Royal Society
Organization
Found in 164 Collections and/or Records:
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Transactions with the Royal Society, 1851 - 1852
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/388
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to transactions with the Royal Society, including correspondence with its members. The material includes announcements for meetings; papers on the distribution of government grants; a paper by Airy on the 'eclipses' of Apothaeles, Thales and Hermes; reviews by Airy of various works; T. Catton's papers; material on candidates for entry into the Royal Society; and writing by F.W. Beechy on tides in the English Channel. The correspondents include F. Beaufort, H. Lloyd, E....
Dates:
1851 - 1852
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Transactions with the Royal Society, 1853 - 1854
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/389
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to transactions with the Royal Society, including correspondence with its members. The material includes papers on candidates for the Royal Society; correspondence on the printing of T. Catton's observations; Airy's paper on the effect of mountain passes; and reviews by Airy on various scientific works. The correspondents include W.H. Smyth, G.G. Stokes, C.V. Walker, J.G.S. Lefevre, E. Sabine, W. Shanks and J.B.A.L. Elie de Beaumont.
Dates:
1853 - 1854
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Sub-Series
Transactions with the Royal Society, 1855 - 1859
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/390
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to transactions with the Royal Society, including correspondence with its members. The material includes lists of candidates for election into the Royal Society, 1855, 1856 and 1857; minutes of a Council meeting, 30 May 1856; a 'preliminary report of the Committee appointed to consider the formation of a Catalogue of Philosophical Memoirs'; papers on compass deviations in ships; a paper on the pendulum experiments at Harton Colliery; an 'account of the construction of the New...
Dates:
1855 - 1859
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Transactions with the Royal Society, 1862 - 1865
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/392
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to transactions with the Royal Society, including correspondence with its members. The material includes nominations for new members; papers on the Royal Society relief fund; papers by Airy on the difference in properties of hot and cold rolled malleable iron in regard to receiving and retaining induced magnetism ('On the strains in beams'; 'The diurnal inequalities of terrestrial magnetism', 1841-1857; and 'First analysis of 177 magnetic storms'); and a paper titled 'Did Sir...
Dates:
1862 - 1865
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Transactions with the Royal Society, 1870 - 1872
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/394
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to transactions with the Royal Society, including correspondence with its members. The papers includes Council minutes; a newspaper cutting on a Royal Society soirée, with a catalogue prepared for the event; papers and correspondence on the Meteorological Committee; printed accounts of the British Museum, 19 April 1872, and lists of Trustees; printed testimonials of Vernon Harcourt; an Admiralty chart of Heligoland (Helgoland), 1855; and a printed report of the...
Dates:
1870 - 1872
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Transactions with the Royal Society, 1870 - 1872
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/395
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to transactions with the Royal Society, including correspondence with its members. The material includes records of 'galvanic earth currents on days of tranquil magnetism'; lists of candidates for election to the Royal Society; a list of members of the Royal Society, 1871; and reports by Airy on several papers. There are also the following papers by Airy: 'Corrections to the computed lengths of waves of light published in the 'Philosophical Transactions' of the year 1868',...
Dates:
1870 - 1872
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Transactions with the Royal Society, 1870 - 1872
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/396
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to transactions with the Royal Society, including correspondence with its members. The material includes E. Sabine and Airy's resignations from the presidency of the Royal Society; papers on the roles of the Royal Society Club and the Philosophical Club; works on meteorology; a report on the Kew Observatory; pendulum observations; a paper on the temperature of the human body; Airy's address to the Royal Society; 'The Spiritualist', 15 February 1872, including an article on...
Dates:
1870 - 1872
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Transactions with the Royal Society, 1873
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/397
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to transactions with the Royal Society, including correspondence with its members. The material includes notices and agendas of Royal Society meetings; council minutes; a report from 'The Morning Post' on a soirée; papers on business to be conducted by the Royal Society; material on the salaries of Royal Society staff; a paper on a new Arctic expedition; reviews of scientific works; and a plan of the Conway and Britannia railway bridges. The correspondents include G.G....
Dates:
1873
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Transactions with the Royal Society, 1873
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/398
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to transactions with the Royal Society, including correspondence with its members. The material includes pamphlets from the British Telegraph Manufactory; lists of candidates for, and members of, the Royal Society; a printed list of foreign men of science; printed and manuscript copies of the President's address of 1 December 1873; a newspaper cutting on Professor Williamson's lecture on 'the origin of species'; a newspaper cutting on Leigh Smith's Arctic voyage; a newspaper...
Dates:
1873
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Transactions with the Royal Society, 1874 - 1875
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/399
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to transactions with the Royal Society, including correspondence with its members. The material includes printed papers used by the Government Grant Committee; papers on the Royal Society Medals; correspondence and newspaper cuttings on the total solar eclipse, April 1875; lists of candidates for, and Council minutes of, the Royal Society; a key, possibly for a photograph of the Fellows of the Royal Society; a paper by C.J.B. Williams 'on the present limitation in the...
Dates:
1874 - 1875
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Sub-Series
Transactions with the Royal Society, 1875 - 1887
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/400
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to transactions with the Royal Society, including correspondence with its members. The material includes excerpts from Royal Society minutes; minutes relating to the government grant for the promotion of scientific research, 1882-1887; printed papers sent to the Eclipse Committee, the Meteorological Committee, the Governors and Guardians of the Armagh Observatory, the Herschel Manuscript Committee, the Pendulum Committee, the Solar Physics Letter Committee, the Antarctic...
Dates:
1875 - 1887
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Transactions with the Royal Society, 1849 - 1850
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/387
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to transactions with the Royal Society, including correspondence with its members. The material includes announcements for meetings; minutes and financial reports; grants of government money; a piece by Airy on the phase of the Moon deduced from wind direction; and papers concerning candidates for entry into the Royal Society. The correspondents include T. Bell, E. Sabine, J. Glaisher, E.J. Cooper, C. Brooke, Lord Rosse, W.H. Smyth, S.H. Christie, C. Wheatstone and W.H....
Dates:
1849 - 1850
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Transactions with the Royal Society, 1858 - 1861
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/391
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to transactions with the Royal Society, including correspondence with its members. The material includes lists of the candidates for election into the Royal Society, 1858, 1859, 1860 and 1861; diagrams of the National Standards of Length; correspondence on the Meridional Arc of India; and a printed paper on the Royal Society Club.
Dates:
1858 - 1861
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Translation of a Letter from Christiaan Hugens to Sir Robert Moray, 18 Aug. 1662
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9597/13/5/162-163
Scope and Contents
"At a meeting of the Royal Society on 20th of August 1662, the amanuensis was ordered to translate into English, from the French, M. Hugens's letter to Sir Rob. Moray, dated from the Hague the 18th of August. The extract in the original is entered in their Letter Book, and this is probably the translation to which reference is made." Rigaud.
Dates:
18 Aug. 1662
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/macclesfield/1
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