Scope and Contents 30 October 1819: ‘The resident members of the University, who have taken their first degree, are hereby invited to assemble at the Lecture Room, under the Public Library at twelve o’clock, on Tuesday Nov 2, for the purpose of instituting a society, as a point of concourse, for scientific communications’.The minutes of a meeting held on 3 November 1819, chaired by Dr Haviland, record that the society was duly instituted at the meeting on 2 November. P.3: report of the committee elected on...