Cambridge Philosophical Society: General Meeting minutes Volume 5, 1896-01-27 - 1920-11-22
Scope and Contents
Meetings recorded in this volume were held variously at the Cavendish Laboratory; the Chemical Laboratory; the Optical Lecture Room; the Observatory; the School of Agriculture; the New Medical School; the Botany School; the Comparative Anatomy Lecture Room; the University Botanical Laboratory; and the Engineering Laboratory.
5 June 1899: special meeting held at the Cavendish Laboratory for the presentation of papers to be published in a volume commemorating Sir George Stokes’ long association with the Society;
17 February 1914: special meeting at which Dr Max Wolf showed slides of recent work at Heidelberg on the Nebulae and their Spectra;
18 May 1914: a printed list of honorary members, including Max Planck, elected at the meeting of that date is tipped in;
23 February 1920: a typed list of ‘Exhibits’ is tipped in.
Regular speakers include: Miss D F M Pertz, Mrs E A Newell Arber (Agnes Robertson); A C Seward, I H Burkill, J Brill, J Larmor, Prof Dewar, F Darwin, C T R Wilson, J J Thomson, E Rutherford, J A McClelland, H C Pocklington, J Stanley Gardiner, J J Lister, W McF Orr, J S Townsend, Prof Macalister, R H Solly, H J H Fenton, P V Bevan, G F C Searle, S Skinner, H Marshall Ward, W Bateson, H O Jones, G D Liveing, R C Punnett, N D F Pearce, C Warburton, Major P A MacMahon, E A Wilson, R H Biffen, J E Purvis, W A D Rudge, S Ruhemann, L Doncaster, N R Campbell, O Fisher, Dr Duckworth, Dr Latham, B J Mercer, Prof Pope, J K Matthews, H A Crowther, Dr Graham-Smith, A E Oxley, W L Bragg, G R Mines, R D Kleeman, R Hargreaves, N Wiener, F A Potts, H B Fantham, S Ramanujan, G H Hardy, and G N Watson.
Dates
- Creation: 1896-01-27 - 1920-11-22
Extent
1 volume(s) : paper
Language of Materials
English
Originator(s)
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Finding aid date
2015-05-08 11:28:14+00:00
Repository Details
Part of the Cambridge Philosophical Society Repository
CPS Archivist, Joan Bullock-Anderson
c/o Sedgwick Museum Archives, A G Brighton Building
Madingley Rise
Cambridge CB3 0UD
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