THE YEAR BOOK OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY
CONTENTS
1973
Past Officers of the Royal Society Memorandum on Benefactions The Foundation of the Royal Society The Society’s Funds Calendar Paul Instrument Fund Council and Office Staff Grants for Travelling Expenses and Organiz The Fellowship— ing Expenses of International Conferences List of Fellows Agreement on cooperation between the Royal List of Foreign Members Society and Fellows and Foreign Members deceased in the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 1972 the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences Fellows and Foreign Members elected in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 1972 the Romanian Academy Associate Editors the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences Committees and Boards— Agreement on Exchange Visits with Regulations the Israel Academy of Sciences and Sectional Committees Humanities Standing Committees the Japan Academy, the Science Council Joint Committees of Japan Government Grant Boards the Japan Society for the Promotion of Scientific Publications Board Science Committees on International Relations— The European Science Exchange Programme International Non-Governmental Organi The Royal Society Latin American Pro zations gramme National Committee for I.C.S.U. Royal Society Commonwealth Bursaries British National Committees Scheme Public and other responsibilities Armourers and Brasiers’ Research Fellowship Conway Evans Trust Overseas Visiting Professorships Statutes of the Royal Society Royal Society - Israel Academy Visiting Re Standing Orders and Procedure— search Professorships Scheme Standing Orders of the Royal Society Royal Society Leverhulme Studentships Council Procedure— Royal Society Research Professorships In the nomination of Council Royal Society Scientific Information Re In the award of Medals search Fellowships In the appointment of Lecturers General Regulations governing Royal Society In the administration of certain elements Research Professorships and Appointments of the Parliamentary Grant-in-aid Royal Society Research Appointments The Society’s Medals Report of Council for 1972 The Society’s Lectures Organization of Royal Society Office The Society’s Library Accounts for 1972 The Society’s Publications Index
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CONTENTS PAGE Anniversary Dinner 1972 ( Speech by the Rt Hon. Margaret Thatcher, M.P., Secretary of State for Education and Science) 1 Celebrations of the quincentenary of the birth of Nicolaus Copernicus 11 Benjamin Martin and the Royal Society 15 By J ohn R. Millburn Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the appointment of J. F. Daniell, F.R.S., as Professor of Chemistry at King’s College London 25 By V. Gold, F.R.S. Henry Bence-Jones, M.D., F.R.S. (1813-1873) 31 By N. G. Coley James Clerk Maxwell at Aberdeen, 1856-1860 57 By R. V. J ones, F.R.S. Two letters by Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen 83 By Sir H ans Krebs, F.R.S. Sleeping Sickness. The Castellani—Bruce Controversy gg By Sir J ohn Boyd, F.R.S. E. H. J. Schuster (1897-1969) m By W. D. M. Paton, F.R.S. and C. G. Phillips, F.R.S. The library of the Rev. John Flamsteed, F.R.S., first Astronomer Royal 119 By Eric G. Forbes The Society’s Notes Bibliography of recent books and articles dealing with the history of the Royal Society j ^ j
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