INDEX 



Aberdour, Lord (Earl of Morton), President, 

 202. 



Addison, Joseph, makes contemptuous 

 reference to the Royal Society, 46. 



Admission of Fellows, 23, 161. 



Airy, Sir George B., President, 204. 



Albemarle, Duke of, 22. 



Antarctic Meteorological Observations Com- 

 mittee, 270. 



Archives of the Royal Society, Statute con- 

 cerning, 157 ; contents of, 236. 



Arms of the Royal Society, 22. 



Armstrong, Lord, benefactions by, 197. 



Arundel House, Strand, meetings of Royal 

 Society at, 27 ; proposal to build a house 

 for Royal Society in the neighbourhood 

 of, 28 ; Library from, 233. 



Assistant Secretary of the Society, Statutes 

 concerning, 139, 153, 169, 172 ; list of 

 those who have held the office, 209. 



Aston, Francis, benefaction by, 195 ; 

 Secretary, 207. 



Athenaeum Club and the Royal Society, 308. 



Aubrey, John, 3 note ; cited, 24, 30. 



Bacon, Francis, influence of, 1, 3, 5, 33 ; 



New Atlantis of, with its design of a 



college for research, 2, 9 ; Novum Or- 



ganon of, 2, 9. 

 Bakerian and Copley Medal Fund, 174, 195, 



224. 

 Bakerian Lecture, list of lecturers and 



subjects, 224. 



Balle, R., benefaction by, 195. 

 Balle, William, 3 note, 8 ; benefaction of, 



194 ; Treasurer, 206. 

 Banks, Sir Joseph, President, 203. 

 Barrow, Isaac, 20. 

 Benefactors of the Royal Society, Statute 



concerning, 129, 163 ; list of, 193. 

 Bentham, G., bequest from, 197. 

 Books of the Society, see Charter- book. 

 Botanic Garden, Chelsea, 302. 

 Boyle, Robert, 3 ; his Invisible College, 37 ; 



member of first Council, 15, 18 ; his 



Christian Virtuoso, 42. 

 Brady Library Fund, 175 ; bequest by 



H. B. Brady, 197. 

 Brereton, W., 15. 

 British Museum (created in 1758), received 



the contents of the Repository of the 



Royal Society in 1779, 38; Royal 



Society represented on the Board of 



Trustees of, 308. 

 Brodie, Sir B. C., President, 204. 



Brouncker, Viscount, President, 6, 11 14 

 15, 20, 200. 



Buchanan Medal Fund, 175 ; Medallists 

 216. 



Buckingham, Duke of (Dryden's Zimri), 20. 



Budgett, J., benefaction by, 197. 



Burlington House, Royal Society's apart- 

 ments in, 29 (Plates XIX and XX). 



Burrow, Sir James, President, 202. 



Busts in possession of the Royal Society, 252. 



Butler, Samuel, travesties the early doings 

 of the Royal Society, 45. 



Cambridge University, Lowndean Chair of 



Astronomy and Geometry, the President 



of the Royal Society an ex officio member 



of Board of Electors, 308. 



Carbery, Earl of (Lord Vaughan), President, 



201. 



Carnegie, Andrew, benefaction by, 198. 

 Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 275 ; Com- 

 mittee, 270. 



' Challenger ' Reports Committee, 270. 

 Charles II, restoration of, 7 ; visits the 

 Royal Society, 13 ; his interest in the 

 Society, 10, 13, 15, 21, 24, 25, 32, 34, 44 ; 

 Founder and Patron, 15, 22 ; suggested 

 experiments to the Society, 32 ; fist of 

 his benefactions to the Society, 193. 



Charter, the First, granted to the Royal 

 Society, 14, 48-58 ; English translation 

 of, 59-69 : the Second, 15, 22, 69-82 ; 

 English translation of, 82-94 : the Third, 

 15, 27, 94-104 ; English translation of, 

 105-14. 



Charter-book and other books of the Royal 

 Society, 22 ; Statutes concerning, 128, 

 143, 156, 168. 



Charterhouse School and the Royal Society, 

 308. 



Chelsea Botanic Garden, 302. 



Chelsea College, Royal Society petitions for 

 possession of, 25 ; granted to Society, 27 ; 

 repurchased by King Charles, 27. 



Christ's Hospital and the Royal Society, 308. 



City and Guilds of London Institute and the 

 Royal Society, 308. 



Clarke, Timothy, 15. 



Clerk of the Royal Society, Statutes relating 

 to, 127, 166. 



Colwall, Daniel, benefaction by, 194; 

 Treasurer, 206. 



Committees of the Royal Society, 36, 269. 



Composition fee of Fellows, 164. 



Copley, Sir Godfrey, benefaction by, 195. 



