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	The Royal Society - LoveToKnow 1911
		In the royal warrant of 1663 ordering the mace which the king presented to the society, it is described as "The Royal Society for the improving of Natural Knowledge by experiments"; and during its earlier years the time of the meetings was principally occupied by the performance and discussion of experiments.
		Another matter to which the society gave attention was the formation of a museum, the nucleus being "the collection of rarities formerly belonging to Mr Hubbard," which, by a resolution of council passed on the 21st of February 1666, was purchased for the sum of loo.
		The society elects four of the nine members of the managing committee of the Lawes Agricultural Trust, and is officially represented on the governing bodies of a number of important scientific and educational institutions and of the principal public schools.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /The_Royal_Society (2888 words)

	Royal Society, The (Pepys' Diary)
		The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, known simply as The Royal Society, is a learned society for science that was founded in 1660 and claims to be the oldest such society still in existence.
		A formal Royal Charter of incorporation passed the Great Seal on 15 July 1662, creating "The Royal Society of London", with Lord Brouncker as the first President, and Robert Hooke was appointed as Curator of Experiments in November 1662.
		Desaguliers, a demonstrator for the Royal Society, was a prominent Freemason and Grand Master of the Premier Grand Lodge of England.
	www.pepysdiary.com /p/4134.php (3472 words)

	Royal Society Summary
		The Royal Society does not have a written ethics policy, though the "quality of life" clause in the Society's mission statement could be taken for the beginnings of one.
		The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, was founded in 1660 and claims to be the oldest learned society still in existence.
		A second Royal Charter was sealed on 23 April 1663, naming the King as Founder and changing the name to "The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge".
	www.bookrags.com /Royal_Society (2822 words)

	Society of Invalids-
		The society has its symbolic in the form of an emblem, featuring lions and an attribute of the coal of arms of the Georgian royal family, the Bagrations – the sling of the ancient Hebrew King David, held to be the guiding symbol of universal human ideals.
		President of the Georgian Foundation of Science Revival "Intellect", academician of the International Academy of Informatization and Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Georgia, Doctor of Science, Professor, Guram Chachanidze is the chief advisor-consultant of the organization.
		Chairman of the Society "Demetre Tavdadebuli", Jemal Arkania, was unanimously elected chairman of the Council.
	members.tripod.com /invalids_society/information.htm (1030 words)

	Nomination for new President of the Royal Society (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Council of the Royal Society has agreed to nominate Sir Martin Rees to be the new President of the Royal Society, it was announced today (29 March 2005).
		Sir Martin, who is 62, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1979 and served as a member of its Council in 1983-85 and 1993-95.
		The Statutes of the Royal Society state that the President should be elected annually by Fellows, and may serve for up to five years.
	www.royalsoc.ac.uk /news.asp?id=3022 (412 words)

	Significant Scots - Andrew Duncan
		In the four sessions succeeding that of 1769-70, he was annually re-elected one of the presidents of the royal medical society, and during this period exerted himself in completing the arrangements for the erection of the medical hall, now occupied by the society.
		This society, which still flourishes, proposes annually a question, or the subject for an essay; and an honorary reward, consisting of a gold medal and a copy of the works of the great exemplar, is awarded to the successful candidate.
		The members of that society had two years previously testified the high esteem in which they held his memory, by subscribing for a fall length portrait of him, which was admirably executed by Mr Watson Gordon, and now adorns the hall of the institution.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/other/duncan_andrew.htm (2304 words)

	The Royal Society
		The members of that eminent society {538} were exhorted to pass over in silence all political controversies, and quarrels of every kind, and wordy disputed, which give occasion to deceit, unfriendliness, and hatred, and to seek after peace, and freedom from molestation in their studies.
		The society had received various intimations from the Mercers' Company that they were not long to remain in possession of Gresham College, and it was under the presidency of Sir Isaac Newton that a change was effected, and that they became at last located in a house of their own.
		But upon the failure of all these attempts the society at length purchased a house in Crane Court, which, as their president informed them, was to be sold, and being in the {543} middle of the town, and out of noise, might be a proper place to be purchased but the society for their meetings.
	www.english.upenn.edu /Projects/knarf/EtAlia/royalsoc.html (5118 words)

	Nomination for new President of the Royal Society
		The Council of the Royal Society has agreed to nominate Sir Martin Rees to be the new President of the Royal Society, it was announced today (29 March 2005).
		Following consultation with Fellows of the Royal Society, the Council of the Royal Society, at a meeting on 23 March 2005, selected Sir Martin as its nominated candidate to succeed Lord May of Oxford, who completes his five-year term on 30 November 2005.
		The Statutes of the Royal Society state that the President should be elected annually by Fellows, and may serve for up to five years.
	royalsociety.org /news.asp?id=3022 (404 words)

	USA-Presidents.Info - John Quincy Adams First State of the Union Address
		These are objects of the deepest interest to society, affecting all that is precious in the existence of multitudes of persons, many of them in the classes essentially dependent and helpless, of the age requiring nurture, and of the sex entitled to protection from the free agency of the parent and the husband.
		When, on 1791-10-25, the first President of the United States announced to Congress the result of the first enumeration of the inhabitants of this Union, he informed them that the returns gave the pleasing assurance that the population of the United States bordered on 4,000,000 persons.
		Perhaps of all the evidence of a prosperous and happy condition of human society the rapidity of the increase of population is the most unequivocal.
	www.usa-presidents.info /union/jqadams-1.html (5145 words)

	The American Heraldry Society :: Index (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On October 20, 1947, at the Royal Danish Embassy in Washington, General Eisenhower finally received the collar, sash, and star of a Knight of the Elephant from the hands of the Danish ambassador.
		After Eisenhower became President in 1953, genealogical researchers discovered the 18th century coat of arms, illustrated at left, which was used by an Eisenhauer family in the Odenwald area of Hesse, near Heidelberg, from which the general's ancestors emigrated.
		According to the statutes of the Danish royal orders, someone who is made a Knight of the Elephant or a Knight Grand Cross of the Dannebrog is obliged to submit a drawing of his or her coat-of-arms and a motto.
	www.heraldrysociety.us /presidents/index.php?page=Eisenhower (2677 words)

	Royal Society - SourceWatch
		What Sir Aaron Klug from the Royal Society cannot 'defend is the reckless decision of the Royal Society to abandon the principles of due process in passing judgement on their work.
		Peter Lachmann's successor as Biological Secretary of the Royal Society, Patrick Bateson, told readers of the British Association's journal Science and Public Affairs that The Lancet had only published Pusztai's research 'in the face of objections by its statistically-competent referees' (June 2002, Mavericks are not always right).
		The Royal Society's Guidance for editors was similarly replaced by Guidelines on science and health communication prepared by the Social Issues Research Centre (SIRC) in partnership with the Royal Society and the Royal Institution.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Royal_Society (3467 words)

	History of the Royal Society
		The common theme among the scientists who began the Society was acquiring knowledge by experimental investigation.
		We are particularly lucky to have a description of the beginnings of the Society from John Wallis:-
		At the meeting of the Society on 20 May 1663, 150 Fellows were elected.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Societies/RShistory.html (576 words)

	Skeptical Investigations - Scientific Objectivity - Corporate Bias - The Royal Society
		The Royal Society and its leading Fellows were key players in the attacks on Dr Pusztai from the time he went public with doubts about the safety of GM foods.
		In February 2002 a new Royal Society report on GM crops was published as an update to the Society's September 1998 report.
		In response to criticism, the Royal Society admitted that the work in question remained unpublished but said this was not a problem because, ’it had been discussed at international scientific conferences'.
	www.skepticalinvestigations.org /New/Corporatebias/RoyalSoc.html (2797 words)

	Reference for Royal Society - Search.com
		The motto of the Royal Society, "Nullius in Verba" (Latin: "On the words of no one"), signifies the Society's commitment to establishing the truth of scientific matters through experiment rather than through citation of authority.
		There are two additional categories: Royal Fellow, for a member of the Royal family to be admitted, and Honorary Fellow, for someone who has "rendered signal service to the cause of science, or whose election would significantly benefit the Society by their great experience in other walks of life".
		The chair of the council is the President of the Royal Society, currently Martin Rees.
	www.search.com /reference/Royal_Society (2658 words)

	Royal Society of South Australia Inc.
		The Royal Society of South Australia stems directly from the Adelaide Philosophical Society founded on the 10th January, 1853.
		When the title "Royal" was granted by her Majesty Queen Victoria in 1880, the Society became known by its present designation.
		Although the Society has a long tradition of scientific research in SA, it is a progressive society and attempts to meet the needs of its current membership.
	www.adelaide.edu.au /rssa (514 words)

	The Royal Celtic Society
		The President and Vice Presidents may hold office for three years, the Treasurer and Secretary shall be elected annually and they shall all be eligible for re-election.
		Subject to the Rules and to the control of the Society in General Meetings, the affairs of the Society shall be conducted by a Council consisting of the officer bearers, and of not less than six or more than twelve members, to be appointed at the Annual General Meeting each year.
		Admission to the Society shall be by invitation from the Council or by application to the Secretary.
	www.royalcelticsociety.org.uk /rules.htm (597 words)

	The American Heraldry Society :: Index (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Of all America's Presidents, George Washington was without a doubt the leading user of personal heraldry.
		In any case, the same arms used by President Washington, silver with red bars and mullets, appear on a number of historic buildings across the north of England, notably in a 15th century window at Selby Abbey in Yorkshire.
		The crest alone appears on four cast iron firebacks in one of the house's fireplaces, and Washington's papers include a letter of 1787 ordering a set of metal castings for the chimneys of the house, each to be marked with his monogram and crest.
	www.heraldrysociety.us /presidents/index.php?page=Washington (1359 words)

	Royal Insight > Out and About > The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh visit the Bankside Gallery
		As it begins its bicentennial year, the Royal Watercolour Society received a visit from The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh at the Bankside Gallery in London.
		The Society was established two hundred years ago as a result of the prejudice against watercolour shown by the Royal Academy, the only professional artistic body of the day.
		Queen Victoria gave her patronage to the Society in 1881, from whence it was known as the 'Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours'.
	www.royal.gov.uk /output/Page2932.asp (392 words)

	PJ Online \| The Society: Nine past presidents visit Society to discuss the future
		Nine of 11 past presidents of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society who recently expressed their joint concern about the Society's future direction have met to discuss the issues with the President (Marshall Davies) and colleagues.
		The meeting followed the publication in The Journal of a letter in which the past presidents expressed concern that the modernisation process see the Society's professional representative function subjugated to its regulatory role (PJ, 6 July, p15).
		The letter supported a Society structure in which the professional representative role would continue to be performed by a body similar to the present Council, with a substantial lay membership involved only in the regulatory functions required by the Government.
	www.pj-online.com /Editorial/20020831/society/nine.html (332 words)

	Rees expected to win Royal Society presidency \| Higher \| EducationGuardian.co.uk
		Sir Martin Rees, the astronomer royal and Cambridge don, was today tipped as the most likely candidate for the top job in science: president of the Royal Society.
		His recent awards include the Royal Society's Michael Faraday prize for science communication in 2004 and the Royal Swedish Academy's Crafoord prize this year, which is the equivalent of the Nobel prize in astronomy.
		A Royal Society spokesman said all past presidents had been Nobel prize winners or the recipients of an equivalent award in their field, and were the leading scientists in the country.
	education.guardian.co.uk /higher/sciences/story/0,12243,1447545,00.html (369 words)

	Open Directory - Society: Genealogy: Royalty (Site not responding. Last check: )
		From Johann V of Nassau to William III of Orange - Genealogy of the Orange-Nassau family, Royal House of The Netherlands.
		Genealogy of the Lords of Strijen - Descend of Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands from the lords of Strijen.
		Royal and Noble Genealogical Data on the Web - Provides information about royalty and royal families around the world, as well as the genealogy of United States presidents.
	dmoz.org /Society/Genealogy/Royalty (1604 words)

	Royal Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is a position at the same rank as a Fellow of the Royal Society to which scientists from outside the Commonwealth and the Republic of Ireland may be elected.
		The chair of the council is the President of the Royal Society, currently Martin Rees.
		The founding members of the Royal Society (such as Robert Boyle) are used as secondary characters in the historical mystery novel An Instance of the Fingerpost, published in 1997 by English writer and art historian Iain Pears.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Society (1772 words)

	Royal Historical Society (RHS)
		The Society aims to maintain professional standards within the discipline, and to represent the views of its membership to government bodies and to the public at large.
		The Society is also alive to the wider needs of the academic community, particularly of those members in the early stages of their careers.
		The Royal Historical Society is governed by a Council comprising the President, 6 Vice Presidents, 12 elected Councillors and the Officers of the Society.
	www.royalhistoricalsociety.org /aboutus.htm (494 words)

	The Open Door Web Site : History : The Royal Society
		It was granted a royal charter in 1660 by Charles II, and thus became known as the Royal Society.
		However, the Royal Society was never financed by the crown, unlike similar societies which started up in other European countries at that time.
		The members of the Royal Society were intellectuals from both the arts and science.
	www.saburchill.com /history/chapters/chap4017.html (345 words)

	Lucasian Chair
		The Royal Society of London and the Lucasian Chair have had a strong connection from their earliest days.
		In 1850 the first Royal Commission to reform the universities was established and in 1871, the religious tests for university entrance were finally eliminated.
		Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 75:199-216, 1905.
	www.lucasianchair.org /papers/brief.html (4226 words)

	GMWatch.org (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The society's council will meet in mid-April to determine the single name that will go on the ballot paper to be sent out to fellows.
		According to society insiders, the clear favourite is Sir Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, who was rumoured to have been second choice for the job last time round.
		Lord Winston was speaking as president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA).
	www.gmwatch.org /archive2.asp?arcid=4973 (1660 words)

	Divine Love and Wisdom (Rogers) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I heard two former presidents of the English Royal Society, Sir Hans Sloane* and Sir Martin Folkes,** conversing with each other in the spiritual world about the existence of seeds and eggs on earth and the productions arising from them.
		President of the Royal Society, 1727-1741, succeeding Sir Isaac Newton upon the latter's death.
		President of the Royal Society, 1741-1752, succeeding Sir Hans Sloane.
	www.heavenlydoctrines.org /static/d10704/344.htm (422 words)

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