Cambridge Philosophical Society: General Meeting minutes Volume 6, 1921-01-24 - 1929-11-25
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.
8 March 1922: special meeting to consider the financial situation of the Society, with various related printed papers tipped in;
12 June 1923: special meeting to elect Niels Bohr an honorary member, with typescript address of welcome tipped in;
p.193: printed list of Hopkins Prize winners 1912-15, 1915-18, 1918-21 and 1921-24 pasted in, dated 1927;
p.228: printed charter and bye-laws tipped in, as amended 1929;
p.244: E T S Walton, ‘The Production of High Speed electrons by indirect means’ was ‘taken as read’, 29 July 1929.
Regular speakers include: Ernest Rutherford, A B Appleton, J C Burkill, E A Milne, W P Milne, D R Hartree, H F Baker, P A MacMahon, H Munro Fox, Joseph Larmor, W Burnside, J P Gabbatt, J J Thomson, R H Fowler, J B S Haldane, P A M Dirac, J Needham, R Hargreaves, R Vaidyanathaswamy, S Goldstein, W A Wooster, J D Bernal, E K Rideal, and N Feather.
Dates
- Creation: 1921-01-24 - 1929-11-25
Extent
1 volume(s) : paper
Language of Materials
English
Originator(s)
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Finding aid date
2015-05-08 11:28:21+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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