanings from the library --- I . . . . 92--95
H. G. Lyons The Anniversary Dinner . . . . . . . . . 96--103
S. W. Kemp The Bermuda Oceanographical Committee 104--112
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Anonymous Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--10
A. J. Clark and
F. G. Donnan Kaiser-Wilhelm Gesellschaft: Report to
the Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Kingsley Wood and
Irving Langmuir and
D'Arcy Thompson The Anniversary Dinner . . . . . . . . . 12--24
C. G. Darwin The `reading' of papers at meetings of
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--27
J. Reid Moir A pioneer in palaeolithic discovery . . 28--31
Anonymous A portrait of Joseph Priestley, F.R.S.,
by James Millar, 1789 . . . . . . . . . 32--33
H. G. Lyons Two hundred years ago, 1739 . . . . . . 34--42
H. G. Lyons The Society's first bequest . . . . . . 43--46
H. G. Lyons The Society's finances. Part II ---
1831--1938 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--67
H. W. Robinson Gleanings from the library --- II: The
Board of Longitude and the Royal Society 68--70
A. V. Hill Age of election to the Royal Society . . 71--73
G. Undy Yule John Wallis, D.D., F.R.S., 1616--1703 74--82
Anonymous Portrait of Sir Joseph Banks . . . . . . 83--83
Anonymous Recommendation from the Physics
Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Anonymous Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--91
H. G. Lyons One hundred years ago. 1839 . . . . . . 92--107
H. G. Lyons The composition of the Fellowship and
the Council of the Society . . . . . . . 108--126
Anonymous The Conversaziones of 1939 . . . . . . . 127--139
J. Proudman The association of the Royal Sociey with
progress in knowledge of oceanic tides 140--143
Anonymous The record of the Royal Society . . . . 144--148
J. Stanley Gardiner Biological expeditions . . . . . . . . . 149--159
F. W. Oliver Libyan flowers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--172
Wilfred Trotter The mind in war . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--175
Anonymous The Royal Society and the Central
Register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--178
Anonymous Index to \booktitleNotes and Records,
Volume 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--182
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--10
Anonymous Visit of French scientists . . . . . . . 11--21
H. W. Turnball Early Scottish relations with the Royal
Society I. --- James Gregory, F.R.S.
(1635--1675) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--38
H. C. Plummer Jeremiah Horrocks and his
\booktitleOpera Posthuma . . . . . . . . 39--52
Jocelyn Thorpe Stephen Hales, D.D., F.R.S. 1677--1761 53--63
W. H. Hatfield The association of the Royal Society
with the iron and steel industry . . . . 64--79
H. G. Lyons The Fairchild Trust . . . . . . . . . . 80--84
J. D. Griffith Davies The Banks family . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--87
Anonymous Biographical Notes --- Francis Ashton,
1645--1715 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--92
H. G. Lyons Biographical Notes --- Richard Waller
(about 1650--1715) . . . . . . . . . . . 92--94
H. G. Lyons Biographical Notes --- John Lewis
Guillemard (1764--1844) . . . . . . . . 95--96
Anonymous Letter to the editor . . . . . . . . . . 96--96
Anonymous Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--104
Anonymous Gift from the American Philosophical
Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--106
Dr Frank Aydelotte Science and politics . . . . . . . . . . 107--109
H. G. Lyons John Winthorp (Junior), F.R.S., Governor
of Connecticut 1660 to 1676 . . . . . . 110--115
H. G. Lyons The officers of the Society (1662--1860) 116--140
Albert C. Seward Christ's hospital and the Royal Society 141--145
H. G. Lyons Charles Babbage and the Ophthalmoscope 146--148
Ll. S. Lloyd Musical theory in the early
\booktitlePhilosophical Transactions . . 149--157
Anonymous The President's New Year message to
French scientists . . . . . . . . . . . 158--158
R. Fitzgibbon Young The visit of Comenius to London in
1641--1642 and its bearing on the
origins of the Royal Society . . . . . . 159--160
Anonymous The activities of the Society . . . . . 1--15
Anonymous Conversazione . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--18
Attlee The Anniversary Dinner . . . . . . . . . 19--35
J. D. G. D. Officers of the Royal Society in the
House of Commons . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--37
Anonymous Pepys's Commemoration Service . . . . . 38--38
Anonymous Admission of women into the Fellowship
of the Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . 39--40
E. N. da C. A. The Presidential portraits . . . . . . . 41--42
E. N. da C. A. The Röntgen celebrations, November 1945 43--44
Anonymous The Vignoles snuff-box . . . . . . . . . 45--48
Sir Joseph Banks A letter of Sir Joseph Banks . . . . . . 49--50
Mr R. G. Casey Presentation to the Royal Asiatic
Society of Bengal of letters from Sir
Joseph Banks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--57
L. L. F. The bicentenary of the birth of Sir
William Jones, F.R.S., founder of the
Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal . . . . 58--62
Anonymous Visit to India by the Biological
Secretary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
Anonymous Anniversaries of foreign Academies and
Societies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--68
Anonymous Correspondence with foreign Academies,
Societies and other bodies . . . . . . . 69--81
Anonymous Visits to liberated countries by
representatives of the Royal Society . . 82--99
Anonymous A gift by Thomas Hunt Morgan, For. Mem.
R.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--100
Professor A. V. Hill Address of welcome to the members of the
Executive Commitee of the International
Council of Scientific Unions meeting in
the rooms of the Royal Society on 4
December 1945 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--102
Sir Henry Tizard Lord Rutherford . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--108
H. W. R. Alfred George Hastings White
(1859--1945) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--112
P. D. R. Robert William Frederick Harrison
(1858--1945) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--120
Anonymous Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--132
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
A. V. Hill Notes and records of the Royal Society
of London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--145
Henry Dale Isaac Newton: 1642--1727 . . . . . . . . 146--161
Anonymous The Royal Society Empire Scientific
Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--167
F. J. M. Stratton International Council of Scientific
Unions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168--173
Clifford Dobell, F.R.S. The Kincardine papers . . . . . . . . . 174--178
John D. Griffith Davies The homes of the Society . . . . . . . . 179--192
H. W. Robinson The administrative staff of the Royal
Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--205
President Robert Robinson Anniversaries of other academies and
societies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--211
Anonymous News of other Scientific Academies and
Societies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--215
Anonymous Charles Stewart Middlemiss . . . . . . . 215--215
G. R. De Beer Rodolph Valltravers, F.R.S. . . . . . . 216--226
Anonymous Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--228
Anonymous Röntgen Celebrations: Corrigendum . . . . 228--228
Anonymous Index to \booktitleNotes and Records
Volume, 4, 1946 . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--230
Anonymous The activities of the Society: British
National Committee for Co-operation with
UNESCO in Scientific Affairs . . . . . . 1--4
Stafford Cripps Anniversary Dinner 1946 . . . . . . . . 5--26
Anonymous The Indian Science Congress --- Delhi
Meeting, 1--8 January 1947 . . . . . . . 27--31
Anonymous The Chemical Society centenary
celebrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--33
A. E. Richardson and
H. W. Robinson Woolsthorpe Manor House . . . . . . . . 34--36
F. Sherwood Taylor An early satirical poem on the Royal
Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--46
H. W. Robinson Denis Papin (1647--1712) . . . . . . . . 47--50
A. J. H. Goodwin, Hon.General Secretary News of other scientific academies and
societies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--62
Anonymous Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Robert Robinson Message to H. M. the King on the
occasion of the marriage of Her Royal
Highness the Princess Elizabeth, F.R.S. 65--66
Anonymous Conversazione . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--71
Anonymous Reception on 17 July 1947 . . . . . . . 72--73
Anonymous Isaac Newton Observatory . . . . . . . . 74--74
Miss R. H. Syfret The origins of the Royal Society . . . . 75--137
H. W. Robinson A preliminary note on the Blagden
manuscripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--139
President Robert Robinson Anniversaries of other academies and
societies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--143
J. C. Eccles News of other scientific academies and
societies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--155
Anonymous Sir Charles Sherrington's ninetieth
birthday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--156
C. S. Sherrington Sir Charles Sherrington's first use of
diphteria antitoxin made in England . . 156--159
Anonymous Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--161
Anonymous Index to \booktitleNotes and Records,
Vol. 5, 1947--1948 . . . . . . . . . . . 162--163
Anonymous The Scientific Information Conference 1--7
Anonymous UNESCO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--11
James Fisher `Rockall' and `Seal' flights 1947 . . . 12--17
Pierre Humbert Pour le tricentenaire de l'expérience du
Puy de Dôme. (French) [For the
tercentenary of the Puy de Dòme
experiment] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--27
McKie Douglas The arrest and imprisonment of Henry
Oldenburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--47
H. W. Robinson Robert Hooke as a Surveyor and Architect 48--55
G. R. De Beer Johann Gaspar Scheuchzer, F.R.S.
1702--1729 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--66
Anonymous Rutherford Commemoration, Paris, 7 and 8
November 1947 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--68
Sir Charles Darwin and
Professor E. N. da C. Andrade Address given by Sir Charles Darwin at
the Max Planck memorial service held on
23 April 1948 in the aula of the
University of Göttingen . . . . . . . . . 69--70
Anonymous Retirement of Mr. H. W. Robinson,
Librarian to the Society . . . . . . . . 71--72
Anonymous News of other scientific Academies and
Societies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--77
Anonymous Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--80
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Defence Services Research Facilities
Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--81
Herbert Morrison Anniversary Dinner 1948 . . . . . . . . 82--103
Bernard Gagnebin Book Review: \booktitleDe la cause de la
pesanteur. Mémoire de Nicolas Fatio de
Duillier présenté \`a la Royal Society le
26 février 1690 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--124
Nicolas Fatio De Duillier Texte: \booktitleDe la cause de la
pesanteur par Nicolas Fatio De Duillier,
de la Société Royale D'Angleterre . . . . 125--160
Harold Hartley The Berzelius centenary celebrations . . 161--165
Robert Robinson Langevin--Perrin commemoration . . . . . 166--166
D. C. M. Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--170
Anonymous Index to \booktitleNotes and Records,
Vol. 6, 1948-1949 . . . . . . . . . . . 171--171
Douglas Mckie Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, F.R.S.,
1743--1794 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--41
Anonymous A problem picture . . . . . . . . . . . 42--42
G. R. Cameron, F.R.S. Edward Jenner, F.R.S., 1749--1823 . . . 43--53
Anonymous Conversaziones 1949 . . . . . . . . . . 54--60
Redcliffe N. Salaman, F.R.S. Jews in The Royal Society: A Problem in
Ecology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--67
H. W. Robinson An unpublished letter of Dr Seth Ward
relating to the early meetings of the
Oxford Philosophical Society . . . . . . 68--70
G. R. De Beer, F.R.S. The Malady of Edward Gibbon, F.R.S. . . 71--80
Sir John Graham Kerr, F.R.S., M.P. The Scottish Marine Biological
Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--96
Anonymous The Society's Portraits . . . . . . . . 97--107
Anonymous News of other Scientific Academies and
Societies --- National Institute of
Sciences of India . . . . . . . . . . . 108--112
Sir Cyril Hinshelwood, F.R.S. and
Professor W. E. Garner, F.R.S. and
Professor H. D. Kay, F.R.S. Reports of Celebrations, Meetings and
Conferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--117
D. A. S. and
G. R. de B. and
D. Mck. Notes of publications relating to the
history of the Society . . . . . . . . . 118--125
Robert Robinson Anniversaries of other institutions . . 126--127
Anonymous Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--131
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous The pilot catalogue of the Royal Society
Archives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--134
G. M. Trevelyan Anniversary Dinner 1949 . . . . . . . . 135--157
F. G. Donnan, F.R.S. The Scientific Relief Fund and its
Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--171
E. S. De Beer The earliest Fellows of the Royal
Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--192
Anonymous John Evelyn's plan for a library . . . . 193--194
G. R. De Beer, F.R.S. Some Letters of Thomas Hobbes . . . . . 195--206
Miss R. H. Syfret Some early reactions to the Royal
Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--258
F. W. Gibbs Cromwell Mortimer, F.R.S. . . . . . . . 259--263
G. R. De Beer, F.R.S. H.-B. De Saussure's election into the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264--267
L. L. F. Notices of publications relating to the
history of the Society . . . . . . . . . 268--271
Anonymous News of other scientific academies and
societies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--274
Anonymous Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--275
Anonymous Index to \booktitleNotes and Records,
Vol. 7, 1949--1950 . . . . . . . . . . . 276--277
Angus Armitage René Descartes (1596--1650) and the early
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--19
Miss R. H. Syfret Some early critics of the Royal Society 20--64
G. R. De B. The diary of Sir Charles Blagden . . . . 65--89
Anonymous The Rumford medallists of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences . . . . . . 90--94
M. Caullery, For.Mem.R.S. Les stations françaises de biologie
marine. (French) [French stations of
marine biology] . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--115
G. R. De B. Rodolph Valltravers, F.R.S. (Addendum) 116--119
E. D. Adrian, For.Sec.R.S. Celebrations: Consejo Superior de
Investigaciones Cientificas . . . . . . 120--121
A. V. Hill and
Edwin G. Conklin, President Darwin's letters to Lyell . . . . . . . 122--124
G. R. de B. Notice of a publication relating ro the
history of the Society, William Stukeley 125--126
Anonymous Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--130
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Viscount Simon and
E. D. Adrian Anniversary Dinner 1950 . . . . . . . . 131--148
I. Kaye Unrecorded early meetings of the Royal
Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--166
A. R. Hall Robert Hooke and Horology . . . . . . . 167--177
Raymond Phineas Stearns Colonial Fellows of the Royal Society of
London, 1661--1788 . . . . . . . . . . . 178--246
G. R. De Beer, F.R.S. Voltaire, F.R.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--252
G. R. de B. Some letters of Sir Charles Blagden . . 253--260
W. E. Swinton Gideon Mantell and the Maidstone
Iguanodon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--276
Reinhard Dohrn Stazione Zoologica Napoli . . . . . . . 277--282
Anonymous Dedication of the Parsons Memorial
Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--290
Anonymous Congress: National Congress of Chemistry
organized by the Italian Chemical
Society jointly with the International
Congress of Applied Chemistry . . . . . 291--292
John D. Griffith Davies Ronald Winckworth 1884--1950 . . . . . . 293--296
G. R. de B. Notices of publications relating to the
history of the Society . . . . . . . . . 297--304
Anonymous Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--305
Anonymous Index to \booktitleNotes and Records,
Vol. 8, 1950--1951 . . . . . . . . . . . 306--306
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
R. E. W. Maddison Studies in the life of Robert Boyle,
F.R.S. Part I. Robert Boyle and some of
his foreign visitors . . . . . . . . . . 1--35
Dr W. H. van Seters Antoni van Leeuwenhoek in Amsterdam . . 36--45
D. Mckie and
G. R. De Beer Newton's apple . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--54
Thomas D. Cope and
H. W. Robinson Charles Mason, Jeremiah Dixon and the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--78
Théodore Aubert Alexander Aubert, F.R.S. Astronome,
1730--1805 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--95
G. R. De Beer, F.R.S. John Strange, F.R.S., 1732--1799 . . . . 96--108
H. Charles Cameron, M.D., F.R.C.P. The last of the alchemists . . . . . . . 109--114
F. W. Gibbs John Gillies, M.D., traveller and
botanist, 1792--1834 . . . . . . . . . . 115--136
Anonymous Election of his Royal Highness the Duke
of Edinburgh, K.G. . . . . . . . . . . . 137--137
Anonymous Conversaziones 1951 . . . . . . . . . . 138--143
Anonymous Pepys's commemoration service . . . . . 143--143
G. R. de B. Notices of publications relating to the
history of the Royal Society . . . . . . 144--147
Anonymous Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--151
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
E. D. Adrian and
O. P. Dawnay Death of His Majesty King George VI . . 153--154
Portal and
E. D. Adrian Anniversary Dinner 1951 . . . . . . . . 155--163
Jean Jacquot Thomas Harriot's reputation for impiety 164--187
Jean Jacquot Notes on an unpublished work of Thomas
Hobbes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--195
R. E. W. Maddison Studies in the life of Robert Boyle,
F.R.S. Part II. Salt water freshened . . 196--216
G. R. Cameron, F.R.S. The life and times of Giambattista
Morgagni, F.R.S. 1682--1771 . . . . . . 217--243
G. R. De Beer, F.R.S. The relations between Fellows of the
Royal Society and French men of science
when France and Britain were at war . . 244--299
Gordon Manley The weather and diseases: some
eighteenth-century contributions to
observational meteorology . . . . . . . 300--307
Jessie M. Sweet Benjamin Franklin's purse . . . . . . . 308--309
L. F. Gilbert W. H. Wollaston MSS. at Cambridge . . . 311--332
D. Mckie and
G. R. De Beer, F.R.S. Newton's apple --- an addendum . . . . . 333--335
R. C. Punnett, F.R.S. William Bateson and Mendel's principles
of heredity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--347
R. A. McCance, F.R.S. An interesting but forgotten publication
of Frederick Gowland Hopkins, F.R.S. . . 348--352
Anonymous Award of the Franklin Medal to Sir James
Chadwick, F.R.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--355
D. C. Martin Visit by the Assistant Secretary to some
North American scientific institutions 356--364
Anonymous Facilities for research in the
University College of the West Indies 365--377
G. R. de B. Notices of publications relating to The
Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--380
Anonymous Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--384
Anonymous Index to \booktitleNotes and Records,
Vol. 9, 1951--52 . . . . . . . . . . . . 386--387
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Conversaziones 1952 . . . . . . . . . . 1--5
Anonymous The President's broadcast on 6 March
1952 on Sir Charles Sherrington
(1857--1952) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--7
G. R. De Beer, F.R.S. Andreas and Joseph Planta, FF.R.S. . . . 8--14
R. E. W. Maddison Studies in the life of Robert Boyle,
F.R.S. Part III. The charitable disposal
of Robert Boyle's residuary estate . . . 15--27
A. N. L. Munby The distribution of the first edition of
Newton's Principia . . . . . . . . . . . 28--39
A. N. L. Munby The Keynes Collection of the works of
Sir Isaac Newton at King's College,
Cambridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--50
D. McKie A Note on Priestley in America . . . . . 51--59
Sir Harold Hartley, F.R.S. Richard Owen and William Clift . . . . . 60--62
Anonymous Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--63
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Robert Robinson Anniversary Dinner 1952 . . . . . . . . 65--70
Sir Harold Hartley, F.R.S. The Ramsay Centenary . . . . . . . . . . 71--80
G. R. De Beer, F.R.S. Sir Hans Sloane, F.R.S. 1660--1753 . . . 81--84
Jean Jacquot Sir Hans Sloane and French men of
science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--98
Jessie M. Sweet Sir Hans Sloane's metalline cubes . . . 99--100
G. H. Turnbull Samuel Hartlib's influence on the early
history of The Royal Society . . . . . . 101--130
A. D. Atkinson Dr Johnson and The Royal Society . . . . 131--138
Derek J. Price The Cavendish Laboratory Archives . . . 139--147
G. R. De Beer, F.R.S. John Morgan's visit to Voltaire . . . . 148--158
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society or its Fellows . . . . . . 159--160
Anonymous Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--164
Anonymous Index to \booktitleNotes and Records,
Vol. IO, 1952--53 . . . . . . . . . . . 165--166
Anonymous Conversaziones 1953 . . . . . . . . . . 1--5
Marquess of Salisbury Anniversary Dinner 1953 . . . . . . . . 6--13
A. V. Hill, F.R.S. Age of election to the Royal Society . . 14--16
Edward Salisbury The place of biology in modern
education. Address by Sir Edward
Salisbury, C.B.E., D.Sc., LL.D.,
V.P.R.S., at the opening of the new
Hatherly Biological Laboratories,
Exeter, on 23 April 1953 . . . . . . . . 17--21
W. H. G. Armytage The Royal Society and the Apothecaries
1660--1722 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--37
R. E. W. Maddison Studies in the life of Robert Boyle,
F.R.S.: Part IV. Robert Boyle and some
of his foreign visitors . . . . . . . . 38--53
W. H. G. Armytage Sir Godfrey Copley, F.R.S., 1653--1709:
Some Tercentenary Glimpses through
Letters to his Friends . . . . . . . . . 54--74
Raymond Phineas Stearns Fellows of The Royal Society in North
Africa and the Levant, 1662--1800 . . . 75--90
R. E. W. Maddison and
Raymond E. Maddison Spring Grove, the country house of Sir
Joseph Banks, Bart, P.R.S. . . . . . . . 91--99
R. E. W. Maddison A note on the correspondence of Martin
Folkes, P.R.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--109
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society or its Fellows . . . . . . 110--110
Anonymous Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--111
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Conversaziones 1954 . . . . . . . . . . 113--119
R. A. Butler Anniversary Dinner 1954 . . . . . . . . 120--128
A. V. Hill, F.R.S. J. D. Griffith Davies 1899--1953
(Assistant Secretary of the Royal
Society, 1937--1946) . . . . . . . . . . 129--133
J. T. MacGregor-Morris Sir Ambrose Fleming (Jubilee of the
Valve) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--144
William P. D. Wightman Aberdeen University and the Royal
Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--158
R. E. W. Maddison Studies in the life of Robert Boyle,
F.R.S. --- Part V. Boyle's operator:
Ambrose Godfrey Hanckwitz, F.R.S. . . . 159--188
Professor C. Harrison Dwight Count Rumford . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--201
F. M. Beatty The scientific work of the third Earl
Stanhope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--221
F. J. Cole, F.R.S. Bell's law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--227
W. H. G. Armytage G. W. Featherstonhaugh, F.R.S.,
1780--1866, Anglo--American scientist 228--235
Sir Gavin de Beer, F.R.S. and
Max H. Hey, M.A., D.Sc. The first ascent of Mont Blanc . . . . . 236--255
L. F. Gilbert The election to the presidency of the
Royal Society in 1820 . . . . . . . . . 256--279
Anonymous Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--283
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society or its Fellows . . . . . . 284--285
Anonymous Index to \booktitleNotes and Records,
Vol. 11, 1954--5 . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--288
Winthrop W. Aldrich Anniversary Dinner 1955 . . . . . . . . 1--8
Anonymous Conversaziones 1955 . . . . . . . . . . 9--20
R. K. Bluhm A guide to the archives of the Royal
Society and to other manuscripts in its
possession . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--39
A. D. Atkinson The Royal Society and English vocabulary 40--43
Sir Geoffrey Taylor, F.R.S. George Boole, F.R.S., 1815--1864 . . . . 44--52
W. Kneale Boole and the algebra of logic . . . . . 53--63
W. H. G. Armytage Charles Watson-Wentworth, second
Marquess of Rockingham, F.R.S.
(1730--1782): some aspects of his
scientific interests . . . . . . . . . . 64--76
Sir Gavin De Beer, F.R.S. and
R. M. Turton John Turton, F.R.S., 1735--1806 . . . . 77--97
R. E. W. Maddison and
Francis R. Maddison Joseph Priestley and the Birmingham
riots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--113
Douglas McKie Priestley's laboratory and library and
other of his effects . . . . . . . . . . 114--136
Anonymous The Royal Society Antarctic expedition 137--138
Anonymous Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--145
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society or its Fellows . . . . . . 146--148
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen
Mother, F.R.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--149
Sir Cyril Hinshelwood, F.R.S. Anniversary Dinner 1956: Speech by the
President, Sir Cyril Hinshelwood, at the
Anniversary Dinner, Dorchester Hotel, 30
November 1956 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--153
Anonymous Conversaziones 1956 and 1957 . . . . . . 154--159
D. C. M. The inauguration of the International
Geophysical Year . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--162
Anonymous Her Majesty the Queen Honours the
Society's I.G.Y. Antarctic Expedition 163--165
Sir Edward Bullard, F.R.S. and
Colin A. Ronan The exhibition to commemorate Edmond
Halley 1656--1742 . . . . . . . . . . . 166--167
S. Chapman, F.R.S. Edmund Halley, F.R.S. 1656--1742 (A
commemorative lecture given on 21
November 1956, at the Royal Society's
celebration of Halley's tercentenary) 168--174
Sir Harold Spencer Jones, F.R.S. Halley as an astronomer . . . . . . . . 175--192
Douglas McKie Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle, F.R.S.,
1657--1757 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--200
George Thomson and
Joan Thomson J. J. Thomson as we remember him . . . . 201--210
Lord Adrian, O.M., F.R.S. Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, O.M.
1857--1952 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--215
J. C. Eccles, F.R.S. Some aspects of Sherrington's
contribution to neurophysiology . . . . 216--225
W. H. G. Armytage Science and education: a note . . . . . 226--229
For. Sec. R. S. H. G. Thornton A note on the visit to Russia of the
Royal Society delegation in 1956 . . . . 230--236
Anonymous Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--241
Anonymous Index to \booktitleNotes and Records,
Vol. 12, 1956--57 . . . . . . . . . . . 243--244
Cyril Hinshelwood Anniversary Dinner 1957 . . . . . . . . 1--5
Douglas McKie James, Duke of York, F.R.S. . . . . . . 6--18
H. W. Jones Sir Christopher Wren and natural
philosophy: with a checklist of his
scientific activities . . . . . . . . . 19--37
L. L. Whyte R. J. Boscovich, S.J., F.R.S.
(1711--1787), and the mathematics of
atomism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--48
R. J. Pumphrey, F.R.S. The forgotten man --- Sir John Lubbock,
F.R.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--58
Denis I. Duveen Lavoisier writes to Fourcroy from prison 59--60
R. K. Bluhm A note on the origin of the Society's
conversaziones . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--63
Anonymous Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--68
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society or its Fellows . . . . . . 69--72
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous The Darwin--Wallace Conversazione . . . 73--74
Anonymous Conversaziones 1958 . . . . . . . . . . 75--81
R. K. Bluhm Remarks on the Royal Society's finances
1660--1768 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--103
Robert Birley Robert Boyle's Head Master at Eton . . . 104--114
Richard A. Hunter and
Ida MacAlpine William Harvey and Robert Boyle . . . . 115--127
R. E. W. Maddison A tentative index of the correspondence
of the Honourable Robert Boyle, F.R.S. 128--201
C. N. Hinshelwood Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--202
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society or its Fellows . . . . . . 203--205
Anonymous Index to \booktitleNotes and Records,
Vol. 13, 1958 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--207
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
D. Heathcoat-Amory Anniversary Dinner 1958 . . . . . . . . 2--11
Gavin de Beer Some Unpublished Letters of Charles
Darwin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--66
C. F. A. Pantin Alfred Russel Wallace, F.R.S., and His
Essays of 1858 and 1855 . . . . . . . . 67--84
Nora Barlow Erasmus Darwin, F.R.S. (1731--1802) . . 85--98
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Anniversary Dinner 1958: Speech by the
Rt Hon. D. Heathcoat-Amory, Chancellor
of the Exchequer, at the Anniversary
Dinner, Dorchester Hotel, 1 December
1958 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--11
Anonymous Some unpublished letters of Charles
Darwin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--66
C. F. A. Pantin, F.R.S. Alfred Russel Wallace, F.R.S., and his
essays of 1858 and 1855 . . . . . . . . 67--84
Nora Barlow Erasmus Darwin, F.R.S. (1731--1802) . . 85--98
H. J. Habakkuk Thomas Robert Malthus, F.R.S.
(1766--1834) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--108
W. B. Turrill Joseph Dalton Hooker, F.R.S.
(1817--1911) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--120
Sir Edward Bailey, F.R.S. Charles Lyell, F.R.S. (1797--1875) . . . 121--138
Sir Edward Salisbury, F.R.S. Epilogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--141
Anonymous Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--146
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society or its Fellows . . . . . . 147--150
Viscount Chandos of Aldershot Anniversary Dinner 1959 . . . . . . . . 151--155
Cyril Hinshelwood President's Speech, 1959 . . . . . . . . 156--159
Anonymous Visit of His Excellency the Soviet
Ambassador, 19 November 1959 . . . . . . 160--162
Charles Thomas Rees Wilson, C.H., F.R.S. Reminiscences of my early years . . . . 163--173
R. E. W. Maddison The accompt of William Balle from 28
November 1660 to 11 September 1663 . . . 174--183
R. I. Page William Nicolson, F.R.S. and the runes
of the Bewcastle Cross . . . . . . . . . 184--190
Robert Birley Robert Boyle at Eton . . . . . . . . . . 191--191
Anonymous Society's Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--195
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--198
Anonymous Index to \booktitleNotes and Records,
Vol. 14, 1959 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--199
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
H. H. Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0--0
Douglas McKie The origins and foundation of the Royal
Society of London . . . . . . . . . . . 1--37
E. S. de Beer King Charles II, Fundator et Patronus
(1630--1685) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--45
Dr E. J. Bowen, F.R.S. and
Sir Harold Hartley, F.R.S. The Right Reverend John Wilkins, F.R.S. 47--56
J. F. Scott The Reverend John Wallis, F.R.S.
(1616--1703) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--67
W. S. C. Copeman Dr Jonathan Goddard, F.R.S. . . . . . . 69--77
Sir Irvine Masson, F.R.S. and
A. J. Youngson Sir William Petty, F.R.S. (1623--1687) 79--90
Sir Charles Symonds Thomas Willis, F.R.S. (1621--1675) . . . 91--97
Sir John Summerson and
P. R. S. Sir Christopher Wren Sir Christopher Wren, P. R. S.
(1632--1723) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--105
Derek T. Whiteside Wren the mathematician . . . . . . . . . 107--111
C. A. Ronan Laurence Rooke (1622--1662) . . . . . . 113--118
John F. Fulton The Honourable Robert Boyle, F.R.S.
(1627--1692) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--135
E. N. da C. Andrade, F.R.S. Robert Hooke, F.R.S. (1635--1703) . . . 137--145
J. F. Scott and
Sir Harold Hartley F. R. S. William, Viscount Brouncker, P.R.S.
(1620--1684) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--157
C. A. Ronan and
F. R. S. Sir Harold Hartley Sir Paul Neile, F.R.S. (1613--1686) . . 159--165
Angus Armitage William Ball. F.R.S. (1627--1690) . . . 167--172
R. E. W. Maddison Abraham Hill, F.R.S. (1635--1722) . . . 173--182
R. K. Bluhm Henry Oldenburg, F.R.S. (c. 1615--1677) 183--197
John F. Fulton Sir Kenelm Digby, F.R.S. (1603--1665) 199--210
L. M. Payne and
Leonard G. Wilson and
F. R. S. Sir Harold Hartley William Croone, F.R.S. (1633--1684) . . 211--219
C. H. Josten Elias Ashmole, F.R.S. . . . . . . . . . 221--230
E. S. De Beer John Evelyn, F.R.S. . . . . . . . . . . 231--238
D. C. Martin Sir Robert Moray, F.R.S. (1608?--1673) 239--250
A. J. Youngson Alexander Bruce, F.R.S., second Earl of
Kincardine (1629--1681) . . . . . . . . 251--258
The Editor Epilogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--264
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--v
H. W. Florey Foreword by the President . . . . . . . vii--vii
Queen Elizabeth II and
Cyril Hinshelwood and
D. Graffi and
M. Jean Lecomte and
John Eccles The formal opening of the Tercentenary
Celebrations by Her Majesty The Queen,
Patron, at the Royal Albert Hall on 19
July 1960 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--12
Cyril Hinshelwood The Tercentenary Address by the
President of the Royal Society, Sir
Cyril Hinshelwood, O.M., at the formal
opening ceremony in the Royal Albert
Hall, Tuesday 19 July 1960 . . . . . . . 13--24
Anonymous The Tercentenary Conversazione, 23 July
1960 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--30
Harold Macmillan and
Cyril Hinshelwood Tercentenary Banquet, Grosvenor House,
Tuesday 26 July 1960. The Toast of the
Royal Society proposed by The Rt. Hon.
Harold Macmillan, M. P. Prime Minister
and First Lord of the Treasury . . . . . 31--37
Lord Adrian and
F. Cyril James and
A. H. T. Theorell Tercentenary Banquet, Grosvenor House,
Tuesday 26 July 1960: The Toast of the
Guests Proposed by Lord Adrian F.R.S. 38--43
C. D. Darlington, F.R.S. The chromosomes and the Theory of
Heredity: Tercentenary Lecture delivered
by C. D. Professor Darlington, F.R.S.,
at 10.15 a.m. on Wednesday 20 July 1960
at the Royal Institution . . . . . . . . 44--48
Sir Arnold Hall, F.R.S. Trends in aeronautical science and
engineering: Tercentenary lecture
delivered by Sir Arnold Hall, F.R.S., at
10.15 a.m. on Monday 25 July 1960 at the
Royal Institution . . . . . . . . . . . 49--50
Sir Christopher Hinton, F.R.S. The evolution of nuclear power plant
design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--56
Professor A. L. Hodgkin, F.R.S. The physics and chemistry of nervous
conduction: Tercentenary Lecture
delivered by Professor L. Hodgkin,
F.R.S., at 2.30 p.m. on Wednesday 20
July 1960 at the Royal College of
Surgeons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--59
Dr Dorothy Hodgkin, F.R.S. Molecules in crystals . . . . . . . . . 60--64
Professor A. C. B. Lovell, F.R.S. The investigation of the Universe by
radio astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--68
Professor P. B. Medawar, F.R.S. The problems of transplantation . . . . 69--71
C. F. Powell, F.R.S. The study of nuclear interactions at
very great energies: Tercentenary
Lecture delivered by Professor C. F.
Powell, F.R.S., at 2.30 p.m. on
Wednesday 20 July 1960 at Beveridge
Hall, University of London . . . . . . . 72--76
Sir Alexander Todd, F.R.S. New horizons in organic chemistry . . . 77--80
Professor V. B. Wigglesworth, F.R.S. The Metamorphosis of Insects:
Tercentenary Lecture delivered by
Professor V. B. Wigglesworth, F.R.S., at
10.15 a.m. on Saturday 23 July 1960 at
the Royal College of Surgeons . . . . . 81--84
Anonymous Receptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--85
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and
King Gustav VI Adolf Honorary Degree Ceremonies . . . . . . . 86--89
Anonymous Visits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--91
Anonymous Luncheon at the London County Council 92--92
Cyril Hinshelwood Premi\`ere of films arranged by the
Shell International Petroleum Company 93--94
W. R. Matthews Service at St. Paul's Cathedral . . . . 95--99
Anonymous Special exhibitions . . . . . . . . . . 100--100
Anonymous Special broadcast programmes . . . . . . 101--101
Anonymous Special publications . . . . . . . . . . 102--102
Anonymous Congratulatory Addresses presented to
the Royal Society on the occasion of its
Tercentenary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--113
Anonymous Gifts presented to the Royal Society on
the occasion of its tercentenary . . . . 114--116
Wilder Penfield A Canadian table for the mace of the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--117
Anonymous The official representatives who
attended the Royal Society Tercentenary
Celebrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--122
Anonymous The Council of the Royal Society 1960 123--124
Sir Harold Hartley, F.R.S. and
Sir Cyril Hinshelwood, P.R.S. Gresham College and the Royal Society 125--135
Sir Harold Hartley, F.R.S. The debt of engineering to Fellows of
the Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . 136--140
Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--142
Viscount Slim Anniversary Dinner 1960 . . . . . . . . 143--150
A. V. Hill, F.R.S. Age of election to the Royal Society . . 151--153
M. L. Wolbarsht and
D. S. Sax Charles II, a royal martyr . . . . . . . 154--157
L. G. Wilson William Croone's theory of muscular
contraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--178
H. E. Bell The Savilian professors' houses and
Halley's observatory at Oxford . . . . . 179--186
S. Ross Faraday consults the scholars: the
origins of the terms of electrochemistry 187--220
L. Pearce Williams The Royal Society and the founding of
the British Association for the
Advancement of Science . . . . . . . . . 221--233
R. E. Threlfall Sir Richard Threlfall, G.B.E., F.R.S.
(1861--1932): some personal memories . . 234--242
E. N. da C. Andrade, F.R.S. Henry William Robinson . . . . . . . . . 243--246
Anonymous Visit of Major Yuri Gagarin . . . . . . 247--247
Anonymous IX General Assembly of the International
Council of Scientific Unions . . . . . . 248--250
Anonymous Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--255
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256--260
Anonymous Index to \booktitleNotes and Records,
Volume 16, Number 2, 1961 . . . . . . . 261--261
Lord James Anniversary Dinner 1961 . . . . . . . . 1--8
Sir Anthony Wagner, K.C.V.O. The Royal Society's Coat of Arms . . . . 9--14
Sir Patrick Linstead, Rector, For.Sec.R.S. The Prince Consort, F.R.S. and the
founding of the Imperial College . . . . 15--31
Marie Boas Hall What happened to the Latin edition of
Boyle's \booktitleHistory of Cold? . . . 32--35
Charles H. Gibbs-Smith Sir George Cayley `Father of aerial
navigation' (1773--1857) . . . . . . . . 36--56
Roger Sharrock The chemist and the poet: Sir Humphry
Davy and the preface to
\booktitleLyrical Ballads . . . . . . . 57--76
Donald McDonald Smithson Tennant, F.R.S. (1761--1815) 77--94
Anonymous Dr Bruno Stulz, Assistant Librarian,
1943--46 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Anonymous Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--99
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--104
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . ??
J. A. G. and
Sir Harold Hartley, F.R.S. Conversaziones, 1962 . . . . . . . . . . 105--109
Sir Harold Hartley, F.R.S. Reception to mark the tercentenary of
the granting of the Society's first
Charter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--110
Sir Harold Hartley, F.R.S. The tercentenary of the Royal Society's
Charter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--116
Dr Joseph Needham, F.R.S. and
Sir Harold Hartley, F.R.S. Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, O.M.,
F.R.S. (1861--1947) Centenary Lecture
held on 20 November 1961 in the
University of Cambridge . . . . . . . . 117--162
Dr Wilder Penfield, O.M., F.R.S. and
Sir Harold Hartley, F.R.S. Sir Charles Sherrington, O.M., F.R.S.
(1857--1952): An Appreciation . . . . . 163--168
Sir Lawrence Bragg, F.R.S. and
Mrs G. M. Caroe (Gwendolen Bragg) and
Sir Harold Hartley, F.R.S. Sir William Bragg, F.R.S. (1862--1942) 169--182
Fred. Somkin and
Sir Harold Hartley, F.R.S. The Contributions of Sir John Lubbock,
F.R.S. To \booktitleThe Origin of
Species. Some annotations to Darwin . . 183--191
Dr Adalbert J. Brauer and
Sir Harold Hartley, F.R.S. Professor Johann Burchard Mencke, F.R.S.
(1674--1732) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--197
Kenneth Dewhurst and
Sir Harold Hartley, F.R.S. Locke's contribution to Boyle's
researches on the air and on human blood 198--206
Sir Harold Hartley, F.R.S. Addendum and Errata . . . . . . . . . . 207--207
Anonymous Index to \booktitleNotes and Records,
Volume 17, 1962 . . . . . . . . . . . . 208--208
The Earl Mountbatten of Burma Anniversary Dinner 1962 . . . . . . . . 1--9
Richard S. Westfall Short-writing and the state of Newton's
Conscience, 1662 . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--16
The Lord Adrian, O.M., F.R.S. Newton's rooms in Trinity . . . . . . . 17--24
George Watson Dryden and the scientific image . . . . 25--35
Frank H. Ellis The author of Wing C6727: Daniel Coxe,
F.R.S., or Thomas Coxe, F.R.S. . . . . . 36--38
Marie Boas Hall Henry Miles, F.R.S. (1698--1763) and
Thomas Birch, F.R.S. (1705--66) . . . . 39--44
Dr John Thomas Josiah Wedgwood's portrait medallions of
Fellows of the Royal Society . . . . . . 45--53
P. I. Dee, F.R.S. and
T. W. Wormell An Index to C. T. R. Wilson's laboratory
records and notebooks in the Library of
the Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . 54--66
Anonymous The Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . 67--71
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--76
Anonymous Corrigendum: Notes and Records, volume
17, number 2, page 111 . . . . . . . . . 76--76
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Conversaziones and Receptions, 1963 . . 77--81
Professor E. N. da C. Andrade, F.R.S. Samuel Pepys and the Royal Society . . . 82--93
A. Rupert Hall and
Marie Boas Hall Some hitherto unknown facts about the
private career of Henry Oldenburg . . . 94--103
R. E. W. Maddison Studies in the life of Robert Boyle,
F.R.S. --- Part VI. The Stalbridge
Period, 1645--1655, and the Invisible
College . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--124
K. Theodore Hoppen The Royal Society and Ireland ---
William Molyneux, F.R.S. (1656--1698) 125--135
Sir John Craig Isaac Newton and the counterfeiters . . 136--145
Colonel H. Quill John Harrison, Copley Medallist, and the
\pounds 20\,000 longitude prize . . . . 146--160
Stephen G. Brush The Royal Society's first rejection of
the kinetic theory of gases (1821), John
Herapath versus Humphry Davy . . . . . . 161--180
N. A. W. Le Grand The Society's Scientific Research in
Schools Committee . . . . . . . . . . . 181--184
Anonymous The Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . 185--186
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--191
C. G. Addendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--192
Anonymous Index to \booktitleNotes and Records,
Volume 18, 1963 . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--194
The Rt Hon.The Lord Robens of Woldingham Anniversary Dinner, Dorchester Hotel, 30
November 1963 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9
Sir Henry Dale, O.M., G.B.E., F.R.S. Sir Michael Foster, K.C.B., F.R.S. --- a
Secretary of the Royal Society . . . . . 10--32
S. Z. De Ferranti Pioneer of electric power transmission:
An account of some of the early work of
Sebastian Ziani De Ferranti, D.Sc.,
F.R.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--41
William R. Le Fanu Sir Benjamin Brodie, F.R.S. (1783--1862) 42--52
D. T. Whiteside Isaac Newton: birth of a mathematician 53--62
D. V. Glass John Graunt and his Natural and
political observations . . . . . . . . . 63--100
J. J. Lawrie Visit of Mrs Valentina
Nikolaeva-Tereshkova . . . . . . . . . . 101--101
Anonymous The Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . 102--106
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--111
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Conversaziones and Receptions, 1964 . . 113--118
Anonymous Conversazione to mark the
quater-centenary of the birth of Galileo 119--119
Professor E. N. da C. Andrade, F.R.S. Galileo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--130
I. Bernard Cohen `Quantum in Se Est': Newton's concept of
inertia in relation to Descartes and
Lucretius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--155
Sir John Craig The Royal Society and the Royal Mint . . 156--167
R. Robson and
Walter F. Cannon William Whewell, F.R.S. (1794--1866) . . 168--191
Sir Gavin De Beer Mendel, Darwin, and Fisher (1865--1965) 192--226
Anonymous The Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . 227--227
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--231
Anonymous Index to \booktitleNotes and Records,
Volume 19, 1964 . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--233
John Wolfenden Anniversary Dinner 1964 . . . . . . . . 1--8
E. N. da C. Andrade, F.R.S. The birth and early days of the
\booktitlePhilosophical Transactions . . 9--27
Margaret Deacon Founders of marine science in Britain:
the work of the early Fellows of the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--50
R. E. W. Maddison Studies in the life of Robert Boyle,
F.R.S. Part VII. The Grand Tour . . . . 51--77
K. Theodore Hoppen The Royal Society and Ireland. II . . . 78--99
John R. Levene Nevil Maskelyne, F.R.S., and the
discovery of Night Myopia . . . . . . . 100--108
Anonymous The Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . 109--113
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--118
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Conversaziones, 1965 . . . . . . . . . . 119--124
J. A. Lohne Isaac Newton: the rise of a scientist
1661--1671 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--139
A. Rupert Hall Wren's Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--144
W. E. Knowles Middleton A footnote to the history of the
barometer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--151
James L. Axtell Locke's review of the Principia . . . . 152--161
T. E. Allibone, F.R.S. The diaries of John Byrom, M.A., F.R.S.,
and their relation to the pre-history of
the Royal Society Club . . . . . . . . . 162--183
Sydney Ross The search for electromagnetic
induction, 1820--1831 . . . . . . . . . 184--219
Sir Harold Hartley, F.R.S. A letter from Richard Phillips, F.R.S.
(1778--1857) to Michael Faraday, F.R.S.
(1791--1867) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--223
Anonymous The Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . 224--224
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--230
Anonymous Index to \booktitleNotes and Records,
Volume 20, 1965 . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--232
Harold Wilson Anniversary Dinner 1965 . . . . . . . . 1--11
W. D. M. P. Conversazione to mark the 300th
anniversary of the publication of the
\booktitlePhilosophical Transactions of
the Royal Society, Hooke's
\booktitleMicrographia, and Evelyn's
\booktitleSylva . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--19
For. Mem. R. S. E. Fauré-Fremiet Les Origines de L'Académie des Sciences
de Paris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--31
D. T. Whiteside Newton's marvellous year: 1666 and all
that . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--41
H. A. Feisenberger The Libraries of Newton, Hooke and Boyle 42--55
Sir Harold Hartley, F.R.S. Stanislao Cannizzaro, F.R.S.
(1826--1910) and the first International
Chemical Conference at Karlsruhe in 1860 56--63
Sir Gavin de Beer, F.R.S. Mendel, Darwin, and Fisher: Addendum . . 64--71
Anonymous Erratum: Gavin de Beer,
\booktitleMendel, Darwin, and Fisher
(1865--1965), Notes and Records \bf
19(2) 192--226 (p. 212) . . . . . . . . 71--71
N. S. Exchange of delegations between the
Royal Society and The U.S.S.R. Academy
of Sciences, 1965 . . . . . . . . . . . 72--79
Anonymous The Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . 80--85
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--92
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--93
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Conversaziones and Reception, 1966 . . . 95--101
E. N. da C. Andrade, F.R.S. The preservation of scientific
manuscripts and records . . . . . . . . 102--107
J. E. McGuire and
P. M. Rattansi Newton and the `Pipes of Pan' . . . . . 108--143
Robert E. Schofield The Lunar Society of Birmingham; A
bicentenary appraisal . . . . . . . . . 144--161
W. H. Brock The selection of the authors of the
\booktitleBridgewater Treatises . . . . 162--179
John R. Levene Sir George Biddell Airy, F.R.S.
(1801--1892) and the discovery and
correction of astigmatism . . . . . . . 180--199
D. M. Smith, F.R.S. Henry Lewis Guy, F.R.S., 1887--1956,
Turbine designer and engineering
administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--206
Anonymous The Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . 207--207
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--211
Anonymous Index to \booktitleNotes and Records,
Volume 21, 1966 . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--213
Anonymous Anniversary Dinner 1966 . . . . . . . . 1--11
D. C. Martin Former homes of the Royal Society . . . 12--19
Sir John Summerson Carlton House Terrace . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Lord Holford The new home of the Royal Society . . . 23--36
The Editor Britain's heritage of scientific and
technological records and manuscripts
and of historic scientific instruments 37--39
Arnold Thackray `In praise of famous men' --- the John
Dalton bicentenary celebrations, 1966 40--44
Henry Guerlac Newton's optical aether: his draft of a
proposed addition to his
\booktitleOptiks . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--57
Christoph J. Scriba A tentative index of the correspondence
of John Wallis, F.R.S. . . . . . . . . . 58--93
Asit K. Biswas The automatic rain-gauge of Sir
Christopher Wren, F.R.S. . . . . . . . . 94--104
G. L'e. Turner A portrait of James Short, F.R.S.,
attributable to Benjamin Wilson, F.R.S. 105--112
W. A. Smeaton Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau, F.R.S.
(1737--1816) and his relations with
British scientists . . . . . . . . . . . 113--130
F. F. Cartwright The association of Thomas Beddoes, M.D.
with James Watt, F.R.S. . . . . . . . . 131--143
Barbara M. D. Smith and
J. L. Moilliet James Keir of the Lunar Society . . . . 144--154
J. A. Chaldecott Contributions of Fellows of the Royal
Society to the fabrication of platinum
vessels: some unpublished manuscripts 155--172
N. G. Coley The Animal Chemistry Club; assistant
society to the Royal Society . . . . . . 173--185
T. E. Allibone, F.R.S. The Club of the Royal College of
Physicians, the Smeatonian Society of
Civil Engineers and their relationship
to the Royal Society Club . . . . . . . 186--192
Anonymous The Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . 193--197
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--206
Anonymous Corrigenda for Hartley, McGuire and
Rattansi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--207
Anonymous Index to \booktitleNotes and Records,
Volume 22, 1967 . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--210
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Queen Elizabeth and
Lord Florey The Formal Opening of the Society's new
home at 6 Carlton House Terrace by Her
Majesty The Queen, Patron, on 21
November 1967 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--10
Lord Holford Notes on the decoration of the main
features of 6 to 9 Carlton House Terrace 11--13
Kenneth Wheare Anniversary Dinner 1967 . . . . . . . . 14--20
Harold Hartley Address at the memorial service for Sir
Cyril Hinshelwood, O.M., F.R.S. at Holy
Trinity Church, Brompton Road, London on
20 November 1967 . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--22
Sir Harold Hartley, F.R.S. The exhibition of Sir Cyril
Hinshelwood's paintings at Goldsmiths'
Hall on 20 March, 1968 . . . . . . . . . 23--28
Lord Adrian Address at the Memorial Service for Lord
Florey, of Adelaide and Marston, O.M.,
F.R.S., at Westminster Abbey on 28 March
1968 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--30
Robert Spence Address at the Service of Memorial and
Thanksgiving for Sir John Cockcroft,
O.M., K.C.B., F.R.S. at Westminster
Abbey on 17 October 1967 . . . . . . . . 31--32
A. Rupert Hall and
Marie Boas Hall Further notes on Henry Oldenburg . . . . 33--42 + 2
J. D. Holland An eighteenth-century pioneer Richard
Price, D.D., F.R.S. (1723--1791) . . . . 43--64
Nellie B. Eales A satire on the Royal Society, dated
1743, attributed to Henry Fielding . . . 65--67
G. de Beer The Darwin letters at Shrewsbury School 68--85
Sir John Eccles, F.R.S. Two hitherto unrecognized publications
by Sir Charles Sherrington, O.M., F.R.S. 86--100
Sir Harold Hartley, F.R.S. Professor Douglas McKie, F.R.S.E. . . . 101--103
Anonymous The Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . 104--108
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--118
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Conversaziones, 1968 . . . . . . . . . . 119--126
Lord Todd Address at the Memorial Service for Lord
Fleck, of Saltcoats, K.B.E., Treas.
R.S., at St Columba's Church of
Scotland, London, on 23 September 1968 127--128
P. M. Rattansi The intellectual origins of the Royal
Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--143
Christopher Hill The intellectual origins of the Royal
Society-London or Oxford? . . . . . . . 144--156
A. Rupert Hall and
Marie Boas Hall The intellectual origins of the Royal
Society --- London and Oxford . . . . . 157--168
J. A. Lohne Experimentum crucis . . . . . . . . . . 169--199
Joan L. Hawes Newton's revival of the aether
hypothesis and the explanation of
gravitational attraction . . . . . . . . 200--212
Albert Van Helden Christopher Wren's \booktitleDe corpore
Saturni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--229
David Layton Lord Wrottesley, F.R.S., pioneer
statesman of science . . . . . . . . . . 230--246
E. N. da C. Andrade, F.R.S. Some Reminiscences of Ernest Marsden's
Days with Rutherford at Manchester . . . 247--250
Anonymous The Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . 251--252
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--259
Anonymous Index to \booktitleNotes and Records,
Volume 23, 1968 . . . . . . . . . . . . 260--262
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
P. M. S. Blackett Opening of the Cook Gallery at the
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, on
17 July 1968 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4
Anonymous Captain Cook bicentenary commemorative
presentations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--6
I. Kaye Captain James Cook and The Royal Society 7--18
Sir Richard Woolley, F.R.S. Captain Cook and the transit of Venus of
1769 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--32
G. E. R. Deacon, F.R.S. and
Margaret Deacon Captain Cook as a navigator . . . . . . 33--42
Egon H. Kodicek and
Frank G. Young, F.R.S. Captain Cook and scurvy . . . . . . . . 43--63
William T. Stearn A Royal Society appointment with Venus
in 1769: the voyage of Cook and Banks in
the Endeavour in 1768--1771 and its
botanical results . . . . . . . . . . . 64--90
G. L'E. Turner James Short, F.R.S., and his
contribution to the construction of
reflecting telescopes . . . . . . . . . 91--108
D. J. Bryden Note on a further portrait of James
Short, F.R.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--112
J. A. Chaldecott Cromwell Mortimer, F.R.S. (c.
1698--1752) and the invention of the
metalline thermometer for measuring high
temperatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--135
Edward Short Anniversary Dinner 1968 . . . . . . . . 136--144
Lord Adrian Address at the Memorial Service for Sir
Henry Dale, O.M., G.B.E., F.R.S. at
Westminster Abbey on 11 October 1968 . . 145--145
D. C. Martin and
Harold Hartley The Royal Society Club Dinner on 14
November 1968 in celebration of the 90th
Birthday of Sir Harold Hartley, F.R.S. 146--155
Gillian Hammill The Society's portraits and busts . . . 156--168
Anonymous The Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . 169--174
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--180
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Conversaziones, 1969 . . . . . . . . . . 181--186
Anonymous Reception in honour of the memory of
Captain James Cook, R.N., F.R.S. . . . . 187--188
C. A. Fleming, F.R.S. James Cook bicentenary celebrations in
New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--193
R. V. Jones, F.R.S. The `plain story' of James Watt. The
Wilkins Lecture, 1969 . . . . . . . . . 194--220
Eric Robinson James Watt, engineer and man of science 221--232
Robert Fox Watt's expansive principle in the work
of Sadi Carnot and Nicolas Clément . . . 233--253
Richard L. Hills Sir Richard Arkwright and his patent
granted in 1769 . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--260
D. J. Bryden The Jamaican observatories of Colin
Campbell, F.R.S. and Alexander
Macfarlane, F.R.S. . . . . . . . . . . . 261--272
W. S. C. Copeman William Prout, M.D., F.R.S., Physician
and Chemist (1785--1850) . . . . . . . . 273--280
W. H. Brock William Prout and Barometry . . . . . . 281--294
David F. Larder Thomas Thomson's activities in
Edinburgh, 1791--1811 . . . . . . . . . 295--304
Roy M. MacLeod The X-Club. A social network of science
in late-Victorian England . . . . . . . 305--322
Anonymous The Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . 323--323
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324--329
Anonymous Index to \booktitleNotes and Records,
Volume 24. 1969 . . . . . . . . . . . . 330--332
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
H. B. G. Casimir Anniversary Dinner 1969. Speech by
Professor H. B. G. Casimir at the
Anniversary Dinner, The Dorchester, 1
December 1969 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--7
John Maddox and
Harold Macmillan The \booktitleNature Centenary Dinner 9--15
Christoph J. Scriba The autobiography of John Wallis, F.R.S. 17--46
Asit K. Biswas Edmond Halley, F.R.S., Hydrologist
Extraordinary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--57
Frank N. Egerton Richard Bradley's Relationship With Sir
Hans Sloane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--77
J. R. M. Setchell The friendship of John Smeaton, F.R.S.,
with Henry Hindley, instrument and
clockmaker of York and the development
of Equatorial mounting telescopes . . . 79--86
G. N. Cantor Thomas Young's lectures at the Royal
Institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--112
Trevor H. Levere Friendship and influence --- Martinus
Van Marum, F.R.S. . . . . . . . . . . . 113--120
Anonymous The Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . 121--125
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--133
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Conversaziones, 1970 . . . . . . . . . . 135--142
P. D. Lawrence and
A. G. Molland David Gregory's inaugural lecture at
Oxford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--178
T. L. Underwood Edward Haistwell, F.R.S. . . . . . . . . 179--187
J. R. M. Setchell Further information on the telescopes of
Hindley of York . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--192
David F. Larder An unpublished chemical essay of James
Watt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--210
J. T. Lloyd Background to the Joule--Mayer
Controversy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--225
Edmund J. Bowen, F.R.S. The Balliol--Trinity Laboratories,
Oxford, 1853--1940 . . . . . . . . . . . 227--236
Sir George Thomson, F.R.S. An unfortunate experiment, Hertz and the
nature of cathode rays . . . . . . . . . 237--242
Anonymous The Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . 243--243
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--250
Anonymous Index to \booktitleNotes and Records,
Volume 25, 1970 . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--252
R. V. J. and
W. D. M. P. Sir Harold Hartley, F.R.S. An
appreciation on his retirement from the
editorship of \booktitleNotes and
Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
The Lord Boyle Anniversary Dinner 1970, Speech by The
Rt Hon. The Lord Boyle at the
Anniversary Dinner, The Dorchester, 30
November 1970 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--14
Paul A. Tunbridge Jean André De Luc, F.R.S. (1727--1817) 15--33
W. A. Smeaton Some comments on James Watt's published
account of his work on steam and steam
engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--42
J. B. Morrell Professors Robison and Playfair, and the
\booktitleTheophobia Gallica: Natural
philosophy, religion and politics in
Edinburgh, 1789--1815 . . . . . . . . . 43--63
Lise Wilkinson William Brockedon, F.R.S. (1787--1854) 65--72
T. E. Allibone, F.R.S. The Thursday's Club called the Club of
the Royal Philosophers, and its relation
to the Royal Society Club . . . . . . . 73--80
Roy M. Macleod Of medals and men: a reward system in
Victorian science, 1826--1914 . . . . . 81--105
Sir Harold Hartley, F.R.S. Viscount Grey of Fallodon, K.G., F.R.S. 107--110
Anonymous Visit of a scientific delegation from
Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--111
Anonymous The Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . 113--118
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--123
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Conversaziones, 1971 . . . . . . . . . . 125--133
A. W. Skempton, F.R.S. The publication of Smeaton's Reports . . 135--155
Sir Raphael Cilento Sir Joseph Banks, F.R.S. and the naming
of the Kangaroo . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--161
W. D. Hackmann The design of the triboelectric
generators of Martinus van Marum,
F.R.S.: a case history of the
interaction between England and Holland
in the field of instrument design in the
eighteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . 163--181
Lise Wilkinson Three drawings of Fellows by William
Brockedon, F.R.S. . . . . . . . . . . . 183--187
J. S. Rowlinson, F.R.S. The theory of glaciers . . . . . . . . . 189--204
Otto Mayr Victorian physicists and speed
regulation: An encounter between science
and technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--228
Paul A. Tunbridge A letter by William Thomson, F.R.S., on
the `Thomson effect' . . . . . . . . . . 229--232
T. M. Charlton Maxwell, Jenkin and Cotterill and the
theory of statically-indeterminate
structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--246
Anonymous The Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . 247--247
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--254
Anonymous Index to \booktitleNotes and Records,
Volume 26, 1971 . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--258
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
Anonymous Rutherford Centenary Celebrations . . . 5--5
Sir Mark Oliphant, F.R.S. Some Personal Recollections of
Rutherford, the Man . . . . . . . . . . 7--23
Sir Harrie Massey, Sec.R.S. Nuclear Physics Today and in
Rutherford's Day . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--44
N. Feather, F.R.S. Rutherford --- Faraday --- Newton . . . 45--55
Lord Blackett, F.R.S. Rutherford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--59
W. Bennett Lewis, F.R.S. Some Recollections and Reflections on
Rutherford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--63
Sir Nevill Francis Mott, F.R.S. Rutherford and Theory . . . . . . . . . 65--66
P. P. O'Shea Ernest Rutherford. His Honours and
Distinctions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--74
J. B. Adams, F.R.S. Four generations of nuclear physicists 75--94
The Lord Denning Anniversary Dinner 1971 . . . . . . . . 95--102
N. S. Hetherington The Hevelius--Auzout controversy . . . . 103--106
J. A. Bennett Wren's last building? . . . . . . . . . 107--118
A. W. Slater Luke Howard, F.R.S. (1772--1864) and his
relations with Goethe . . . . . . . . . 119--140
John R. Levene Benjamin Franklin, F.R.S., Sir Joshua
Reynolds, F.R.S., P.R.A., Benjamin West,
P.R.A. and the invention of bifocals . . 141--163
Edward Salisbury The retirement of Mr I. Kaye, Librarian
to the Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--165
Anonymous The Society's Notes . . . . . . . . . . 167--171
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--176
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Alan Hodgkin Address at the memorial service for Sir
Frederick Bawden, Treas. R.S. at the
Church of St James, Piccadilly on 16
March 1972 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--180
R. V. Jones Address at the memorial service for Sir
Harold Hartley, F.R.S. at Westminster
Abbey on 17 October 1972 . . . . . . . . 181--184
Anonymous Conversaziones, 1972 . . . . . . . . . . 185--192
Robert G. Frank, Jr. John Aubrey, F.R.S., John Lydall, and
Science at Commonwealth Oxford . . . . . 193--217
Jeanne Bolam The botanical works of Nehemiah Grew,
F.R.S. (1641--1712) . . . . . . . . . . 219--231
A. W. Skempton, F.R.S. and
Joyce Brown John and Edward Troughton, mathematical
instrument makers . . . . . . . . . . . 233--249
A. W. Skempton, F.R.S. and
Joyce Brown Addendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--262
Paul A. Tunbridge Faraday's Genevese friends . . . . . . . 263--298
W. V. Farrar Andrewy Ure, F.R.S. and the philosophy
of manufactures . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--324
David Martin The retirement of Mr J. C. Graddon,
Assistant Editor to the Society . . . . 325--326
Anonymous The Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . 327--327
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--334
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Volume 27, 1972--3 . . . . . . . . . . . 335--337
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Margaret Thatcher Anniversary Dinner 1972: Speech by the
Rt Hon. Margaret Thatcher, M.P.,
Secretary of State for Education and
Science, at the Anniversary Dinner, The
Dorchester, 30 November 1972 . . . . . . 1--9
Anonymous Celebration of the quincentenary of the
birth of Nicolaus Copernicus . . . . . . 11--13
John R. Millburn Benjamin Martin and the Royal Society 15--23
V. Gold, F.R.S. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the
appointment of J. F. Daniell, F.R.S., as
Professor of Chemistry at King's College
London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--29
N. G. Coley Henry Bence-Jones, M.D., F.R.S.
(1813--1873) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--56
R. V. Jones, F.R.S. James Clerk Maxwell at Aberdeen,
1856--1860 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--81
Sir Hans Krebs, F.R.S. Two letters by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen . . 83--92
Sir John Boyd, F.R.S. Sleeping sickness. The Castellani--Bruce
controversy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--110
W. D. M. Paton, F.R.S. and
C. G. Phillips, F.R.S. E. H. J. Schuster (1897--1969) . . . . . 111--117
Eric G. Forbes The library of the Rev. John Flamsteed,
F.R.S., first Astronomer Royal . . . . . 119--143
Anonymous The Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . 145--149
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--154
Anonymous Bibliography of Recent Books and
Articles Dealing with the History of the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--155
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Anonymous Conversaziones, 1973 . . . . . . . . . . 157--166
J. Buchanan-Brown The books presented to the Royal Society
by John Aubrey, F.R.S. . . . . . . . . . 167--193
T. E. Allibone, F.R.S. Edmond Halley and the Clubs of the Royal
Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--205
Paul A. Tunbridge Franklin's pointed lightning conductor 207--219
Averil M. Lysaght Joseph Banks at Skara Brae and Stennis,
Orkney, 1772 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--234
E. L. Scott Edward Jenner, F.R.S. and the cuckoo . . 235--240
A. Gibson and
W. V. Farrar Robert Angus Smith, F.R.S. and `sanitary
science' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--262
Gail Ewald Scala An index of proper names in Thomas
Birch, The History of the Royal Society
(London, 1756--1757) . . . . . . . . . . 263--329
Anonymous Lt Cdr George R. Lush, M.B.E., R.N., 1
April 1919 to 14 July 1973 . . . . . . . 331--332
Anonymous The Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . 333--334
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--339
Anonymous Index to \booktitleNotes and Records,
Volume 28. 1973--4 . . . . . . . . . . . 341--343
Anonymous Errata: James Clerk Maxwell at Aberdeen,
1856--1860 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--344
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Alan Bullock Anniversary Dinner 1973: Speech by Sir
Alan Bullock at the Anniversary Dinner,
The Dorchester 30 November 1973 . . . . 1--9
H. R. H. The Prince Philip Research and Prediction: The inaugural
Hartley Lecture delivered at the Royal
Society, 21 May 1974 . . . . . . . . . . 11--27
A. Rupert Hall Newton and his editors: The Wilkins
Lecture, 1973 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--52 + 4
G. L'E Turner Henry Baker, F.R.S.: Founder of the
Bakerian Lecture . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--79
R. W. Home Some manuscripts on electrical and other
subjects attributed to Thomas Bayes,
F.R.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--90
Averil M. Lysaght Some early letters from Joseph Banks to
William Phelp Perrin . . . . . . . . . . 91--99
T. M. Charlton Professor Bertram Hopkinson, C.M.G.,
M.A., B.Sc., F.R.S. (1874--1918) . . . . 101--109
D. J. H. Griffin The Aldabra Research Station . . . . . . 111--119
Anonymous The Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . 121--125
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--133
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Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Alan Hodgkin and
Harrie Massey and
David Martin and
G. P. S. Occhialini and
Bernard Lovell and
C. H. Waddington and
C. C. Butler and
S. K. Runcorn and
M. G. K. Menon Memorial meeting for Lord Blackett,
O.M., C.H., F.R.S. at the Royal Society
on 31 October 1974 . . . . . . . . . . . 135--162
Anonymous Conversaziones 1974 . . . . . . . . . . 163--171
Marie Boas Hall The Royal Society's role in the
diffusion of information in the
seventeenth century. I . . . . . . . . . 173--192
J. R. Philip, F.R.S. Samuel Johnson as antiscientist . . . . 193--203
Garland Cannon Sir William Jones, Sir Joseph Banks, and
the Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . 205--230
Martin Rudwick Charles Lyell, F.R.S. (1797--1875) and
his London lectures on geology, 1832--33 231--263
J. G. O'Hara George Johnstone Stoney, F.R.S. and the
concept of the electron . . . . . . . . 265--276
Anonymous The Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . 277--277
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--284
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Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--286
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Lord Todd Address at the Memorial Service for Sir
Robert Robinson, O.M., F.R.S. at
Westminster Abbey on 29 April 1975 . . . 1--3
Thomas Brimelow Anniversary Dinner 1974: Speech by Sir
Thomas Brimelow at the Anniversary
Dinner, The Dorchester, 30 November 1974 5--14
John R. Levene Sir G. B. Airy, F.R.S. and the
Symptomatology of migraine . . . . . . . 15--23
A. E. Gunther The Darwin letters at Shrewsbury School 25--43
C. E. R. Sherrington Charles Scott Sherrington (1857--1952) 45--63
A. V. Hill, F.R.S. Jewels in my acquaintance with C. S.
Sherrington, F.R.S. . . . . . . . . . . 65--68
Sir John Eccles, F.R.S. Letters from C. S. Sherrington, F.R.S.,
to Angelo Ruffini Between 1896 and 1903 69--88
I. Grattan-Guinness The Royal Society's financial support of
the publication of Whitehead and
Russell's \booktitlePrincipia
mathematica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--104
Anonymous The Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . 105--109
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--116
Anonymous Errata: The Royal Society's Role in the
Diffusion of Information in the
Seventeenth Century (1) . . . . . . . . 116--116
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Anonymous Conversaziones and Reception, 1975 . . . 117--126
Bernard Lovell Address at Westminster Abbey, on the
occasion of the tercentenary of the
Royal Greenwich Observatory . . . . . . 127--132
W. H. McCrea, F.R.S. The Royal Observatory and the study of
gravitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--140 + 2
J. M. Edmonds and
J. A. Douglas William Buckland, F.R.S. (1784--1856)
and an Oxford geological lecture, 1823 141--167
T. M. Charlton Contributions to the science of
bridge-building in the nineteenth
century by Henry Moseley, Hon. Ll.D.,
F.R.S. and William Pole, D.Mus., F.R.S. 169--179
J. Vernon Jensen Thomas Henry Huxley's `baptism into
oratory' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--207
M. J. Bartholomew The Award of the Copley Medal to Charles
Darwin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--218
Sir John Eccles, F.R.S. From electrical to chemical transmission
in the central nervous system: The
closing address of the Sir Henry Dale
Centennial Symposium Cambridge, 19
September 1975 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--230
W. D. M. Paton, F.R.S. Sir Henry Dale (1875--1968). Some
letters and papers . . . . . . . . . . . 231--248
S. Chandrasekhar, F.R.S. Verifying the theory of relativity . . . 249--260
Anonymous The Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . 261--261
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--266
Anonymous Index to \booktitleNotes and Records,
Volume 30, 1975--6 . . . . . . . . . . . 267--269
R. L\ust Anniversary Dinner 1975 . . . . . . . . 1--8
Michael Hunter The social basis and changing fortunes
of an early scientific institution: an
analysis of the membership of the Royal
Society, 1660--1685 . . . . . . . . . . 9--114
B. R. Singer Robert Hooke on memory, association and
time perception (I) . . . . . . . . . . 115--131
T. L. Underwood Quakers and the Royal Society of London
in the seventeenth century . . . . . . . 133--150
Bernard Norton and
E. S. Pearson, F.R.S. A note on the background to, and
refereeing of, R. A. Fisher's 1918
paper: ``On the correlation between
relatives on the supposition of
Mendelian inheritance'' (Trans. Roy.
Soc. Edinburgh \bf 52 (1918/19),
399--434) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--162
Anonymous The Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . 163--168
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--173
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial: The American Bicentenary and
Anglo--American intellectual relations 177--177
Bernard Bailyn 1776: The British Dimension . . . . . . 179--199
R. V. Jones, F.R.S. Benjamin Franklin . . . . . . . . . . . 201--225
J. H. Plumb, F.B.A. Britain and America --- The cultural
tradition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--243
Anonymous Conversaziones 1976 . . . . . . . . . . 245--253
J. V. Beckett Dr William Brownrigg, F.R.S.: Physician,
Chemist and Country Gentleman . . . . . 255--271
W. V. Farrar Edward Schunck, F.R.S., a pioneer of
natural-product chemistry . . . . . . . 273--296
Charles H. Cotter The Royal Society and the deviation of
the compass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--309
Anonymous The Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . 311--311
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--322
Anonymous Index to \booktitleNotes and Records,
Volumes 21 to 30 (1966 to 1975) . . . . 323--356
P. R. S. Lord Todd Address at the memorial service for Sir
David Christie Martin (1914--1976) at St
Columba's Church of Scotland, London on
9 February 1977 . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
Philip Handler Anniversary Dinner 1976: speech by Dr
Philip Handler, President of the U. S.
National Academy of Sciences, The
Dorchester, 30 November 1976 . . . . . . 5--11
W. E. Knowles Middleton What did Charles II call the Fellows of
the Royal Society? . . . . . . . . . . . 13--16
Simon Schaffer Halley's Atheism and the end of the
world . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--40
Trevor H. Levere Dr Thomas Beddoes and the establishment
of his Pneumatic Institution: a tale of
three Presidents . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--49
James R. Moore On the education of Darwin's sons: the
correspondence between Charles Darwin
and the Reverend G. V. Reed, 1857--1864 51--70
Margaret Gowing Science, technology and education:
England in 1870. The Wilkins Lecture,
1976 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--90
J. D. McGee, F.R.S. The contribution of A. A. Campbell
Swinton, F.R.S. to television . . . . . 91--105
Anonymous The Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . 107--112
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--117
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Alan Hodgkin Address at the memorial service for Lord
Adrian, O.M., F.R.S., at Westminster
Abbey on 18 October 1977 . . . . . . . . 119--121
Peter Brimblecombe Interest in air pollution among early
Fellows of the Royal Society . . . . . . 123--129
Jeffrey M. N. Boss A collection of some observations on
bills of mortality & parish registers: An
unpublished manuscript by Stephen Hales,
F.R.S. (1677--1761) . . . . . . . . . . 131--147
Roy A. Rauschenberg John Ellis, F.R.S. Eighteenth century
naturalist and Royal Agent to West
Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--164
Seymour L. Chapin Lalande and the longitude: A little
known London voyage of 1763 . . . . . . 165--180
R. I. Ruggles Governor Samuel Wegg, intelligent layman
of the Royal Society, 1753--1802 . . . . 181--199
Robert A. Bayliss The travels of Joseph Beete Jukes,
F.R.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--212
H. C. Bolton and
W. C. Price, F.R.S. The Date of Birth of James Clerk Maxwell 213--214
R. A. Buchanan Science and engineering: a case study in
British experience in the mid-nineteenth
century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--223
N. Feather, F.R.S. Isotopes, isomers and the fundamental
law of radioactive change . . . . . . . 225--231
Anonymous The Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . 233--233
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--239
Anonymous Index to \booktitleNotes and Records,
Volume 32, 1977 . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--243
Ian Adamson The Royal Society and Gresham College
1660--1711 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--21
Charles H. Cotter The mariner's sextant and the Royal
Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--36
R. V. Jones, F.R.S. Through music to the stars. William
Herschel, 1738--1822 . . . . . . . . . . 37--56
Sir Bernard Lovell, F.R.S. Herschel's work on the structure of the
Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--75
Sydney Ross John Herschel on Faraday and on science 77--82
R. B. Freeman Darwin's negro bird-stuffer . . . . . . 83--86
William McGucken The Royal Society and the genesis of the
Scientific Advisory Committee to
Britain's War Cabinet, 1939--1940 . . . 87--115
Anonymous The Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . 117--122
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--132
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A. A. Mills and
P. J. Turvey Newton's telescope, an examination of
the reflecting telescope attributed to
Sir Isaac Newton in the possession of
the Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . 133--155
W. E. Knowles Middleton Some Italian visitors to the early Royal
Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--173
Geoffrey Fryer, F.R.S. John Fryer, F.R.S. and his scientific
observations, made chiefly in India and
Persia between 1672 and 1682 . . . . . . 175--206
A. E. Gunther The Royal Society and the foundation of
the British Museum, 1753--1781 . . . . . 207--216
D. R. Oldroyd and
D. W. Hutchings The chemical lectures at Oxford
(1822--1854) of Charles Daubeny, M.D.,
F.R.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--259
John Shorter Humphrey Owen Jones, F.R.S. (1878--1912)
chemist and mountaineer . . . . . . . . 261--277
Anonymous The Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . 279--279
Anonymous Bibliography of recent books and
articles dealing with the history of the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--285
Anonymous Index to \booktitleNotes and Records,
Volume 33, 1978--9 . . . . . . . . . . . 287--288
L. W. Johnson and
M. L. Wolbarsht Mercury poisoning: A probable cause of
Isaac Newton's physical and mental ills 1--9
P. E. Spargo and
C. A. Pounds Newton's `derangement of the intellect'.
New light on an old problem . . . . . . 11--32
J. M. Edmonds The founding of the Oxford Readership in
Geology, 1818 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--51
A. E. Gunther J. E. Gray, Charles Darwin, and the
Cirripedes, 1846--1851 . . . . . . . . . 53--63
R. V. Jones, F.R.S. Alfred Ewing and `Room 40' . . . . . . . 65--90
Lawrence Badash British and American views of the German
menace in World War I . . . . . . . . . 91--121
Margaret Gowing The Contemporary Scientific Archives
Centre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--131
Anonymous The Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . 133--137
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Gweneth Whitteridge Of the local movement of animals: The
Wilkins Lecture, 1979 . . . . . . . . . 139--153
David A. Cumming John MacCulloch, F.R.S., at Addiscombe:
The lectureships in chemistry and
geology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--183
Joyce Brown A memoir of Colonel Sir Proby Cautley,
F.R.S., 1802--1871, engineer and
palaeontologist . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--225
G. Burniston Brown David Edward Hughes, F.R.S., 1831--1900 227--239
Peter Alter The Royal Society and the International
Association of Academies 1897--1919 . . 241--264
Anonymous The Society's notes . . . . . . . . . . 265--265
Anonymous Index to \booktitleNotes and Records,
Volume 34, 1979--80 . . . . . . . . . . 267--268
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R. W. Ditchburn, F.R.S. Newton's Illness of 1692--3 . . . . . . 1--16
D. R. Oldroyd Some `\booktitlePhilosophicall
Scribbles' attributed to Robert Hooke 17--32
J. A. Bennett Robert Hooke as mechanic and natural
philosopher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--48
Jillian F. Austin and
Anita McConnell James Six F.R.S. --- Two hundred years
of the Six's self-registering
thermometer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--65
C. Domb, F.R.S. James Clerk Maxwell in London:
1860--1865 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--103 + 1
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Marta Cavazza Bologna and the Royal Society in the
Seventeenth Century . . . . . . . . . . 105--123
W. R. Sloan Sir Hans Sloane, F.R.S. Legend and
lineage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--129
A. P. Woolrich The printing of Smeaton's reports . . . 131--133
Diana E. Manuel Marshall Hall, F.R.S. (1790--1857), a
conspectus of his life and work . . . . 135--166
Russell Moseley Government science and the Royal
Society: the control of the National
Physical Laboratory in the inter-war
years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--193
J. A. Witkowski W. T. Astbury and Ross G. Harrison: the
search for the molecular determination
of form in the developing embryo . . . . 195--219
Anonymous Index to \booktitleNotes and Records,
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Anonymous Editorial Note: Newton's Rainbow . . . . 1--1
Roy L. Bishop and
Isaac Newton Rainbow over Woolsthorpe Manor . . . . . 2--11
A. A. Mills Newton's prisms and his experiments on
the spectrum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--36
Brian J. Ford The van Leeuwenhoek Specimens . . . . . 37--59
Charles H. Cotter Captain Edmond Halley R.N., F.R.S. . . . 61--77
Averil Lysaght A letter from Sydney Parkinson in
Batavia to Dr John Fothergill . . . . . 79--81
Derek Flinn John MacCulloch, M.D., F.R.S., and his
geological map of Scotland: His years in
the Ordnance. 1795--1826 . . . . . . . . 83--101
Robert A. Bayliss and
C. William Ellis Neil Arnott, F.R.S. Reformer, innovator
and popularizer of science 1788--1874 103--123
Rose Scott-Moncrieff, (Mrs O.M.Meares) The classical period in chemical
genetics, Recollections of Muriel
Wheldale Onslow, Robert and Gertrude
Robinson and J. B. S. Haldane . . . . . 125--154
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Penelope M. Gouk Acoustics in the early Royal Society
1660--1680 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--175
Stephen Pasmore Thomas Henshaw, F.R.S. (1618--1700) . . 177--188
Michael Hunter Early problems in professionalizing
scientific research: Nehemiah Grew
(1641--1712) and the Royal Society, with
an unpublished letter to Henry Oldenburg 189--209
Ruth Wallis John Bevis, M.D., F.R.S., (1695--1771)
Astronomer Loyal . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--225
Lise Wilkinson `The other' John Hunter, M.D., F.R.S.
(1754--1809): His contributions to the
medical literature, and to the
introduction of animal experiments into
infectious disease research . . . . . . 227--241
David Gooding A convergence of opinion on the
divergence of lines: Faraday and
Thomson's discussion of diamagnetism . . 243--259
L. Harrison Matthews, F.R.S. Samuel Stutchbury and Darwin's
cirripedes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--266
Eville Gorham Robert Angus Smith, F.R.S., and
`Chemical Climatology' . . . . . . . . . 267--272
Anonymous Index to \booktitleNotes and Records,
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Sir John Cornforth, F.R.S. Portrait of Dorothy Hodgkin, O.M.,
F.R.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4
E. J. Bowen, F.R.S. Who founded the R.S.? . . . . . . . . . 5--5
A. Rupert Hall Further Newton correspondence . . . . . 7--34
A. A. Mills Newton's water clocks and the fluid
mechanics of clepsydrae . . . . . . . . 35--61
Marie Boas Hall The Royal Society and Italy 1667--1795 63--81
Mari Williams James Bradley and the Eighteenth Century
`gap' in attempts to measure annual
stellar parallax . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--100
Sir Ashley Miles, F.R.S. Reports by Louis Pasteur and Claude
Bernard on the organization of
scientific teaching and research . . . . 101--118
J. D. McGee, F.R.S. The contribution of A. A. Campbell
Swinton, F.R.S., to television --- a
correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--119
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John H. Appleby Ginseng and the Royal Society . . . . . 121--145
A. A. Mills and
R. Hall The production of a plane surface, as
illustrated by specula from some early
Newtonian telescopes . . . . . . . . . . 147--166
Maurice Crosland Explicit qualifications as a criterion
for membership of the Royal Society: a
historical review . . . . . . . . . . . 167--187
Michael D. Crane Samuel Stutchbury (1798--1859),
naturalist and geologist . . . . . . . . 189--200
R. A. Baker and
R. A. Bayliss Louis Compton Miall, F.R.S.: scientist
and educator, 1842--1921 . . . . . . . . 201--234
H. Blaschko, F.R.S. Frederick Hughes Scott and his
contribution to the early history of the
transmitter concept . . . . . . . . . . 235--247
A. G. Cock Chauvinism and internationalism in
science: the International Research
Council, 1919--1926 . . . . . . . . . . 249--288
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William P. Griffith Priestley in London . . . . . . . . . . 1--16
James Gabriel O'Hara Gauss and the Royal Society: the
reception of his ideas on magnetism in
Britain (1832--1842) . . . . . . . . . . 17--78
Frank A. J. L. James The conservation of energy, theories of
absorption and resonating molecules,
1851--1854: G. G. Stokes, A. J. Ångström
and W. Thomson . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--107
William Mills Darwin and the iceberg theory . . . . . 109--127
Neil Morgan William Dobinson Halliburton, F.R.S.
(1860--1931) pioneer of British
biochemistry? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--145
A. A. Mills Errata: ``Newton's water clocks and the
fluid mechanics of \bionameclepsydrae''
[Notes and Records Roy. Soc. London \bf
37 (1982), no. 1, 35--61; MR0684478
(84j:01041)] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--146
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Sir Andrew Huxley, O.M., P.R.S. Grandfather and grandson . . . . . . . . 147--151
Marie Boas Hall The Royal Society in Thomas Henry
Huxley's time . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--158
Michael Hunter A `College' for the Royal Society: The
abortive plan of 1667--1668 . . . . . . 159--186
A. D. C. Simpson Newton's telescope and the cataloguing
of the Royal Society's repository . . . 187--214
Margaret J. M. Ezell Richard Waller, S.R.S.: `In the pursuit
of nature' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--233
Stella Mills Note on the Braikenridge--Maclaurin
theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--240
E. M. Tansey The life and works of Sir Alexander
Crichton, F.R.S. (1763--1856): a
Scottish physician to the Imperial
Russian Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--259
Margaret B. Deacon G. Herbert Fowler (1861--1940): The
forgotten oceanographer . . . . . . . . 261--296
C. W. Shoppee, F.R.S. The sign of the electron-releasing
effect of the methyl group . . . . . . . 297--297
Anonymous Index to \booktitleNotes and Records,
Volume 38, 1983--1984 . . . . . . . . . 299--300
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Charles A. Rivington Early Printers to the Royal Society
1663--1708 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--27
Donald Cardwell and
Joan Mottram Fresh light on John Dalton . . . . . . . 29--40
Linde Katritzky Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, F.R.S. . . 41--49
Mel Gorman Sir William Brooke O'Shaughnessy, F.R.S.
(1809--1889) Anglo--Indian forensic
chemist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--64
Frank A. J. L. James Of `Medals and Muddles' the context of
the discovery of Thallium: William
Crookes's early spectro-chemical work 65--90
H. M. Sinclair Sherrington and industrial fatigue . . . 91--104
W. A. Waters, F.R.S. Some comments on the development of free
radical chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . 105--124
Dame Mary Cartwright, F.R.S. Note on: ``Chauvinism and
internationalism in science: the
International Research Council,
1919--1926'' [Notes and Records Roy.
Soc. London \bf 37 (1983), no. 2,
249--288; MR0782423 (86h:01097)] by A.
G. Cock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--128
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Kathleen H. Ochs The Royal Society of London's history of
trades programme: An early episode in
applied science . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--158
S. Mendyk Robert Plot: Britain's `genial father of
county natural histories' . . . . . . . 159--177
Ernest Heberden Correspondence of William Heberden,
F.R.S. with The Reverend Stephen Hales
and Sir Charles Blagden . . . . . . . . 179--189
Frank R. Freemon American colonial scientists who
published in the \booktitlePhilosophical
Transactions of the Royal Society . . . 191--206
C. W. P. Mac Arthur Davy's differences with Gay-Lussac and
Thenard: new light on events in Paris
and on the transmission and translation
of Davy's papers in 1810 . . . . . . . . 207--228
David Gooding `He who proves, discovers': John
Herschel, William Pepys and the Faraday
effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--244
Sir Kenneth Hutchison, F.R.S. The Royal Society and the foundation of
the British Gas Industry . . . . . . . . 245--270
Anonymous Corrigendum: W. A. Waters:
\booktitleSome comments on the
development of Free Radical Chemistry 271--271
Anonymous Index to \booktitleNotes and Records,
Volume 39, 1984--1985 . . . . . . . . . 272--274
Linde Katritzky Corrigendum: ``Georg Christoph
Lichtenberg, F.R.S.'' [Notes and Records
Roy. Soc. London \bf 39 (1984), no. 1,
41--49; MR0782424 (86i:01049)] . . . . . 274--274
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Edward H. Cohen and
John S. Ross and
F. R. S. Sir William Paton The Commonplace Book of Edmond Halley 1--40
Jennifer S. Pugh and
John Hudson and
F. R. S. Sir William Paton The chemical work of James Watt, F.R.S. 41--52
Frank A. J. L. James and
F. R. S. Sir William Paton Between two scientific generations: John
Herschel's rejection of the conservation
of energy in his 1864 correspondence
with William Thomson . . . . . . . . . . 53--62
Geoffrey Tweedale and
F. R. S. Sir William Paton Sir Robert Abbott Hadfield F.R.S.
(1858--1940) and the discovery of
manganese steel . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--74
John G. Jenkin and
Sir William Paton, F.R.S. The appointment of W. H. Bragg, F.R.S.
to the University of Adelaide . . . . . 75--99
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William T. Stearn The Wilkins Lecture, 1985 John Wilkins,
John Ray and Carl Linnaeus . . . . . . . 101--123
C. C. Booth Sir Samuel Garth, F.R.S.: The dispensary
poet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--145
John H. Appleby Humphrey Jackson, F.R.S., 1717--1801: A
pioneering chemist . . . . . . . . . . . 147--168
Olwyn Mary Blouet Sir William Reid, F.R.S., 1791--1858:
Governor of Bermuda, Barbados and Malta 169--191
Stewart Richards Conan Doyle's `challenger' unchampioned:
William Rutherford, F.R.S. (1839--99),
and the origins of practical physiology
in Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--217
Charles A. Rivington Addendum: Early printers to the Royal
Society, 1663--1708 . . . . . . . . . . 219--220
Anonymous Index to \booktitleNotes and Records,
Volume 40, 1985--1986 . . . . . . . . . 221--222
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Laurel Brodsley and
Sir Charles Frank, F.R.S. and
John W. Steeds Prince Rupert's drops . . . . . . . . . 1--26
Wilbur Applebaum A descriptive catalogue of the
manuscripts of Nicolaus Mercator, F.R.S.
(1620--87), in Sheffield University
Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--37
A. McConnell L. F. Marsigli's voyage to London and
Holland, 1721--1722 . . . . . . . . . . 39--76
P. G. M. Foster The Hon. Daines Barrington, F.R.S. ---
annotations on two journals compiled by
Gilbert White . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--93
Brian J. Ford The Leeuwenhoekiana of Clifford Dobell 95--105
R. V. J. Book Review: \booktitleThe Royal
Institution: An Informal History by
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by John Murray, London 1985, \pounds
13.95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--110
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Marie Boas Hall Boyle's method of work: Promoting his
corpuscular philosophy . . . . . . . . . 111--143
D. R. Oldroyd Some writings of Robert Hooke on
procedures for the prosecution of
scientific inquiry, including his
`\booktitleLectures of Things Requisite
to a Ntral History' . . . . . . . . . . 145--167
K. A. Baird Some influences upon the young Isaac
Newton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--179
R. Berman I. Lindemann in Physics . . . . . . . . 181--189
R. V. Jones, F.R.S. 2. Lindemann beyond the laboratory . . . 191--210
Krishna R. Dronamraju On some aspects of the life and work of
John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, F.R.S.,
in India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--237
Sir Charles Frank, F.R.S. and
John W. Steeds Erratum: Prince Rupert's Drops . . . . . 239--239
Anonymous Index to \booktitleNotes and Records,
Volumes 31 to 40 (1976--1986) . . . . . 241--262
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D. G. King-Hele and
A. R. Hall Newton's \booktitlePrincipia and its
legacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--122
D. G. King-Hele, F.R.S. Introductory remarks . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
A. R. Hall, F.B.A. Newtonianism after 300 years . . . . . . 5--9
D. T. Whiteside, F.B.A. The evolution of the \booktitlePrincipia
from 1665 to 1686 . . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
E. A. Fellmann The \booktitlePrincipia and continental
mathematicians . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--34
P. Casini Newton's \booktitlePrincipia and the
philosophers of the Enlightenment . . . 35--52
D. W. Hughes The \booktitlePrincipia and comets . . . 53--74
P. M. Harman Newton to Maxwell: The
`\booktitlePrincipia' and British
Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--96
J. M. T. Thompson, F.R.S. The \booktitlePrincipia and contemporary
mechanics: Chaotic dynamics and the new
unpredictability . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--122
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Anonymous [Illustration]: Isaac Newton by Godfrey
Kneller, Reproduced by Kind Permission
of the Earl of Portsmouth . . . . . . . NP--NP
Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson Some Spanish contributions to the early
activities of the Royal Society of
London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--132
R. H. Nuttall That curious curiosity: The scotoscope 133--138
Margaret Bullard My small Newtonian sweeper --- where is
it now? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--148
D. G. King-Hele, F.R.S. Erasmus Darwin, man of ideas and
inventor of words . . . . . . . . . . . 149--180
J. V. Jensen Thomas Henry Huxley's lecture tour of
the United States, 1876 . . . . . . . . 181--195
E. M. Wright Number theory and other reminiscences of
Viscount Cherwell . . . . . . . . . . . 197--204
J. W. Boag and
D. Shoenberg Letters from Kapitza to his mother,
1921--27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--228
Sir Rudolf Peierls, F.R.S. Rutherford and Bohr . . . . . . . . . . 229--241
Mary Fellgett Some influences on the young Isaac
Newton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--243
Anonymous Index to \booktitleNotes and Records,
Volume 42, 1988 . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--246
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J. C. D. Brand The discovery of the Raman effect . . . 1--23
P. B. Wood Hevelius's business: an unpublished
letter from Henry Oldenburg to the Earl
of Tweeddale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--29
D. L. Simms and
P. L. Hinkley Brighter than how many suns? Sir Isaac
Newton's burning mirror . . . . . . . . 31--51
T. M. Charlton An extension of Maxwell's theory of
pin-jointed frameworks by M. W. Crofton,
F.R.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--56
D. S. Landes The Wilkins Lecture, 1988 hand and mind
in time measurement: the contributions
of art and science . . . . . . . . . . . 57--69
G. J. Whitrow Newton's role in the history of
Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--92
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Sir George Porter, P.R.S. Welcome and introduction . . . . . . . . 95--96
A. R. Hall, F.B.A. Chairman's remarks . . . . . . . . . . . 97--98
M. C. W. Hunter The Crown, the public and the new
science, 1689--1702 . . . . . . . . . . 99--116
J. R. Bruijn William III and his two navies . . . . . 117--132
J. M. Dunn `Bright enough for all our purposes':
John Locke's conception of a civilized
society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--153
J. H. Leopold Clockmaking in Britain and the
Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--165
Simon Schaffer The Glorious Revolution and medicine in
Britain and the Netherlands . . . . . . 167--190
L. C. Palm Leeuwenhoek and other Dutch
correspondents of the Royal Society . . 191--207
H. A. M. Snelders Christiaan Huygens and Newton's Theory
of Gravitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--222
A. E. Shapiro Huygens' \booktitleTraité de la lumi\`ere
and Newton's \booktitleOpticks: pursuing
and eschewing hypotheses . . . . . . . . 223--247
A. R. Hall, F.B.A. The Leeuwenhoek Lecture, 1988, Antoni
Van Leeuwenhoek 1632--1723 . . . . . . . 249--273
J. S. Rowlinson Book Review --- \booktitleScience,
medicine and dissent: Joseph Priestley
(1733--1804) (papers celebrating the
250th anniversary of the birth of Joseph
Priestley together with a catalogue of
an exhibition held at the Royal Society
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History of Medicine), edited by R. G. W.
Anderson & C. Lawrence (pp. ix + 105).
Published by Wellcome Trust and Science
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Volume 43, 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--279
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E. T. Tozer Discovery of an ammonoid specimen
described by Robert Hooke . . . . . . . 3--12
A. Rupert Hall, F.B.A. Beyond the fringe: diffraction as seen
by Grimaldi, Fabri, Hooke and Newton . . 13--23
John H. Appleby Daniel Dumaresq, D.D., F.R.S.
(1712--1805) as a promoter of
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Nicholas Griffin and
Albert C. Lewis Bertrand Russell's mathematical
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Bertha Swirles Jeffreys John Arthur Gaunt (1904--1944) . . . . . 73--79
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David J. Thomas and
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Jonathan Andrews A respectable mad --- doctor? Dr Richard
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M. V. Wilkes, F.R.S. Herschel, Peacock, Babbage and the
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E. M. Tansey George Eliot's support for physiology:
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H. Lipson, F.R.S. Reminiscences and discoveries, the
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crystal-structure determination . . . . 257--264
Marie Boas Hall Essay reviews: The early years of the
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Ivor Grattan-Guinness Bertrand Russell (1872--1970) after
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Roy Porter Books and papers concerned with the
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D. T. Whiteside The prehistory of the
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Sir William Hawthorne, F.R.S. The early history of the aircraft gas
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Sir Alan Cook, F.R.S. Edmond Halley and Newton's
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John H. Appleby Robert Dingley, F.R.S. (1710--1781),
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Anonymous The young Mozart in the
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[\booktitleRobert Hooke: new studies.
Edited by Michael Hunter & Simon
Schaffer. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The
Boydell Press, 1989. Pp. x + 310,
\pounds 39.50. ISBN 0-85115-523-5] . . . 257--261
Peter J. Bowler Essay reviews: The species theory
evolves [\booktitleThe correspondence of
Charles Darwin. Volume IV (1847--1850)
(ed. Frederick Burkhardt & Sydney Smith)
Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp.
xxxiii + 711, \pounds 32.50. ISBN
0-521-25590-2. \booktitleVolume V
(1851--1855). 1989. Pp. xxix + 705.
\pounds 32.50. ISBN 0-521-25591-0.
\booktitleVolume VI (1856--1857). 1990.
Pp. xxix + 673. \pounds 35.00 ISBN
0-521-25586-4] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--265
Frank A. J. L. James Essay reviews: Maxwell's early career
[P. M. Harman, \booktitleThe scientific
letters and papers of James Clerk
Maxwell. Volume 1. 1846--1862. Cambridge
University Press, 1990. Pp. xxvii + 748,
\pounds 125.00. ISBN 0-521-25625-9] . . 266--270
Ivor Grattan-Guinness Essay reviews: At the feet of Whitehead
[Victor Lowe, \booktitleAlfred North
Whitehead. The man and his work. Volume
I (1861--1910). Baltimore and London:
The Johns Hopkins University Press,
1986. Pp. xi + 352, \pounds 27.00. ISBN
0-8018-2488-5 Victor Lowe with L.B.
McHenry, Volume II (1910--1947), ed. J.
B. Schneewind, 1990. Pp. xi + 389. ISBN
0-8018-3960-2] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--276
Stuart Hollingdale Book reviews: \booktitleBefore Newton:
the life and times of Isaac Barrow.
Edited by Mordechai Feingold. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xi
+ 380, \pounds 35.00. ISBN 0-521-30694-9 277--279
Leslie Green Book reviews: Peter Rowlands,
\booktitleOliver Lodge and the Liverpool
Physical Society. Liverpool: Liverpool
University Press, 1990. Pp. 336, \pounds
15.00. ISBN 0-85323-027-7 . . . . . . . 279--281
Stephen F. Mason Book reviews --- Robert Robinson:
chemist extraordinary [Trevor I.
Williams, \booktitleRobert Robinson:
chemist extraordinary. Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1990. Pp. viii + 201, \pounds
25.00. ISBN 0-19-858180-7] . . . . . . . 281--284
John Postgate Book reviews: What mad pursuit: a
personal view of scientific discovery
[Francis Crick, \booktitleWhat mad
pursuit: a personal view of scientific
discovery. London: Penguin Books, 1990.
Pp. 182, \pounds 4.99. ISBN
0-14-011973-6] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284--286
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Stephen F. Mason, F.R.S. Bishop John Wilkins, F.R.S. (1614--72):
Analogies of thought-style in the
Protestant reformation and early modern
science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--21
Marie Boas Hall Frederick Slare, F.R.S. (1648--1727) . . 23--41
M. Yakup Bektas and
Maurice Crosland The Copley Medal: The establishment of a
reward system in the Royal Society,
1731--1839 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--76
Martin Kemp, F.B.A. True to their natures: Sir Soshua
Reynolds and Dr William Hunter at the
Royal Academy of Arts . . . . . . . . . 77--88
James R. Smith Sir George Everest, F.R.S. (1790--1866) 89--102
Allan Chapman George Biddell Airy, F.R.S.
(1801--1892): a centenary commemoration 103--110
A. J. Meadows Astronomy and geology, terrible muses!
Tennyson and 19th-century science . . . 111--118
Sir William Paton, F.R.S. The Fellowship of the Royal Society and
its work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--128
T. E. Allibone, F.Eng., F.R.S. Philately and the Royal Society . . . . 129--154
Sir Michael Atiyah Address of the President, Sir Michael
Atiyah, given at the Anniversary Meeting
on 29 November 1991 . . . . . . . . . . 155--169
P. B. Moon, F.R.S. Reminiscences and discoveries the
(London) physics club, 1928--1953 . . . 171--174
Peter Fellgett, F.R.S. A reminiscence of the Cavendish
Laboratory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--176
Joan Mason Book Review: Women in Science: Breaking
out of the Circle [Marilyn Bailey
Ogilvie, \booktitleWomen in science,
antiquity through the nineteenth
century. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT
Press, 1986. Pp. xi + 254, \pounds
24.75. ISBN 0-262-15031-X. Margaret
Alic, \booktitleHypatia's heritage: a
history of women in science from
antiquity to the late nineteenth
century. London: The Women's Press,
1986. Pp. ix + 230, \pounds 4.95. ISBN
0-7043-3954-4. Londa Schiebinger,
\booktitleThe mind has no sex? Women in
the origins of modem science. Cambridge,
Massachusetts: Harvard University Press,
1989. Pp. xi + 355, \pounds 23.50. ISBN
0-674-57623-3. Patricia Phillips,
\booktitleThe scientific lady: a social
history of woman's scientific interests
1520--1918. London: Weidenfeld and
Nicolson, 1990. Pp. xiii + 279, \pounds
25.00. ISBN 0-297-82043-5.
\booktitleUneasy careers and intimate
lives: women in science, 1789--1979.
Edited by Pnina G. Abir-Am & Dorinda
Outram. New Brunswick: Rutgers
University Press, 1987. Pp. xiii + 365,
\pounds 11.00. ISBN 0-8135-1255-7.
\booktitleWomen of science: righting the
record. Edited by G. Kass-Simon &
Patricia Fames. Bloomington, Indiana:
Indiana University Press, 1990. Pp. xvi
+ 398, \$39.95. ISBN 0-253-33264-8]} . . 177--182
F. Hoyle The achievement of Dirac . . . . . . . . 183--187
R. V. Jones Book reviews --- The Leeuwenhoek legacy
[Brian J. Ford, \booktitleThe
Leeuwenhoek legacy. London: Farrand
Press, 1991. Pp. 185, \pounds 25.00.
ISBN 1-85083-016-9] . . . . . . . . . . 189--190
A. Rupert Hall Book reviews: \booktitleRichard
Rawlinson: a tercentenary memorial.
Edited by Georgian R. Tashjian, David R.
Tashjian and Brian J. Enright. New
Issues Press, Western Michigan
University, 1990. Pp. xviii + 221. ISBN
0-932826-23-7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190--191
Jack Morrell Book Reviews: \booktitleRobert A.
Stafford, Scientist of empire: Sir
Roderick Murchison, scientific
exploration and Victorian imperialism
[Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp.
xi + 293, \pounds 30.00. ISBN
0-521-33537-X] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--193
John Postgate Book reviews: \booktitleEvolutionary
studies, a centenary celebration of the
life of Julian Huxley. Edited by Milo
Keynes & G. Ainsworth Harrison. London:
Macmillan, 1989. Pp. 256, \pounds 63.00.
ISBN 0-333-45723-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 193--196
Michael M. Woolfson Book reviews: \booktitleSelections and
reflections: the legacy of Sir Lawrence
Bragg. Edited by John M. Thomas and Sir
David Phillips. Northwood, Middlesex:
Science Reviews Ltd, 1990. Pp. 308,
\pounds 27.00. ISBN 0-905927-43-5 . . . 196--198
Patricia H. Clarke, F.R.S. Book reviews: A very decided preference
[Jean Medawar, \booktitleA very decided
preference: Life with Peter Medawar.
Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. 256,
\pounds 15.00. ISBN 0-19-217779-6] . . . 198--200
R. Hanbury Brown Book Reviews: Bernard Lovell,
\booktitleAstronomer by Chance. London:
Macmillan, 1991. Pp. 380, \pounds 18.99.
ISBN 0-333-55195-8 . . . . . . . . . . . 200--202
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
V. S. Kirsanov The earliest copy in Russia of Newton's
\booktitlePrincipia: is it David
Gregory's annotated copy? . . . . . . . 203--218
Derek Massarella Philip Henry Zollman, the Royal
Society's First Assistant Secretary for
Foreign Correspondence . . . . . . . . . 219--234
W. Johnson, F.Eng., F.R.S. Benjamin Robins, F.R.S. (1707--1751):
new details of his life . . . . . . . . 235--252
D. G. King-Hele, F.R.S. Shelley and science . . . . . . . . . . 253--265
A. Synge J. D. Bernal, F.R.S.: family, school and
university . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--278
Joan Mason The admission of the first women to the
Royal Society of London . . . . . . . . 279--300
Bertha Swirles, (Lady Jeffreys) Reminiscences and discoveries: Harold
Jeffreys from 1891 to 1940 . . . . . . . 301--308
R. L. M. Synge, F.R.S. How the Robinsons nearly invented
partition chromatography in 1934 . . . . 309--311
Stephen F. Mason Essay Reviews: The Spring-tide of
Experimental Philosophy [Marie Boas
Hall, \booktitlePromoting Experimental
Learning: Experiment and the Royal
Society, 1660--1727. Cambridge
University Press, 1991. Pp. Xiii + 207,
\pounds 35.00 ISBN 0-521-40503-3] . . . 313--316
Crosbie Smith The genius of Michael Faraday . . . . . 317--323
A. R. Hall and
M. B. Hall Richard Ollard, \booktitlePepys: a
biography. London: Sinclair-Stevenson,
1991. Pp. 411, \pounds 25. ISBN
1-85619-066-8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--326
L. S. Jacyna Book reviews: Sir James Paget: the rise
of clinical surgery [Shirley Roberts,
\booktitleSir James Paget: the rise of
clinical surgery. Royal Society of
Medicine, 1990. Pp. 223. \pounds 12.95
(hardback), \pounds 7.95 (softback).
ISBN 0-905958-91-8] . . . . . . . . . . 326--327
John Postgate Book reviews: Darwin [Adrian Desmond &
James Moore, \booktitleDarwin. London:
Michael Joseph, 1991. Pp. 808, \pounds
20.00. ISBN 0-3403-3] . . . . . . . . . 327--328
Mikulá\vs Teich Book reviews: \booktitleEssays on
science: felicitation volume in honour
of Dr Joseph Needham. Edited by Hakim
Mohammed Said. Karachi: Hamdard
Foundation Pakistan, 1990. Pp. xiii +
267. Pak.Rs. 400.00, \$40.00, \pounds
20.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--330
Sam Edwards Book review: \booktitleSir Charles Frank
O.B.E., F.R.S.; an eightieth birthday
tribute [Edited by R. G. Chambers, J. E.
Enderby, A. Keller, A. R. Lang & J. W.
Steeds. Bristol: Adam Hilger, 1991. Pp.
xii + 448, \pounds 27.50. ISBN
0-7503-0100-7] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330--331
Bernard Lovell Book reviews: R. Hanbury Brown,
\booktitleBoffin: a personal story of
the early days of radar, radio astronomy
and quantum optics [Bristol: Adam
Hilger, 1991, \pounds 17.50. ISBN
0-7503-0130-9] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--334
Alan J. Clark The history of the Royal Society: a
chronological checklist of books in
English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--345
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
I. Bernard Cohen Newton's description of the reflecting
telescope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9
Guy Meynell André De Monceaux, F.R.S. 1670 . . . . . 11--15
D. J. Bryden Magnetic inclinatory needles: approved
by the Royal Society? . . . . . . . . . 17--31
R. K. Kochhar Ardaseer Cursetjee (1808--1877), the
first Indian Fellow of the Royal Society
of London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--47
Andrew Warwick Frequency, theorem and formula:
remembering Joseph Larmor in
electromagnetic theory . . . . . . . . . 49--60
Sir William McCrea, F.R.S. Sir Ralph Howard Fowler, 1889--1944: a
centenary lecture . . . . . . . . . . . 61--78
Margaret Gowing, F.R.S., F.B.A. James Chadwick and the atomic bomb . . . 79--92
Roy H. W. Johnston J. D. Bernal, F.R.S.: some Irish
influences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--103
Ivor Grattan-Guinness The Sylvester Medal: origins, and
recipients 1901--1949 . . . . . . . . . 105--108
Michael Atiyah Address of the President, Sir Michael
Atiyah, O. M., given at the Anniversary
Meeting on 30 November 1992 . . . . . . 109--118
Sir Bernard Lovell, F.R.S. Reminiscences and discoveries: The
Blackett--Eckersley--Lovell
correspondence of World War II and the
origin of Jodrell Bank . . . . . . . . . 119--131
Andrew Huxley Essay review: Living with electrical
impulses [Alan Hodgkin, \booktitleChance
and Design. Reminiscences of Science in
Peace and War. Cambridge University
Press, 1992. Pp. 412, \pounds 40.00.
ISBN 0-521-40099-6] . . . . . . . . . . 133--139
Marie Boas Hall Book reviews --- Dispenser of
restoration medicine [J. Trevor Hughes,
\booktitleThomas Willis 1621--1675: His
Life and Work. London, Royal Society of
Medicine Services, 1991. Pp. xvi + 151,
\pounds 12.95 (hdbk), \pounds 7.95
(pbk). ISBN 1-85315-162-9] . . . . . . . 141--142
John Hedley Brooke Book reviews: Immaterial beings or
substantiated experiments? [A. Rupert
Hall, \booktitleHenry More. Magic,
Religion and Experiment. Oxford:
Blackwell, 1990. Pp. 304, \pounds 30.00.
ISBN 0-631-17295-5] . . . . . . . . . . 142--144
David E. Allen Book reviews: Spider-man at work
[\booktitleMartin Lister's English
Spiders 1678. Translated by Malcolm
Davies & Basil Harley. Edited by John
Parker & Basil Harley. Colchester, Harley
Books, 1992. Pp. xv + 208, \pounds
49.95. ISBN 0-946589-27-5] . . . . . . . 144--145
Lise Wilkinson Book reviews: Out, damned spots!
[Richard B. Fisher, \booktitleEdward
Jenner 1749--1823. London: André Deutsch,
1991. Pp. 361, \pounds 20.00. ISBN
0-233-98681-2] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--147
Geoffrey Cantor Book reviews: In love with light: [Larry
J. Schaaf, \booktitleOut of the Shadows.
Herschel, Talbot and the Invention of
Photography. New Haven and London: Yale
University Press, 1992. Pp. xii + 188,
\pounds 26.50. ISBN 0-300-05705-9] . . . 147--149
Peter J. Bowler Book reviews: Science in the service of
society [Mary P. English,
\booktitleVictorian Values: The Life and
Times of Dr Edwin Lankester, M.D.,
F.R.S. Bristol: Biopress Ltd., 1990. Pp.
187, \pounds 33.95. ISBN 0-948737-14-X] 149--150
Colin A. Russell Book reviews: Evangelist for science [J.
Vernon Jensen, \booktitleThomas Henry
Huxley: Communicating for Science.
London and Toronto: Associated
University Presses, 1991. Pp. 253.
\pounds 29.95. ISBN 0-87413-379-3] . . . 150--152
Michael Redhead Book Reviews: Unveiling the atom
[Abraham Pais, \booktitleNiels Bohr's
Times, in Physics, Philosophy and
Polity. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1991.
Pp. xvii + 565, \pounds 25.00. ISBN
0-19-852049-2] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--154
G. B. R. Feilden Book Review: Master of the airs
[\booktitleSydney Camm and the
Hurricane: Perspectives on the Master
Fighter Designer and his finest
Achievement. Edited by Dr John W.
Fozard, F.R.S. Airlife Publishing,
Shrewsbury, 1992. Pp. 256, \pounds
25.00. ISBN 1-85310-270-9] . . . . . . . 154--155
L. Mestel Book Reviews: `Mathematics of the city
of heaven' [S. Chandrasekhar,
\booktitleSelected Papers. Volume 3:
Stochastic Statistical and Hydromagnetic
Problems in Physics and Astronomy Pp.
xiv + 642; Volume 4: \booktitlePlasma
Physics, Hydrodynamic and Hydromagnetic
Stability, and Applications of the
Tensor--virial Theorem. Pp. xiii + 586;
Volume 5: \booktitleRelativistic
Astrophysics. Pp. xx + 588; Volume 6:
\booktitleThe Mathematical Theory of
Black Holes and of Colliding Plane
Waves. Pp. xix + 740. University of
Chicago Press, 1989--91] . . . . . . . . 156--158
Sir Francis Graham-Smith, F.R.S. Book reviews: Seeing through the clouds
[Bernard Lovell, \booktitleEchoes of
War: The Story of H$_2$S Radar. Bristol:
Adam Hilger, 1992. Pp. xxi + 287,
\pounds 17.50. ISBN 0-85274-317-3] . . . 159--160
R. V. Jones Corrigendum: Lindemann beyond the
Laboratory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--161
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Sir Alan Cook, F.R.S. Halley the Londoner . . . . . . . . . . 163--177
Anita McConnell L. F. Marsigli's visit to London in
1721, and his report on the Royal
Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--204
Allan Chapman Pure research and practical teaching:
the astronomical career of James
Bradley, 1693--1762 . . . . . . . . . . 205--212
Ruth Stungo The Royal Society Specimens from the
Chelsea Physic Garden, 1722--1799 . . . 213--224
W. Johnson, F.Eng., F.R.S. Richard Jack and Henry Baker, F.R.S., in
the Late Summer of 1746 . . . . . . . . 225--231
Anthony Hall-Patch Charles Blacker Vignoles, F.R.S. . . . . 233--242
Ronald Anderson The referees' assessment of Faraday's
electromagnetic induction paper of 1831 243--256
J. Vernon Jensen Thomas Henry Huxley's address at the
opening of the Johns Hopkins University
in September 1876 . . . . . . . . . . . 257--269
Sir Brian Pippard, F.R.S. Siegfried Ruhemann (1859--1943), F.R.S.
1914--1923 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--276
Arthur J. Birch, F.R.S. Investigating a scientific legend: the
tropinone synthesis of Sir Robert
Robinson, F.R.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--296
Alan J. Clark Notes on the history of nos. 6, 7, 8 & 9
Carlton House Terrace, with a list of
known occupants, 1829--1967 . . . . . . 297--303
N. W. Pirie Essay review: Broad-minded biologist
[Christopher Sexton, \booktitleThe Seeds
of Time: the Life of Sir Macfarlane
Burnet. Oxford University Press, 1991.
Pp. 301, \pounds 19.95. ISBN
0-19-553274-0] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--310
A. Rupert Hall Book reviews: Ministry of science?
[Julian Martin, \booktitleFrancis Bacon,
the State, and the Reform of Natural
Philosophy. Cambridge University Press,
1992. Pp. xiv + 236, \pounds 35 (hdbk).
ISBN 0-521-38249-1] . . . . . . . . . . 311--311
D. G. King-Hele Book reviews: Open Eurobook
[\booktitleThe Rise of Scientific
Europe, 1500--1800, edited by David
Goodman and Colin A. Russell. Hodder &
Stoughton and the Open University, 1991.
Pp. ix + 437, \pounds 14.99 ISBN
0-340-55861-X] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--313
W. Johnson Book reviews: Newtonianism Pour la
France [\booktitleÉléments de la
Philosophie de Newton, by Voltaire.
Edited by Robert L. Walters and W. H.
Barber. Oxford: the Voltaire Foundation,
Taylor Institution, 1992] . . . . . . . 313--315
David E. Allen Book Reviews: Top-drawer birdman [A.
Stuart Mason, \booktitleGeorge Edwards:
the Bedell and his Birds. London: Royal
College of Physicians, 1992. Pp. viii +
71, \pounds 10.00. ISBN 1-873240-48-1] 316--317
Stephen F. Mason Book reviews: Poet, chemist --- and
sage? [David Knight, \booktitleHumphry
Davy: Science and Power. Oxford:
Blackwells, 1992. Pp. 218 + xiii,
\pounds 30.00. ISBN 0-631-16816-8] . . . 317--319
John Postgate Book reviews: Evolution in perspective
[Peter J. Bowler, \booktitleCharles
Darwin --- The Man and his Influence.
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990. Pp. xii +
250, \pounds 19.95. ISBN 0-631-16818-4] 320--321
R. Angus Buchanan Book reviews: A cornucopia of
instruments [\booktitleScience
Preserved: A Directory of Scientific
Instruments in Collections in the United
Kingdom and Eire. Compiled by Mary
Holbrook, with additions and revisions
by R.G.W. Anderson and D.J. Bryden.
Published by the Trustees of the Science
Museum on behalf of the British National
Committee for the History of Science,
Technology and Medicine. London: HMSO,
1992. Pp. 271, \pounds 35. ISBN
0-11-290060-7] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--322
Raymond Hide, F.R.S. Book Review: Mathematical physicist par
excellence: Kameshwar C. Wali,
\booktitleChandra: A Biography of S.
Chandrasekhar. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1991. Pp. x + 341,
\pounds 13.50, ISBN 0-226-87055-3 . . . 322--324
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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J. R. Philip, F.R.S. An innumerate President of the Royal
Society? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--10
Hideto Nakajima Robert Hooke's family and his youth:
some new evidence from the will of the
Rev. John Hooke . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--16
John H. Appleby James Spilman, F.R.S. (1680--1763), and
Anglo--Russian commerce . . . . . . . . 17--29
W. Johnson, F.Eng., F.R.S. Benjamin Robins during 1739--1742:
`called to a publick employment \ldots a
very honorable post' . . . . . . . . . . 31--42
Kevin J. Fraser John Hill and the Royal Society in the
eighteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . 43--67
Milo Keynes Portraits of Dr Erasmus Darwin, F.R.S.,
by Joseph Wright, James Rawlinson and
William Coffee . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--84
J. Edmund White The Priestley memorial volume . . . . . 85--96
A. W. F. Edwards R. A. Fisher on Karl Pearson . . . . . . 97--106
D. A. B. Young Ramanujan's illness . . . . . . . . . . 107--119
John H. Appleby A new lease of life for 71 missing
Fellows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--125
Michael Atiyah Address of the President, Sir Michael
Atiyah, O. M., given at the Anniversary
Meeting on 30 November 1993 . . . . . . 127--133
Sir Rudolf Peierls, F.R.S. Reminiscences and discoveries:
Recollections of James Chadwick . . . . 135--141
John Postgate Essay reviews: Eugenics revisited
[\booktitleSir Francis Galton, F.R.S.
--- The Legacy of his Ideas. Proceedings
of the twenty-eighth annual symposium of
the Galton Institute, 1991. Edited by
Milo Keynes. London: Macmillan, 1993. Pp
x + 237, \pounds 40. ISBN 0-333-54695-4] 143--146
Sir Charles Frank, F.R.S. Book Review: An Uncertain Life. David C.
Cassidy, \booktitleUncertainty: The Life
and Science of Werer Heisenberg. W. H.
Freeman and Co., New York, 1991.
\$29.95, pp. xii + 669. ISBN
0-7167-2243-7} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--151
Marie Boas Hall Book Review: Surveyor of the
Restoration. Frances Willmoth,
\booktitleSir Jonas Moore: Practical
Mathematics and Restoration Science.
Woodbridge, The Boydell Press, 1993.
Pp.xi + 244. \pounds 35. ISBN
0-85115-321-6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--154
Stuart Hollingdale Book Review: `Voyaging through strange
seas of thought, alone': A. Rupert Hall.
\booktitleIsaac Newton: Adventurer in
Thought. Blackwells, Oxford, 1992. Pp.
xv + 468, \pounds 19.99. ISBN
0-631-17906-2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--156
Alan Q. Morton Book Review: Previous public perceptions
of science: Larry Stewart, \booktitleThe
Rise of Public Science: Rhetoric,
Technology and Natural Philosophy in
Newtonian Britain, 1660--1750. Cambridge
UP, 1992. Pp. 34 + 453, \pounds 45, ISBN
0-521-41700-7 Jan Golinski,
\booktitleScience as Public Culture:
Chemistry and Enlightenment in Britain,
1760--1820. Cambridge UP, 1992. Pp. 330,
\pounds 32.50. ISBN 0-521-39414-7 . . . 157--159
D. G. King-Hele Book Review: `Vase-maker general to the
Universe': Robin Reilly,
\booktitleJosiah Wedgwood, 1730--1795.
Macmillan London, 1992. pp. xii + 412,
\pounds 20. ISBN 0-333-51041-0 . . . . . 159--161
Hugh S. Torrens Book Review: First-class third man? John
Griffiths, \booktitleThe Third Man ---
the Life and Times of William Murdoch
(1754--1839) --- the Inventor of Gas
Lighting. London: André Deutsch, 1992.
Pp. 373, \pounds 20. ISBN 0-233-98778-9 161--163
Quentin Bone Book Review: Pictures from the past:
Brian J. Ford, \booktitleImages of
Science --- A History of Scientific
Illustration, London: The British
Library, 1993. Pp. viii + 208, ISBN
0-7123-0267-0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--164
R. V. Jones Addendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--165
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Allan Chapman Edmond Halley's use of historical
evidence in the advancement of science 167--191
D. J. Bryden John Gedde's bee-house and the Royal
Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--213
W. Johnson, F.Eng., F.R.S. Voltaire after 300 years . . . . . . . . 215--220
W. Johnson, F.Eng., F.R.S. Edward Gibbon and George Grote: a
bicentenary in common . . . . . . . . . 221--226
Joel Mandelstam, F.R.S. Du Chaillu's stuffed gorillas and the
savants from the British Museum . . . . 227--245
Brebis Bleaney, F.R.S. The physical sciences in Oxford,
1918--1939 and earlier . . . . . . . . . 247--261
Robin J. H. Clark, F.R.S. and
Michael J. Kelly, F.R.S. New Zealand, New Zealanders and the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--281
Sir Bernard Lovell, F.R.S. The Royal Society, the Royal Greenwich
Observatory and the Astronomer Royal . . 283--297
J. R. Holt, F.R.S. Reminiscences and discoveries: James
Chadwick at Liverpool . . . . . . . . . 299--308
Janet Browne Essay reviews: Cataloguing for Empire
[Richard Owen, \booktitleThe Hunterian
Lectures in Comparative Anatomy. May and
June 1837. Edited with an Introduction
by Phillip Reid Sloan. Natural History
Museum Publications, 1992. Pp. xii +
340, \pounds 37.50 hardback, \pounds
15.95 paper. ISBN 0-565-01106-5,
0-565-01144-8. Jacob W. Gruber and John
C. Thackray, \booktitleRichard Owen
Commemoration: Three Studies. Historical
Studies in the Life and Earth Sciences
No. 1. Natural History Museum
Publications, 1992. Pp. x + 181, \pounds
29.95. ISBN 0-565-01109-X] . . . . . . . 309--311
H. Bondi Essay Reviews: Einstein illuminated
[Roger Highfield and Paul Carter,
\booktitleThe Private Lives of Albert
Einstein. Faber & Faber, 1993. \pounds
15.99. ISBN 0-571-16744-6] . . . . . . . 313--316
Stephen F. Mason Book Reviews: A theosophical Boyle?
[\booktitleRobert Boyle Reconsidered.
Edited by Michael Hunter. Cambridge
University Press, 1994. Pp. xviii + 231,
\pounds 30.00. ISBN 0-521-44205-2] . . . 317--319
David E. Cartwright Book Reviews: Naval maverick [Hugh
Popham, \booktitleA Damned Cunning
Fellow --- The Eventful Life of Rear
Admiral Sir Home Popham, K.C.B., K.C.H.,
K.M., F.R.S., 1762--1820. The Old Ferry
Press, 53 Vicarage Road, Tywardreath,
Cornwall, 1991. Pp. xiii + 256, \pounds
27.50. ISBN 0-9516758-0-X] . . . . . . . 319--320
Eric H. Mansfield Book Reviews: The miller of Sneinton [D.
M. Cannell, \booktitleGeorge Green,
Mathematician & Physicist 1793--1841.
Athlone Press, 1993. Pp. xxvi + 265,
\pounds 35 (hdbk). ISBN 0-485-11433-X] 321--322
Alan Muir Wood Book Reviews: Self-confident engineer
[Adrian Vaughan, \booktitleIsambard
Kingdom Brunel: Engineering Knight
Errant. John Murray, paperback, 1993,
\pounds 12.99 (first published 1991).
ISBN 0-7195-5282-6] . . . . . . . . . . 323--325
I. J. Zucker Book reviews: India's mathematical
prodigy [Robert Kanigel, \booktitleThe
Man Who Knew Infinity. A Life of the
Genius Ramanujan. Abacus, 1991. Pp. 438.
\pounds 6.99. ISBN 0-349-10452-2] . . . 325--326
Helen Muir Book reviews: Outrunning the dominant
males [\booktitleWomen Physiologists,
edited by Lynn Bindman, Alison Bruding
and Tilli Tansey. Portland Press, 1993.
\pounds 16.95. ISBN 1-85578-021-6] . . . 327--328
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Milo Keynes The personality of Isaac Newton . . . . 1--56
Lawrence M. Principe Newly discovered Boyle documents in the
Royal Society archive: alchemical tracts
and his student notebook . . . . . . . . 57--70
A. Rupert Hall, F.B.A. John Collins on Newton's telescope . . . 71--78
A. V. Simcock `Reason's dim telescope': a poetic
tirade against Joseph Priestley, F.R.S. 79--84
Cyril A. Clarke, F.R.S. In vitro fertilization in \bionameBombyx
mori, the silkworm. Was John Hunter
right or wrong in 1792? . . . . . . . . 85--92
W. Johnson, F.Eng., F.R.S. Contributors to improving the teaching
of calculus in early 19th-century
England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--103
R. D. Harvey Pioneers of genetics: a comparison of
the attitudes of William Bateson and
Erwin Baur to eugenics . . . . . . . . . 105--117
Sahotra Sarkar J. B. S. Haldane and R. A. Fisher's
draft life of Karl Pearson . . . . . . . 119--124
Joan Mason The women Fellows' jubilee . . . . . . . 125--140
Sir Michael Atiyah, O.M. Address of the President, Sir Michael
Atiyah, O. M., given at the Anniversary
Meeting on 30 November 1994 . . . . . . 141--151
S. Chandrasekhar Reminiscences and Discoveries on
Ramanujan's Bust: University of Chicago,
Chicago, Illinois 60637, U.S.A. . . . . 153--157
Quentin Bone Essay review: Excavator extraordinary
[Mark Bowden, \booktitlePitt Rivers: The
life and archaeological work of
Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane
Fox Pitt Rivers, D.C.L., F.R.S., F.S.A.
Cambridge University Press 1991. Pp.
182, \pounds 27.95. ISBN 0-521-40077-5] 159--162
D. G. King-Hele Book Review: Fine Fellows, most of them:
Michael Hunter, \booktitleThe Royal
Society and its Fellows 1660--1700, 2nd
edition. British Society for the History
of Science, 1994. Pp. ix + 291, \pounds
10 (ppbk). ISBN 0-906450-09-8 . . . . . 163--164
Derek Howse Book Review: Filling naval roles: N. A.
M. Rodger, \booktitleThe Insatiable
Earl: A Life of John Montagu, 4th Earl
of Sandwich 1718--1792. HarperCollins
Publishers, London, 1993. Pp. xviii +
425, 19 illustrations, \pounds 20. ISBN
0-00-215784-5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--166
Robert Anderson Book Review: Royal treasures of science:
Alan Q. Morton and Jane Wess,
\booktitlePublic and Private Science:
The King George III Collection. Oxford
University Press in association with the
Science Museum, 1993. Pp. 710. \pounds
75. ISBN 0-19-856392-2 . . . . . . . . . 167--168
Allan Chapman Book Review: Pre-eminently precise:
Anita McConnell, \booktitleInstrument
Makers to the World. A history of Cooke,
Troughton, and Simms. University of
York, William Sessions, York, 1992. Soft
covers, 116 pp. \pounds 16.00. Eleanor
Mennim, \booktitleTransit Circle. The
story of William Simms, 1793--1860.
William Sessions, York, 1992. Soft
covers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168--170
Crosbie Smith More light on Faraday . . . . . . . . . 170--172
Patricia H. Clarke, F.R.S. Book Review: Dissolving microbes in
dissension [Antony Twort, \booktitleIn
Focus, Out of Step: A Biography of
Frederick William Twort F.R.S. Alan
Sutton Publishing Ltd. Stroud, 1993. pp.
xii + 340. \pounds 25. ISBN
0-7509-0327-9] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--174
Winifred Tutin, F.R.S. Book Review: The invisible company. [G.
Kass-Simon and Patricia Fames (eds).
\booktitleWomen of Science. Indiana
University Press, 1993. Pp. xvi + 398.
\pounds 32.50, paperback \pounds 12.99.
ISBN 0-253-33264-8] . . . . . . . . . . 175--176
R. J. H. Clark and
M. J. Kelly Addendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--177
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
A. Rupert Hall, F.B.A. The Francis affair reconsidered . . . . 179--184
Guy Meynell Locke, Boyle and Peter Stahl . . . . . . 185--192
Graham Jagger Joseph Moxon, F.R.S., and the Royal
Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--208
Robert W. Unwin A provincial man of science at work:
Martin Lister, F.R.S., and his
illustrators 1670--1683 . . . . . . . . 209--230
Desmond King-Hele, F.R.S. Erasmus Darwin's life at Lichfield:
fresh evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--243
Harold B. Carter The Royal Society and the voyage of HMS
Endeavour 1768--71 . . . . . . . . . . . 245--260
Linde Katritzky Coleridge's links with leading men of
science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--276
A. R. Mackintosh, F.R.S. The third man: Charles Drummond Ellis,
1895--1980 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--293
H. C. Bolton and
Alan Roberts On the Comparison of Literary and
Scientific Styles: The Letters and
Articles of Max Born, F.R.S. . . . . . . 295--302
Janos Plesch and
Peter H. Plesch Some reminiscences of Albert Einstein 303--328
B. E. J. Pagel, F.R.S. Essay review: A life of achievement and
controversy [Fred Hoyle, \booktitleHome
is where the Wind Blows. University
Science Books, Mill Valley, California,
1994. Pp. xi + 443, \$28.50. ISBN
0-935702-27-X]} . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--332
Hugh S. Torrens Book reviews: A neglected `Mecca' for
historians of science [Marco Beretta,
\booktitleA History of Non-Printed
Science: a select catalogue of the
Waller Collection. Uppsala, 1993. Pp.
199, 178 Swedish Krona. ISBN
91-554-3070-8 (ISSN 0346-7465)] . . . . 333--334
Marie Boas Hall Book reviews: Boyle anatomized
[\booktitleRobert Boyle by Himself and
his Friends with a fragment of William
Wotton's lost `Life of Boyle'. Edited
with an introduction by Michael Hunter.
London, William Pickering, 1994. Pp.
ciii + 188, \pounds 9.95. ISBN
1-85196-085-6] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334--335
David E. Allen Book reviews: Man of the world
[\booktitleSir Joseph Banks: a global
perspective. Edited by R. E. R. Banks,
B. Elliott, J. G. Hawkes, D. King-Hele &
G. Ll. Lucas (eds), Kew: Royal Botanic
Gardens, 1994. Pp. ii + 235. \pounds
12.00. ISBN 0-947643-61-3] . . . . . . . 336--337
Stephen F. Mason, F.R.S. Book Review: From phlogiston to caloric
and oxygen. [Arthur Donovan,
\booktitleAntoine Lavoisier: Science,
Administration, and Revolution.
Blackwell, Oxford, 1993. Pp. xv + 351.
\pounds 35.00. ISBN 0-521-56672-X] . . . 338--340
A. P. Woolrich Book Review: Engineering myths.
[\booktitlePerceptions of Great
Engineers: fact and fantasy. Edited by
Denis Smith. Science Museum, 1994. Pp.
115, paperback, illus., Price \pounds
9.95 ISBN 0-901805-65-3] . . . . . . . . 340--341
Maurice V. Wilkes Book Review: The Ubiquitous Mr Babbage:
\booktitlePassages from the Life of a
Philosopher [Charles Babbage, Passages
from the Life of a Philosopher (ed. M.
Campbell-Kelly). London. Pickering and
Chatto, 1994. Pp. 392, \pounds 12.95.
ISBN 1-85196-040-6] . . . . . . . . . . 341--342
Joy Harvey Book reviews: Rise and fall of the chief
anatomist [Nicolaas A. Rupke,
\booktitleRichard Owen: Victorian
Naturalist. New Haven & London: Yale
University Press, 1994. Pp. 480, \pounds
35.00. ISBN 0-300-05820-9] . . . . . . . 343--344
Richard D. Keynes Book Review: Darwin's Bulldog. [Adrian
Desmond, \booktitleHuxley: The Devil's
Disciple. London, Michael Joseph, 1994.
Pp. xvii + 475, 38 illustrations,
\pounds 20. ISBN 0-7181-3641-1] . . . . 345--347
Patricia H. Clarke Book Review: Inborn errors of
metabolism. [Alexander G. Beam,
\booktitleArchibald Garrod and the
Individuality of Man. Oxford, Clarendon
Press 1993. Pp. xvi + 227, \pounds 20.
ISBN 0-19-262145-9] . . . . . . . . . . 348--349
Quentin Bone Book Review: Spokesman for science.
[\booktitleJulian Huxley: Biologist and
Statesman of Science. Edited by C.K.
Waters and A. Van Helden. Rice
University Press, 1993. Pp. 344 \$32.50
ISBN 0-89263-314-X]} . . . . . . . . . . 350--352
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
A. Rupert Hall, F.B.A. and
A. D. C. Simpson An account of the Royal Society's Newton
telescope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11
John H. Appleby Human curiosities and the Royal Society,
1699--1751 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--27
Richard Sorrenson Towards a history of the Royal Society
in the eighteenth century . . . . . . . 29--46
Ruth Stungo Recording the Aloes at Chelsea --- a
singular solution to a difficult problem 47--57
Gordon C. Cook Mary Darwin's illness . . . . . . . . . 59--63
Brian Bowers and
Keith Bowers Michael Faraday's geological notes on
the Isle of Wight . . . . . . . . . . . 65--74
P. Lovie and
A. D. Lovie Charles Edward Spearman, F.R.S.
(1863--1945) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--88
Patricia Rothman Grace Chisholm Young and the division of
laurels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--100
Michael Atiyah and
Joseph Rotblat and
Patricia A. Jacobs Address of the President, Sir Michael
Atiyah, O. M., given at the Anniversary
Meeting on 30 November 1995 . . . . . . 101--113
S. Ramaseshan Reminiscences and discoveries: Dorothy
Hodgkin and the Indian connection . . . 115--127
Richard D. Keynes Book Review: The evolution of a theory.
[Janet Browne, \booktitleCharles Darwin
Voyaging. Volume 1 of a Biography.
Jonathan Cape, London, 1995. Pp. xiii +
605, 86 illustrations and maps, \pounds
25. ISBN 0-224-04202-5] . . . . . . . . 129--136
Marie Boas Hall Book Review: Of oak and smoke, inter
alia. [The Writings of John Evelyn
(edited and typeset by Guy de la
Bedoyere). Woodbridge, The Boydell
Press, 1995. Pp. 435, \pounds 39.50.
ISBN 0-85115-631-2] . . . . . . . . . . 137--138
Stephen F. Mason Hooke recommemorated. [Richard Nichols,
\booktitleThe Diaries of Robert Hooke,
The Leonardo of London, 1635--1703.
Lewes, Sussex: The Book Guild, 1994, Pp.
185, \pounds 15.00. ISBN 0-86332-930-6] 139--140
Michael Hunter The realm of Prince Rupert. [A. Rupert
Hall, \booktitleNewton, his Friends and
Foes and Science and Society: Historical
Essays on the Relations of Science,
Technology and Medicine. Aldershot:
Variorum, 1993 and 1994; pp. xii + 330
and x + 324, \pounds 49.50 and \pounds
47.50. ISBN 0-86078-347-2 and
0-86078-400-2] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--142
Quentin Bone Book Review: Favourite or outsider?
[George Bartle, \booktitleAn Old Radical
and his Brood, Janus Publishing Co.
London, 1994, \pounds 9.95. ISBN
1-85756-132-5. \booktitleSir John
Bowring, 1792--1872: Aspects of his Life
and Career. Edited by Joyce Youings,
Latimer Trend Plymouth for the
Devonshire Association, 1993, \pounds
9.00. ISBN 0-85214-052-5] . . . . . . . 142--144
David E. Cartwright Book Review: Pedestrian extraordinary.
[Robert L. Richards, \booktitleDr John
Rae. Caedmon of Whitby, Publishers,
1994. Pp. 231, \pounds 10.50
(Paperback). ISBN 0-905355-29-6] . . . . 144--146
John Postgate, F.R.S. Book Review: Saint or Demon? Roslynn D.
Haynes, \booktitleFrom Faust to
Strangelove, Representations of the
Scientist in Western Literature,
Baltimore and London. The Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1994, Pp.417,
paperback \pounds 16.50, (Hardback
\pounds 45.50). ISBN 0-8018-4801-6 . . . 146--147
D. G. King-Hele Farewell Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . 149--149
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Sir Alan Cook, F.R.S. Preface [from the new Editor] . . . . . 151--151
Sir Alan Cook, F.R.S. The 350th anniversary of the birth of G.
W. Leibniz, F.R.S. . . . . . . . . . . . 153--163
Katherine Hill Neither ancient nor modern: Wallis and
Barrow on the composition of continua.
I. Mathematical styles and the
composition of continua . . . . . . . . 165--178
John H. Appleby James Theobald, F.R.S. (1688--1759),
merchant and natural historian . . . . . 179--189
A. W. F. Edwards Is the frontispiece of
\booktitleGulliver's Travels a likeness
of Newton? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--194
R. Willach New light on the invention of the
achromatic telescope objective . . . . . 195--210
Malcolm Brown How not to `regain paradise': Henry
Bellenden Ker, F.R.S. from 1819 to 1831 211--215
J. K. Bradley and
E. M. Tansey The coming of the electronic age to the
Cambridge Physiological Laboratory: E.
D. Adrian's valve amplifier in 1921 . . 217--228
David Kendall, F.R.S. and
T. D. Kenneth Post, C.B.E. Reminiscences and discoveries: The
British $3$-inch anti-aircraft rocket.
Part one: Dive-bombers . . . . . . . . . 229--239
Richard Hamblyn Essay reviews: The stones of Venice
[\booktitleA Calendar of the
Correspondence of John Strange, F.R.S.
(1732--1799). Edited with an
introduction by Luca Ciancio. London,
The Wellcome Institute for the History
of Medicine, 1995. Pp. 152, \pounds 8.00
(Paperback). ISBN 0-85484-063-X] . . . . 241--244
David W. Hughes Book Reviews: J. C. Adams, Cambridge and
Neptune [H. M. Harrison,
\booktitleVoyager in Time and Space: The
life of John Couch Adams, Cambridge
Astronomer. The Book Guild Ltd, Sussex,
1994. Pp. 282, \pounds 15.00 (Hardbound
ISBN 0-86332-918-7)] . . . . . . . . . . 245--248
Stephen F. Mason Book Reviews: Turning the wheel of
history [Michael Hunter,
\booktitleScience and the Shape of
Orthodoxy: Intellectual Change in Late
Seventeenth-century Britain. Woodbridge,
The Boydell Press, 1995. Pp. xii + 345,
\pounds 55.00. ISBN 0-85115-594-4] . . . 249--250
A. J. Meadows Book Reviews: John Flamsteed, our
astronomical observator [\booktitleThe
Correspondence of John Flamsteed, First
Astronomer Royal. Volume I (1666--1682).
Compiled and edited by Eric G. Forbes
and (for Maria Forbes) by Lesley Murdin
and Frances Willmoth. Bristol, Institute
of Physics Publishing, 1995. Pp. xlix +
955. ISBN 0-7503-0147-3] . . . . . . . . 250--253
D. Lynden-Bell Book reviews: The wonderful geometry of
dynamics [S. Chandrasekhar,
\booktitleNewton's Principia for the
Common Reader: Oxford University Press,
1995. ISBN 0-19-851744-0] . . . . . . . 253--255
Desmond King-Hele Book reviews: Man of many mysteries [Joy
Hancox, \booktitleThe Queen's Chameleon:
the Life of John Byrom. London, Jonathan
Cape, 1994. Pp. 276, \pounds 18.99. ISBN
0-224-03047-7] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256--258
Marie Boas Hall Book reviews: The enlightening of
science [John Gascoigne,
\booktitleJoseph Banks and the English
Enlightenment: Useful Knowledge and
Polite Culture. Cambridge University
Press, 1994. Pp. xi + 324, 111., \pounds
35.00. ISBN 0-521-45077-2] . . . . . . . 258--260
William J. Ashworth Book reviews: Defining Whewell [Richard
Yeo, \booktitleDefining Science: William
Whewell, Natural Knowledge, and Public
Debate in Early Victorian Britain.
Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp.
xiv + 280, \pounds 35.00. ISBN
0-521-43182-4] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260--262
M. M. Woolfson Book Reviews: The gentle pioneer
[\booktitleP. P. Ewald and his Dynamical
Theory of X-ray Diffraction. Edited by
D. W. J. Cruickshank, H. J. Juretschke &
N. Kato. International Union of
Crystallography, Oxford University
Press, 1992. Pp. x + 161, \pounds 40.00.
ISBN 0-19-855379-X] . . . . . . . . . . 263--264
Arnold Wolfendale Book reviews: A magnificent obsession
[G. Venkataraman, \booktitleBhabha and
his Magnificent Obsession Vignettes in
Physics, Sangam Books, London, 1994.
\pounds 6.95 (Paperback) ISBN
0-86311-555-1] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--266
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Alan Cook, F.R.S. Ladies in the Scientific Revolution . . 1--12
Katherine Hill Neither ancient nor modern: Wallis and
Barrow on the composition of continua.
II. The seventeenth-century context: the
struggle between ancient and modern . . 13--22
John H. Appleby The Royal Society and the Tartar lamb 23--34
Susana Gómez López The Royal Society and post-Galilean
Science in Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--44
Derek Hull, F.R.S., F.Eng. Robert Hooke: A fractographic study of
Kettering-stone . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--55
Donald R. Dickson Thomas Henshaw and Sir Robert Paston's
pursuit of the red elixir: An early
collaboration between Fellows of The
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--76
D. A. B. Young Darwin's illness and systemic
\bionameLupus erythematosus . . . . . . 77--86
Kathryn Packer A laboratory of one's own: the life and
works of Agnes Arber, F.R.S.
(1879--1960) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--104
P. G. Tanner and
T. E. Allibone, F.Eng., F.R.S. The patent literature of Nobel laureate
Dennis Gabor (1900--1979) . . . . . . . 105--120
Aaron Klug, O.M., P.R.S. Address of the President, Sir Aaron
Klug, O.M., P.R.S., given at the
Anniversary Meeting on 29 November 1996 121--131
D. Kendall, F.R.S. and
T. D. K.Post, C.B.E. Reminiscences and discoveries: The
British 3-inch anti-aircraft rocket.
Part two: high--flying bombers. . . . . 133--140
Jon Parkin Book review: Locke and Modernity:
Nicholas Wolterstorff, \booktitleJohn
Locke and the Ethics of Belief.
Cambridge Studies in Religion and
Critical Thought, Cambridge University
Press, 1996. Pp. 248, \pounds 14.95.
ISBN 0-521-55909-X, paperback . . . . . 141--142
Jon Parkin Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--157
Anita McConnell Book review: The Danube Displayed:
\booktitleJohn Stoye,
\booktitleMarsigli's Europe 1680--1730,
the Life and Times of Luigi Ferdinando
Marsigli, Soldier and Virtuoso. New
Haven and London, Yale University Press,
1994. Pp. 356 + maps and illust.,
\pounds 29.95. ISBN 0-300-05542-0 . . . 142--144
Nicole Kurtz-Newell Book review: Lavoisier, Scientist and
Public Figure: Arthur Donovan,
\booktitleAntoine Lavoisier: Science,
Administration and Revolution, Cambridge
University press, 1996. ISBN
0-521-56218-X, hardback . . . . . . . . 144--146
Sir Brian Pippard, F.R.S. Book review: A Great Man, After All:
James R. Hofmann, \booktitleAndré-Marie
Amp\`ere. Cambridge University Press,
1996. Pp. xiv + 406, \pounds 40.00. ISBN
0-521-56220-1, hardback . . . . . . . . 146--147
H. S. Torrens Book review: An American in Glasgow (and
elsewhere): Patsy Gerstner,
\booktitleHenry Darwin Rogers,
1808--1866 --- American Geologist.
University of Alabama Press, 1995. Pp.
313, \pounds 44.95. ISBN 0-8173-0735-4 147--148
Richard D. Keynes, C.B.E., F.R.S. Book review: From the Beagle to Down
House: \booktitleCharles Darwin's
Letters. A selection 1825--1859. Edited
by Frederick Burkhardt. Cambridge
University Press, 1996. Pp. xxvi + 249,
2 illustrations and map, \pounds 14.95.
ISBN 0-521-56212-0, hardback . . . . . . 149--150
Sir Bernard Lovell, F.R.S. Book review: The Invention of Radio
Communication: \booktitleOliver Lodge
and the Invention of Radio. Edited by
Peter Rowlands and J. Patrick Wilson. PD
Publications,1994. Pp. vii + 241. ISBN
1-873694-02-4, paperback . . . . . . . . 151--153
Lord Dainton, F.R.S. Book review: Reflections of an Indian
Scientist--Statesman: V. V. Krishna,
\booktitleS. S. Bhatnagar on Science,
Technology and Development 1938--54.
Wiley Eastern, 1993. Pp xiv + 290. ISBN
81-224-0501-0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--155
John C. Taylor Book review: Feynman: Jagdish Mehra,
\booktitleThe Beat of a Different Drum.
The Life and Science of Richard Feynman.
Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. 630,
\pounds 25.00. ISBN 0-19-853948-7,
hardback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--157
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Alan Cook, F.R.S. In this issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--160
M. A. R. Cooper Robert Hooke's work as surveyor for the
City of London in the aftermath of the
Great Fire. Part one: Robert Hooke's
first surveys for the City of London . . 161--174
G. Cantor Quakers in The Royal Society, 1660--1750 175--193
D. Lynden-Bell and
R. M. Lynden-Bell On the shapes of Newton's revolving
orbits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--198
P. Fara The Royal Society's portrait of Joseph
Banks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--210
William S. Pierpoint Edward Stone (1702--1768) and Edmund
Stone (1700--1768): confused identities
resolved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--217
S. Ross The Dalton Entail . . . . . . . . . . . 219--233
D. A. Henderson The miracle of vaccination . . . . . . . 235--245
I. M. James James Joseph Sylvester, F.R.S.
(1814--1897) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--261
J. V. Jeffery The Varley family: engineers and artists 263--279
M. V. Wilkes Sir Edward Appleton and early ionosphere
research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--290
C. Debru On the usefulness of the history of
science for scientific education . . . . 291--307
A. R. Mackintosh The Crocodile and the Elephant . . . . . 309--316
B. Bleaney Jubilees of radio-frequency spectroscopy 317--326
Alan Cook, F.R.S. Essay review: Seeds of the scientific
revolution [Edward Grant, \booktitleThe
Foundations of Modern Science in the
Middle Ages, Their Religious,
Institutional and Intellectual Contexts,
Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp.
xiv + 247. ISBN 0-521-56137-X. Benedino
Gemelli, \booktitleAspetti dell'Atomismo
classico nella Filosofia di Francis
Bacon e nel Seicento, Accademia toscana
di Scienze e Lettere `La Colombaria',
`Studi' CLII, Olschki, Firenze, 1996.
Pp. 433, Lit 86\,000. ISBN
88-222-4460-5] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--334
Sir Alan Cook, F.R.S. Book review: An Astronomical Patriarch:
Anna Cassini, \booktitleGio: Domenico
Cassini Uno scienzato del Seicento.
Comune di Perinaldo, 1994. Pp. 315, Lit
35\,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--337
Alan Cook, F.R.S. Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--348
Frances Willmoth Book review: Reissued: Hall's More and
Newton: A. Rupert Hall, \booktitleHenry
More and the Scientific Revolution.
Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp.
xii + 304, \pounds 40 (hardback). ISBN
0-521-56223-6. A. Rupert Hall,
\booktitleIsaac Newton: Adventurer in
Thought. Cambridge University Press,
1996. Pp. xvi + 468, \pounds 37.50
(hardback) ISBN 0-521-56221-X; \pounds
13.95 (paperback) ISBN 0-521-56669-X . . 337--337
H. S. Torrens Book review: New Insights from Vectia:
Ellen Tan Drake, \booktitleRestless
Genius: Robert Hooke and his Earthly
Thoughts. Oxford University Press, 1996.
Pp. xiv + 386, \$65. ISBN 0-19-506695-2} 338--339
Derek Hull, F.R.S., F.Eng. Book review: Early Microscopists: Edward
G. Ruestow, \booktitleThe Microscope in
the Dutch Republic: The Shaping of
Discovery. Cambridge University Press,
1996. Pp. 348, \pounds 40.00 (hardback).
ISBN 0-521-47078-1 . . . . . . . . . . . 339--340
H. S. Torrens Book review: The Father of Derbyshire
Geology: Maxwell Craven, \booktitleJohn
Whitehurst of Derby: Clockmaker and
Scientist 1713--88, Ashbourne,
Derbyshire, Mayfield Books, 1997. Pp.
272, \pounds 24.99 (hardback). ISBN
0-9523270-3-1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--342
P. M. Harman Book review: The Chemist in the World:
David Knight, \booktitleHumphry Davy,
Science and Power. Cambridge University
Press, 1996. Pp. xiv + 218, c. \pounds
30.00. ISBN 0-521-56309-7 . . . . . . . 343--344
Mary Hesse, F.B.A. Book review: A Philosopher of Science
and Humanism: \booktitleKarl Popper:
Philosophy and Problems. Edited by
Anthony O'Hear. Cambridge University
Press, 1995. Pp. 297, \pounds 14.95.
ISBN 0-521-55815-8 . . . . . . . . . . . 344--346
Noel Coley Book review: Creators of Modern Science:
David, Ian, John and Margaret Millar,
\booktitleThe Cambridge Dictionary of
Scientists. Cambridge University Press,
1996. Pp. 387 + xii, \pounds 30.00
(hardback). ISBN 0-521-56185-X . . . . . 346--348
Anonymous Author Index to \booktitleNotes and
Records, Volume 51, 1997 . . . . . . . . 349--350
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Alan Cook Science from India . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
L. V. Peck Uncovering the Arundel Library at the
Royal Society: changing meanings of
science and the fate of the Norfolk
donation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--24
M. A. R. Cooper Robert Hooke's work as surveyor for the
city of London in the aftermath of the
Great Fire. Part two: certification of
areas of ground taken away for streets
and other new works . . . . . . . . . . 25--38
Jacques Heyman Hooke's cubico--parabolical conoid . . . 39--50
A. R. Hall Isaac Newton and the aerial nitre . . . 51--61
R. L. Hills John Watt's map of the Clyde . . . . . . 63--71
D. P. Miller The `Hardwicke circle': the Whig
supremacy and its demise in the
18th-century Royal Society . . . . . . . 73--91
G. J. Tee Relics of Davy and Faraday in New
Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--102
J. A. Bridge Sir William Brooke O'Shaughnessy, M.D.,
F.R.S., F.R.C.S., F.S.A.: a biographical
appreciation by an electrical engineer 103--120
P. Bridges A long-distance Londoner . . . . . . . . 121--129
B. Bleaney Centenary of the Zeeman effect . . . . . 131--136
D. C. Watt Lionel Penrose, F.R.S. (1898--1972) and
eugenics: Part one . . . . . . . . . . . 137--151
D. King-Hele The 1997 Wilkins Lecture: Erasmus
Darwin, the Lunaticks and evolution . . 153--180
A. Klug Address of the President, Sir Aaron
Klug, O.M., P.R.S., given at the
Anniversary Meeting on 1 December 1997 181--190
Alan Cook, F.R.S. Book review: Greenwich Comes of Age:
Eric G. Forbes, Lesley Murdin and
Frances Willmoth, \booktitleThe
correspondence of John Flamsteed, The
first Astronomer Royal. Volume two,
1682--1703. Institute of Physics
Publishing, 1997. Pp.xlvii + 1095,
\pounds 140/\$280. ISBN 0-7503-0391-3,
hardback} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--193
Alan Cook, F.R.S. Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--201
J. S. Rowlinson, F.Eng., Sec.R.S. Book review: Aristocratic Physics:
Christa Jungnickel and Russell
McCormmach, \booktitleCavendish. Memoirs
of the American Philosophical Society,
Philadelphia, Volume 220, 1996. Pp xi +
414. \$50.00. ISBN 0-87169-220-1} . . . 194--196
Colin A. Russell Book review: Photographic Pioneer: Larry
J. Schaaf, \booktitleRecords of the Dawn
of Photography, Talbot's Notebooks P & Q,
Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp.
xxxv + 413, \pounds 90. ISBN
0-521-44051-3, hardback . . . . . . . . 196--197
Stephen G. Brush Book review: Quantifying Singularities:
Cyril Domb, \booktitleThe Critical
Point: A Historical Introduction to the
Modern Theory of Critical Phenomena.
Foreword by Michael E. Fisher. Taylor &
Francis, 1996. Pp. xviii + 376. ISBN
0-7484-0435-X, hardback . . . . . . . . 198--200
Nigel Cutland Book review: Discovery of Non-Standard
Analysis: Joseph Warren Dauben,
\booktitleAbraham Robinson: The Creation
of Nonstandard Analysis; A Personal and
Mathematical Odyssey. Princeton
University Press, 1995, ISBN
0-691-03745-0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--201
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Alan Cook, F.R.S. In this issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--203
M. A. R. Cooper Robert Hooke's work as surveyor for the
city of London in the aftermath of the
Great Fire. Part three: settlement of
disputes and complaints arising from
rebuilding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--220
J. S. Rowlinson `Our common room in Geneva' and the
early exploration of the Alps of Savoy 221--235
M. Keynes The Portland Vase: Sir William Hamilton,
Josiah Wedgwood and the Darwins . . . . 237--259
G. C. Cook and
D. King-Hele Doctor Erasmus Darwin's death in 1802 261--265
Tony Crilly The young Arthur Cayley . . . . . . . . 267--282
D. Millett Illustrating a revolution: an
unrecognized contribution to the `golden
era' of cerebral localization . . . . . 283--305
S. Dasgupta Jagadis Bose, Augustus Waller and the
discovery of `vegetable electricity' . . 307--322
A. D. Boney The summer of 1914: diary of a botanist 323--338
D. C. Watt Lionel Penrose, F.R.S. (1898--1972) and
eugenics. Part two . . . . . . . . . . . 339--354
J. Postgate The origins of the unit of nitrogen
fixation at the University of Sussex . . 355--362
Colin A. Russell Book review: Debunking `Nature':
\booktitleRobert Boyle. A free enquiry
into the vulgarly received notion of
nature. Edited by Edward B. Davis and
Michael Hunter. Cambridge Texts in the
History of Philosophy, Cambridge
University Press, 1996. Pp. xxxvi + 171,
\pounds 13.95 (paperback), ISBN
0-521-56796-3; \pounds 37.50 (hardback).
ISBN 0-521-56100-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 363--364
Colin A. Russell Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--379
Rob Iliffe Book review: Mathematics as a Science:
P. Mancosu, \booktitlePhilosophy of
mathematics and mathematical practice in
the seventeenth century, Oxford
University Press, 1996. Pp. vii + 275,
\pounds 45.00 (hardback). ISBN
0-19-508463-2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--365
Brian P. Dolan Book review: How Opposite Forces
Attract: Patricia Fara,
\booktitleSympathetic attractions:
magnetic practices, beliefs, and
symbolism in eighteenth-century England.
Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp.
xiii + 326, \pounds 35 (hardback). ISBN
0-691-01099-4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--369
A. Rupert Hall, F.B.A. Book review: A Practical Natural
Philosopher: Alan Cook, \booktitleEdmond
Halley: charting the heavens and the
seas. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998. Pp.
540 + xvi, \pounds 29.95 (hardback).
ISBN 0-19-850031-9 . . . . . . . . . . . 369--371
L. Taub Book review: Collecting Curiosities: Jan
Bondeson, \booktitleA cabinet of medical
curiosities. I. B. Tauris Publishers,
1997. Pp. ix + 250, \pounds 10.95
(softback). ISBN 1-86064-228-4 . . . . . 371--372
D. J. Weatherall, F.R.S. Book review: Distinguished Men of
Medicine: J. M. H. Moll,
\booktitlePresidents of The Royal
Society of Medicine. Royal Society of
Medicine Press, 1996. Pp. xlii + 552,
\pounds 65.00 (hardback). ISBN
1-85315-264-1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--374
J. S. Rowlinson, F.Eng., Sec.R.S. Book review: An Entrepreneurial Chemist:
W. H. Brock, \booktitleJustus von
Liebig: the chemical gatekeeper.
Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xv
+ 374, \pounds 50, \$79.95 (hardback).
ISBN 0-521-56224-4} . . . . . . . . . . 374--375
G. Y. Craig Book review: The Essence of Lyell:
\booktitleCharles Lyell's Principles of
Geology (1830--33). Edited by J. Secord.
Penguin Classics, London, 1997. Pp. 472
+ xlvii, \pounds 9.99 (softback). ISBN
0-14-043528-X . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--375
Archie Howie, F.R.S. Book review: Roentgen's Legacy:
\booktitleX-rays --- the first hundred
years. Edited by Alan Michette and
Slawka Pfauntsch. J. Wiley, 1996. Pp.
xiii + 262, \pounds 37.50 (hardback).
ISBN 0-471-96502-2 . . . . . . . . . . . 376--377
Sir Brian Pippard, F.R.S. Book review: The Past is a Foreign
Country: Jack Morrell, \booktitleScience
at Oxford 1914--1939. Clarendon Press,
Oxford, 1997. Pp. 473, \pounds 55
(hardback). ISBN 0-19-820657-7 . . . . . 377--378
Colin A. Russell Book review: Science in its Human
Context: John Polkinghorne,
\booktitleBeyond science. The wider
human context. Cambridge University
Press, 1996. Pp. xii + 131, \pounds
13.95 (hardback). ISBN 0-521-57212-6 . . 378--379
Anonymous Erratum: The 1997 Wilkins Lecture:
Erasmus Darwin, the Lunaticks and
Evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--382
Anonymous Author Index to \booktitleNotes and
Records, Volume 52, 1998 . . . . . . . . 383--384
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Alan Cook, F.R.S. More frequent issues . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
M. V. Wilkes Historical studies in science and
technology and the uses to which they
can be put . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--10
J. M. Thomas Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford and
the Royal Institution . . . . . . . . . 11--25
N. Chambers Letters from the President: the
correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks . . . 27--57
P. Elliott Abraham Bennet, F.R.S. (1749--1799): a
provincial electrician in
eighteenth-century England . . . . . . . 59--78
S. Ross John Dalton's Lakeland Excursions . . . 79--94
J. H. Appleby Woronzow Greig (1805--1865), F.R.S., and
his scientific interests . . . . . . . . 95--106
T. E. Allibone, C.B.E., F.Eng., F.R.S. Philately and the Royal Society. II . . 107--119
W. E. Burcham The Cavendish high-voltage laboratory
1935--39 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--134
P. H. Plesch Symposium on Friedel--Crafts catalysts
and polymerization . . . . . . . . . . . 135--141
C. Butler Recollections of Patrick Blackett
1945--70 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--156
A. Klug Address of the President, Sir Aaron
Klug, O.M., P.R.S., given at the
Anniversary Meeting on 30 November 1998 157--167
William Shea Book review: Treasure Troves:
\booktitleArchives of the Scientific
Revolution. The formation and exchange
of ideas in seventeenth-century Europe,
Michael Hunter (ed.). Woodbridge,
Boydell Press, 1998. Pp. xiii + 216.
\pounds 45.00. ISBN 0-85115-553-7 . . . 169--170
W. Shea Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--177
Allan Chapman Book review: Our Astronomical
Observator: \booktitleFlamsteed's stars,
new perspectives on the life and work of
the first Astronomer Royal (1646--1719),
Frances Willmoth (ed.). Boydell Press
and National Maritime Museum, London,
1997. Pp. 271 + 14 b/w plates, catalogue
of Flamsteed papers, index. \pounds
45.00. ISBN 0-85115-706-8 . . . . . . . 170--171
Jim Bennett Book review: Geomagnetic Instruments in
Italy: M. Basso Ricci, L. Cafaraella, A.
Meloni and P. Tucci, \booktitleDue
Secoli di Strumenti Geomagnetici in
Italia (1740--1971). Two Centuries of
Geomagnetic Instruments in Italy (with a
summary in English). Bologna, Editrice
Compositori, 1997. Pp. 234 pp, ISBN
88-7794-091-3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--172
W. K. Hayman, F.R.S. Book review: Complex Integration: Frank
Smithies, \booktitleCauchy and the
creation of Complex Function Theory.
Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp.
216, \pounds 35 (hardback). ISBN
0-521-59278-X . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--174
Alan Grafen Book review: Darwin in 1862:
\booktitleThe correspondence of Charles
Darwin, volume 10, 1862. Frederick
Burkhardt, Duncan M. Porter, Joy Harvey
and Jonathan R. Topham (eds). Cambridge
University Press, 1997. Pp. xxxvii +
936. \pounds 50. ISBN 0-521-59032-9 . . 175--176
Gordon Squires Book review: A History of the Electron:
Per F. Dahl, \booktitleFlash of the
cathode rays: A history of J. J.
Thomson's electron. Institute of Physics
Publishing, Bristol and Philadelphia,
1997. Pp. xvii + 526. \pounds 29.50
(hardback). ISBN 0-7503-0453-7 . . . . . 176--177
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Alan Cook Our foreign correspondence . . . . . . . 179--182
M. Nixon The Raymond and Beverly Sackler archive
resource at The Royal Society: a work in
progress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--186
I. Avramov An apprenticeship in scientific
communication: the early correspondence
of Henry Oldenburg (1656--63) . . . . . 187--201
M. Govier The Royal Society, slavery and the
island of Jamaica: 1660--1700 . . . . . 203--217
R. H. Appleby Sir Alexander Crichton, F.R.S.
(1763--1856), imperial Russian physician
at large . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--230
M. Yamalidou John Tyndall, the rhetorician of
molecularity. Part one. Crossing the
boundary towards the invisible . . . . . 231--242
H. Harris Howard Florey and the development of
penicillin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--252
R. S. Anderson Patrick Blackett in India: military
consultant and scientific intervenor,
1947--72. Part one . . . . . . . . . . . 253--273
R. Hamblyn Essay review. The alum-maker's secret
[Roger Osborne, \booktitleThe floating
egg: episodes in the making of geology.
London, Jonathan Cape, 1998. Pp. 372,
\pounds 15.99 (hardback). ISBN
0-224-05028-1] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--278
Brian Pippard, F.R.S. Book review: Genius in Context: P. M.
Harman, \booktitleThe natural philosophy
of James Clerk Maxwell. Cambridge
University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv + 232,
\pounds 35/US\$59.95 (hardback). ISBN
0-521-56102-7} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--281
Brian Pippard, F.R.S. Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--289
J. S. Rowlinson, F.Eng., Sec.R.S. Book review: Energy in the 19th Century:
Crosbie Smith, \booktitleThe science of
energy. A cultural history of energy
physics in Victorian Britain. London,
Athlone Press, 1998. Pp. xii + 404,
\pounds 19.95 (softback). ISBN
0-485-12145-X . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--282
David Thouless, F.R.S. Book review: Two Pioneers of Modern
Theoretical Physics: H. A. Bethe,
\booktitleSelected works of Hans A.
Bethe, with commentary. World Scientific
Publishing Company, 1997. Pp. viii +
605, \pounds 47.00 (hardback). ISBN
981-02-2876-7. R. H. Dalitz and Sir
Rudolf Peierls, \booktitleSelected
scientific papers of Sir Rudolf Peierls,
with commentary. World Scientific
Publishing Company and Imperial College
Press, 1997. Pp. xxiii + 805, \pounds
67.00 (hardback). ISBN 981-02-2692-6 . . 282--288
B. Bleaney, F.R.S. Book review: Atomic Energy in Argentina:
Mario A. J. Mariscotti, \booktitleEl
secreto atómico de Humuel. Cronica del
origen de la energia atómica en la
Argentina. Estudio Sigma S.R.L., Buenos
Aires, 1996. Pp 286. ISBN 950-9446-24-6 288--289
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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A. Cook, F.R.S. Foreign travels . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--293
T. Shaw John Swinton, F.R.S., identified as the
author of a 1734 travel journal . . . . 295--304
A. McConnell and
A. Brech Nathaniel and Edward Pigott, itinerant
astronomers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--318
M. Yamalidou John Tyndall, the rhetorician of
molecularity. Part two. Questions put to
nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--331
B. Bleaney, F.R.S. A century of physics in Oxford . . . . . 333--343
R. S. Anderson Patrick Blackett in India: Military
Consultant and Scientific Intervenor,
1947--72. Part Two . . . . . . . . . . . 345--360
M. Keynes Essay review. Lancelot Hogben, F.R.S.
(1895--1975): A review of his
autobiography [Adrian and Anne Hogben,
\booktitleLancelot Hogben --- scientific
humanist. Merlin Press, Woodbridge,
Suffolk, 1998. Pp. 254, \pounds 14.95
(hardback). ISBN 0-85036-470-1] . . . . 361--369
C. A. Russell Book review: The Secret Alchemist: L. M.
Principe, \booktitleThe aspiring adept:
Robert Boyle and his alchemical quest,
Princeton University Press, Princeton,
1998. Pp. xiv + 339, \pounds
32.50/US\$45.00 (hardback). ISBN
0-691-01678-X} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--372
C. A. Russell Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--376
Sarah Meer Book review: Servant of the State,
Promoter of Empire: John Gascoigne,
\booktitleScience in the service of
Empire: Joseph Banks, the British State
and the uses of science in the Age of
Revolution, Cambridge University Press,
1998. Pp. iv + 252, \pounds 40.00
(hardback). ISBN 0-521-55069-6 . . . . . 372--373
J. S. Rowlinson, F.R.Eng., Sec.R.S. Book review: The Paradox of
Irreversibility: Carlo Cercignani,
\booktitleLudwig Boltzmann: the man who
trusted atoms. Oxford University Press,
1998. Pp. xvii + 329, \pounds 29.50
(hardback). ISBN 0-19-850154-4 . . . . . 374--374
Sir Brian Pippard, F.R.S. Book review: Stumbling Towards the
Light: E. A. Davis and I. J. Falconer,
\booktitleJ. J. Thomson and the
discovery of the electron. Taylor &
Francis, London, 1997. Pp. xxvii + 243,
\pounds 16.95 (softback). ISBN
0-7484-0720-0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--376
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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A. Cook In this issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
B. J. Ford Shining through the centuries: John
Ray's life and legacy . . . . . . . . . 5--22
A. J. Koinm Christopher Merret's use of experiment 23--32
P. Rothman By `the light of his own mind': The
story of James Ferguson, astronomer . . 33--45
A. H. Sykes Foster and Sharpey's tour of Europe . . 47--52
Jr J. W. Hass The Reverend Dr William Henry Dallinger,
F.R.S. (1839--1909) . . . . . . . . . . 53--65
D. C. V. Mallik The Raman effect and Krishnan's diary 67--83
G. E. Fogg The Royal Society and the Antarctic . . 85--98
A. Klug Address of the President, Sir Aaron
Klug, O.M., P.R.S., given at the
Anniversary Meeting on 30 November 1999 99--108
A. Cook Essay Review: The gatekeeper of the
modern world: [Niccolo Guicciardini,
\booktitleReading the Principia; The
debate on Newton's mathematical methods
for natural philosophy from 1687 to
1736. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Pp. 285, \pounds 50.00. ISBN
0-521-64066-0] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--113
Colin A. Russell Book review: Antimony's Curious History:
R. Ian McCallum, \booktitleAntimony in
medical history: an account of the
medical uses of antimony and its
compounds since early times to the
present. The Pentland Press, Edinburgh,
Cambridge, Durham, 1999. Pp. xvi + 125,
\pounds 15.00 (hardback). ISBN
1-85821-642-7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--116
Colin A. Russell Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--125
Walter Munk, For.Mem.R.S. Book review: Solving the Tidal Problem:
David E. Cartwright, \booktitleTides: A
scientific history. Cambridge University
Press, 1998. Pp. xii + 292, \pounds
45.00. ISBN 0-521-62145-3 . . . . . . . 116--119
Gordon Higgott Book review: Wren's Architectural
Writings: Lydia M. Soo, Wren's
`\booktitleTracts' on architecture and
other writings. Cambridge University
Press, 1998. Pp. 320, 63 illus. \pounds
45.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-521-57369-6 . . 119--120
Desmond King-Hele, F.R.S. Book review: Not So Dumb, After All?
\booktitle`Did the Royal Society matter
in the eighteenth century?' Edited by R.
Sorrenson. British Journal for the
History of Science \bf 32(113), 130--221
(June 1999) ISSN 0007-0874 . . . . . . . 120--122
J. S. Rowlinson, F.R.Eng., F.R.S. Book review: The Third Law: D. K.
Barkan, \booktitleWalther Nernst and the
transition to modern physical science.
Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp.
xii + 288, \pounds 45.00 (hardback).
ISBN 0-521-44456-X . . . . . . . . . . . 123--124
Henry B. F. Dixon Book review: The Soviet Bomb: Veniamin
Tsukerman and Zinaida Azarkh,
\booktitleArzamas-16. Soviet scientists
in the Nuclear Age: a memoir. Translated
by Timothy Sergay. Edited by Michael
Pursglove. Bramcote Press, Nottingham,
1999. Pp. xxxiv + 182, \pounds 13.95
(paperback). ISBN 1-900405-04-0 . . . . 124--125
R. Baker Recent publications concerning the Royal
Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--128
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
A. Cook In this issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--130
M. Beretta At the source of Western science: The
organization of experimentalism at the
Accademia del Cimento (1657--1667) . . . 131--151
S. McMahon John Ray (1627--1705) and the Act of
Uniformity 1662 . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--178
S. Kusukawa The \booktitleHistoria Piscium (1686) 179--197
J. H. Brooke `Wise men nowadays think otherwise':
John Ray, natural theology and the
meanings of anthropocentrism . . . . . . 199--213
Olwyn M. Blouet Bryan Edwards, F.R.S., 1743--1800 . . . 215--222
Alex D. D. Craik James Ivory, F.R.S., mathematician:
``the most unlucky person that ever
existed'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--247
W. Schröder and
K.-H. Wiederkehr Johann Kiessling, the Krakatoa event and
the development of atmospheric optics
after 1883 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--258
Patricia Fara Book review: The Mystery of Music:
Penelope Gouk, \booktitleMusic, science
and natural magic in seventeenth-century
England. Yale University Press, New
Haven and London, 1999. Pp. xii + 308,
\pounds 30.00 (hardback). ISBN
0-300-07383-6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--260
Patricia Fara Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--272
Iwan Williams Book review: Portraits of Portents: J.
M. Olson and J.M. Pasachoff,
\booktitleFire in the sky: comets and
meteors, the decisive centuries, in
British art and science. Cambridge
University Press, 1999. Pp 383, \pounds
18.95. ISBN 0-521-66359-8 . . . . . . . 260--261
Sir Alan Cook, F.R.S. Book review: A View from Florence:
\booktitleNuncius, Annali di Storia
della Scienza. Anno XIV, fasc. 1.
Olschki, Firenze, 1999. Pp. 417, Lit.
200\,000 per year outside Italy . . . . 261--262
Brian J. Ford Book review: Crossing Boundaries:
Desmond King-Hele, \booktitleErasmus
Darwin, a life of unequalled
achievement. Giles de la Mere, London,
1999. Pp. x + 422, \pounds 24.99. ISBN
1-900357-08-9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--265
Richard Hamblyn Book review: John Constable,
Meteorologist: John E. Thornes,
\booktitleJohn Constable's skies: a
fusion of art and science. Birmingham,
University Press, 1999. Pp. 288, \pounds
40.00 (paperback). ISBN 1-902459-02-4 265--266
J. S. Rowlinson, F.R.Eng., F.R.S. Book review: A Northern Chemist: Colin
A. Russell, \booktitleEdward Frankland:
chemistry, controversy and conspiracy in
Victorian England. Cambridge University
Press, 1996. Pp. xx + 535, \pounds
65.00. ISBN 0-521-49636-5 . . . . . . . 266--267
Joe Olliver Book review: Everest: J. R. Smith,
\booktitleEverest: the man and the
mountain. Whittles Publishing,
Caithness, 1999. Pp. xiv + 306, \pounds
37.50 (softback). ISBN 1-870325-72-9 . . 267--268
Patricia H. Clarke, F.R.S. Book review: Unusual and Enterprising:
Barbara T. Gates, \booktitleKindred
nature: Victorian and Edwardian women
embrace the living world. University of
Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. 239, \pounds
14.00. IBSN 0-226-28443-3 . . . . . . . 269--270
Philip H. Oswald Book review: Rum on Rum: Karl Sabbagh,
\booktitleA rum affair. London, Allen
Lane, The Penguin Press, 1999. Pp. x +
224, \pounds 16.99 (hardback). ISBN
0-7139-9277-8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270--272
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
A. Cook The end of the Millennium . . . . . . . 273--273
Noel Malcolm The publications of John Pell, F.R.S.
(1611--1685): some new light and some
old confusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--292
Jacqueline A. Stedall Catching Proteus: the collaborations of
Wallis and Brouncker. I. Squaring the
circle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--316
Jacqueline A. Stedall Catching Proteus: the collaborations of
Wallis and Brouncker. II. Number
problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--331
Frank Smithies A forgotten paper on the fundamental
theorem of algebra . . . . . . . . . . . 333--341
G. Estes and
K. T. Grant and
P. R. Grant Darwin in the Galápagos: his footsteps
through the archipelago . . . . . . . . 343--368
J. M. Thomas Peterhouse, The Royal Society and
molecular biology . . . . . . . . . . . 369--385
Max Perutz, O.M., C.H., C.B.E., F.R.S. Book review: Woman Scientist's Role
Model: Georgina Ferry, \booktitleDorothy
Hodgkin: a life. London, Granta Books,
1999. Pp. 432, \pounds 9.99. ISBN
1-86207-285-X . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--389
Max Perutz, O.M., C.H., C.B.E., F.R.S. Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--408
Bridget M. Ogilvie, D.B.E. Book review: The Great Sage:
\booktitleJ. D. Bernal: a life in
science and politics. Edited by Brenda
Swann and Francis Aprahamian. Vesso
Books, London, 1998. Pp. 339, \pounds
25. ISBN 1-85984-854-0 . . . . . . . . . 389--390
Anne Cooke Book review: Telling Stories of Science:
\booktitleMax Perutz, \booktitleI wish
I'd made you angry earlier. Essays on
science and scientists. Oxford
University Press, Oxford, 1999. 370 Pp.,
\pounds 20.00. ISBN 0-19-850531-0 . . . 390--392
David Speiser Book review: Lives of Newton: A. Rupert
Hall, \booktitleIsaac Newton:
eighteenth-century perspectives. Oxford
University Press, 1999. Pp. 224, \pounds
60. ISBN 0-19-850364-4 . . . . . . . . . 392--393
Sir John Meurig Thomas, F.R.Eng., F.R.S. Book review: A Great Character in
Science: G.I. Brown, \booktitleCount
Rumford. The extraordinary life of a
scientific genius. Sutton Publishing,
Stroud, 1999. Pp. ix + 182, \pounds
12.99 (hardback). ISBN 0-7509-2184-6 . . 393--395
Sir Brian Pippard, F.R.S. Book review: Faraday's letters:
\booktitleThe correspondence of Michael
Faraday, volume 4. Edited by Frank A. J.
L. James. Institution of Electrical
Engineers, London, 1999, Pp. lxv + 1003
(hardback), \pounds 75.00. ISBN
0-86341-251-3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--396
Sir John Rowlinson, F.R.Eng., F.R.S. Book review: Faraday in his Own Words:
\booktitleThe philosopher's tree: A
selection of Michael Faraday's writings.
Compiled, with commentary, by Peter Day.
Institute of Physics, Bristol, 1999. Pp.
xii + 211. \pounds 16.00 (paperback).
ISBN 0-7503-0571-1. . . . . . . . . . . 397--397
R. K. Headland Book review: The New \em Endeavour:
\booktitleScience and exploration in the
Pacific. European voyages to the
Southern Oceans in the 18th century.
Edited by Margarette Lincoln. Boydell
Press in association with the National
Maritime Museum, London, 1998. Pp. xix +
228 pages, \pounds 35. ISBN
0-85115-721-1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398--399
Desmond King-Hele, F.R.S. Book review: Are Ideas Free to Roam?
Gillian Beer, \booktitleOpen fields:
science in cultural encounter. Oxford
University Press, 1999. Pp. x + 341,
\pounds 17 (paperback). ISBN
0-19-818369-0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400--402
B. E. J. Pagel, F.R.S. Book review: From Tycho to Big Bang:
Rocky Kolb, \booktitleBlind watchers of
the sky. Oxford University Press, 1999.
Pp xii + 338, \pounds 8.99 (paperback).
ISBN 0-19-286203-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 403--403
Allan Chapman Book review: Anthropomorphic Nature? Jan
Golinski, \booktitleMaking natural
knowledge. Constructivism and the
history of science. Cambridge University
Press, 1998. Pp. 136, \pounds 37.50
(hardback), \pounds 13.95 (paperback).
ISBN 0-521-44913-8 . . . . . . . . . . . 404--407
Mark A. S. McMenamin Book review: Out of the Shadows: Simon
Conway Morris, \booktitleThe crucible of
Creation: the Burgess Shale and the rise
of animals. Oxford University Press,
1999. Pp. xxii + 242, \pounds 8.99
(paperback). ISBN 0-19-286202-2 . . . . 407--408
A. Cook URFs become FRS . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--411
Anonymous Author Index to \booktitleNotes and
Records, Volume 54, 2000 . . . . . . . . 413--414
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
A. Cook The new millennium . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
W. R. Shea The history of science and the image of
science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--7
Alan Cook, F.R.S. Time and The Royal Society . . . . . . . 9--27
B. J. Ford The Royal Society and the microscope . . 29--49
G. E. Budd Royal fossils: The Royal Society and
progress in palaeontology . . . . . . . 51--67
Raymond Hide, C.B.E., F.R.S. Zenographic longitude systems and
Jupiter's differential rotation . . . . 69--79
G. E. Fogg, C.B.E., F.R.S. The Royal Society and the South Seas . . 81--103
J. M. Thomas, F.R.Eng., F.R.S. Predictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--117
Alan Cook, F.R.S. Royal weather . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--127
Alan Cook, F.R.S. Plants illustrating exotic collections 129--144
Claude Debru History of science and technology in
education and training in Europe . . . . 145--146
Alan Cook [Introduction] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--147
Alan Cook, F.R.S. Centenary of the NPL . . . . . . . . . . 147--160
Lord Sainsbury Opening Address . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--149
Aaron Klug The Royal Society and the NPL . . . . . 150--152
Anonymous Abstracts from the Centenary Meeting of
the National Physical Laboratory, 7
November 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--160
Robert W. Cahn, F.R.S. Book review: A Material View of The
Royal Society: D. R. F. West and J. E.
Harris, F.R.S., \booktitleMetals and the
Royal Society. IoM Communications,
London, 1999. Pp. 787, \pounds 40/\$80.
ISBN 1-86125-028-2} . . . . . . . . . . 161--163
Aaron Klug, O.M., P.R.S. Address of the President, Sir Aaron
Klug, O.M., P.R.S., given at the
Anniversary Meeting on 30 November 2000 165--177
J. Taylor JSTOR: an electronic archive from 1665 179--181
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
A. Cook Worldwide connections . . . . . . . . . 183--183
D. L. Simms and
P. L. Hinkley David Gregory on Newton's burning mirror 185--190
J. H. Appleby Mapping Russia: Farquharson, Delisle and
the Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . 191--204
A. Rupert Hall Cambridge: Newton's legacy . . . . . . . 205--226
Judith P. Zinsser Translating Newton's
\booktitlePrincipia: the Marquise Du
Châtelet's revisions and additions for a
French audience . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--245
M. Keynes A bogus Newtonian `curiosity' at The
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--252
I. Grattan-Guinness The contributions of J. J. Sylvester,
F.R.S., to mechanics and mathematical
physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--265
R. Singh and
F. Riess The 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics: A
close decision? . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--283
B. Bleaney Derek Ainslie Jackson (1906--1982): Some
recollections of a great European
spectroscopist . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--287
L. Jardine Monuments and microscopes: Scientific
thinking on a grand scale in the early
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--308
R. S. Porter The Wilkins Lecture 2000: Medical
futures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--323
J. Honer Essay review: The genius of Soane . . . 325--329
G. E. Fogg, C.B.E., F.R.S. Book Review: Cargoes of Knowledge: Tony
Rice, \booktitleVoyages of discovery:
three centuries of natural history
exploration. The Natural History Museum,
London; Scriptum Editions, London & Hong
Kong, 2000. Pp. 335, \pounds 45.00
(hardback). ISBN 1-902686-02-0 . . . . . 331--332
G. E. Fogg, C.B.E., F.R.S. Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--346
Peter R. Grant, F.R.S. Book Review: Darwin the Naturalist: R.
Keynes (ed.), \booktitleCharles Darwin's
Zoology Notes & specimen lists from
H.M.S. Beagle, Cambridge University
Press, 2000. Pp. 430, \pounds 95.00
(hardback). ISBN 0-521-46569-9 . . . . . 332--335
Patricia Fara Book Review: \em Enlightenment or
Enlightenment? Roy Porter,
\booktitleEnlightenment: Britain and the
creation of the modern world. London,
Penguin Press, 2000. Pp. xxiv + 728,
\pounds 25.00 (hardback). ISBN
0-7139-9152-6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--337
G. F. Hattersley-Smith Book Review: Lost in the Ice: Scott
Cookman, \booktitleIce blink: the tragic
fate of Sir John Franklin's lost polar
expedition. John Wiley & Sons, New York,
2000. Pp. xii + 244, \$24.95 USA\slash
\pounds 17.95 (hardback). ISBN
0-471-37790-2} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--338
Martin Campbell-Kelly Book Review: Bits and Wheels: Doron
Swade, \booktitleThe cogwheel brain:
Charles Babbage and the quest to build
the first computer. Little, Brown & Co.,
London, 2000. Pp. x + 342, \pounds 14.99
(hardback). ISBN 0-316-64847-7 . . . . . 339--340
Ted Briscoe Book Review: Children Evolve Languages.
Terrence Deacon, \booktitleThe symbolic
species: the co-evolution of language
and the human brain. Penguin Books Ltd,
London, 1998. Pp. 528, \pounds 8.99
(paperback). ISBN 0-14-026405-1 . . . . 340--341
Sir John Rowlinson, F.R.Eng., F.R.S. Book Review: Portraits of Scientists:
Ludmilla Jordanova, \booktitleDefining
features: scientific and medical
portraits, 1660--2000. Reaktion Books in
association with the National Portrait
Gallery, 2000. Pp. 192, \pounds 14.95
(softback). ISBN 1-86189-059-1 . . . . . 342--343
J. T. Stuart, F.R.S. Book Review: Not Elected: Leslie C.
Woods, \booktitleAgainst the tide: an
autobiographical account of a
professional outsider. Institute of
Physics, 2000. Pp. xiii + 319 . . . . . 343--344
John Postgate, F.R.S. Book Review: The Thoughts of Laureate
Watson: James D. Watson, \booktitleA
passion for DNA. Oxford University
Press, 2000, Pp. xx + 250, \pounds 18.99
(hardback). ISBN 0-19-850697-X . . . . . 344--346
Alan Cook, F.R.S. Éditions du Comité des Travaux Historiques
et Scientifiques . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--347
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
A. Cook Varieties of science . . . . . . . . . . 349--349
N. R. R. Fisher Robert Balle, Merchant of Leghorn and
Fellow of the Royal Society (ca.
1640--ca. 1734) . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--371
M. Hunter and
C. Littleton The work-diaries of Robert Boyle: a
newly discovered source and its Internet
publication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--390
C. Hammond A note on Newton's measurements of film
thicknesses and their corresponding
(interference) colours . . . . . . . . . 391--394
N. G. Coley George Fordyce M.D., F.R.S.
(1736--1802): physician--chemist and
eccentric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--409
I. Grattan-Guinness The interest of G. H. Hardy, F.R.S., in
the philosophy and the history of
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--424
D. A. H. Wilson Sea lions, greasepaint and the U-boat
threat: Admiralty scientists turn to the
music hall in 1916 . . . . . . . . . . . 425--455
U. W. Arndt Instrumentation in X-ray
crystallography: Past, present and
future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--472
A. Cook Edmond Halley and the magnetic field of
the Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--490
John Polkinghorne, F.R.S. Book review: Bombs, Bits and Worm-Holes:
John Archibald Wheeler and Kenneth Ford,
\booktitleGeons, black holes and quantum
foam --- a life in physics. W. W.
Norton, New York, 1998. Pp. 380, \$14.95
(paperback). ISBN 0-393-31991-1} . . . . 491--491
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--497
Michael Hunter Book review: Natural Law and Moral Law:
Jon Parkin, \booktitleScience, religion
and politics in Restoration England:
Richard Cumberland's \booktitleDe
Legibus Naturae. Boydell & Brewer
(Woodbridge, Suffolk), for the Royal
Historical Society, 1999. Pp. xi + 251,
\pounds 40.00 (hardback). ISBN
0-86193-241-2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492--493
Fraser Watts Book review: Firmly I Believe and Truly
\ldots: Robert A. Hinde, \booktitleWhy
gods persist: a scientific approach to
religion. Routledge, London, 1999. Pp.
248, \pounds 45.00 (hardback). ISBN
0-415-20825-4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--494
Sir Brian Pippard, F.R.S. Book review: Rutherford, From New
Zealand: John Campbell,
\booktitleRutherford, scientist supreme.
ASS Publications, Christchurch, New
Zealand. Pp. 494, \$50 (hardback). ISBN
0-473-05700-X} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494--495
Brebis Bleaney, C.B.E., F.R.S. Book review: A German Exodus: Jean
Medawar and David A. Pyke,
\booktitleHitler's gift. Scientists who
fled Nazi Germany. Richard Cohen Books,
London, 2000. Pp. xx + 268 (hardback).
ISBN 1-86066-172-6 . . . . . . . . . . . 495--496
Michael Redhead Book review: A Century of Physics: Helge
Kragh, \booktitleThe quantum
generations: a history of physics in the
twentieth century. Princeton University
Press, 1999. Pp. xiv + 494, \pounds
18.95 (hardback). ISBN 0-691-01206-7 . . 496--497
Anonymous Author Index to \booktitleNotes and
Records, Volume 55, 2001 . . . . . . . . 499--500
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
A. Cook Across the Alps: London and Bologna in
the eighteenth century . . . . . . . . . 1--2
M. Cavazza The Institute of Science of Bologna and
The Royal Society in the eighteenth
century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--25
G. Richardson A Norfolk network within The Royal
Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--39
Desmond King-Hele Erasmus Darwin's improved design for
steering carriages --- and cars . . . . 41--62
B. Pippard Schoolmaster-Fellows and the campaign
for science education . . . . . . . . . 63--81
B. Bleaney Two Oxford science professors, F. Soddy
and J. S. E. Townsend . . . . . . . . . 83--88
John N. Murrell and
Nicole Grobert The Centenary of Einstein's First
Scientific Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--94
P. Day Molecular magnets: the prehistory . . . 95--103
Bridget Ogilvie Book review: Pushing It! Frances
Ashcroft, \booktitleLife at the
extremes: the science of survival.
HarperCollins, London, 2000. Pp. 337,
\pounds 17.99. ISBN 0-00-255946-3 . . . 105--106
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--120
William Shea Book review: Evolution Not Revolution:
\booktitleRethinking the Scientific
Revolution. Edited by Margaret J. Osler.
Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp.
xii + 340, \pounds 48.86. ISBN
0-521-66790-9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--107
J. S. Rowlinson, F.R.Eng., F.R.S. Book review: A Portrait Gallery: Abraham
Pais, \booktitleThe genius of science. A
portrait gallery of twentieth-century
physicists. Oxford University Press,
2000. Pp. 355. \pounds 26.50 (hardback).
ISBN 0-19-850614-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 107--108
Marica Milanesi Book review: This Round World: Elly
Dekker, \booktitleGlobes at Greenwich.
Oxford University Press and the National
Maritime Museum, 1999. Pp. xi + 592,
\pounds 95.00 (hardback). ISBN
0-19-856559-3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--110
Andrew Liddle Book review: Zilch: John D. Barrow,
\booktitleThe book of nothing. Jonathan
Cape, London, 2000. Pp. 380, \pounds
16.99 (hardback). ISBN 0-224-05962-9 . . 111--111
Desmond King-Hele, F.R.S. Book review: Putting Faces to the Names:
Adam Hart-Davis, \booktitleChain
reactions: pioneers of British science
and technology and the stories that link
them. National Portrait Gallery, 2000.
Pp. 192, \pounds 9.50 (paperback). ISBN
1-85514-291-0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--113
John Hedley Brooke Book review: Isaac's Faith:
\booktitleNewton and religion: context,
nature, and influence. Edited by James
E. Force and Richard H. Popkin. Kluwer,
Dordrecht, 1999. Pp. 325, \pounds 98.00,
\$168.00. ISBN 0-7923-5744-2} . . . . . 113--115
Patricia Fara Book review: Science and Progress:
\booktitleRoy M. MacLeod, \booktitleThe
`creed of science' in Victorian England.
Ashgate/Variorum, Aldershot, Burlington,
USA, Singapore and Sydney, 2000. Pp.
346, \pounds 57.50 (hardback). ISBN
0-86078-669-2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--116
Graham E. Budd Book review: In Love With
\booktitleOlenus: R. A. Fortey, F.R.S.,
\booktitleTrilobite! Eyewitness to
evolution. HarperCollins, London, 2000.
Pp. 269, \pounds 15.99 (hardback). ISBN
0-00-257012-2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--118
G. E. Fogg, F.R.S. Book review: Lead Astray: Owen Beattie
and John Geiger, \booktitleFrozen in
time: the fate of the Franklin
expedition. Greystone Books, Vancouver,
1998. Pp. xi + 185, \$19.95 Canada,
\$14.95 USA (paperback). ISBN
1-55054-616-3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--120
R. M. May Address of the President, Lord May of
Oxford OM AC Kt FRS, given at the
Anniversary Meeting on 30 November 2001 121--129
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Alan Cook Max Born . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--132
R. Lewis The publication of John Wilkins's Essay
(1668): some contextual considerations 133--146
P. Fontes da Costa The culture of curiosity at The Royal
Society in the first half of the
eighteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . 147--166
J. A. D. Ackroyd Sir George Cayley, the father of
aeronautics. I. The invention of the
aeroplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--181
R. Sharp Some final thoughts of Sir John
Herschel, F.R.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--186
Alex D. D. Craik James Ivory's last papers on the
``\booktitleFigure of the Earth'' (with
biographical additions) . . . . . . . . 187--204
A. Cohen Roland Trimen and the Merope harem . . . 205--218
G. V. R. Born The wide-ranging family history of Max
Born . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--262
Patrick Wallis Book review: Knowledge Not Practice?
Andrew Wear, \booktitleKnowledge and
practice in English medicine,
1550--1680. Cambridge University Press,
2000. Pp. viii + 496. \pounds 45.00,
ISBN 0-521-55226-5 (hardback); \pounds
16.95, ISBN 0-521-55827-1 (paperback) 263--264
Patrick Wallis Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--271
Patrick Farr Book review: Letters From a Scientific
Emperor: \booktitleThe letters of Sir
Joseph Banks: a selection, 1768--1820.
Edited by Neil Chambers. Imperial
College Press, London, 2000. Pp. xliii +
420, \pounds 33.00 (hardback). ISBN
1-86094-204-0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264--265
Graeme Gooday Book review: A Victorian Scientist and
Engineer: Gillian Cookson and Colin
Hempstead, \booktitleFleeming Jenkin and
the birth of electrical engineering.
Ashgate, Aldershot, 2000. Pp. x + 217,
\pounds 45.00. ISBN 0-7546-0079-3 . . . 265--266
Patricia Fara Book review: Darwin's Origin of
Inspiration: Edna Healey, \booktitleEmma
Darwin: the inspirational wife of a
genius. London, Headline, 2001. Pp. x +
372, \pounds 20.00 (hardback). ISBN
0-7472-7579-3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--268
Alexander G. Bearn Book review: Fading Icon: Michael Bliss,
\booktitleWilliam Osler: a life in
medicine. Oxford University Press, 1999.
Pp. 504, \pounds 31.25. ISBN
0-19-512346-8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268--271
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
A. Cook A Roman tercentenary . . . . . . . . . . 273--273
Lynn B. Glyn Israel Lyons: a short but starry career.
The life of an eighteenth-century Jewish
botanist and astronomer . . . . . . . . 275--305
R. W. Home The Royal Society and the Empire: the
colonial and Commonwealth Fellowship.
Part 1. 1731--1847 . . . . . . . . . . . 307--332
J. A. D. Ackroyd Sir George Cayley, the father of
aeronautics. II. Cayley's aeroplanes . . 333--348
F. A. J. L. James Editing Faraday . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--352
Maurice V. Wilkes Charles Babbage and his world . . . . . 353--365
K. K. Schwarz Faraday and Babbage . . . . . . . . . . 367--381
J. Corden Report. `Web of Science History' project 383--388
Scott Mandelbrote Book review: From Bremen to Pall Mall:
Marie Boas Hall, \booktitleHenry
Oldenburg. Shaping The Royal Society.
Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xii +
369, \pounds 70.00, \$100.00. ISBN
0-19-851053-5} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--390
Scott Mandelbrote Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--401
William R. Shea Book review: The Shifting Image of
Newton: Patricia Fara, \booktitleNewton:
the making of genius. Macmillan, London,
2002. Pp. xvi + 347, \pounds 20.00. ISBN
0-333-90735-3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--392
Wilson Sibbett Book review: Pioneering the Femtoworld
of Molecules: Ahmed Zewail,
\booktitleVoyage through time. American
University in Cairo Press, 2002. Pp.
288, \$22.95 (hardback). ISBN
977-424-677-2} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392--395
Patricia Fara Book review: Big Bangs: G. I. Brown,
\booktitleInvisible rays: a history of
radioactivity. Sutton Publishing,
Stroud, 2002. Pp. viii + 248, \pounds
19.99 (hardback). ISBN 0-7509-2667-8 . . 395--396
Frank R. N. Nabarro, F.R.S. Book review: A Scientist of the
Commonwealth: Brian Austin,
\booktitleSchonland, scientist and
soldier, Institute of Physics
Publishing, 2001. Pp. xviii + 620,
\pounds 49.00 (hardback). ISBN
0-7503-0501-0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396--398
A. W. F. Edwards Book review: From African Exploration to
the Birth of Eugenics: Nicholas Wright
Gillham, \booktitleA life of Sir Francis
Galton: from African exploration to the
birth of eugenics. Oxford University
Press, New York, 2001. Pp. xii + 416.
\pounds 22.50 (hardback). ISBN
0-19-514365-5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--400
Fraser Watts Book review: Explaining Morality: Robert
Hinde, \booktitleWhy good is good: the
sources of morality, Routledge, London,
2002. Pp. 241, \pounds 15.99
(paperback). ISBN 0-415-27753-1 . . . . 400--401
Anonymous Errata: ``The Wide-Ranging Family
History of Max Born'' . . . . . . . . . 403--403
Anonymous Author Index to \booktitleNotes and
Records, Volume 56, 2002 . . . . . . . . 405--406
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
A. Cook 1703 and other anniversaries . . . . . . 1--2
N. J. W. Thrower Samuel Pepys FRS (1633--1703) and The
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--13
R. W. Jones Dalton's unfortunate choice . . . . . . 15--33
J. S. Rowlinson Le Sage's \booktitleEssai de chymie
méchanique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--45
R. W. Home The Royal Society and the Empire: The
colonial and Commonwealth Fellowship.
Part 2. After 1847 . . . . . . . . . . . 47--84
N. N. Greenwood and
J. A. Spink An Antipodean laboratory of remarkable
distinction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--105
Sir Brian Heap, FRS Book review: From the Dust of the Earth?
Henry Harris, \booktitleThings come to
life: spontaneous generation revisited.
Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. 178,
\pounds 20.00 (hardback). ISBN
0-19-851538-3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--108
B. Heap, FRS Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--116
Peter Lipton Book review: The Science of Science:
John Ziman, \booktitleReal science: what
it is, and what it means. Cambridge
University Press, 2000. Pp. 412, \pounds
25.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-521-77229-X;
\pounds 16.95 (paperback). ISBN
0-521-89310-0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--111
J. L. Heilbron Book review: Information Technology:
Richard Yeo. \booktitleEncyclopaedic
visions. Scientific dictionaries and
Enlightenment culture. Cambridge
University Press, 2001. Pp. xxi + 336,
\pounds 40.00 (hardback). ISBN
0-521-65191-3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--112
Sir Alan Cook, FRS Book review: The End of the Affair: Eric
G. Forbes, Lesley Murdin and Frances
Willmoth, \booktitleThe correspondence
of John Flamsteed, the first Astronomer
Royal, volume 3 (1703--1719). Institute
of Physics Publishing, Bristol, 2002.
Pp. lxvi + 1038, \pounds 199.00
(hardback). ISBN 0-7503-0763-3 . . . . . 113--116
R. M. May Address of the President, Lord May of
Oxford OM AC KT FRS, given at the
Anniversary Meeting on 29 November 2002 117--132
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
A. Cook Two anniversaries . . . . . . . . . . . 133--133
David E. Cartwright The Tonkin tides revisited . . . . . . . 135--142
J. S. Rowlinson The work of Thomas Andrews and James
Thomson on the liquefaction of gases . . 143--159
N. G. Coley George Pearson MD, FRS (1751--1828):
`The greatest chemist in England'? . . . 161--175
N. R. Ingram `All that you can't leave behind' . . . 177--184
W. Van der Kloot Ernest Starling's analysis of the energy
balance of the German people during the
blockade, 1914--19 . . . . . . . . . . . 185--193
R. Holliday The early years of molecular biology:
personal recollections . . . . . . . . . 195--208
F. C. Moon Robert Willis and Franz Reuleaux:
pioneers in the theory of machines . . . 209--230
J. P. Zinsser Essay review: The ultimate commentary: a
consideration of I. Bernard Cohen's
\booktitleGuide to Newton's
\booktitlePrincipia . . . . . . . . . . 231--238
Anne Cooke Book review: Shedding Light on the
Enigmatic Rosalind Franklin: Brenda
Maddox, \booktitleRosalind Franklin the
dark lady of DNA. HarperCollins, London,
2002. Pp. 380, \pounds 20.00 (hardback).
ISBN 0-00-257149-8 . . . . . . . . . . . 239--243
A. Cooke Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--260
Jacques Heyman, FREng Book review: The Birth of the Modern
Architect: Lisa Jardine, \booktitleOn a
grander scale: the outstanding career of
Sir Christopher Wren. HarperCollins,
London, 2002. Pp. xviii + 600, \pounds
25 (hardback). ISBN 0-00-710775-7 . . . 243--244
W. Hayes Book review: Physics as Well as Poetry:
\booktitlePhysicists of Ireland. Edited
by Mark McCartney and Andrew Whitaker.
Institute of Physics, Bristol and
Philadelphia, 2003. Pp. 298, \pounds
40.00. ISBN 0-7503-0866-4 . . . . . . . 245--246
John Henry Book review: Newton for Philosophers:
\booktitleThe Cambridge Companion to
Newton. Edited by I. Bernard Cohen and
George E. Smith. Cambridge University
Press, 2002. Pp. xiv + 500, \pounds
45.00 (hardback), ISBN 0-521-65177-8;
\pounds 15.95 (paperback), ISBN
0-521-65696-6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--247
Mary Hesse Book review: An Eighteenth-Century
Polymath: David Boyd Haycock,
\booktitleWilliam Stukeley: science,
religion and archaeology in
eighteenth-century England. Boydell
Press, Woodbridge, 2002. Pp. xiii + 290,
\pounds 40.00 (hardback). ISBN
0-85115-864-1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--249
Ann Savours Book review: A New Life of Sir John
Franklin FRS: Martyn Beardsley.
\booktitleDeadly winter: the life of Sir
John Franklin. Chatham Publishing,
London, 2002. Pp. xiv + 272, \pounds
20.00 (hardback). ISBN 1-86176-187-2 . . 249--250
Simon Conway Morris, FRS Book review: When the Penny Dropped: J.
Browne, \booktitleCharles Darwin: the
power of place. Jonathan Cape, London,
2002. Pp. 591, \pounds 25.00 (hardback).
ISBN 0-224-04212-2. . . . . . . . . . . 250--251
Brian Pippard, FRS Book review: Euclid and Other Popular
Romances: M. Chisholm, \booktitleSuch
silver currents: the story of William
and Lucy Clifford 1845--1929. The
Lutterworth Press, Cambridge, 2002, Pp.
ix + 198, \pounds 17.50. ISBN
0-7188-3017-2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252--253
Andrew Warwick Book review: Righting the History of
Electrodynamics: Olivier Darrigol,
\booktitleElectrodynamics from Amp\`ere
to Einstein. Oxford University Press,
2000. Pp. xi + 532, \pounds 79.50
(hardback). ISBN 0-19-850594-9 . . . . . 253--254
J. S. Rowlinson, FRS, FREng Book review: Gases and Liquids: Johanna
Levelt Sengers, \booktitleHow fluids
unmix: discoveries by the school of Van
der Waals and Kamerlingh Onnes. EDITA,
Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van
Wetenschappen, Amsterdam, 2002. Pp. xv +
302, EUR 45.00. ISBN 90-6984-357-9 . . . 255--256
Wilson Sibbett, CBE, FRS Book review: Lasers and Masers: Charles
H. Townes, \booktitleHow the laser
happened: adventures of a scientist.
Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. 208,
\pounds 9.99 (paperback). ISBN
0-19-515376-6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--258
Derek Hull, FRS, FREng Book review: Changing Times in a
Material World: A. Macfarlane and G.
Martin, \booktitleThe glass bathyscaphe:
how glass changed the world. Profile
Books Ltd, London, 2002. Pp. 255,
\pounds 15.00 (hardback). ISBN
1-86197-400-0. R. W. Cahn, \booktitleThe
coming of materials science. Elsevier
Science Ltd, Oxford, 2001. Pp. 568,
\pounds 40.00 (hardback). ISBN
0-08-042679-4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--260
Aaron Klug, OM, FRS Address given at the Service of
Thanksgiving for the life of George
Porter OM FRS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--264
F. Lambert News: The Royal Society Rosalind
Franklin Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--266
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
A. Cook Continental connections . . . . . . . . 267--268
P. Breeze The ancestry of Robert Hooke: John Hooke
of Wroxhall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--271
J. H. Appleby The founding of St Petersburg in the
context of The Royal Society's
relationship with Russia . . . . . . . . 273--284
M. Croarken Astronomical labourers: Maskelyne's
assistants at the Royal Observatory,
Greenwich, 1765--1811 . . . . . . . . . 285--298
W. P. Griffith and
P. J. T. Morris Charles Hatchett FRS (1765--1847),
chemist and discoverer of niobium . . . 299--316
B. Bleaney and
O. V. Lounasmaa Nuclear orientation and nuclear cooling
experiments in Oxford and Helsinki. Part
1. Progress before 1940 . . . . . . . . 317--322
B. Bleaney and
O. V. Lounasmaa Nuclear orientation and nuclear cooling
experiments in Oxford and Helsinki. Part
2. Progress from 1945 to 1970 . . . . . 323--330
B. Bleaney and
O. V. Lounasmaa Nuclear orientation and nuclear cooling
experiments in Oxford and Helsinki. Part
3. Progress from 1975 to 2001 . . . . . 331--344
Robert Anderson Book review: Puritan Founding Fathers?
Charles Webster: \booktitleThe great
instauration: science, medicine and
reform 1626--1660. Peter Lang, Bern,
2002. Pp. xl + 630, \pounds 47.00. ISBN
3-906768-37-6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--346
Robert Anderson Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--352
Janet Browne Book review: Darwin on Darwin: Desmond
King-Hele (editor), \booktitleCharles
Darwin's \booktitleThe Life of Erasmus
Darwin. Cambridge University Press,
2003. Pp 172, \pounds 17.50. ISBN
0-521-81526-6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346--348
Desmond King-Hele, FRS Book review: Makers of the Future: Jenny
Uglow, \booktitleThe Lunar men: the
friends who made the future. Faber and
Faber, London, 2002. Pp. xx + 588,
\pounds 25 (hardback). ISBN
0-571-19647-0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348--350
Patricia Fara Book review: Measuring Mistakes: K.
Alder, \booktitleThe measure of all
things: the seven-year odyssey that
transformed the world. Little Brown,
London, 2002. Pp. xii + 466, \pounds
15.99 (hardback). ISBN 0-316-85989-3 . . 350--351
Brian Thrush, FRS Book review: MR Spectroscopy: Boris
Stoicheff, \booktitleGerhard Herzberg:
an illustrious life in science. NRC
Press, Ottawa, Canada, 2002. Pp. xiii +
468, \pounds 37.95 (hardback). ISBN
0-660-18757-4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--352
F. C. Moon Correction for F. C. Moon,
\booktitleRobert Willis and Franz
Reuleaux: pioneers in the theory of
machines, Notes and Records \bf 57(2)
209--230 (2003) . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--353
Anonymous Author Index to \booktitleNotes and
Records, Volume 57, 2003 . . . . . . . . 355--356
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
T. Quinn The role of \booktitleNotes and Records
and some future anniversaries . . . . . 1--2
A. Cook Rome and the Royal Society, 1660--1740 3--19
Duncan Carr Agnew Robert Fitzroy and the myth of the
``Marsden square'': transatlantic
rivalries in early marine meteorology 21--46
Rajinder Singh and
Falk Riess The Nobel laureate Sir Chandrasekhara
Venkata Raman FRS and his contacts with
the British scientific community in a
social and political context . . . . . . 47--64
R. A. Crowther Viruses and the development of
quantitative biological electron
microscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--81
R. Iliffe and
J. Young REPORT. Newton on the Net: first and
prospective fruits of a Royal Society
grant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--88
M. Hunter REPORT. Robert Hooke revivified . . . . 89--91
A. Cook REPORT. Robert Hooke at Christ Church,
Oxford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--95
A. McConnell Report. OxDNB welcomes new old Fellows 97--99
Jeremy Gray Book review: Harriot restored:
Jacqueline A. Stedall, \booktitleThe
greate invention of algebra: Thomas
Harriot's treatise on equations. Oxford
University Press, 2003. Pp. xi + 322,
\pounds 65.00, ISBN 0-19-852602-4 . . . 101--102
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--106
Anita McConnell Book review: All Guns Blazing: W.
Johnson, \booktitleCollected works on
Benjamin Robins and Charles Hutton.
Phoenix Press, New Delhi, 2001. Pp. x +
540 + errata. ISBN 81-7484-054-0 . . . . 102--103
Brian Pippard, FRS Book review: A Paragon of Physics: Basil
Mahon, \booktitleThe man who changed
everything --- the life of James Clerk
Maxwell. Wiley, Chichester, 2003. Pp. xx
+ 226, \pounds 18.99 (hardback). ISBN
0-470-86088-X . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--104
J. S. Rowlinson, FRS, FREng Book review: `A National Treasure
House': \booktitle`The common purposes
of life': science and society at the
Royal Institution of Great Britain.
Edited by Frank A. J. L. James. Ashgate,
Aldershot, 2002. Pp. xvi + 456, \pounds
55.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-7546-0960-X . . 105--106
L. Jardine The 2003 Wilkins Lecture: Dr Wilkins's
boy wonders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--129
R. M. May Address of the President, Lord May of
Oxford OM AC KT FRS, given at the
Anniversary Meeting on 1 December 2003 131--145
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
T. Quinn Microscopes and the observation of
quantum dots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--147
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--148
W. Van der Kloot April 1915: Five future Nobel
Prize-winners inaugurate weapons of mass
destruction and the
academic--industrial--military complex 149--160
J. S. Rowlinson The wartime work of Hinshelwood and his
colleagues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--175
D. Blow and
S. Wallwork Prehistory of the British
Crystallographic Association . . . . . . 177--186
H. Gest The discovery of microorganisms by
Robert Hooke and Antoni van Leeuwenhoek,
Fellows of The Royal Society . . . . . . 187--201
F. Kurzer The life and work of Charles Tomlinson
FRS: a career in Victorian science and
technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--226
P. Harper Report. Preserving scientific archives:
the work of the National Cataloguing
Unit for the Archives of Contemporary
Scientists (NCUACS) . . . . . . . . . . 227--232
Noel Coley Book review: The Making of a Hero of
Science: Marco Beretta,
\booktitleImaging a career in science:
the iconography of Antoine Laurent
Lavoisier. Science History Publications,
Canton, MA, USA, 2001. Pp. xvii + 126,
\$29.95. ISBN 0-88135-294-2} . . . . . . 233--234
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--243
Anne Cooke Book review: From Microbes to Man: Ulf
Lagerkvist, \booktitlePioneers of
microbiology and the Nobel Prize. World
Scientific, 2003. Pp. 192, \pounds 33.00
(hardback). ISBN 981-238-233-X. \pounds
16.00 (paperback). ISBN 981-238-234-8 234--236
Patricia Fara Book Review: Theatrical Science. C.
Djerassi and D. Pinner,
\booktitleNewton's darkness: two
dramatic views. Imperial College Press,
London, 2003. Pp. 184, \$24 (hardback),
US\$15 (paperback). ISBN 1-86094-390-X 237--238
Michael Hunter Book review: The First Ethologist? Ted
Dadswell, The Selborne pioneer.
\booktitleGilbert White as naturalist
and scientist: a re-examination.
Ashgate, Aldershot, 2003. Pp. xx + 238,
\pounds 45.00. ISBN 0-7546-0749-6 . . . 238--239
Terry Quinn, FRS Book review: Foucault, a Man of Many
Parts: William Tobin, \booktitleThe life
and science of Léon Foucault: the man who
proved the Earth rotates. Cambridge
University Press, 2003. Pp. 352, \pounds
40.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-521-80855-3 . . 239--242
J. S. Rowlinson, FRS, FREn Book review: Displacing Phlogiston:
Robert Siegfried, \booktitleFrom
elements to atoms: a history of chemical
composition. American Philosophical
Society, Philadelphia, PA, 2002 (from
Transactions of the American
Philosophical Society, vol. 92, pt. 4).
Pp. x + 278, \$24.00 (paperback). ISBN
0-87169-924-9} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--243
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
T. Quinn In this issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--247
Terry Quinn Sir Alan Cook FRS 1922--2004 . . . . . . 247--247
Noel Malcolm An unpublished letter from Henry
Oldenburg to Johann Heinrich Rahn . . . 249--266
E. Murphy A mad house transformed: the lives and
work of Charles James Beverly FRS
(1788--1868) and John Warburton MD FRS
(1795--1847) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--281
B. Lovell The cavity magnetron in World War II:
was the secrecy justified? . . . . . . . 283--294
A. Cook Shipborne radar in World War II: some
recollections . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--298
J. Friesen Essay review. Robert Hooke under the
microscope: \booktitleLondon's Leonardo.
The Life and Work of Robert Hooke by Jim
Bennett, Michael Cooper, Michael Hunter,
Lisa Jardine; \booktitle`A More
Beautiful City.' Robert Hooke and the
Rebuilding of London after the Great
Fire by Michael Cooper; \booktitleThe
Man Who Knew Too Much. The Strange and
Inventive Life of Robert Hooke
(1635--1703) by Stephen Inwood;
\booktitleThe Curious Life of Robert
Hooke. The Man Who Measured London by
Lisa Jardine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--302
Alan Cook Report. Migrants to The Royal Society,
1930--1940 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--304
Joanna Cordon Report. The Andrew W. Mellon Cataloguing
Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--310
Jeremy Gray Book review: Table Mountain: M.
Campbell-Kelly, M. Croarken, R. Flood
and E. Robson (eds), \booktitleThe
history of mathematical tables: from
Sumer to Spreadsheets. Oxford University
Press, 2003. Pp. vii + 361, \pounds
45.00. ISBN 0-19-850841-7 . . . . . . . 311--312
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--320
Patricia Fara Book review: Lucasian Professors: Kevin
C. Knox and Richard Noakes (eds),
\booktitleFrom Newton to Hawking: a
history of Cambridge University's
Lucasian professors of mathematics.
Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp.
xxiv + 486, \pounds 27.50 (hardback).
ISBN 0-521-66310-5 . . . . . . . . . . . 312--313
Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie Book review: In Her Place: Patricia
Fara, \booktitlePandora's breeches:
women, science and power in the
Enlightenment. Pimlico, London, 2004.
Pp. 274, \pounds 12.50 (paperback). ISBN
1-84413-082-7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--315
David Knight Book review: Test of Time: Maurice
Crosland, \booktitleGay Lussac:
scientist and bourgeois. Cambridge
University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi + 333,
\pounds 33.00 (paperback). ISBN
0-521-52483-0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--316
Roger Cooter Book review: Scratching Heads: John van
Wyhe, \booktitlePhrenology and the
origins of Victorian scientific
naturalism. Ashgate Publishing Ltd,
Aldershot, 2004. Pp. 282, \pounds 49.50.
ISBN 0-7546-3408-6 . . . . . . . . . . . 316--317
Ben Marsden Book review: From Watt to Cardwell:
Donald Cardwell, \booktitleThe
development of science and technology in
nineteenth-century Britain: the
importance of Manchester. Edited by
Richard L. Hills. Variorum Collected
Studies Series, CS765. Ashgate,
Aldershot, 2003. Pp. xx + 320. \pounds
29.50 (hardback). ISBN 0-86078-908-X . . 318--320
J. H. Lawton Japan Prize Commemorative Lecture:
biodiversity, conservation and
sustainability . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--333
Anonymous Author Index to \booktitleNotes and
Records, Volume 58, 2004 . . . . . . . . 335--336
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Terry Quinn Editorial. An Italian correspondence, an
Italian earthquake and the homes of The
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4
Alan Cook A Roman correspondence: George Ent and
Cassiano dal Pozzo, 1637--55 . . . . . . 5--23
Maurice Crosland Relationships between the Royal Society
and the Académie des Sciences in the late
eighteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . 25--34
G. C. Cook Richard Dobson Kt MRCS FRS (1773--1847)
and the inferior status of naval
medicine in the early nineteenth
century: end of the fleet physicians . . 35--43
Graziano Ferrari and
Anita McConnell Robert Mallet and the `Great Neapolitan
earthquake' of 1857 . . . . . . . . . . 45--64
Stefanie Fischer Report. The Royal Society redevelopment 65--85
Michael Hunter Report. Robert Boyle for the
twenty-first century . . . . . . . . . . 87--90
Allan Chapman Book review: Sir William and Miss
Caroline Herschel: Michael Hoskin,
\booktitleThe Herschel partnership, as
viewed by Caroline. Science History
Publications Ltd, Cambridge, 2003. Pp.
182. \pounds 25.00. ISBN 0-905193-05-9.
Michael Hoskin, \booktitleCaroline
Herschel's autobiographies. Science
History Publications Ltd, Cambridge,
2003. Pp. 146. \pounds 25.00. ISBN
0-905193-06-7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--92
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--97
Peter M. Lee Book review: Saxony, Sexuality, Science,
Socialism and Statistics: Theodore M.
Porter, \booktitleKarl Pearson: the
scientific life in a statistical age.
Princeton University Press, 2004.
Pp.viii + 342, \pounds 22.95 (hardback).
ISBN 0-691-11445-5 . . . . . . . . . . . 92--93
J. S. Rowlinson, FRS, FREng Book review: Mixed Mathematics: Andrew
Warwick, \booktitleMasters of theory:
Cambridge and the rise of mathematical
physics. University of Chicago Press,
2003. Pp. xiv + 572, \$29.00
(paperback). ISBN 0-226-87375-7} . . . . 94--96
Eric Sidebottom Book review: Penicillin Revisited: From
Mould to Miracle: Eric Lax,
\booktitleThe mould in Dr Florey's coat:
the remarkable true story of the
penicillin miracle. Little, Brown & Co.,
2004. Pp. 389, \pounds 16.99. ISBN
0-316-85925-7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--97
R. M. May Address of the President Lord May of
Oxford OM AC Kt FRS Given at the
Anniversary Meeting on 30 November 2004:
Global Problems and Global Science . . . 99--119
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Terry Quinn From Darwin and Wallace to the discovery
of Invar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--123
Michael Bulmer The theory of natural selection of
Alfred Russel Wallace FRS . . . . . . . 125--136
Margery G. Ord and
Lloyd A. Stocken The Oxford biochemistry department in
wartime, 1939--45 . . . . . . . . . . . 137--143
Robert W. Cahn An unusual Nobel Prize . . . . . . . . . 145--153
Rebekah Higgitt President, patron, friend and lover:
Charles Montagu's significance to the
history of science . . . . . . . . . . . 155--170
Jie Ke and
Martyn Poliakoff The critical point of CO$_2$ $+$ N$_2$:
an experiment inspired by
\booktitleNotes and Records . . . . . . 171--174
Frederick Seitz Henry Cavendish: the catalyst for the
chemical revolution . . . . . . . . . . 175--199
Cathy Broad The Linnaeus Link Project . . . . . . . 201--203
John Friesen Hooke and Seventeenth Century Science 205--206
John Meurig Thomas A good lecture is a tour de force \ldots 207--208
Colin A. Russell Science for sixpence (in green covers) 209--210
Glyn Williams Travels of an artist: from Polynesia to
Bengal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--212
David L. Wykes Dissenting Influences . . . . . . . . . 213--214
Terry Quinn Plates from Royal Society Publications:
Experiments of Henry Cavendish . . . . . 215--218
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Terry Quinn, FRS Newton's calendar, Einstein and 340
years of Philosophical Transactions . . 219--222
Ari Belenkiy and
Eduardo Vila Echagüe History of one defeat: reform of the
Julian calendar as envisaged by Isaac
Newton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--254
J. S. Rowlinson Einstein: The Classical Physicist . . . 255--271
William Van der Kloot Lawrence Bragg's role in the development
of sound-ranging in World War I . . . . 273--284
Tony Crilly Arthur Cayley, FRS and the four-colour
map problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--304
Siddhartha Sen Why William Rowan Hamilton was not an
FRS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--308
Ross MacFarlane Royal Society Miscellaneous Manuscripts 309--312
John T. Young Newton on the Net: an update . . . . . . 313--316
Richard Noakes Science in the nineteenth-century
periodical: an electronic index . . . . 317--318
Robert Fox The European Society for the History of
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--320
Robert M. May Address by Lord May PRS, given at the
dedication of the memorial to Dr Robert
Hooke at Westminster Abbey on 3 March
2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--323
Peter C. Doherty U Thant Lecture: science, society and
the challenge of the future . . . . . . 325--331
Marvin Bolt Colonizing the heavens . . . . . . . . . 333--334
Patricia Fara Physics rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--336
Frank A. J. L. James Anthologizing kinetics . . . . . . . . . 337--338
J. S. Rowlinson Which Kelvin? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--341
Terry Quinn Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--347
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Terry Quinn, FRS Libraries: past, present and future . . 1--3
Paul Quarrie The scientific library of the Earls of
Macclesfield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--24
John T. Young Isaac Newton's alchemical notes in the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--34
Matt Jenkinson Nathanael Vincent and Confucius's `great
learning' in restoration England . . . . 35--47
Douglas Ambrose A history of Kaye and Laby . . . . . . . 49--57
John Meurig Thomas Max Perutz: chemist, molecular
biologist, human rights activist . . . . 59--65
J. S. Rowlinson Royal Society purchases from the
Macclesfield Library . . . . . . . . . . 67--68
Robert Fox The history of science, medicine and
technology at Oxford . . . . . . . . . . 69--83
Vivian Nutton Johann Laurentius Bausch zum 400.
Geburtstag: Die Gründung der Leopoldina
(\em Academia Naturae Curiosorum) im
historischen Kontext. Schweinfurt, 30
September--1 October 2005 . . . . . . . 85--85
John van Wyhe The complete work of Charles Darwin
online . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--89
P. B. Fellgett The nature and origin of multiplex
Fourier spectrometry . . . . . . . . . . 91--93
Britton Chance The 3cm cavity magnetron arrives in
Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--96
Patricia Fara NOT PLATO TO NATO . . . . . . . . . . . 97--98
Jeff Hughes A life on the scientific left . . . . . 99--100
Enda Leaney Into the Light: Science & Society in
Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--102
J. S. Rowlinson Bringing chemistry to Cambridge . . . . 103--104
Ben Marsden Deconstructing discovery . . . . . . . . 105--106
Vivian Nutton Heralds, roots and triumphs . . . . . . 107--108
Robert M. May Address of the President, Lord May of
Oxford OM AC FRS, given at the
Anniversary Meeting on 30 November 2005:
Threats to tomorrow's world . . . . . . 109--130
Terry Quinn Plates from seventeenth-century medical
and alchemical texts in the Royal
Society library . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--134
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Terry Quinn The Palace of Westminster Frescoes,
Kelvin's Secretary and the Calcutta
School of Tropical Medicine . . . . . . 135--137
Frederick Kurzer Arthur Herbert Church FRS and the Palace
of Westminster frescoes . . . . . . . . 139--159
J. S. Rowlinson Dr Thomas Carver and Lord Kelvin . . . . 161--170
G. C. Cook Leonard Rogers KCSI FRCP FRS
(1868--1962) and the founding of the
Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine . . 171--181
Graeme Gooday History and philosophy of science at
Leeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--192
Keith Moore An unpublished letter by Charles Darwin
in the Royal Society's archives . . . . 193--197
Patricia Fara Edmond Halley's last portrait . . . . . 199--201
Terry Quinn Temperature: A Showcase For
Complementary Science? . . . . . . . . . 203--214
Desmond King-Hele The many images of Isaac Newton . . . . 215--216
R. W. Home A beguiling story . . . . . . . . . . . 217--218
Stephane Van Damme The Dutch Galileo? The greatness of
Huygens' science . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--220
J. S. Rowlinson Laplace: the man . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--223
Jim Bennett Plates from Royal Society publications:
Illustrating William Roy's Baseline on
Hounslow Heath . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--230
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Terry Quinn, FRS The Hooke Folio . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--233
Robyn Adams and
Lisa Jardine The return of the Hooke folio . . . . . 235--239
Neus Ibáñez and
Josep M. Montserrat and
Ignasi Soriano and
Josep M. Camarasa Plant Material Exchanged between James
Petiver (ca. 1663--1718) and Joan
Salvador I Riera (1683--1725). I. The
Balearic Plants Conserved in the
Bc-Salvador and Bm-Sloane Herbaria . . . 241--248
Milo Keynes The Portrait of Dr William Harvey in the
Royal Society Since 1683 . . . . . . . . 249--252
Rebekah Higgitt Why I don't FRS my Tail: Augustus DE
Morgan and the Royal Society . . . . . . 253--259
Ian T. Durham Rethinking the History of Solar Wind
Studies: Eddington's Analysis of Comet
Morehouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--270
Adrian F. Bristow and
Trevor Barrowcliffe and
Derek R. Bangham Standardization of biological medicines:
the first hundred years, 1900--2000 . . 271--289
Margaret J. Osler A hero for their times: early
biographies of Newton . . . . . . . . . 291--305
John Smallwood Circumscribing the Circle? . . . . . . . 307--309
Keith Moore Plates from Royal Society Publications:
Fin-de-si\`Ecle newspaper sketches . . . 311--320
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Terry Quinn More about Darwin and the evolution of
species, Victorian spiritualism and
Wittgenstein's aeronautical researches 1--3
Richard Noakes Cromwell Varley FRS, electrical
discharge and Victorian spiritualism . . 5--21
Fernando Orrego and
Carlos Quintana Darwin's illness: a final diagnosis . . 23--29
Soraya de Chadarevian \booktitleThe selfish gene at 30: the
origin and career of a book and its
title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--38
Ian Lemco Wittgenstein's aeronautical
investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--51
J. C. Taylor and
A. W. Wolfendale John Harrison: clockmaker and Copley
Medalist. A public memorial at last . . 53--62
John van Wyhe and
Antranig Basman The launch and reception of Darwin
online . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--65
J. S. Rowlinson Flattening the earth . . . . . . . . . . 67--68
Christine Woollett The Maull Photographic Portrait
Collection held at the Royal Society . . 69--74
M. J. Rees Address of the President, Lord Rees of
Ludlow Kt FRS, given at the Anniversary
Meeting on 30 November 2006 . . . . . . 75--83
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Terry Quinn Émilie Du Châtelet, John Freind, Robert
Hooke, Charles Darwin and John Stanley
Gardiner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--88
Judith P. Zinsser Mentors, the Marquise Du Châtelet and
historical memory . . . . . . . . . . . 89--108
J. S. Rowlinson John Freind: physician, chemist,
Jacobite, and friend of Voltaire's . . . 109--127
Felicity Henderson Unpublished material from the memorandum
book of Robert Hooke,
\booktitleGuildhall Library MS 1758 . . 129--175
John van Wyhe Mind the gap: did Darwin avoid
publishing his theory for many years? 177--205
Barbara E. Brown The legacy of Professor John Stanley
Gardiner FRS to reef science . . . . . . 207--217
Allan Mills Robert Hooke's `universal joint' and its
application to sundials and the
sundial-clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--236
Clara Anderson Blagden Papers at the Royal Society . . 237--238
Ralph Kohn The pharmacological basis of the Kohn
Foundation: lecture to commemorate the
presentation of Dr Ralph Kohn FRS at the
New Fellows' Seminar 2006 . . . . . . . 239--245
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Terry Quinn Origin and evolution of the species . . 247--249
William Poole Antoine-François Payen, the 1666
\booktitleSelenelion, and a rediscovered
letter to Robert Hooke . . . . . . . . . 251--263
Mark I. Grossman Smithson Tennant: meteorites and the
final trip to France . . . . . . . . . . 265--283
William Sheehan and
Steven Thurber John Couch Adams's Asperger syndrome and
the British non-discovery of Neptune . . 285--299
William H. Brock The Royal Society's Glass Workers'
Cataract Committee; Sir William Crookes
and the development of sunglasses . . . 301--312
N. A. Chambers The Society of Arts and Joseph Banks: a
first step in London learned society . . 313--325
Melvin Santer How it happened that a portion of a
treatise entitled New Improvements of
Planting and Gardening both
Philosophical and Practical by Richard
Bradley FRS, which dealt with blights of
trees and plants, provided the first
report of an environment that contained
green sulphur photosynthetic bacteria 327--332
Rajinder Singh India's Physics and Chemistry Nobel
Prize nominators and nominees in
colonial and international context . . . 333--345
Rebecca Pohancenik Pharmacology and war: the papers of Sir
John Henry Gaddum (1900--65) . . . . . . 347--348
Clark A. Elliott On becoming Ben . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--350
Andrea Wulf Book Review: Collecting the Empire: Neil
Chambers, \booktitleJoseph Banks and the
British Museum: the world of collecting.
1770--1830, Pickering & Chatto, London,
2007. pp. 195 \pounds 60.00 (hardback).
ISBN 978-1-85196-858-9 . . . . . . . . . 351--352
J. L. Heilbron Benjamin Franklin in Europe:
electrician, academician, politician . . 353--373
Terry Quinn Correction for Quinn, \booktitleÉmilie Du
Châtelet, John Freind, Robert Hooke,
Charles Darwin and John Stanley Gardiner 375--375
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Robert Fox Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Rob Iliffe Technicians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--16
Larry Stewart Assistants to enlightenment: William
Lewis, Alexander Chisholm and invisible
technicians in the Industrial Revolution 17--29
Catherine M. Jackson Visible work: the role of students in
the creation of Liebig's Giessen
research school . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--49
Hannah Gay Technical assistance in the world of
London science, 1850--1900 . . . . . . . 51--75
E. M. Tansey Keeping the culture alive: the
laboratory technician in
mid-twentieth-century British medical
research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--95
Jeff Hughes William Kay, Samuel Devons and Memories
of Practice in Rutherford's Manchester
Laboratory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--121
E. M. Tansey Working with C. S. Sherrington, 1918--24 123--130
E. M. Tansey Working with Cambridge physiologists . . 131--137
John Martin A career at the National Physical
Laboratory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--148
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Robert Fox Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--150
Julyan H. E. Cartwright and
Hisami Nakamura Tsunami: a history of the term and of
scientific understanding of the
phenomenon in Japanese and Western
culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--166
Geoffrey Fryer Jacob Christian Schäffer FRS, a versatile
eighteenth-century naturalist, and his
remarkable pioneering researches on
microscopic crustaceans . . . . . . . . 167--185
William Tobin Full-text search capability: a new tool
for researching the development of
scientific language. The `Whirlpool
Nebula' as a case study . . . . . . . . 187--196
Sir Francis Graham-Smith and
Sir Bernard Lovell Diversions of a radio telescope . . . . 197--204
William Sheehan and
William H. Meller and
Steven Thurber More on Darwin's illness: comment on the
final diagnosis of Charles Darwin . . . 205--209
Anonymous Address of the President, Lord Rees of
Ludlow OM Kt PRS, given at the
Anniversary Meeting on 30 November 2007 211--221
John Henry Historical and other studies of science,
technology and medicine in the
University of Edinburgh . . . . . . . . 223--235
Karsten Jedlitschka The Archive of the German Academy of
Sciences Leopoldina in Halle (Saale):
more than 350 years of the history of
science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--244
Keith Moore A grangerized copy of Weld's History of
the Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . 245--250
S. Moorbath Book Review: The oldest geological
society. Gordon L. Herries Davies,
\booktitleWhatever is under the Earth:
The Geological Society of London
1807--2007. The Geological Society
London, 2007. pp. xiii + 356, \pounds
50.00 (hardback). ISBN 978-1-86239-214-4 251--252
Jenifer Glynn Rosalind Franklin: 50 years on . . . . . 253--255
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Robert Fox Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--258
Ana Simões A quantum chemical dialogue mediated by
textbooks: Pauling's \booktitleThe
nature of the chemical bond and
Coulson's \booktitleValence . . . . . . 259--269
Anna Marie Roos `Magic coins' and `magic squares': the
discovery of astrological sigils in the
\booktitleOldenburg Letters . . . . . . 271--288
Milo Keynes Balancing Newton's mind: his singular
behaviour and his madness of 1692--93 289--300
Pamela Robinson A `very curious Almanack': the gift of
Sir Robert Moray FRS, 1668 . . . . . . . 301--314
Keith Moore The Royal Society's War Committee on
Engineering 1914--19 . . . . . . . . . . 315--319
Frank Fenner The Australian Academy of Science: the
first 50 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--330
Richard Dunn An infuriating genius . . . . . . . . . 331--334
Stuart Anderson Penicillin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--336
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(ca. 1748--1820) . . . . . . . . . . . . i--ii
Robert Fox Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--339
Anthony Turner An interrupted story: French
translations from
\booktitlePhilosophical Transactions in
the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries 341--354
Jean-Pierre Martin and
Anita McConnell Joining the observatories of Paris and
Greenwich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--372
Danielle M. E. Fauque An Englishman abroad: Charles Blagden's
visit to Paris in 1783 . . . . . . . . . 373--390
Robin Carrell Bringing molecules to life . . . . . . . 391--395
Neil A. Chambers The world of plant collecting: an
eighteenth-century obsession . . . . . . 397--399
Roger Elliott Friendship and physics . . . . . . . . . 401--403
Anna Marie Roos Elizabethan London and scientific
practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--406
Piyo M. Rattansi Rediscovery of lost early Royal Society
papers on the alkahest . . . . . . . . . 407--407
Keith Moore Photographs by the French scientist
Henri Victor Regnault . . . . . . . . . 409--413
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from history of science, technology and
medicine editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
Robert Fox Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--6
Patrick R. Unwin and
Robert W. Unwin Humphry Davy and the Royal Institution
of Great Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--33
Simon Werrett William Congreve's rational rockets . . 35--56
Joan M. Kenworthy and
Margaret S. McCollum A contribution to meteorology by Spencer
Cowper, Dean of Durham 1746--74 . . . . 57--80
Melinda Baldwin `Where are your intelligent mothers to
come from?': marriage and family in the
scientific career of Dame Kathleen
Lonsdale FRS (1903--71) . . . . . . . . 81--94
John Cater and
Ian Lemco Wittgenstein's combustion chamber . . . 95--104
A. James McQuillan The discovery of surface-enhanced Raman
scattering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--109
David W. Hughes The family of the astronomers William
and Caroline Herschel . . . . . . . . . 111--112
Willem F. J. Mörzer Bruyns Meeting cultures . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--114
Robert G. W. Anderson Gentleman-benefactor of science . . . . 115--116
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Robert Fox Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--118
Julyan H. E. Cartwright and
Hisami Nakamura What kind of a wave is Hokusai's Great
Wave off Kanagawa? . . . . . . . . . . . 119--135
D. R. Bellhouse and
E. M. Renouf and
R. Raut and
M. A. Bauer De Moivre's knowledge community: an
analysis of the subscription list to the
Miscellanea Analytica . . . . . . . . . 137--162
Stephen Pumfrey Harriot's maps of the Moon: new
interpretations . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--168
Elizabeth B. Andrews Windows on a Lilliputian world: a
personal perspective on the development
of electron microscopy in the twentieth
century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--181
Anonymous Address of the President, Lord Rees of
Ludlow OM Kt PRS, given at the
Anniversary Meeting on 1 December 2008 183--190
P. G. Moore The University Marine Biological Station
Millport: in the beginning was the
vision (1970) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--202
David Knight The age of wonder . . . . . . . . . . . 203--206
D. J. Bryden Made in England --- but not in London! 207--208
Robert Fox Correction to Editorial . . . . . . . . 209--209
A. James McQuillan Corrections: Recollection. The discovery
of surface-enhanced Raman scattering . . 209--209
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Robert Fox The many worlds of Thomas Beddoes . . . 211--213
Trevor H. Levere Dr Thomas Beddoes: chemistry, medicine,
and the perils of democracy . . . . . . 215--229
Larry Stewart His Majesty's subjects: from laboratory
to human experiment in pneumatic
chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--245
Giuliano Pancaldi On hybrid objects and their
trajectories: Beddoes, Davy and the
battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--262
Iwan Rhys Morus Radicals, romantics and electrical
showmen: placing galvanism at the end of
the English Enlightenment . . . . . . . 263--275
George Rousseau Political gout: dissolute patients,
deceitful physicians, and other blue
devils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--296
Mike Jay The atmosphere of heaven: the 1799
nitrous oxide researches reconsidered 297--309
Neil Vickers Thomas Beddoes and the German
psychological tradition . . . . . . . . 311--321
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Robert Fox Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--324
Benjamin Wardhaugh Mathematics in English printed books,
1473--1800: a bibliometric analysis . . 325--338
Brian Balmer and
Matthew Godwin and
Jane Gregory The Royal Society and the `brain drain':
natural scientists meet social science 339--353
Anna Guagnini John Fletcher Moulton and Guglielmo
Marconi: bridging science, Law and
industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--363
Ivor Grattan-Guinness Bertrand Russell (1872--1970), man of
dissent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--379
Stephen Moorbath The discovery of the Earth's oldest
rocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--392
Peter J. Bowler Do we need a non-Darwinian industry? . . 393--398
Jack Morrell Homeric Geologists . . . . . . . . . . . 399--406
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Peter Collins Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S1--S3
D. J. Weatherall Molecular medicine: the road to the
better integration of the medical
sciences in the twenty-first century . . S5--S15
Robert Bud From applied microbiology to
biotechnology: science, medicine and
industrial renewal . . . . . . . . . . . S17--S29
Sally M. Horrocks The Royal Society, its Fellows and
industrial R&D in the mid twentieth
century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S31--S41
Peter Collins A Royal Society for technology . . . . . S43--S54
Christopher M. Snowden Technological innovation in industry and
the role of the Royal Society . . . . . S55--S63
Ken Pounds The Royal Society's formative role in UK
space research . . . . . . . . . . . . . S65--S76
Peter J. T. Morris Does membership of the Royal Society
affect careers? A trio in
twentieth-century organic chemistry . . S77--S87
George E. Hemmen Royal Society expeditions in the second
half of the twentieth century . . . . . S89--S99
Jeff Hughes `Divine right' or democracy? The Royal
Society `revolt' of 1935 . . . . . . . . S101--S117
Peter Collins A role in running UK science? . . . . . S119--S130
Stephen Cox The Royal Society in Cold War Europe . . S131--S136
Roy MacLeod The Royal Society and the Commonwealth:
old friendships, new frontiers . . . . . S137--S149
Walter Bodmer Public Understanding of Science: The BA,
the Royal Society and COPUS . . . . . . S151--S161
Georgina Ferry The exception and the rule: women and
the Royal Society 1945--2010 . . . . . . S163--S172
Jeff Hughes Introductory comments to final
discussion session . . . . . . . . . . . S173--S176
Judith Howard Introductory comments to final
discussion session . . . . . . . . . . . S177--S179
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Robert Fox Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
Bernard Lightman Darwin and the popularization of
evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--24
Jeremy Vetter The unmaking of an anthropologist:
Wallace returns from the field, 1862--70 25--42
J. S. Rowlinson James Joule, William Thomson and the
concept of a perfect gas . . . . . . . . 43--57
Melvin Santer Joseph Lister: first use of a bacterium
as a `model organism' to illustrate the
cause of infectious disease of humans 59--65
Luciano Boschiero Translation, Experimentation and the
Spring of the Air: Richard Waller's
Essayes of Natural Experiments . . . . . 67--83
Phil Hurst Trailblazing --- 350 years of Royal
Society publishing . . . . . . . . . . . 85--89
Jeff Hughes A Crookes charter . . . . . . . . . . . 91--93
Derek A. Robinson A political and evolutionary history of
Oxford Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--96
Denis Noble Funding the pink diamonds: a historical
perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--102
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Anna Marie Roos A speculum of chymical practice: Isaac
Newton, Martin Lister (1639--1712), and
the making of telescopic mirrors . . . . 105--120
Alexandra Cook Linnaeus and Chinese plants: A test of
the linguistic imperialism thesis . . . 121--138
Donald R. Forsdyke George Romanes, William Bateson, and
Darwin's `weak point' . . . . . . . . . 139--154
Olival Freire and
Christoph Lehner `\booktitleDialectical materialism and
modern physics', an unpublished text by
Max Born . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--162
Anonymous Address of the President, Lord Rees of
Ludlow OM Kt PRS, given at the
Anniversary Meeting on 30 November 2009 163--173
J. A. Creighton Contributions to the early development
of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy 175--183
Keith Gull Boveri and cancer: prescient views of
molecular mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . 185--187
Jane Insley Kettle as myth, engineer as chemist . . 189--190
Keith Moore New portraits at Carlton House Terrace 191--196
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Robert Fox Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--199
Melvyn Bragg Wilkins Medawar Bernal Lecture 2010:
Observations of an Amateur on the
History of the Royal Society 1660--2010 201--212
Anonymous A sermon given by the Most Reverend &
Right Honourable Rowan Williams,
Archbishop of Canterbury, at an Evensong
attended by Fellows of the Royal Society
on the occasion of the 350th
Anniversary, St Paul's Cathedral, 9 June
2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--215
Anonymous Convocation of the Fellowship of the
Royal Society at the Royal Festival
Hall, 23 June 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . 217--227
Beryl Hartley Exploring and communicating knowledge of
trees in the early Royal Society . . . . 229--250
Matthew C. Hunter Hooke's figurations: a figural drawing
attributed to Robert Hooke . . . . . . . 251--260
Leslie Tomory William Brownrigg's papers on fire-damps 261--270
William Van der Kloot William Maddock Bayliss's therapy for
wound shock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--286
David Melford and
Peter Duncumb and
Mike Stowell and
Bill Graham Tube Investments Group Research
Laboratory, Hinxton Hall (1954--88) . . 287--301
Matthias Schemmel Before calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--304
Peter Ayres The artful collectors . . . . . . . . . 305--306
Mike Jay Testing the waters . . . . . . . . . . . 306--307
Aileen Fyfe Darwin and human origins . . . . . . . . 307--309
Robert C. Smith Practical astronomy at UK universities 309--311
Phil Hurst The \booktitleNotes and Records Essay
Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--313
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Robert Fox Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--317
Daniel Jon Mitchell Reflecting nature: chemistry and
comprehensibility in Gabriel Lippmann's
`physical' method of photographing
colours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--337
Bernard Lightman The many lives of Charles Darwin: early
biographies and the definitive
evolutionist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--358
Joe Cain Julian Huxley, general biology and the
London Zoo, 1935--42 . . . . . . . . . . 359--378
Maria Björkman and
Sven Widmalm Selling eugenics: the case of Sweden . . 379--400
Malcolm Bishop and
Melanie Parker Sir John Tomes FRS, Fellows of the Royal
Society, and Dental Reform in the
nineteenth Century . . . . . . . . . . . 401--416
Mark I. Grossman William Higgins at the Dublin Society,
1810--20: the loss of a professorship
and a claim to the atomic theory . . . . 417--434
Ana Maria Alfonso-Goldfarb and
Márcia Helena Mendes Ferraz and
Piyo M. Rattansi Lost Royal Society documents on
`alkahest' (universal solvent)
rediscovered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--456
Jane Wess Crookes's radiometers: a train of
thought manifest . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--470
Robert G. W. Anderson Science Museums and the Science Museum 471--476
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Matthew D. Eddy The prehistoric mind as a historical
artefact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--8
Matthew D. Eddy The line of reason: Hugh Blair,
spatiality and the progressive structure
of language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--24
Paul B. Pettitt and
Mark J. White Cave men: Stone tools, Victorian
science, and the `primitive mind' of
deep time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--42
Clive Gamble and
Theodora Moutsiou The time revolution of 1859 and the
stratification of the primeval mind . . 43--63
Marianne Sommer Human tools of the European tertiary?
Artefacts, brains and minds in
evolutionist reasoning, 1870--1920 . . . 65--82
Peter C. Kjærgaard `Hurrah for the missing link!': a
history of apes, ancestors and a crucial
piece of evidence . . . . . . . . . . . 83--98
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Robert Fox Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--101
Michael Hunter The Royal Society and the decline of
magic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--119
Matthew F. Walker The limits of collaboration: Robert
Hooke, Christopher Wren and the
designing of the monument to the Great
Fire of London . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--143
Katy Barrett `Explaining' themselves: The Barrington
papers, the Board of Longitude, and the
fate of John Harrison . . . . . . . . . 145--162
Sir John Meurig Thomas Picking winners: W. H. and W. L. Bragg
at the Royal Institution . . . . . . . . 163--182
Peter Collins and
Stefanie Fischer The story of Chicheley Hall . . . . . . 183--196
M. J. Rees Address of the President, Lord Rees of
Ludlow OM KT PRS, given at the
Anniversary Meeting on 30 November 2010 197--205
Francis Knights The science of musicke . . . . . . . . . 207--208
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Robert Fox Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--213
Jon Agar Thatcher, Scientist . . . . . . . . . . 215--232
Sloan Evans Despeaux Fit to print? Referee reports on
mathematics for the nineteenth-century
journals of the Royal Society of London 233--252
Miguel DeArce and
Nigel T. Monaghan and
Patrick N. Wyse Jackson The uneasy correspondence between T. H.
Huxley and E. P. Wright on fossil
vertebrates found in Jarrow, Co.
Kilkenny (1865--67) . . . . . . . . . . 253--271
Sachiko Kusukawa Picturing knowledge in the early Royal
Society: the examples of Richard Waller
and Henry Hunt . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--294
Duncan Thorburn Burns Previously unrecorded Dutch citations
and versions of some of the scientific
publications of Robert Boyle FRS . . . . 295--299
Jane Insley James Watt's cookbook chemistry . . . . 301--308
Keith Moore Portugal--Britain: 250 years of
scientific exchange (1660--1910) . . . . 309--310
Anna Marie Roos Hunting Robert Boyle: Michael Hunter and
Boyle's Life and Letters . . . . . . . . 311--315
Sir John Meurig Thomas Erratum: Picking Winners: W. H. and W.
L. Bragg at the Royal Institution . . . 317--317
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Peter Collins Presidential politics: The controversial
election of 1945 . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--342
David B. Wilson William Whewell, Galileo, and
reconceptualizing the history of science
and religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--358
Andreas-Holger Maehle Ambiguous cells: the emergence of the
stem cell concept in the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries . . . . . . . . . . 359--378
E. M. Tansey The early education of a Nobel laureate:
Henry Dale's schooldays . . . . . . . . 379--391
William Van der Kloot Mirrors and smoke: A. V. Hill, his
Brigands, and the science of
anti-aircraft gunnery in World War I . . 393--410
Allan Mills William Gilbert and `Magnetization by
Percussion' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--416
Keith Moore Anniversary year portraits . . . . . . . 417--422
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Robert Fox Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Niccol\`o Guicciardini John Wallis as editor of Newton's
mathematical work . . . . . . . . . . . 3--17
Anna Marie Roos The Art of science: a `Rediscovery' of
the Lister Copperplates . . . . . . . . 19--40
Maria Antónia Pires de Almeida The Portuguese \bionamecholera morbus
epidemic of 1853--56 as seen by the
press . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--53
David Cahan Helmholtz and the British scientific
elite: From force conservation to energy
conservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--68
Diarmid A. Finnegan James Croll, metaphysical geologist . . 69--88
P. Nurse Address of the President, Sir Paul
Nurse, given at the Anniversary Meeting
on 30 November 2011 . . . . . . . . . . 89--93
Neil A. Chambers Plants and the presidents: A founding
vision for America . . . . . . . . . . . 95--99
Staffan Müller-Wille Thinking plants: Peter Ayres,
\booktitleThe aliveness of plants: the
Darwins at the dawn of plant science
[Pickering & Chatto, London, 2007. Pp.
xiii + 227, \pounds 60.00 (hardback).
ISBN 978-1-85196-970-8] . . . . . . . . 101--103
Joanna Hopkins The Royal Society Picture Library
database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--110
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Jeff Ollerton and
Gordon Chancellor and
John van Wyhe John Tweedie and Charles Darwin in
Buenos Aires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--124
David Cahan The awarding of the Copley Medal and the
`discovery' of the law of conservation
of energy: Joule, Mayer and Helmholtz
revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--139
Shaul Katzir Who knew piezoelectricity? Rutherford
and Langevin on submarine detection and
the invention of sonar . . . . . . . . . 141--157
Bruce Bradley Newton's gift to Roger Cotes . . . . . . 159--167
Neil Todd The Radium Committee of the Royal
Society and the fate of the substances
purchased by it . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--194
Martin Moskovits How the localized surface plasmon became
linked with surface-enhanced Raman
spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--203
Michael Hunter The works of Francis Lodwick . . . . . . 205--206
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Robert Fox The many faces of science . . . . . . . 207--209
Robert Fox Editorial: the Many Faces of Science . . 207--210
Meghan C. Doherty Discovering the `true form:' Hooke's
Micrographia and the visual vocabulary
of engraved portraits . . . . . . . . . 211--234
Noah Moxham Edward Tyson's \booktitlePhocaena: a
case study in the institutional context
of scientific publishing . . . . . . . . 235--252
Terje Brundtland Francis Hauksbee and his air pump . . . 253--272
Jeff Hughes Doing Diaries: David Martin, the Royal
Society and scientific London,
1947--1950 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--294
James Sumner Turing today . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--300
Robin W. Carrell Trial By Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--306
Anthony Turner Naturalist, physician and book-maker . . 307--308
Robert G. W. Anderson The ascent of a chemist . . . . . . . . 309--310
Mary J. Burgis and
Ian Dunn Archives from Central Office of the
International Biological Programme,
1964--74 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--312
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Anna Marie Roos Naturalia: the history of natural
history and medicine in the seventeenth
century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--321
Gillian Lewis The debt of John Ray and Martin Lister
to Guillaume Rondelet of Montpellier . . 323--339
Alexander Wragge-Morley `Vividness' in English natural history
and anatomy, 1650--1700 . . . . . . . . 341--356
Brian W. Ogilvie Attending to insects: Francis Willughby
and John Ray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--372
Charlotte Sleigh Jan Swammerdam's frogs . . . . . . . . . 373--392
Anita Guerrini Perrault, Buffon and the natural history
of animals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--409
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Robert Fox \booktitleNotes and Records at 75 . . . 3--5
Jon Agar `It's springtime for science': renewing
China--UK scientific relations in the
1970s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--24
Daniel Kuehn Keynes, Newton and the Royal Society:
the events of 1942 and 1943 . . . . . . 25--36
G. Neville Greaves Poisson's ratio over two centuries:
challenging hypotheses . . . . . . . . . 37--58
Stathis Arapostathis Electrical innovations, authority and
consulting expertise in late Victorian
Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--76
Anonymous Address of the President, Paul Nurse,
given at the Anniversary Meeting on 30
November 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--81
Terry Quinn Fitzroy, Bailey, Southeast Iceland . . . 83--85
Roger Hutchins Battling for priority in early
astrophysics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--88
William H. Brock Exploring the Hyperarctic . . . . . . . 89--90
Tessa Mobbs and
Robert William Unwin Additions to the Babbage bibliography 91--93
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Robert Fox Texts and images . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--99
Felicity Henderson Faithful interpreters? Translation
theory and practice at the early Royal
Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--122
Sachiko Kusukawa Drawings of fossils by Robert Hooke and
Richard Waller . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--138
Brian Launder Horace Lamb and the circumstances of his
appointment at Owens College . . . . . . 139--158
J. M. Dudley and
V. Sarano and
F. Dias On Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa:
localization, linearity and a rogue wave
in sub-Antarctic waters . . . . . . . . 159--164
Robert Fox On receiving a first copy of
\booktitleNotes and Records: George
Sarton to A. V. Hill, 24 February 1942 165--168
Ana María Cetto and
Octavio Miramontes Noble dreams never die . . . . . . . . . 169--170
Robert P. Crease From platinum rods to Planck's constant 171--172
Keith Moore The Royal Society's lost
seventeenth-century portraits . . . . . 173--178
Fiona Keates Papers of Sir John Robert Vane FRS
(1927--2004) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--183
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Brian Hurwitz and
Marguerite W. Dupree Learning from Lister: antisepsis, safer
surgery and global health . . . . . . . 187--190
Edward R. Howard Joseph Lister: his contributions to
early experimental physiology . . . . . 191--198
Michael Worboys Joseph Lister and the performance of
antiseptic surgery . . . . . . . . . . . 199--209
Ruth Richardson Inflammation, suppuration, putrefaction,
fermentation: Joseph Lister's
microbiology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--229
Mary Wilson Carpenter Lister's relationship with patients: `A
successful case' . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--244
Thomas Schlich Farmer to industrialist: Lister's
antisepsis and the making of modern
surgery in Germany . . . . . . . . . . . 245--260
Marguerite Wright Dupree From mourning to scientific legacy:
commemorating Lister in London and
Scotland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--280
M. Anne Crowther Lister at home and abroad: a continuing
legacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--294
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Robert Fox The next 75 years . . . . . . . . . . . 297--300
Neil Calver Sir Peter Medawar: science, creativity
and the popularization of Karl Popper 301--314
Dmitri Levitin Halley and the eternity of the world
revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--329
Ana Carneiro and
Ana Simoes and
Maria Paula Diogo and
Teresa Salomé Mota Geology and religion in Portugal . . . . 331--354
Faidra Papanelopoulou Louis Paul Cailletet: The liquefaction
of oxygen and the emergence of
low-temperature research . . . . . . . . 355--373
Ruth Richardson and
Bryan Rhodes Joseph Lister's first operation . . . . 375--385
Paul Henderson James Sowerby: meteorites and his
meteoritic sword made for the Emperor of
Russia, Alexander I, in 1814 . . . . . . 387--401
Anna Marie Roos How the early modern British economy
grew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--404
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J. F. M. Clark The science of John Lubbock . . . . . . 3--6
Alison Pearn The teacher taught? What Charles Darwin
owed to John Lubbock . . . . . . . . . . 7--19
Janet Owen From Down House to Avebury: John
Lubbock, prehistory and human evolution
through the eyes of his collection . . . 21--34
Paul Pettitt and
Mark White John Lubbock, caves, and the development
of Middle and Upper Palaeolithic
archaeology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--48
David R. Bridgland John Lubbock's early contribution to the
understanding of river terraces and
their importance to Geography,
Archaeology and Earth Science . . . . . 49--63
J. F. M. Clark John Lubbock, science, and the liberal
intellectual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--87
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Anonymous [Illustrations] . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--90
Robert Fox Historians and their sources . . . . . . 91--92
Michael Hunter John Ray in Italy: lost manuscripts
rediscovered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--109
Seb Falk The scholar as craftsman: Derek de Solla
Price and the reconstruction of a
medieval instrument . . . . . . . . . . 111--134
Carla Costa Vieira Observing the skies of Lisbon. Isaac de
Sequeira Samuda, an estrangeirado in the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--149
Roland Jackson John Tyndall and the Royal Medal that
was never struck . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--164
Charles H. Smith Wallace, Darwin and \booktitleTernate
1858 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--170
William Van der Kloot Lord Justice of Appeal John Fletcher
Moulton and explosives production in
World War I: `the mathematical mind
triumphant' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--186
Anonymous Address of the President, Sir Paul
Nurse, given at the Anniversary Meeting
on 29 November 2013 . . . . . . . . . . 187--192
John R. R. Christie Essay Review: An attenuated
philosophical gentleman. Robert G. W.
Anderson and Jean Jones (eds.),
\booktitleThe correspondence of Joseph
Black (2 volumes). Ashgate, Farnham,
2012. Pp. xiv + 1564. \pounds 300.00
(hardback). ISBN 978-0-7546-0131-9 . . . 193--197
Alison Pearn Addendum: The teacher taught? What
Charles Darwin owed to John Lubbock . . 199--199
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Anonymous [Illustration] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--202
Robert Fox Behind the appearances . . . . . . . . . 203--205
Emily Winterburn Philomaths, Herschel, and the myth of
the self-taught man . . . . . . . . . . 207--225
Ana Maria Alfonso-Goldfarb and
Márcia Helena Mendes Ferraz and
Piyo M. Rattansi Seventeenth-century `treasure' found in
Royal Society archives: The
\bionameLudus helmontii and the stone
disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--243
Emma Wilkins Margaret Cavendish and the Royal Society 245--260
Markman Ellis Thomas Birch's `Weekly Letter'
(1741--66): correspondence and history
in the mid-eighteenth-century Royal
Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--278
Neil Todd A brief history of Lord Rutherford's
radium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--300
George Guise Margaret Thatcher's influence on British
science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--309
Joanna McManus Einstein in Britain: a portrait . . . . 311--315
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Anonymous [Illustration] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--318
Robert Fox The nature of discovery . . . . . . . . 319--321
Imogen Clarke How to manage a revolution: Isaac Newton
in the early twentieth century . . . . . 323--337
Mark I. Grossman John Dalton and the London atomists:
William and Bryan Higgins, William
Austin, and new Daltonian doubts about
the origin of the atomic theory . . . . 339--356
Carin Berkowitz Defining a discovery: priority and
methodological controversy in early
nineteenth-century anatomy . . . . . . . 357--372
Gildo Magalhães Santos A tale of oblivion: Ida Noddack and the
`universal abundance' of matter . . . . 373--389
Denis Noble and
Dario DiFrancesco and
Diego Zancani Leonardo da Vinci and the origin of
semen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--402
Daniele Cicuzza A rediscovery of Alfred Russel Wallace's
fern collection from Borneo at the
Cambridge University Herbarium . . . . . 403--412
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Claire G. Jones and
Sue Hawkins Women and science . . . . . . . . . . . 5--9
Patricia Fara Women, science and suffrage in World War
I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--24
J. M. Hartley and
E. M. Tansey White coats and no trousers: narrating
the experiences of women technicians in
medical laboratories, 1930--90 . . . . . 25--36
Mary Orr Women peers in the scientific realm:
Sarah Bowdich (Lee)'s expert
collaborations with Georges Cuvier,
1825--33 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--51
Sophie Waring Margaret Fountaine: a lepidopterist
remembered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--68
Emily Winterburn Caroline Herschel: agency and
self-presentation . . . . . . . . . . . 69--83
Martin Goodman The high-altitude research of Mabel
Purefoy FitzGerald, 1911--13 . . . . . . 85--99
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Ben Marsden Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--107
Helen C. Rawson James Gregory, the University
observatory and the early acquisition of
scientific instruments at the University
of St Andrews . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--133
Charles E. Jarvis and
Philip H. Oswald The collecting activities of James
Cuninghame FRS on the voyage of Tuscan
to China (Amoy) between 1697 and 1699 135--153
Bill Jenkins Henry H. Cheek and transformism: new
light on Charles Darwin's Edinburgh
background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--171
Robert Kenny Freud, Jung and Boas: the psychoanalytic
engagement with anthropology revisited 173--190
Rupert Cole The importance of picking Porter: the
Royal Institution, George Porter and the
two cultures, 1959--64 . . . . . . . . . 191--216
Anonymous Address of the President, Sir Paul
Nurse, given at the Anniversary Meeting
on 1 December 2014 . . . . . . . . . . . 217--222
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Aileen Fyfe and
Julie McDougall-Waters and
Noah Moxham 350 years of scientific periodicals . . 227--239
N. Moxham Fit for print: developing an
institutional model of scientific
periodical publishing in England,
1665--ca. 1714 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--260
Thomas Broman The profits and perils of publicity:
\booktitleAllgemeine Literatur-Zeitung,
the \booktitleThurn und Taxis Post, and
the periodical trade at the end of the
eighteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . 261--276
Aileen Fyfe Journals, learned societies and money:
\booktitlePhilosophical Transactions,
ca. 1750--1900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--299
Elizabeth le Roux Publishing South African scholarship in
the global academic community . . . . . 301--320
Imogen Clarke and
James Mussell Conservative attitudes to
old-established organs: Oliver Lodge and
Philosophical Magazine . . . . . . . . . 321--336
Melinda Baldwin Credibility, peer review, and
\booktitleNature, 1945--1990 . . . . . . 337--352
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Ben Marsden Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--359
Leigh T. I. Penman Samuel Hartlib on the death of
Descartes: a rediscovered letter to
Henry More . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--372
Anna Marie Roos and
Victor D. Boantza Mineral waters across the Channel:
matter theory and natural history from
Samuel Duclos's minerallogenesis to
Martin Lister's chymical magnetism, ca.
1666--86 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--394
Ana Maria Alfonso-Goldfarb and
Márcia Helena Mendes Ferraz and
Piyo M. Rattansi Seventeenth-century experimenta,
magisterial formulae and the `animal
alkahest': new documents found in Royal
Society archives . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--418
Geoffrey Cantor John Tyndall's religion: a fragment . . 419--436
James Tabery and
Sahotra Sarkar R. A. Fisher, Lancelot Hogben, and the
`Competition' for the Chair of Social
Biology at the London School of
Economics in 1930: Correcting the Legend 437--446
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Ben Marsden Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--7
Michael Joalland and
Scott Mandelbrote Isaac Newton learns Hebrew: Samuel
Johnson's \booktitleNova cubi Hebræi
tabella . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--21
Ian Lawson Crafting the microworld: how Robert
Hooke constructed knowledge about small
things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--44
Andrew N. Rollinson Engineering and technology of industrial
water power at Castleford Mills from the
seventeenth century to the twentieth
century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--63
Edwin Yates and
Andrew Yates Johann Peter Griess FRS (1829--88):
Victorian brewer and synthetic dye
chemist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--81
Neil Calver and
Miles Parker The logic of scientific unity? Medawar,
the Royal Society and the Rothschild
controversy 1971--72 . . . . . . . . . . 83--100
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Ben Marsden Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--106
Christina Riggs An autopsic art: drawings of `Dr
Granville's mummy' in the Royal Society
archives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--133
James C. Ungureanu A Yankee at Oxford: John William Draper
at the British Association for the
Advancement of Science at Oxford, 30
June 1860 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--150
Roberto Lalli `Dirty work', but someone has to do it:
Howard P. Robertson and the refereeing
practices of \booktitlePhysical Review
in the 1930s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--174
Neeraja Sankaran and
Ton van Helvoort Andrewes's Christmas fairy tale:
atypical thinking about cancer aetiology
in 1935 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--201
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Ben Marsden Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--208
Gregorio Astengo The rediscovery of Palmyra and its
dissemination in \booktitlePhilosophical
Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--230
Jip van Besouw The impeccable credentials of an
untrained philosopher: Willem Jacob 's
Gravesande's career before his Leiden
professorship, 1688--1717 . . . . . . . 231--249
Matthew Goodman Proving instruments credible in the
early nineteenth century: The British
Magnetic Survey and site-specific
experimentation . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--268
James F. Stark Anti-reductionism at the confluence of
philosophy and science: Arthur Koestler
and the biological periphery . . . . . . 269--286
Anonymous Address of the President, Sir Paul
Nurse, given at the Anniversary Meeting
on 30 November 2015 . . . . . . . . . . 287--291
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Sally Shuttleworth and
Berris Charnley Science periodicals in the nineteenth
and twenty-first centuries . . . . . . . 297--304
Jonathan R. Topham The scientific, the literary and the
popular: Commerce and the reimagining of
the scientific journal in Britain,
1813--1825 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--324
Pietro Corsi What do you mean by a periodical? Forms
and functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--341
Bernard Lightman Popularizers, participation and the
transformations of nineteenth-century
publishing: From the 1860s to the 1880s 343--359
Aileen Fyfe and
Noah Moxham Making public ahead of print: Meetings
and publications at the Royal Society,
1752--1892 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--379
Vanessa Heggie Distrust and expertise: Can scientific
journals continue as gatekeepers? . . . 381--382
Cameron Neylon Communities need journals . . . . . . . 383--385
Rebekah Higgitt Science publishing 2035 . . . . . . . . 387--388
Mark Patterson Rescaling scientific communication . . . 389--390
Sunetra Gupta How has publishing changed in the last
twenty years? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--392
Sabina Leonelli The disruptive potential of data
publication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--395
Stella Butler The future of scientific periodicals: A
librarian's perspective . . . . . . . . 397--398
Mary Madden Engaging civil society with health
research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--401
Raghavendra Gadagkar The `pay-to-publish' model should be
abolished . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--404
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Ben Marsden Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--6
Michael Hunter John Webster, the Royal Society and The
Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft (1677) 7--19
John Henry Enlarging the bounds of moral
philosophy: Why did Isaac Newton
conclude the \booktitleOpticks the way
he did? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--39
Benjamin Sutherland Wardhaugh Charles Hutton and the
`\booktitleDissensions' of 1783--84:
scientific networking and its failures 41--59
Malcolm G. H. Bishop The Athenæum Club, the Royal Society and
the reform of dentistry in
nineteenth-century Britain: a research
report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--70
Eleanor Anne Peters Observation, experiment or autonomy in
the domestic sphere? Women's familiar
science writing in Britain, 1790--1830 71--90
Hasok Chang Who cares about the history of science? 91--107
Anonymous Address of the President, Sir Venki
Ramakrishnan, given at the Anniversary
Meeting on 30 November 2016 . . . . . . 109--114
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Andreas-Holger Maehle and
Heather Wolffram History of hypnotism in Europe and the
significance of place . . . . . . . . . 119--123
Kim M. Hajek `A portion of truth': Demarcating the
boundaries of scientific hypnotism in
late nineteenth-century France . . . . . 125--139
Andrea Graus Hypnosis lessons by stage magnetizers:
Medical and lay hypnotists in Spain . . 141--156
Maria Teresa Brancaccio Between Charcot and Bernheim: The debate
on hypnotism in fin-de-si\`ecle Italy 157--177
Kaat Wils From transnational to regional magnetic
fevers: The making of a law on hypnotism
in late nineteenth-century Belgium . . . 179--196
Andreas-Holger Maehle A dangerous method? The German discourse
on hypnotic suggestion therapy around
1900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--211
Heather Wolffram Crime and hypnosis in fin-de-si\`ecle
Germany: the Czynski case . . . . . . . 213--226
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Ben Marsden War, nature and technoscience . . . . . 231--232
Yakup Bektas The Crimean War as a technological
enterprise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--262
Deri Sheppard Robert Le Rossignol, 1884--1976:
Engineer of the `Haber' process . . . . 263--296
J. F. M. Clark Pesticides, pollution and the UK's
silent spring, 1963--1964: Poison in the
Garden of England . . . . . . . . . . . 297--327
Jon Agar Outward bound . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--332
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Ben Marsden Science communications . . . . . . . . . 333--334
Pat Rogers The York buildings dragons: Desaguliers,
Arbuthnot and attitudes towards the
scientific community . . . . . . . . . . 335--360
Paul Frame Charles Blagden in revolutionary
America: two unpublished letters to John
Lloyd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--369
Richard England Censoring Huxley and Wilberforce: A new
source for the meeting that the
Athenaeum `wisely softened down' . . . . 371--384
Jordan Larsen The evolving spirit: morals and
mutualism in Arabella Buckley's
evolutionary epic . . . . . . . . . . . 385--408
Jon Agar 2016 Wilkins--Bernal--Medawar lecture:
The curious history of curiosity-driven
research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--429
Casper Andersen Book Review: A riverbank of science:
Bernard Lightman, A companion to the
history of science. Wiley Blackwell
Companions to World History. Wiley
Blackwell, Chichester, 2016. Pp. xvi +
601. \pounds 120.00 (hardback). ISBN
978-1-118-62077-9 . . . . . . . . . . . 431--433
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Ben Marsden Living with, learning from and managing
scientific failure . . . . . . . . . . . 5--6
William Poole Seventeenth-Century `double writing'
schemes, and a 1676 letter in the
phonetic script and real character of
John Wilkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--23
Jonathan Jeffrey Wright and
Diarmid A. Finnegan Rocks, skulls and materialism: geology
and phrenology in late-Georgian Belfast 25--55
Arnab Rai Choudhuri and
Rajinder Singh The FRS nomination of Sir Prafulla C.
Ray and the correspondence of N. R. Dhar 57--73
Hyung Wook Park Managing failure: Sir Peter Brian
Medawar's transplantation research . . . 75--100
Anonymous Address of the President, Sir Venki
Ramakrishnan, given at the Anniversary
Meeting on 30 November 2017 . . . . . . 101--105
Ludmilla Jordanova Natural knowledge in the 1660s: probing
an iconic image . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--108
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Larry Stewart and
Kelly J. Whitmer Expectations and utility in
eighteenth-century knowledge economies:
\booktitleNotes and Records special
issue introduction . . . . . . . . . . . 111--117
Vera Keller Deprogramming Baconianism: The meaning
of desiderata in the eighteenth century 119--137
Kelly J. Whitmer Projects and pedagogical expectations:
Inside P. J. Marperger's `golden clover
leaf' (Trifolium), 1700--1730 . . . . . 139--157
Denise Phillips Experimentation in the agricultural
Enlightenment Place, profit and norms of
knowledge-making in eighteenth-century
Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--172
Dominik Hünniger What is a useful university? Knowledge
economies and higher education in late
eighteenth-century Denmark and central
Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--194
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Anonymous Life Histories, or History Comes to Life 195--198
Robert Bud Selling visions: Kantianism, cameralism
and applied science realized through
encyclopaediae in Germany and beyond . . 199--216
Geoffrey Cantor Humphry Davy: a study in narcissism? . . 217--237
Alex D. D. Craik The hydrostatical works of George
Sinclair (c. 1630--1696): their neglect
and criticism . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--273
Jean-François Fava-Verde Victorian telegrams: the early
development of the telegraphic despatch
and its interplay with the letter post 275--292
Robert Fox Einstein in Oxford . . . . . . . . . . . 293--318
Hsiang-Fu Huang A shared arena: the private astronomy
lecturing trade and its institutional
counterpart in Britain, 1817--1865 . . . 319--341
Edouard Kolchinsky and
Uwe Hossfeld and
Georgy S. Levit Russian scientists and the Royal Society
of London: 350 years of scientific
collaboration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--363
Paul Merchant Particular popular science: British
scientists writing, speaking and
broadcasting on science and religion
from the 1980s . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--381
Lee Raye Robert Sibbald's \booktitleScotia
Illustrata (1684): A faunal baseline for
Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--405
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Adam D. Richter and
Stephen D. Snobelen `Too much for mee to speake of': the
many facets of John Wallis's life and
legacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--412
Philip Beeley Physical arguments and moral
inducements: John Wallis on questions of
antiquarianism and natural philosophy 413--430
Louisiane Ferlier John Wallis's world of ink: from
manuscripts to library . . . . . . . . . 431--445
Abram Kaplan Analysis and demonstration: Wallis and
Newton on mathematical presentation . . 447--468
Douglas Jesseph Geometry, religion and politics: context
and consequences of the Hobbes--Wallis
dispute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--486
Adam D. Richter John Wallis and the Catholics:
confessional and theological antagonism
in Wallis's mathematics and philosophy 487--503
Jason M. Rampelt Polity and liturgy in the philosophy of
John Wallis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--525
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Venki Ramakrishnan Anniversary address Friday 30 November
2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--9
Michele Camerota and
Franco Giudice and
Salvatore Ricciardo The reappearance of Galileo's original
Letter to Benedetto Castelli . . . . . . 11--28
Andrew Odlyzko Newton's financial misadventures in the
South Sea Bubble . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--59
Hannah Wills Charles Blagden's diary: Information
management and British science in the
eighteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . 61--81
Koen B. Tanghe On \booktitleThe Origin of Species: The
story of Darwin's title . . . . . . . . 83--100
Patience A. Schell Natural history values and meanings in
nineteenth-century Chile . . . . . . . . 101--124
Alex D. D. Craik and
Danielle Spittle The hydrostatical works of George
Sinclair (c. 1630--1696): an addendum 125--130
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Simon Naylor and
Simon Schaffer Nineteenth-century survey sciences:
enterprises, expeditions and exhibitions 135--147
Jessica Ratcliff Hand-in-hand with the survey: surveying
and the accumulation of knowledge
capital at India House during the
Napoleonic Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--166
Jenny Bulstrode Cetacean citations and the covenant of
iron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--185
Matthew Goodman Follow the data: administering science
at Edward Sabine's magnetic department,
Woolwich, 1841--57 . . . . . . . . . . . 187--202
Simon Naylor Thermometer screens and the geographies
of uniformity in nineteenth-century
meteorology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--221
Jane A. Wess and
Charles W. J. Withers Instrument provision and geographical
science: the work of the Royal
Geographical Society, 1830--ca 1930 . . 223--241
A. D. Morrison-Low Geomagnetic instruments at National
Museums Scotland . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--257
Charlotte Connelly and
Claire Warrior Survey stories in the history of British
polar exploration: museums, objects and
people . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--274
Anonymous Frontispiece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Professor Anna Marie Roos Object biographies and
interdisciplinarity . . . . . . . . . . ??
Dr Philip L. Richardson Leonardo da Vinci's discovery of the
dynamic soaring by birds in wind shear ??
Jim Bennett Adventures with instruments: science and
seafaring in the precarious career of
Christopher Middleton . . . . . . . . . ??
Di Lu `Homoeopathy flourishes in the far
East': A forgotten history of homeopathy
in late nineteenth-century China . . . . ??
Michela Massimi 2017 Wilkins--Bernal--Medawar Lecture:
why philosophy of science matters to
science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Marieke M. A. Hendriksen Casting life, casting death: connections
between early modern anatomical
corrosive preparations and artistic
materials and techniques . . . . . . . . ??
Janet Owen Towards a methodology for analysing
nineteenth-century collecting journeys
of science and empire, with Charles
Darwin's activities in Tierra del Fuego
as a case study . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Simon Werrett Introduction: Rethinking Joseph Banks 425--429
Carl Thompson Women Travellers, Romantic-era science
and the Banksian empire . . . . . . . . 431--455
Tim Fulford The Role of Patronage in early
nineteenth-century science, as evidenced
in letters from Humphry Davy to Joseph
Banks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--475
Hannah Wills Joseph Banks and Charles Blagden:
cultures of advancement in the
scientific worlds of late
eighteenth-century London and Paris . . 477--497
Edwin D. Rose From the South Seas to Soho Square:
Joseph Banks's Library, collection and
Kingdom of natural history . . . . . . . 499--526
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Lucy J. Havard `Preserve or perish': food preservation
practices in the early modern kitchen 5--33
Jaros\law W\lodarczyk The pre-telescopic observations of the
Moon in early seventeenth-century
London: The case of Edward Gresham
(1565--1613) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--53
Melvyn Mason and
Robert S. White FRS Cambridge radio sonobuoys and the
seismic structure of oceanic crust . . . 55--72
Haileigh Robertson A gunpowder controversy in the early
Royal Society, 1667--70 . . . . . . . . 73--94
Mike A. Zuber and
Leigh T. I. Penman Robert Boyle's anonymous
`Crosey-Crucian' identified: The German
alchemist and religious dissenter Peter
Moritz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--103
Roland Jackson Eunice Foote, John Tyndall and a
question of priority . . . . . . . . . . 105--118
Francesca Minen Ancient Mesopotamian views on human skin
and body: a cultural--historical
analysis of dermatological data from
cuneiform sources . . . . . . . . . . . 119--130
Alan James Hogarth and
Michael Witmore Reflexive witnessing: Boyle, the Royal
Society and scientific style . . . . . . 131--148
Tina Skouen Brian Cox and the new enlightenment . . 149--178
Anonymous Frontispiece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Charles E. Jarvis and
Richard Coulton A Chronology of the Life of James
Petiver (ca. 1663--1718) . . . . . . . . 183--187
Richard Coulton `What he hath gather'd together shall
not be lost': remembering James Petiver 189--211
Katrina Elizabeth Maydom James Petiver's apothecary practice and
the consumption of American drugs in
early modern London . . . . . . . . . . 213--238
Alice Marples James Petiver's `joynt-stock': middling
agency in urban collecting networks . . 239--258
Kathleen Susan Murphy James Petiver's `Kind Friends' and
`Curious Persons' in the Atlantic World:
commerce, colonialism and collecting . . 259--274
Richard I. Vane-Wright James Petiver's 1717
\booktitlePapilionum Britanniae: an
analysis of the first comprehensive
account of British butterflies
(\bionameLepidoptera:
\bionamePapilionoidea) . . . . . . . . . 275--302
Charles E. Jarvis `The most common grass, rush, moss,
fern, thistles, thorns or vilest weeds
you can find': James Petiver's plants 303--328
Charles E. Jarvis James Petiver (c. 1663--1718): a concise
bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--333
Anonymous Frontispiece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Professor Anna Marie Roos Plague wind and blue skies . . . . . . . 339--343
Mark Jackson 2019 Wilkins--Bernal--Medawar lecture:
Life begins at 40: the demographic and
cultural roots of the midlife crisis . . 345--364
Patrick Luiz Sullivan De Oliveira Martyrs made in the sky: the Zénith
balloon tragedy and the construction of
the French Third Republic's first
scientific heroes . . . . . . . . . . . 365--386
Cornelis J. Schilt Of manuscripts and men: the editorial
history of Isaac Newton's
\booktitleChronology and Observations 387--408
George Gömöri and
Stephen D. Snobelen What he may seem to the world: Isaac
Newton's autograph book epigrams . . . . 409--452
Andrew M. A. Morris Evaluating John Theophilus Desaguliers'
Newtonianism: the case of waterwheel
knowledge in \booktitleA course of
experimental philosophy . . . . . . . . 453--477
Steffen Ducheyne Adriaen Verwer (1654/5--1717) and the
first edition of Isaac Newton's
\booktitlePrincipia in the Dutch
Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--505
Chris Meyns `Data' in the Royal Society's
\booktitlePhilosophical Transactions,
1665--1886 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--528
Anonymous Frontispiece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Neeraja Sankaran Introduction: Diversifying the
historiography of bacteriophages . . . . 533--538
Claas Kirchhelle The forgotten typers: The rise and fall
of Weimar bacteriophage-typing
(1921--1935) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--565
Zdravko Lackovi\'c and
Karlo Toljan Vladimir Serti\'c: forgotten pioneer of
virology and bacteriophage therapy . . . 567--578
Dmitriy Myelnikov Creature features: The lively narratives
of bacteriophages in Soviet biology and
medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579--597
Gladys Kostyrka and
Neeraja Sankaran From obstacle to lynchpin: the evolution
of the role of bacteriophage lysogeny in
defining and understanding viruses . . . 599--623
Rijul Kochhar The virus in the rivers: histories and
antibiotic afterlives of the
bacteriophage at the sangam in Allahabad 625--651
William C. Summers Afterword: Phage, history and
historiography . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653--656
Anonymous Frontispiece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Moujan Matin and
Mohammad Gholamnejad and
Ali Nemati Abkenar `We must send you a sample' --- a
Persian--European dialogue: insights
into late nineteenth-century ceramic
technology based on chemical analysis of
tiles from the Ettehadieh house complex,
Tehran, Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--37
Richard T. Bellis `As to the plan of this work \ldots we
think Dr. Baillie has done wrong':
changing the study of disease through
epistemic genre in Georgian Britain . . 39--58
Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh Galenizing the New World: Joseph-François
Lafitau's `Galenization' of Canadian
Ginseng, ca 1716--1724 . . . . . . . . . 59--72
Ellen Packham The limits of Chemistry: how William
Gregory contested the boundaries of
`established science', 1820--1850 . . . 73--89
Jiuchen Zhang and
Jingfei Zhang The Qinghai--Tibet Plateau: pilot site
for international collaboration in
geoscience during China's early period
of reform and opening-up . . . . . . . . 91--109
Wolfgang H. Müller and
Richard J. Howarth The life and work of Robert J. Adcock.
Part I: the figure of the Earth . . . . 111--140
Richard J. Howarth and
Wolfgang H. Müller The life and work of Robert J. Adcock.
Part II: biography and establishment of
authorship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--157
Meg Weston Smith Away from the limelight: Einstein and
Milne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--165
Penelope Hunting The Endeavour journal of Lieutenant
Zachary Hicks 1768--1771 . . . . . . . . 167--175
Anonymous Frontispiece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NP--NP
Anita Guerrini and
Georgina M. Montgomery Introduction: Sustainability and the
history of scientific environments . . . 181--187
Lisa M. Brady From war zone to biosphere reserve: the
Korean DMZ as a scientific landscape . . 189--205
Emily Simpson Ant mazes and astronomy: Harlow
Shapley's entomological experiments at
Mount Wilson Observatory and Pasadena,
California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--221
Georgina M. Montgomery `Never so at home': Charles Elton and
the Woods of Wytham . . . . . . . . . . 223--238
Kevin C. Brown `An exceedingly simple, little
ecosystem': Devils Hole, endangered
species conservation, and scientific
environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--257
Anita Guerrini The Wild Garden: landscaping southern
California in the early twentieth
century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--276
Anonymous Frontispiece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--278
Anna Marie Roos Editorial: Life and death in the
archive: The Royal Society, Martin
Folkes (1690--1754), and Coram's voices
through time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--284
Lachlan Fleetwood Science and War at the Limit of Empire:
William Griffith with the Army of the
Indus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--310
Didi van Trijp Fresh Fish: Observation up Close in Late
Seventeenth-Century England . . . . . . 311--332
Dimitria Electra Gatzia and
Rex D. Ramsier Dimensionality, symmetry and the Inverse
Square Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--348
Marcio A. Diniz and
David R. Bellhouse The early scientific connections of
Richard Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--358
Sooyoung An Daniel Hanbury's Study of Chinese
\booktitleMATERIA MEDICA: A British
Network of Letters and Specimens during
the Nineteenth Century . . . . . . . . . 359--380
Anthony Turner and
John Davis John Collins and the Double Horizontal
Dial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--396
Nicola Polloni Early Robert Grosseteste on Matter . . . 397--414
Jiang Hong Angel in the House, Angel in the
Scientific Empire: Women and Colonial
Botany During the Eighteenth and
Nineteenth Centuries . . . . . . . . . . 415--438
Kevin Orrman-Rossiter Places of `Invention and Discovery' and
the Nobel Prize in Physics . . . . . . . 439--460
John Z. Shi George Keith Batchelor's Interaction
with Chinese Fluid Dynamicists and
Inspirational Influence: a historical
perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--502
Anonymous Frontispiece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--506
Victoria Dickenson Introduction: Undescrib'd: Taylor White
(1701--1772) and his collections . . . . 507--513
Victoria Dickenson `Obliging and curious': Taylor White
(1701--1772) and his remarkable
collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--541
Céline M. Stantina Taylor White's `paper museum'
(1725--1772): understanding the
scientific work of an unpublished
naturalist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--557
Emilienne Greenfield The practice of note-taking in Taylor
White's natural history collection . . . 559--579
Vida Javidi and
Robert Montgomerie Ornithological insights from Taylor
White's birds . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581--598
Victoria Dickenson and
Jennifer Garland Taylor White's `paper museum' . . . . . 599--626
Emily Zinger `Just put it online': the Taylor White
project as a digitization case study . . 627--642
Lauren Williams Fruitful collaborations: the Taylor
White project in the Blacker Wood
Natural History Collection . . . . . . . 643--656
Anonymous Frontispiece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NP--NP
Fiona Amery The disputed sound of the aurora
borealis: sensing liminal noise during
the First and Second International Polar
Years, 1882--3 and 1932--3 . . . . . . . 5--26
Kerrewin van Blanken Earthquake observations in the age
before Lisbon: eyewitness observation
and earthquake philosophy in the Royal
Society, 1665--1755 . . . . . . . . . . 27--48
Edward J. Gillin Cornish science, mine experiments and
Robert Were Fox's Penjerrick letters . . 49--66
Joseph D. Ortiz and
Roland Jackson Understanding Eunice Foote's 1856
experiments: heat absorption by
atmospheric gases . . . . . . . . . . . 67--84
Breno Arsioli Moura The first French translation of Book II
of Newton's \booktitleOpticks:
omissions, abridgements and the quest
for authorship . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--106
Heinz-Eberhard Mahnke Lise Meitner, $ \beta $-decay and
non-radiative electromagnetic
transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--116
Roberto de Andrade Martins Joule's 1840 manuscript on the
production of heat by voltaic
electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--154
Gerard Gilmore and
Gudrun Tausch-Pebody The 1919 eclipse results that verified
general relativity and their later
detractors: a story re-told . . . . . . 155--180
Hsiang-Fu Huang From Grub Street to the Colony: George
William Francis and an early Victorian
scientific career . . . . . . . . . . . 181--208
Matthew Holmes Houseflies and fungi: the promise of an
early twentieth-century biotechnology 209--224
Anonymous Frontispiece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NP--NP
Morwenna Blewett and
Lucy Wrapson Introduction: Cabinet, elaboratory,
gallery 1500--1800. The preservation of
art and material culture in Europe . . . 229--235
Costanza Beltrami Defence by demolition? Preserving and
relocating the cloister of Segovia
cathedral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--252
Olivia Stoddart and
Gerry Alabone Thomas Sackville's Hall of Fame:
displaced, reinvented and preserved at
Knole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--272
Giacomo Cardinali The problem of `Extinguished letters'
and the use of chemical reagents on
manuscripts (1551--1553) . . . . . . . . 273--286
Alice Limb From the life school to the gallery
wall, via the portfolio: the collection,
treatment, and display of oil sketches
on paper produced in the contexts of the
Carracci school . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--302
W. G. Burgess Time's teeth: narratives of preservation
in the eighteenth-century Cotton Library 303--315
Simon Werrett Preserving nature: domestic thrift and
techniques of conservation in early
modern England . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--329
Anonymous Cemetery tower at Atena . . . . . . . . NP--NP
Anna Marie Roos Publish and flourish, or the collective
wisdom of peer review . . . . . . . . . 335--336
Thomas A. Griffiths `Shout hurrah!' New thoughts on the
origin and meaning of the bat species
name \bionameIa io, created in 1902 by
Oldfield Thomas FRS . . . . . . . . . . 337--350
Ignacio García-Pereda and
Ana Duarte Rodrigues and
Francisco Manuel Parejo-Moruno The Boutelou Brothers: From Gardening to
Agronomic Practices, Education, and
Travels in Spain at the Turn of the
Nineteenth Century . . . . . . . . . . . 351--369
Jaros\law W\lodarczyk `Out of a greate laborinth of errors':
Lunar astronomy in London before Kepler 371--386
Tanfer Emin Tunc and
Gokhan Tunc Transferring Technical Knowledge to
Turkey: American Engineers, Scientific
Experts, and the Erzincan Earthquake of
1939 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--406
Heike Jöns and
Michael Heffernan and
Dean W. Bond Unity in bronze: German universities and
the 250th anniversary of the Royal
Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--443
Derek Partridge Mind the step: did Hooker's judgement
clinch Darwin's disenchantment? . . . . 445--461
Quintino Lopes and
Elisabete J. Santos Pereira Science funding under an authoritarian
regime: Portugal's National Education
Board and the European `academic
landscape' in the interwar period . . . 463--483
Martin Bush Again with feeling: modes of visual
representation of popular astronomy in
the mid-nineteenth century . . . . . . . 485--506
Alice Marples The science of money: Isaac Newton's
mastering of the Mint . . . . . . . . . 507--525
Benjamin Lomas `A man of intrigue': Giles Rawlins,
1631?--1662 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--540
Niccol\`o Guicciardini David Gregory's manuscript
`\booktitleIsaaci Neutoni Methodus
fluxionum' (1694): a study on the early
publication of Newton's discoveries on
calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541--564
Edward J. Gillin The instruments of expeditionary science
and the reworking of nineteenth-century
magnetic experiment . . . . . . . . . . 565--592
Claude Debru and
Wolfgang U. Eckart and
Heiner Fangerau and
Robert Fox European academies and the Great War: an
inter-academy initiative, 2014--2021 . . 593--602
Miguel Ohnesorge Theodolites at 20\,000 feet: justifying
precision measurement during the
trigonometrical survey of Kashmir,
1855--1865 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603--618
Kersten Hall Florence Bell --- the `Housewife' with
X-ray vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619--631
Victor Rafael Limeira-DaSilva The itinerary of Alfred Russel Wallace's
Amazonian journey (1848--1852): a source
for researchers and readers . . . . . . 633--652
Anonymous Frontispiece for December 2022 . . . . . NP--NP
Sharrona Pearl Introduction: theorizing and applying
the meaningfully anecdotal patient in
neurodiversity research . . . . . . . . 657--661
Stephen T. Casper The anecdotal patient: brain injury and
the magnitude of harm . . . . . . . . . 663--682
Chloe Silverman How to read `Reading the Mind in the
Eyes' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683--697
Jonathan Cole Insights from those who live with
impairments of facial mobility . . . . . 699--712
Heather Sellers Who are you? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713--720
Jenny Edkins Supposed to know . . . . . . . . . . . . 721--722
Anna Marie Roos Flat Places: 1 Lincolnshire and science 1--3
Nathan Smith Of stumps and stipes: comparisons
between the cultures and identities of
Yorkshire cricket and mycology at the
turn of the twentieth century . . . . . 5--18
Ethan S. Rogers and
Stephanie L. Canington Lemurs before Lemur: depictions of
captive lemurs prior to Linnaeus . . . . 19--48
Martin Bush Mary Proctor: an astronomical
popularizer in the shadows . . . . . . . 49--72
Sara Gutierrez and
Stephanie L. Canington and
Andrea R. Eller and
Elizabeth S. Herrelko and
Sabrina B. Sholts The intertwined history of non-human
primate health and human medicine at the
Smithsonian's National Zoo and
Conservation Biology Institute . . . . . 73--96
Michael Hunter Thomas Henshaw's strange s\`uance in
Venice, circa 1648: a coda to Robert
Boyle by himself and his friends . . . . 97--112
Stefano Miccoli and
Luisa María Gil-Martín and
Enrique Hernández-Montes New historical records about the
construction of the Arch of Ctesiphon
and their impact on the history of
structural engineering . . . . . . . . . 113--134
Daniel Belteki `The grand strategy of an observatory':
George Airy's vision for the division of
astronomical labour among observatories
during the nineteenth century . . . . . 135--151
Ferenc Orosz and
Miklós Müller The first `Soviet type' research
institute of the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences and its Stalin Prize-awarded
director, Imre Szörényi . . . . . . . . . 153--168
Alison Laurence Pleistocene Park, and other designs on
deep time in the Interwar United States 169--190
Liam Sims `Your very obliging correspondence': the
Royal Society and the provincial
Republic of Letters in Georgian
Lincolnshire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--212
Lukas M. Verburgt `Is there a Reader who can Handle it
with any Comfort?': A Brief Publication
History of the Works of Francis Bacon 213--220
Anna Maerker and
Elena Serrano and
Simon Werrett Enlightened female networks: gendered
ways of producing knowledge (1720--1830) 225--234
Helen Esfandiary `A thankless enterprise': Lady Mary
Wortley Montagu's campaign to establish
medical unorthodoxy amongst her female
network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--250
Lo\"\ic Charles and
Christine Théré Les femmes économistes: the place of
women in the physiocratic community . . 251--264
Palmira Fontes da Costa Gender and botany in early
nineteenth-century Portugal: the circle
of the Marquise of Alorna . . . . . . . 265--282
Francesca Antonelli Madame Lavoisier and the others: women
in Marie-Anne Paulze-Lavoisier's network
(1771--1836) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--302
Mónica Bolufer and
Elena Serrano Maritime crossroads: the knowledge
pursuits of María de Betancourt
(Tenerife, 1758--1824) and Joana de Vigo
(Menorca, 1779--1855) . . . . . . . . . 303--322
Mascha Hansen Queen Charlotte's scientific collections
and natural history networks . . . . . . 323--336
Paola Govoni Feminist networks beyond the science
wars: the `female brain' in the 1790s
and the 1990s . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--352
Ion Mihailescu Graphical details: the secret life of
Christopher Wren's drawing of the
weather clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--378
Silvia F. de M.Figueirôa Science popularization in nineteenth
century France: Nérée Boubée (1806--1862)
and the journal \booktitleL'Écho du Monde
Savant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--393
Francis Newman Scientific ideologies on the move:
Sino-British exchanges, scientific
freedoms and the governance of science
in Britain, 1961--1966 . . . . . . . . . 399--420
Jane Wess New light on the role of instruments in
exploration during the 1830s . . . . . . 421--442
Louise Neilson Joanna Park and
Andreas K. Demetriades Hysteria, head injuries and heredity:
`shell-shocked' soldiers of the Royal
Edinburgh Asylum, Edinburgh (1914--24) 443--470
Bill Jenkins The `Stronsay Beast': testimony,
evidence and authority in early
nineteenth-century natural history . . . 471--494
Paddy Holt An appetite for experiment: putting
early Royal Society tastes back on the
table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--512
David C. Clary Foreign Membership of the Royal Society:
Schrödinger and Heisenberg? . . . . . . . 513--536
Stella V. F. Butler Two Nobel laureates in conversation:
Robert Robinson listens to Dorothy
Hodgkin's account of her life scientific 537--556
Ali Erken Localizing Western expertise: \.Ihsan
Do\ugramaci, \cS. Ra\csit Hatipo\uglu,
and the quest for scientific development
in modern Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . 557--574
Gra\.zyna Jurkowlaniec Bones of contention: Johann Heinrich
Merck's palaeontological encounters with
academic scholars and professional
printmakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575--604
Zhang Zhihui Emigration or return? International
mobility and Theodore von Kármán's Chinese
students and associates . . . . . . . . 605--646
Victoria Dickenson Lady Gwillim and the birds of Madras . . 647--670
Charles T. Wolfe The life of matter: early modern vital
matter theories introduction . . . . . . 673--675
Guido Giglioni Large as life: Francis Bacon on the
animate matter of plants . . . . . . . . 677--696
Laura Georgescu Cavendish on life . . . . . . . . . . . 697--715
Antonio Clericuzio Thomas Willis' iatrochemistry and the
activity of matter . . . . . . . . . . . 717--732
Rodolfo Garau Gassendi's second thought. from a
materialistic picture of cognition to
the defence of dualism: the lasting
influence of the polemic with Descartes 733--751
Tamás Demeter Sympathetic Organizations: body, mind,
and society in Robert Whytt and David
Hume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753--769
Paolo Pecere Materialism, Lebenskraft and the limits
of science: metaphysical vitalism in
post-Kantian scenarios . . . . . . . . . 771--787
Anna Marie Eleanor Roos Eloge to James (Jim) Arthur Bennett
April 1947-- 28 October 2023 . . . . . . 3--8
Russell Fielding `The correct name for the breadfruit':
on interdisciplinarity and the artist
Sydney Parkinson's contested
contributions to the botanical sciences 9--28
Oded Rabinovitch The `system of the world' and the
scientific culture of early modern
France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--52
Winfried S. Peters The cells of Robert Hooke: pores,
fibres, diaphragms and the cell theory
that wasn't . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--74
Chris Garrett A Scientific Visit to the USSR in 1963 75--80
Pamela Mackenzie Nehemiah Grew, the illustrator . . . . . 81--114
Aileen Fyfe From philanthropy to business: the
economics of Royal Society journal
publishing in the twentieth century . . 115--142
Robert Frost A geologist and an Egyptologist in
conversation: Sir Charles Lyell and Sir
John Gardner Wilkinson . . . . . . . . . 143--166
Joachim L. Dagg and
J. F. Derry Patrick Matthew's synthesis of
catastrophism and transformism . . . . . 167--188
Thomas Matthew Vozar Robert Hooke, Isaac Newton and the Royal
Society: three unnoticed letters at the
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin . . . . . . . 189--202
Elaine A. Seddon and
Michael W. Poole The origins and development of
free-electron lasers in the UK . . . . . 203--252
Anonymous Frontispiece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA--NA
Nils Hansson and
Thomas Schlich Beyond the Nobel Prize: scientific
recognition and awards in North America
since 1900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--262
Delia Gavrus Wilder Penfield dreams of the Nobel
Prize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--282
Nils Hansson and
Thomas Schlich Performing excellence: Nobel Prize
nomination networks in North America . . 283--298
F. W. Stahnisch Émigré neurophysiologists' situated
knowledge economies and their roles in
forming international cultures of
scientific excellence . . . . . . . . . 299--322
Annmarie Adams Friendship archaeology: how Maude Abbott
occupied overlapping spaces of
excellence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--349
Anna Marie Roos Bittersweet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--354
Alexander G. M. Pietrow Did Christiaan Huygens need glasses? A
study of Huygens' telescope equations
and tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--366
James T. Costa and
George Beccaloni Alfred Russel Wallace's Unrealized Last
Book: Insights from the Plan for Darwin
and Wallace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--402
Petra Lukeneder and
Irene Liebhart and
Franz Ottner and
Anika Mikes and
Petra Heinz and
Radek Polách The historical power of the natural
science collection of Dominik Bilimek at
the University of Natural Resources and
Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU) . . . . . . 403--430
Joel Beckles and
Deborah A. Kent Eclipsed by history: underrecognized
contributions to early British solar
eclipse expeditions . . . . . . . . . . 431--452
Gregory S. Girolami Margaret Bryan: Newly Discovered
Biographical Information about the
Author of \booktitleA Compendious System
of Astronomy (1797) . . . . . . . . . . 453--466
Lajos Kovács The campfire stories of Russell Marker,
a pioneer of chemistry . . . . . . . . . 467--492
Carlos Moura Martins and
Fernando B. Figueiredo Making science for the Portuguese
Empire: The Royal Maritime, Military and
Geographic Society (1798--1809) . . . . 493--518
Miguel de Asúa Redhead, Paroissien, Parish & Co.:
British Field Science in early
Independent Río de la Plata . . . . . . . 519--536
Sharon Ruston and
Eleanor Lucy Bird and
Andrew Lacey and
Frank James and
Jo Taylor and
Samantha Blickhan Humphry Davy's Notebooks . . . . . . . . 539--546
Andrew Lacey Davy's Notemaking . . . . . . . . . . . 547--570
Frank A. J. L. James Moving scientific knowledge from the
laboratory to the theatre: Humphry
Davy's Lecture practice at the Royal
Institution, 1801--1812 . . . . . . . . 571--596
Eleanor Lucy Bird Humphry Davy, transatlantic slavery and
his constructions of racial difference
in an early notebook . . . . . . . . . . 597--624
Sharon Ruston Protean Forms in Humphry Davy's
Notebooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625--646
Samantha Blickhan and
Eleanor Bird and
Andrew Lacey and
Alexis Wolf The benefits of `slow' development:
towards a best practice for sustainable
technical infrastructure through the
Davy Notebooks Project . . . . . . . . . 647--668